EVENING ON CALAIS BEACH
by: William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)
 T 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 tranquility;
- The gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea:
- Listen! the mighty Being is awake,
- And doth with his eternal motion make
- A sound like thunder -- everlastingly.
- Dear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,
- If thou appear untouch'd by solemn thought,
- 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.
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