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SIMON the leper sat at the door of his cave. He held a roll of vellum in / his unsightly fingers; it was a copy of the Psalms that Lazarus had once / made for him in happier days.
Many a time he had found comfort in these hope-inspiring songs of David; / but to-day he was reading a wail that seemed to come from the depths of / his own soul: