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ID: DSAT-RW-24
Section: Digital SAT Reading & Writing (RW) - Broadly Reading - Craft and Structure
Topic: Text Structure and Purpose
Difficulty level: Hard

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The following text is from William Wordsworth’s 1807 poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Early Childhood."

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath [has] been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

Which choice best states the main purpose of the text?

ATo lament the loss of youthful wonder and imagination
BTo describe how memory allows beauty to be preserved
CTo praise the natural world for its timeless beauty
DTo suggest that childhood joy can return later in life
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