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Sedulius Scottus:

APOLOGIA PRO VITA SUA

Reading or writing, I diligently seek wisdom:
By day and night, I petition my lofty ruler.
I eat freely; I drink freely.
I invoke the Muses; I measure verse.
I doze off snoring; starting I pray to God.
My mind, conscious, laments life's evil errors;
You spare man by mercy, Christ born of Mary.

	translated by Karen Rae Keck


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The St. Pachomius Orthodox Library, St. Leo the Great, 2004.

O Lord, remember Thy servants, Sedulius and Metropolitan Anthony of 
Sourozh, of blessed memory!

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               THE END, AND TO GOD BE THE GLORY!

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