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che ne mo ro,- e sen to- Strug ger- si_il- se no_e- li que far- si_il- co re!-

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Ma 'ldo lor- m'con ten- to,- Piso a- vi- de si- ri- Non ho de mieimar ti- ri.- A mo,- so spi- ro- e

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tre mo,- al ma_in- no- cen- te,- Co me- gra ve- d'er -ror- co s- do len- te.

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be ne.- Sen to- ge li- do_u- sci- re- Da me lo spir to- fuo ri,- Al ma- do len- te-

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Dolcissimo Signore, ahi, che ne moro e sento struggersi il seno e liquefarsi il core. Ma 'l dolor m' contento: pi soavi desiri non ho de' miei martiri. Amo, sospiro, e tremo, alma [in]nocente, come grave d'error cos dolente. Gi peccatrice io fui: a te ricorro aita poich sol mori per dar pace altrui, sospirata mia vita, gi del mondo fallace, idolatra seguace te fuggii, te sprezzai, ma ben diss'io che non potea salvarmi altro che Dio. Ne la Croce ti miro, che per mio ben piagato, holocausto di pena e di martiro versi l'alma dal lato. Se le mie colpe abhorri, soccori pur, soccori, e mostra l'alma a me clemente e pia. Tuo sia il perdono, se la colpa mia. Ma gradite mie pene, se m' dato languire ove in Croce gi langue il Sommo Bene. Sento gelido uscire da me lo spirto fuori: alma dolente, mori . . . Io pi non posso Di mia vita il corso manca. Ahi lassa! io mi moro o Dio, soccorso! Anonymous

My Lord, you who are most sweet, alas, how I die, and feel upheaval within my breast and my heart melt. But my grief makes me content: I have no sweeter desire than to suffer these torments. I love, I sigh, I tremble, oh purest soul, so stricken with grief as if laden with sin. Once I lived as a sinner: to you now I turn for help, since you die only to give peace to others, you who are what my heart seeks, once a pagan follower of the deceiving world, I fled from you and scorned you; but well should have said that there is no one who could who save me but God. I see you there on the Cross, wounded for my salvation, holocaust of torture and of suffering, pour out your soul from your side. Though you may abhor my sins, have mercy, still, have mercy and show me your visage merciful and meek; let the pardon be yours, as the sin is mine. But are all my pains are pleasing, if I m allowed to suffer on that Cross where the Supreme Good now suffers. I can feel now cold as ice my spirit as it leaves me. Grieving soul, you are dying . . . I cannot go on. The course of my life is broken. Alas, I die. O my God, help me! M. Murata