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Mundi et Cordis

De Rebus Sempiternis et Temporariis: Carmina. Poems and Sonnets. By Thomas Wade
Wade, Thomas (1805-1875)
  
[epigraph]
  
[dedication]

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MUNDI TEMPLUM.
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ADYTA CORDIS.
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TEMPORALIA.
 I. 
I. THE THREE GREAT DAYS.
 II. 
II. FRANCE.
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III. “REFORM-BILL” HYMNS.
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IV. THE BIRD AND CHILD.
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V. A SONG.
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VI. CALVUS.
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VII. TO A MALIGNANT PERSON.
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VIII. THE PHAETONS OF KNOWLEDGE.
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IX. “PUBLISHING.”

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XL. LOVE AND POESY.

“I have not poesy; but I have love.”
Thou hast both poesy and love, dear Heart!
For Love is of himself a poesy.
By his creative power a world is wove
Of thoughts and dreams, that to his spectred eye
A presence like reality impart;
Making the joy he loves, by his sweet art!
And what can heavenly Poesy do more?
All is a vision which she doth adore:
Fine Poesy and Love are still the same;
Save that warm Love is happier, and perchance
May substance find whereon to feed his flame,
And purchase sigh with sigh and glance with glance;
But Poesy loves shadows, without place or name.
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