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 Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
 [Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
  Nox read more 
 Wonders I sing; the sun has set; no night has followed.
 [Lat., Mira cano; sol occubuit;
  Nox nulla secuta est.] 
 O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet 
again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping!  
 O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet 
again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping! 
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
Men love to wonder and that is the seed of our science.
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
Nothing but what astonishes is true.
Nothing but what astonishes is true.
 Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
 Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
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 Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
 Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
  The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
   But wonder how the devil they got there. 
 The things that have been and shall be no more,
 The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,
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 The things that have been and shall be no more,
 The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,
  The things that might have been, and yet were not,
   The fading twilight of joys departed. 
 Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe,
 And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,
  Surpassing read more 
 Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe,
 And stupid at the wondrous things he saw,
  Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law.