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| A View of Westminster Bridge, With Parts Adjacent as in the Year 1760, 1761, Samuel Scott (artist), Pierre Charles Canot (Engraver), Coloured Engraving, Government Art Collection, UK |
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This City now doth, like a garment, wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendour, 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!
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| Gouache Drawing: Westminster Abbey and St. Margaret's Church From Parliament Square, 1908, Tim J. MacDonald, Museum of London, UK |
by William Wordsworth
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