Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803

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1. Earth has not any thing to shew more fair:
2. Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
3. A sight so touching in it's majesty:
4. This City now doth like a garment wear
5. The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
6. Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie
7. Open unto the fields, and to the sky;
8. All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
9. Never did sun more beautifully steep
10. In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill;
11. Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
12. The river glideth at his own sweet will:
13. Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
14. And all that mighty heart is lying still!