How we cite our quotes: (Line)
Quote #4
In one of those sweet dreams I slept,
Kind Nature's gentlest boon! (17-18)
In these lines, the speaker describes his feelings of love for Lucy as a kind of dream. Moreover, he says that this feeling is one of the greatest gifts that Nature can bestow. To follow this logic, Nature itself is the ultimate source of love. Few Romantic writers would disagree with that idea.
Quote #5
When down behind the cottage roof,
At once, the bright moon dropped. (24-25)
Well, Nature giveth, and Nature taketh away. The moon leads the speaker on through the poem as he makes his way closer to Lucy's cottage, but it disappears just as he arrives. Not coincidentally, that's when his panic attack hits him, and he fears for Lucy's death.