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1 While I was peering through green boughs,
2 even as do men who waste their lives
3 in hunting after birds,
4 my more than father said to me: 'My son,
5 come along, for the time we are allowed
6 should be apportioned to a better use.'
7 I turned my face, and my steps as quickly,
8 to follow my two sages, whose discourse
9 made my going on seem easy,
10 when with weeping we heard voices sing
11 'Labïa mëa, Domine' in tones
12 that brought at once delight and grief.

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