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To Giorgio Vasari.Vanity Of Vanities.

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Le favole del mondo.     The fables of the world have filched away             The time I had for thinking upon God;             His grace lies buried 'neath oblivion's sod,             Whence springs an evil crop of sins alway.     What makes another wise, leads me astray,             Slow to discern the bad path I have trod:             Hope fades; but still desire ascends that God             May free me from self-love, my sure decay.     Shorten half-way my road to heaven from earth!             Dear Lord, I cannot even half-way rise,             Unless Thou help me on this pilgrimage.     Teach me to hate the world so little worth,             And all the lovely things I clasp and prize;             That endless life, ere death, may be my wage.

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