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 tranquility; 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,
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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.
[Title] Beauteous: beautiful
GLOSSARY GLOSSARY
[2] Nun: a member of a religious community of women, living under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience
[6] the mighty Being: God
[9] dear Girl!: Caroline, Wordsworth’s daughter with Annette Vallon
[11] divine: God-like [12] Abraham’s bosom: final place of rest in heaven [13] worshipp’st: worship
