The Collected Poems of T. E. Brown

Brown, T. E. (1830-1897)

I. ASPECTS AND CHARACTERS

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NARRATIVE

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III. LYRICAL

CLEVEDON VERSES

I Hallam's Church, Clevedon

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VI.

VI Per omnia Deus

VII.

VII Norton Wood

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VIII The Bristol Channel

IX.

IX The Voices of Nature

LYNTON VERSES

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VI
Per omnia Deus

What moves at Cardiff, how a man
At Newport ends the day as he began,
At Weston what adventure may befall,
What Bristol dreams, or if she dream at all,
Upon the pier, with step sedate,
I meditate—
Poor souls! whose God is Mammon—
Meanwhile, from Ocean's gate,
Keen for the foaming spate,
The true God rushes in the salmon.

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VI Per omnia Deus

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Per omnia Deus