Mundi et Cordis De Rebus Sempiternis et Temporariis: Carmina. Poems and Sonnets. By Thomas Wade |
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What is thy meet emblem, Mind?
The holy beauty of the sky,
Dim shroud of that vast Deity
To whose veil'd ray all rays we see
Are cloud; with all the spirits that roam
Beneath its ether-woven dome:
The sun, whose space-enfolding flight
Steeps the inebriate earth in light;
The unresting moon, the love-beloved;
The planets and pale constellations;
The cloud-stars, where the soul, reproved,
Dreams of immensity, and quivers;
And ever-changing clouds, that flee
Before the wild wind's inspirations,
Like oceans dark and gleaming rivers,
And in tempestuous exhalations
Work change eternal o'er the earth and sea.
Dim shroud of that vast Deity
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Are cloud; with all the spirits that roam
Beneath its ether-woven dome:
The sun, whose space-enfolding flight
Steeps the inebriate earth in light;
The unresting moon, the love-beloved;
The planets and pale constellations;
The cloud-stars, where the soul, reproved,
Dreams of immensity, and quivers;
And ever-changing clouds, that flee
Before the wild wind's inspirations,
Like oceans dark and gleaming rivers,
And in tempestuous exhalations
Work change eternal o'er the earth and sea.
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