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Why these bitter words of the dying, o brethren, |
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which they utter as they go hence? |
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I am parted from my brethren. |
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All my friends do i abandon and go hence. |
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But whither i go, that understand i not, |
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neither what shall become of me yonder; |
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only God who hath summoned me knoweth. |
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But make commemoration of me with the song: |
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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! |
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But whither now go the souls? |
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How dwell they now together there? |
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This mystery have i desired to learn; but none can impart aright. |
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Do they call to mind their own people, as we do them? |
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Or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song: |
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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! |
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We go forth on the path eternal, and as condemned, |
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with downcast faces, present ourselves before the only God eternal. |
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Where then is comeliness? Where then is wealth? |
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Where then is the glory of this world? |
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There shall none of these things aid us, but only to say oft the psalm: |
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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! |
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If thou hast shown mercy unto man, o man, |
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that same mercy shall be shown thee there; |
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and if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion, |
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the same shall there deliver thee from want. |
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If in this life the naked thou hast clothed, |
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the same shall give thee shelter there, and sing the psalm: |
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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! |
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Youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death, |
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and the tongue then burneth fiercely, and the parched throat is inflamed. |
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The beauty of the eyes is quenched then, the comeliness of the face all altered, |
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the shapeliness of the neck destroyed; and the other parts have become numb, |
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nor often say: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! |
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With ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder; |
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that there is Paradise, wherein every soul of Righteous Ones rejoiceth. |
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Let us all, also, enter into Christ, that we may cry aloud thus unto God: |
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Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! |
