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trouble you?\nGo take your money and buy rich robes,\nBuy horses and carriages fine,\nBuy pearls and jewels and dainty food;\nBuy the rarest and costliest wines;\nMy children they dote on all these things,\nAnd if you their love would win,\nYou must do as they do, and walk in the ways\nThat they are walking in.\"",[89,105,106],{},"Then the Church held fast the strings of her purse,\nAnd modestly lowered her head,\nAnd simpered, \"Without doubt you are right, sir;\nHenceforth I will do as you've said.\"\nSo the poor were turned from her door in scorn,\nAnd she heard not the orphan's cry;\nBut she drew her beautiful robes aside,\nAs the widows went weeping by.\nThen the sons of the World and sons of the Church\nWalked closely hand and heart,\nAnd only the Master, who knoweth all,\nCould tell the two apart.",[89,108,109],{},"Then the Church sat down at her ease and said\n\"I am rich and my goods increase;\nI have need of nothing, or aught to do,\nBut to laugh, and dance, and feast.\"\nThe 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