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The vicar’s right; he says that we
Are ever wayward, weak and blind;
He tells us in his homily
Ambition ruins all mankind

— Gustave Nadaud Carcassonne (1887)

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Yet could I these two days have spent,
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Ah, me! I might have died content
When I had looked on Carcassonne.

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