Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)It is a beauteous evening, calm and free
| 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 is on 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 worshipp’st at the temple’s inner shrine, | |
| God being with thee when we know it not. | |