It is a Beauteous Evening

On a seaside walk with his daughter, listening to the surf and enjoying the evening sunshine, William Wordsworth reflected that although little Caroline was too young to have any weighty thoughts about God or religion, like all children she was (he firmly believed ) able to find God within herself, for all nature seems imbued with the divine energy.

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