I found the format of this poem particularly interesting, especially because it reads like prose with varying stanza lengths (like paragraphs). The poem basically isn’t a poem, in the traditional sense, at all because it lacks rhyme and meter and other classic conventions for the time period. I think the form sort of mimics the story-aspect of the poem though, as the speaker is basically recounting something he did and discussing it in this ‘prayer’. The lines that really struck me “While with an eye made quit by the power\ Of harmony, and the deep power of joy,\ We see into the life of things” (lines 47-49), I think get to the central meaning of the poem. The simplicity and power of nature’s beauty which is incomparable to any human beauty or desire. The power of harmony the speaker suggests is the serenity of nature and the “togetherness” it seems to possess. In a way the speaker seems to make a comparison between his younger, naive self, who was more caught up in temporary pleasures and beauty and himself now who turns to nature for fulfillment. To that end, part of growing up is learning to appreciate the reliability and beauty of nature. The speaker praying for nature to not be forgotten when they die.