Evening on Calais Beach by William Wordsworth
b"Wordsworth read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nEvening on Calais Beach\\nby William Wordsworth (1770 \\u2013 1850)\\n\\nIt is a beauteous evening, calm and free,\\n The holy time is quiet as a Nun\\n Breathless with adoration; the broad sun\\nIs sinking down in its tranquillity;\\nThe gentleness of heaven broods o'er the sea:\\n Listen! the mighty Being is awake,\\n And doth with his eternal motion make\\nA sound like thunder\\u2014everlastingly.\\nDear Child! dear Girl! that walkest with me here,\\n If thou appear untouch'd by solemn thought,\\n Thy nature is not therefore less divine:\\nThou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year;\\n And worshipp'st at the Temple's inner shrine,\\n God being with thee when we know it not."