LONDON FROM GREENWICH AT DAWN

"Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will.
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still."
      William Wordsworth, Sonnet--Composed upon Westminster Bridge
 
 

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