Nature and It's Value to Wordsworth

William Wordsworth starts out his poem by saying it has been five long years since he has been back to this beauteous place in nature that he has remembered so often but also so perfectly, “ These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man’s eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and ‘mid the din of towns and cities, I have owed to them in hours of weariness, sensations sweet, felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; and passing even into my purer mind, with tranquil restoration” (26). Even though Wordsworth has been away from this place for five years, he can sit alone in a room in the middle of a city and still feel the peace and ease he felt at this sacred spot in nature.
Even now revisiting this place, Wordsworth remembers the memories he had there, and how bittersweet it is to remember them. He feels that even though he cannot relive the memories of his boyish days, he doesn’t mourn it because he can now see this place in a completely new light.
Wordsworth feels that even if he did not return to this place in nature, he would be at peace with it because of his relationship with his sister. He hopes that even when he is not there someday, she can remember this place and think of him and be at peace. Although Wordsworth closes out the poem by saying that after all of his wanderings in this place, the years of absence made this place more dear and fond to him than it ever was before.