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Father Keeler died February in Mobile Ala	A
Inscribed to his sister	B
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Sweet Christ let him live ah we need his life	C
And woe to us if he goes	D
Oh his life is beautiful sweet and fair	E
Like a holy hymn and the stillest prayer	E
Let him linger to help us in the strife	C
On earth with our sins and woes	D
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'Twas the cry of thousands who loved him so	F
The Angel of Death said No oh no	F
He was passing away and none might save	G
The virgin priest from a spotless grave	G
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O God spare his life we plead and pray	H
He taught us to love You so	F
So so much his life is so sweet and fair	E
A still still song and a holy prayer	E
He is our Father oh let him stay	H
He gone to whom shall we go	F
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'Twas the wail of thousands who loved him so	F
But the Angel of Death murmured low No no	F
And the voice of his angel from far away	H
Sang to Christ in heav'n He must not stay	H
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O Mary kneel at the great white throne	I
And pray with your children there	E
Our hearts need his heart 'tis sweet and fair	E
Like the sound of hymns and the breath of prayer	E
Goeth he now we are lone so lone	I
And who is there left to care	E
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'Twas the cry of the souls who loved him so	F
But the Angel of Death sang Children no	F
And a voice like Christ's from the far away	H
Sounded sweet and low He may not stay	H
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From his sister's heart swept the wildest moan	I
O God let my brother stay	H
I need him the most oh me how lone	I
If he passes from earth away	H
O beautiful Christ for my poor sake	J
Let him live for me else my heart will break	J
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But the Angel of Death wept Poor child no	F
And Christ sang Child I will soothe thy woe	F
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O Christ let his sister's prayer be heard	K
Let her look on his face once more	L
Ah that prayer was a wail without a word	K
She will look on him nevermore	L
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The long gray distances unmoved swept	M
'Tween the dying eyes and the eyes that wept	M
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He was dying fast and the hours went by	N
Ah desolate hours were they	H
His mind had hidden away somewhere	E
Back of a fretted and wearied brow	O
Ere he passed from life away	H
And one who loved him at dead of night	P
Crept up to an altar where the light	P
That guards Christ's Eucharistic sleep	Q
Shone strangely down on his vow	O
Spare him O God O God for me	R
Take me beautiful Christ instead	S
Let me taste of death and come to Thee	R
I will sleep for him with the dead	S
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The Angel of Death said No Priest No	F
You must suffer and live but he must go	F
And a voice like Christ's sang far away	H
He will come to me but you must stay	H
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We leaned on hope that was all in vain	T
'Till the terrible word at last	U
Told our stricken hearts he was out of pain	T
And his beautiful life had passed	U
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Oh take him away from where he died	V
Put him not with the common dead	S
For he was so pure and fair	E
And the city was stirred and thousands cried	V
Whose tears were a very prayer	E
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No no no take him home again	W
For his bishop's heart beats there	E
Cast him not with the common dead	S
Let him go home and rest his head	S
Ah his weary and grief worn head	S
On the heart of his father he is mild	X
For he loved him as his own child	X
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And they brought him home to the home he blest	Y
With his life so sweet and fair	E
He blessed it more in his deathly rest	Y
His face was a chiseled prayer	E
White as the snow pure as the foam	Z
Of a weary wave on the sea	R
He drifted back and they placed him where	E
He would love at last to be	R
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His Father in God thought over the years	A2
Of the beautiful happy past	U
Ah me we were happy then but now	O
The sorrow has come and saddest tears	B2
Kiss the dead priest's virgin brow	O
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Who will watch o'er the dead young priest	C2
People and priests and all	D2
No no no 'tis his spirit's feast	C2
When the evening shadows fall	D2
Let him rest alone unwatched alone	I
Just beneath the altar's light	P
The holy hosts on their humble throne	I
Will watch him all thro' the night	P
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The doors were closed he was still and fair	E
What sound moved up the aisles	E2
The dead priests come with soundless prayer	E
Their faces wearing smiles	E2
And this was the soundless hymn they sung	F2
We watch o'er you to night	P
Your life was beautiful fair and young	F2
Not a cloud upon its light	P
To morrow to morrow you will rest	Y
With the virgin priests whom Christ has blest	Y
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Kyrie Eleison the stricken crowd	G2
Bowed down their heads in tears	B2
O'er the sweet young priest in his vestment shroud	G2
Ah the happy happy years	A2
They are dead and gone and the Requiem Mass	H2
Went slowly mournfully on	I2
The Pontiff's singing was all a wail	J2
The altars cried and the people wept	M
The fairest flower in the church's vale	J2
Ah me how soon we pass	H2
In the vase of his coffin slept	M
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We bore him out to his resting place	K2
Children priests and all	D2
There was sorrow on almost ev'ry face	K2
And ah what tears did fall	D2
Tears from hearts for a heart asleep	Q
Tears from sorrow's deepest deep	Q
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Dust to dust he was lowered down	L2
Children kneel and pray	H
Give the white rose priest a flower and crown	L2
For the white rose passed away	H
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And we wept our tears and left him there	E
And brought his memory home	Z
Ah he was beautiful sweet and fair	E
A heavenly hymn a sweet still prayer	E
Pure as the snow white as the foam	Z
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That seeks a lone far shore	L
Dead Priest bless from amid the blest	Y
The hearts that will guard thy place of rest	Y
Forever forever forever more	L

Abram Joseph Ryan

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