| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Composed upon the Beach near Calais, 1802 | | By William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| | | IT 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! 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 untouched by solemn thought, | 10 |
| Thy nature is not therefore less divine: | |
| Thou liest in Abraham’s bosom all the year; | |
| And worship’st at the Temple’s inner shrine, | |
| God being with thee when we know it not. | | | | |
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