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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 his tranquillity;
The gentleness of heaven is on 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.