It Is a Beauteous Evening

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It Is a Beauteous Evening (:53)

by William Wordsworth

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

    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;
    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,
    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.