What does "To her fair works did Nature link" mean?

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I found this in "The Water Babies" fairy tale. It is part of the poem Lines Written in Early Spring by Wordsworth:

To her fair works did Nature link
  The human soul that through me ran;
  And much it grieved my heart to think,
  What man has made of man.

Kshitij · Answer

In this poem, the Poet is personifying Nature.
The line "To her fair works did Nature link" will be easier to understand when one will read it along with the next one.

"To her fair works did Nature link the human soul that through me ran".

Here 'her' refers to the Nature itself. Altogether the lines mean that the soul of the poet connects with the Nature in regards of the beautiful(fair) work that Nature has done.

What does "To her fair works did Nature link" mean?

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