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Mundi et Cordis

De Rebus Sempiternis et Temporariis: Carmina. Poems and Sonnets. By Thomas Wade
Wade, Thomas (1805-1875)
  
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[dedication]

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MUNDI TEMPLUM.
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ADYTA CORDIS.
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TEMPORALIA.
 I. 
I. THE THREE GREAT DAYS.
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II. FRANCE.
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III. “REFORM-BILL” HYMNS.
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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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XXI. AN EXHORTATION TO MANKIND.

When will it be that men shall kinder grow
In human intercourse; and not thus, savagely,
Spring upon each occasion to o'erthrow
Their fellow-travellers through mortality?
God hath apportion'd us enough of woe
In this brief journey; from within derived,
And from the elements, in which we sicken,
Grow weak and die: let not man be deprived
By man of that poor solace which doth quicken
The flagging heart and the o'erlabour'd brain,
And temper to endurance, when self-stricken,
Or time and storm-worn. Transient thing! refrain!
Sting not thy brother insect, till he perish:
A life brief as thine own, vex not; but cherish.
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