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348–413 Spain

Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348 – c. 413) was a Roman Christian poet. His most influential poem, the Psychomachia is an allegory of the inner struggle between vice and virtue.

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Take, O take him, mighty Leader,
Take again thy servant's soul,
To the house from which he wandered
Exiled, erring, long ago.

Take him, earth, for cherishing,
To thy tender breast receive him.
Body of a man I bring thee,
Noble even in its ruin.

Fervent bella horrida, fervent
ossibus inclusa fremit et discordibus armis
non simplex natura hominis.

Of the Father sole begotten,
Ere the worlds began to be,
He the Alpha and Omega,
He the source, the ending He,
Of the things that are, that have been,
And that future years shall see,
Evermore and evermore!

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