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“The Men! O what venerable and reverend creatures did the aged seem! Immortal Cherubims! And young men glittering and sparkling Angels, and maids strange seraphic pieces of life and beauty! Boys and girls tumbling in the street, and playing, were moving jewels. I knew not that they were born or should die; But all things abided eternally as they were in their proper places.”

Thomas Traherne

Third Century, sect. 3.
Centuries of Meditations

Life , Men , Age , Beauty

“A stranger here
Strange things doth meet, strange glories see;
Strange treasures lodg'd in this fair world appear,
Strange all and new to me;
But that they mine should be who nothing was,
That strangest is of all; yet brought to pass.”

Thomas Traherne

"The Salutation", stanza 7; The Poetical Works of Thomas Traherne, B.D. (London: Bertram Dobell, 1903) p. 3.

World , Appearance

“All appeared new, and strange at first, inexpressibly rare and delightful and beautiful. I was a little stranger, which at my entrance into the world was saluted and surrounded with innumerable joys. My knowledge was Divine. I knew by intuition those things which since my Apostasy, I collected again by the highest reason.”

Thomas Traherne

Third Century, sect. 2.
Centuries of Meditations

World , Beauty , Knowledge , Appearance

“An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing.”

Thomas Traherne

First Century, sect. 1.
Centuries of Meditations

Books , Soul