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And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.
--
Hymn 88, Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book I.

 

Isaac Watts

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Pimen [writing in front of a sacred lamp]:
One more, the final record, and my annals
Are ended, and fulfilled the duty laid
By God on me a sinner. Not in vain
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A witness, teaching me the art of letters;
A day will come when some laborious monk
Will bring to light my zealous, nameless toil,
Kindle, as I, his lamp, and from the parchment
Shaking the dust of ages will transcribe
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With a fork drive Nature out,
She will ever yet return;
Hedge the flowerbed all about,
Pull or stab or cut or burn,
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There yet remains but one concluding tale,
And then this chronicle of mine is ended—
Fulfilled, the duty God ordained to me,
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Put me to witness much for many years
And educate me in the love of books.
One day some indefatigable monk
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