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THE TRIUMPHS
While as the truth was lying hid, And veritie unknown,And Christ his incarnation Was not revealed nor known.
And yet albeit this day it be Of virtue lean and bare,Yet does it hold, and it retains Some customs keeped there—.
There then triumphed over us That sovereign gentle lord,And carried at his golden chair There coupled in a cord.
These whom he took in circling so The world round about,Even from the Indes to Thule isle, The westmost part without—.
There roses gathered in that time When winter's blast does boast;There ice even in the hottest days; At midsummer, there frost.—
The valley where this triumph was With murmurs did abound,
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