I would say that the first stanza reveals the theme that romantic notions shape one's youth.
The narrator is saying how what he felt in his youth shaped his young life - he is saying that romance "taught me my alphabet to say," meaning that it helped him learn about life. In the next stanza, he is trying to say that when we are older, we often remember these moments with fondness.
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