WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
IT IS A BEAUTEOUS EVENING,
CALM AND FREE
August, 1802.
TT is a beauteous evening, calm and free,
-""The holy time is quiet as a Nun
Breathless with adoration; the broad sun
Is sinking down in its tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the Sea: 5
Listen 5 the mighty Being is awake,
And doth with his eternal motion make
A sound like thunder—everlastingly.
Dear Child 1 dear -Girl! that walkest with me here
If thou appear untouched by Solemn thought* 10
Thy nature is not therefore less divine:
Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;
And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine,
God being with thee when we know it not.