If you’re going to join the clergy, there are choices you must make.
Sometimes you’ll need superpowers, holding back for others’ sake.
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Though you’re poorly paid you can’t dress shabbily or flat out wild.
What you’re wearing should approximate a fairly recent style.
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Don’t forget your fam-i-ly aren’t priestly, and, in fact, they’re free.
They come first, so if there’s conflict, clergy’s what you should not be.
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Heed your call, but make your choices. No one forced the path you take.
Like all other humans you are loved through death for heaven’s sake.
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Source: Leviticus 21:1-9
Text: David Alexander, 2021 CC BY-SA NC 4.0
Tune: Kas Dziedaja, Public Domain
Score: https://www.smallchurchmusic.com/2012/Score/ByTheBabylonian-KasDziedaja.pdf
Audio: www.smallchurchmusic.com Used by Permission
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