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Stanza 1 Three years she grew in sun and shower, Then nature said, “a lovelier flower on earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; she shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own In the first stanza, the speaker let’s the reader identify with Lucy. It is not hard to imagine a lively young three year old, playing in the sun or in the rain. But she was too lovely for earth, or so Nature decided. The speaker suggests that Nature has taken the child for herself because she was too beautiful for the earth.