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It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
It is sheer folly to tear the hair in grief as if sorrow could be
cured by baldness.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man
read his own dark heart.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
. . . it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.
Fire that's closest kept, burns most of all.
Charity sees the need not the cause.
Charity sees the need not the cause.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
While tears that from repentance flow,
In bright exhalement reach the skies.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
The finishing stroke of all sorrow.
