Thomas Traherne — a remark

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“The corn was orient and immortal wheat which never should be reaped nor was ever sown. I thought it had stood from everlasting to everlasting.”

Expressing the child’s sense of nature as timeless, newly discovered, and beyond ordinary human ownership · Centuries of Meditations

About Thomas Traherne

Thomas Traherne

c. 1637–27 September 1674

Thomas Traherne, born about 1636 or 1637 and dead on 27 September 1674, was an Anglican priest, theologian, prose writer, and poet whose reputation rests on work that scarcely anyone in his own lifetime knew existed. He published only a little, lived without public literary renown, and died before his fortieth…

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