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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.
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I. THE THREE GREAT DAYS.
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II. FRANCE.
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III. “REFORM-BILL” HYMNS.
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1. THE “NEWSPAPER.”
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2. A SONG OF THE PEOPLE.
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3. TO THE PEERS.
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4. TO THE COMMONS, AT THEIR SQUABBLES.
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5. TO THE HIERARCHY.
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6. TO MY COUNTRY.
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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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4. TO THE COMMONS, AT THEIR SQUABBLES.

What is't ye do, Dull Spiders! darkly weaving
The web of your poor passions in the corners
Of your old Chamber, for the vile deceiving
Of idle fools, making the wise your scorners;
When all your words should be as songs of day
From bees and birds, all-cheering and intense
With peaceful power and thrilling influence
Over the list'ning world? Unto the Mass
Who toil with head or hand, what boot the feuds
That furnish gabble to your heated moods,
When truth runs o'er with wine, and shows ye—liars!
We must have answer to our great desires
For Social Progress; or we force the way,
And o'er ye, as a mighty whirlwind, pass!
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