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Folly, error, sin, avarice

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Occupy our minds and labor our bodies,

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And we feed our pleasant remorse

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As beggars nourish their vermin.

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Our sins are obstinate, our repentance is faint;

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We exact a high price for our confessions,

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And we gaily return to the miry path,

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Believing that base tears wash away all our stains.

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On the pillow of evil Satan, Trismegist,

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Incessantly lulls our enchanted minds,

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And the noble metal of our will

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Is wholly vaporized by this wise alchemist.

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The Devil holds the strings which move us!

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In repugnant things we discover charms;

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Every day we descend a step further toward Hell,

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Without horror, through gloom that stinks.

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Like a penniless rake who with kisses and bites

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Tortures the breast of an old prostitute,

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We steal as we pass by a clandestine pleasure

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That we squeeze very hard like a dried up orange.

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Serried, swarming, like a million maggots,

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A legion of Demons carouses in our brains,

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And when we breathe, Death, that unseen river, Descends into our lungs with muffled wails.

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If rape, poison, daggers, arson

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Have not yet embroidered with their pleasing designs

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The banal canvas of our pitiable lives,

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It is because our souls have not enough boldness.

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But among the jackals, the panthers, the bitch hounds,

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The apes, the scorpions, the vultures, the serpents,

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The yelping, howling, growling, crawling monsters,

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In the filthy menagerie of our vices,

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There is one more ugly, more wicked, more filthy!

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Although he makes neither great gestures nor great cries,

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He would willingly make of the earth a shambles

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And, in a yawn, swallow the world;

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He is Ennui! ? His eye watery as though with tears,

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He dreams of scaffolds as he smokes his hookah pipe.

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You know him reader, that refined monster,

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Hypocrite reader,  my fellow,  my brother!