Abundant+recompense

During his tour, the speaker recognizes his disregard for nature in his youth. He says, nature was then "all in all" (77) or "an appetite" (82), simply an object of desire. In his return, his attitudes have changed and the "pleasures of his boyish days" (75) are gone. The speaker is not disheartened by coming back to the Wye without the same playful desires he had as a boy. Nor is he saddened for lacking the knowledge then that he has now. For all that the speaker lacks, then and now, nature has compensated him. Now in his maturity, the speaker is able to receive nature's more thoughtful, virtuous teachings.