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Sur un corps mort & puante charongne
Les aigles ont le sens de s’assembler
Pour vie avoir, & n’en ont point vergongne.
C’est beau miroir pour les coeurs enflamber
De tous Chrestiens, non pour leur ressembler:
Car au corps mort n’a rien pour le fidele,
Mais au corps vif qui les veut rassembler
Pour les nourrir ą la vie eternelle.
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A faithful mirror
xliiii.
Corvorum ingluviem projecta cadavera pascunt:
Esca aquilis eadem, praedaque vulturiis.
Non sic nostra fames: redivivo corpore Christi
Pascitur, aeternłm non pereunte cibo.
Abandoned corpses feed the crop [in sense of bird’s gullet] of ravens; they are food for eagles and prey for vultures. How different is our hunger: it is fed with the resurrected body of Christ, the food which will never perish.
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