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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.
 IV. 
IV. THE BIRD AND CHILD.
 V. 
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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XVIII. DELIGHTS.

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Rock'd on the salt deep
Into a sunny sleep,
And a dream sublime
Of the flow of Time,
Whose billows without number
Bear all things in a slumber
Into Eternity,
As we
Over the glowing sea
Are wafted sleepingly:

2

Pillow'd, with leaves and stars above us,
Upon hearts that love us;
Clasp'd and folden
In arms and eyes,
Till from full-cupp'd pleasure's brink
Into a trance we sink,
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With visions golden
Peopling the shadow of our ecstasies—
Redeeming sleep from death,
And doubling every joy that perisheth:

3

Upon an oaken bough
In the fierce wind swinging,
Shouting to earth below,
To the clouds on high
And the birds that round us fly
Rejoicingly,
Words of a clear-tongued poet's singing,
Lofty flights of madness winging:
These are delights divine—
They have been mine.
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