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Thanks For A Gift.

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Al zucchero, alla mula.     The sugar, candles, and the saddled mule,             Together with your cask of malvoisie,             So far exceed all my necessity             That Michael and not I my debt must rule,     In such a glassy calm the breezes fool             My sinking sails, so that amid the sea             My bark hath missed her way, and seems to be             A wisp of straw whirled on a weltering pool.     To yield thee gift for gift and grace for grace,             For food and drink and carriage to and fro,             For all my need in every time and place,     O my dear lord, matched with the much I owe,             All that I am were no real recompense:             Paying a debt is not munificence.

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