<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341328" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Although no stupid scoffer</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although no stupid scoffer, I<br>Am wholly at a loss<br>To apprehend the reason why<br>You kiss Lorenzo's Cross.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For though indeed a hundred days'<br>Indulgence thus you win,<br>There does not move a lip but says<br>That you did never sin.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ha! but I did not read the whole.<br>I see it now; the gain<br>May be applied to any soul<br>In purgatorial pain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And oh, how many spirits lie<br>In such sad bondage through<br>Having too often passed it by<br>Whilst gazing after you!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">They longed, instead, your lips to kiss;<br>Their wish, though vain, was clear;<br>They fondly thought they would by this<br>Make sure of heaven here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Indulgence each your lip acquires,<br>On them it doth bestow;<br>And you who lighted here their fires,<br>Do quench their flames below.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so you soothe-'tis only fair-<br>The souls you lately vexed.<br>'Tis lucky you have grace to spare<br>For this world and-the next.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341328" data-title="Although no stupid scoffer de Alfred Austin" data-description="Although no stupid scoffer, I Am wholly at a loss To apprehend the reason why You kiss Lorenzo's Cross. For though indeed a hundred days' Indulgence thus you win, There does not move a lip but says That you did never sin. Ha! but I did not read ..."></div> </div> </div>

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