cadent

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CADENT.�The third, sixth, ninth, and twelfth houses are cadent.

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Our ears attuned to thy sweet lay Catch every flowing, cadent note And bear it ever safe within Our rapturous hearts, which gladly leap Whene'er thy name is called!

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I saw no horses, no sign of life; heard no sound but the cadent wail of the ash-grey birds in their flights.

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A mighty undertone of mingled sound; The cadent tumult rising from a throng Of urban workers, blending in a song Of greater life that makes the pulses bound.

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O, listen to the undersong, The ever old, the ever young; And, far within those cadent pauses, The chorus of the ancient Causes!

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