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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 its tranquillity 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 thundereverlastingly.

William Wordsworth

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William Wordsworth
Age: 80 †
Born: 1770
Born: April 7
Died: 1850
Died: April 23
Lyricist
Poet
Cockermouth
Cumbria
Wordsworth
Free
Calm
Gentleness
Sound
Sea
Doth
Broods
Make
Sun
Broads
Beauteous
Time
Quiet
Broad
Tranquillity
Like
Eternal
Mighty
Breathless
Listen
Motion
Nun
Holy
Awake
Adoration
Heaven
Evening
Sinking

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