the beach at Calais

Have a group of 8 French friends visiting the Capital this weekend - we've luckily all got tickets for tomorrow's match at Murrayfield ;-)

... so, here's a William Wordsworth verse, which he wrote whilst visiting the area around Calais beach, and is taken from the pictured 1980 collection:


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 tranquility; 
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. 

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William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

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