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The Wretched Monk

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Old monasteries under steadfast walls     Displayed tableaux of holy Verity,     Warming the inner men in those cold halls     Against the chill of their austerity.     Those times, when seeds of Christ would thrive and grow,     More than one monk, now in obscurity,     Taking the graveyard as his studio,     Ennobled Death, in all simplicity.     My soul's a tomb that, wretched cenobite,     I travel in throughout eternity;     Nothing adorns the walls of this sad shrine     O slothful monk! Oh, when may I assign     This living spectacle of misery     To labour of my hands, my eyes' delight?

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