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Shading the Truth

by @ylzm

Making a living Wage from the living Word Inevitably shades, obscures, taints and corrupts Betrays the apparently living Faith And exalting the Man than the Word Balaam refused silver and gold in public But embraced death's wages in secret Certainly the labourer deserves his dues But from his Master and not from fellow labourers If the lives you saved leave you hungry But for your whip, perhaps they're yet slaves
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