“Three years she grew in sun and shower,” by William Wordsworth deals very directly with the loss of an individual before their time has come. The poem is one of the more explicit of Wordsworth’s reflections on the loss of a child and the closing lines read, “How soon my Lucy’s race was run! She died and left to me This heath, the calm and quiet scene, the memory of what has been, and never more will be.” These tragic lines are painted with a sliver of hope that, perhaps, something that Lucy has taught the speaker will allow the speaker to continue to appreciate the life of Lucy long after it has concluded. The poem also shows the simultaneously wonderful and terrible aspects of nature. Nature, in the poem, is personified as the father of the girl in the early lines, “This Child I to myself will take, She shall be mine, and I will make a Lady of my own.” However, the poem’s conclusion creates an ambiguity about the arc of the life of Lucy. Though the poem’s speaker feels that Lucy’s race is run too short, Nature feels as if his work is done.