“‘Why strays thy mind in such perplexity’ the master said, ‘that thou art dawdling so? The things here whispered, what are they to thee? Follow thou me, and let them talk’”
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“‘Why strays thy mind in such perplexity’ the master said, ‘that thou art dawdling so? The things here whispered, what are they to thee? Follow thou me, and let them talk’” The Miserere, Psalm 51, is perhaps the best-known penitential psalm (“Have mercy upon me, O God”) and is particularly assigned to the unshriven, or those who died without a final confession of sin.