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Numbered, weighed, and found |
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wanting... |
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A white stone and a new na- |
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me, at peace with the lord and |
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freed from blame, all debts re- |
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mitted, thy sould washed |
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clean, O glorious splen- |
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dours of the rebirth. |
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...But that stone is a lump of |
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coal, for thou hadst a whore's |
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forehead, thou refusedst to be |
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ashamed. |
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A white stone and a new |
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name, restoring the years |
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that the locust have eaten, again |
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clean enough to speak his name, |
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oh happy vantage of a kneeling knee |
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...But that name is a ghost |
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unseen, for thou hadst a whore's |
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forehead, thou refusedst to be |
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ashamed. Mene, Mene, Tekel, |
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Upharsin... thou refusedst |
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to be ashamed. |
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Numbered, weighed, and found |
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wanting... |
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A white stone and a new na- |
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me, thy lamp removed from the |
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altar of shame, but that name |
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is a ghost unseen, for thou |
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hadst a whore's forehead, thou |
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refusedst to be ashamed. |