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How can you demand purity in one born impure? You have set mankind so brief a span of life—months is all you give him! Not one bit longer may he live. So give him a little rest, won’t you? Turn away your angry gaze and let him have a few moments of relief before he dies.

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Who can bring what is pure(A) from the impure?(B)
    No one!(C)
A person’s days are determined;(D)
    you have decreed the number of his months(E)
    and have set limits he cannot exceed.(F)
So look away from him and let him alone,(G)
    till he has put in his time like a hired laborer.(H)

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