is filled with the sounds of the seashore and nearby woods He hears the sound of the sailing boats all the sea birds and the forest birds He hears the call of seagulls He also sees a hunting heron dive into the water The autumn rain begins to fall The poet imagines that the rainy autumn is showering down all his memories on him As he writes In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days Thomas leaves the sleeping town behind and walks toward the countryside This physical walk soon becomes a journey into memory Nature s beauty takes him back to his happy childhood days Changing Weather As the poet climbs a hill the October morning changes He sees bright sunlight The sun of October suddenly becomes summery The autumn day becomes a summer midday From the height the faraway town looks tiny The poet looks at the faraway church at the seashore The church looks tiny like a snail with its horn In the bright sunlight he sees apples pears and red currants His mood changes with the changing weather The warm summer light brings back his forgotten memories when he walked with his mother He says And I saw a child's Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother The poet stands in autumn but the boy in him returns to summer Nature s beauty takes him back to his happy childhood days Feeling Childhood Joy In nature Thomas feels the childhood joy again The woods river and sea bring back his childhood memories He feels happy like a child to see the green fields He feels the same emotion and excitement in him now that he felt as a little boy As he says His tears burned my cheeks and his heart moved in mine That boy found his deepest joys in the trees the stones and the fish in the tide The poet feels that the boy is still alive inside him This union of past and present is the heart of the poem s treatment of childhood Childhood is not lost it lives in the adult through memory nature and imagination Hope to Find the Same Joy in the Future Now the poet is on the hilltop There he still feels the childhood joy under the bright sunlight It is his thirtieth birthday He feels like standing in midday summer But the leaves on the trees in the town below are turning autumnal red He calls these leaves October blood It reminds him that he is no longer a child Nonetheless the childhood joy is still in him He wishes to find the same joy in nature on his future birthdays As he writes O may my heart's truth Still be sung In conclusion Dylan Thomas treats childhood as a golden time of joy innocence and unity with nature The beautiful nature brings back his childhood memories For him to remember childhood is not to escape the present But to carry forward the purest joy into the future