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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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XVII. REALITY.

1

Reality's slave
From the womb to the grave,
Awake! awake! awake!
Wouldst thou nothing but feed
And sleep at thy need?
Awake! for thy soul's sake.

2

Art thou not a spirit
Ordain'd to inherit
The universe for ever?
And from birth wilt thou creep
To thy worm-tended sleep,
And from thy clay pass never?

3

The past, the to-come
Inform and illume
Thy present path, pale sleeper!
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But thine apathy dull
Makes thy life-cloud more full,
And thy soul's shadow deeper.

4

From Reality's trance
Thy spirit advance!
Be dreaming! dreaming! dreaming!
Let thy thought's rapid wave
Far, far o'er the grave
Be streaming! streaming! streaming!
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