| Human brothers that alive still you are
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| Don’t have for us frozen heart
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| That if mercy for us we wretched you have
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| God will grant you larger his favour
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| Hanging five, six here you can see us
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| Our flesh is once time too fatten
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| And by the time is devoured and ruined
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| Our bones turn in ashes and dust
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| No one laughed for the unwell that ravages us
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| But now pray God us to be absolved!
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| If we call you we don’t have to disdain
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| 'though we’ve been killed in justice
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| But still you know about good sense
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| Many are lacking in this world
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| As we’re dead for us you can get
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| From the son of celestial Virgin
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| Who dried up the grace that doesn’t remain
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| And that saves us from the horrible flash!
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| Dead we are, no one molests us
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| But now pray God us to be absolved!
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| The shower has washed and cleaned us
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| And now the sun turns us black and dry
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| Magpies and ravens our eyes have dug up
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| And birds and eyelashes snatched with the beaks
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| We haven’t peace for just a moment
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| Here and there as the mind changes
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| Without pauses as his pleasure we turn
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| Bored more by bird than by thimbles
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| Go with us you’ve never been equal
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| But now pray God us to be absolved!
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| Oh God who upon all you rule!
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| Don’t let us feel the Hellish hot!
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| 'Cause debts here don’t have to be absolved!
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| Men here don’t show mercy or irony
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| But now pray God us to be absolved! |