The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!
This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be howling at all hours,
And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out of tune;
It moves us not.-Great God! I'd rather be
A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea²,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus³ rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.
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Greek sea -god with the head and upper body of a man and the tail of a fish
A.
He wishes for Proteus and Triton to destroy the current world so that a new one can be built.
B.
He wishes that he had been born a pagan so that he would have learned a different way of seeing nature.
C.
He wishes to be a painter so he could paint Greek gods to ease his sadness.
D.
He wishes to be a child again so that he could turn to the mythological heroes of his youth.
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He wishes that Proteus and Titan would make him a pagan and show him the sights of paradise.