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In the ages of Faith before the day	A
When men were too proud to weep or pray	A
There stood in a red roofed Breton town	B
Snugly nestled 'twixt sea and down	B
A chapel for simple souls to meet	C
Nightly and sing with voices sweet	C
Ave Maria	D
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There was an idiot palsied bleared	C
With unkempt locks and a matted beard	C
Hunched from the cradle vacant eyed	C
And whose head kept rolling from side to side	C
Yet who when the sunset glow grew dim	E
Joined with the rest in the twilight hymn	E
Ave Maria	D
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But when they up got and wended home	F
Those up the hillside these to the foam	F
He hobbled along in the narrowing dusk	G
Like a thing that is only hull and husk	G
On as he hobbled chanting still	H
Now to himself now loud and shrill	H
Ave Maria	D
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When morning smiled on the smiling deep	I
And the fisherman woke from dreamless sleep	I
And ran up his sail and trimmed his craft	C
While his little ones leaped on the sand and laughed	C
The senseless cripple would stand and stare	J
Then suddenly holloa his wonted prayer	J
Ave Maria	D
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Others might plough and reap and sow	K
Delve in the sunshine spin in snow	L
Make sweet love in a shelter sweet	C
Or trundle their dead in a winding sheet	C
But he through rapture and pain and wrong	M
Kept singing his one monotonous song	M
Ave Maria	D
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When thunder growled from the ravelled wrack	N
And ocean to welkin bellowed back	N
And the lightning sprang from its cloudy sheath	O
And tore through the forest with jagg d teeth	O
Then leaped and laughed o'er the havoc wreaked	C
The idiot clapped with his hands and shrieked	C
Ave Maria	D
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Children mocked and mimicked his feet	C
As he slouched or sidled along the street	C
Maidens shrank as he passed them by	P
And mothers with child eschewed his eye	P
And half in pity half scorn the folk	Q
Christened him from the words he spoke	Q
Ave Maria	D
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One year when the harvest feasts were done	R
And the mending of tattered nets begun	R
And the kittiwake's scream took a weirder key	S
From the wailing wind and the moaning sea	S
He was found at morn on the fresh strewn snow	L
Frozen and faint and crooning low	L
Ave Maria	D
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They stirred up the ashes between the dogs	T
And warmed his limbs by the blazing logs	U
Chafed his puckered and bloodless skin	V
And strove to quiet his chattering chin	V
But ebbing with unreturning tide	C
He kept on murmuring till he died	C
Ave Maria	D
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Idiot soulless brute from birth	W
He could not be buried in sacred earth	W
So they laid him afar apart alone	X
Without or a cross or turf or stone	X
Senseless clay unto senseless clay	A
To which none ever came nigh to say	A
Ave Maria	D
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When the meads grew saffron the hawthorn white	C
And the lark bore his music out of sight	C
And the swallow outraced the racing wave	Y
Up from the lonely outcast grave	Y
Sprouted a lily straight and high	P
Such as She bears to whom men cry	P
Ave Maria	D
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None had planted it no one knew	Z
How it had come there why it grew	Z
Grew up strong till its stately stem	A2
Was crowned with a snow white diadem	A2
One pure lily round which behold	C
Was written by God in veins of gold	C
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Over the lily they built a shrine	B2
Where are mingled the mystic bread and wine	B2
Shrine you may see in the little town	B
That is snugly nestled 'twixt deep and down	B
Through the Breton land it hath wondrous fame	C2
And it bears the unshriven idiot's name	C2
Ave Maria	D
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Hunchbacked gibbering blear eyed halt	C
From forehead to footstep one foul fault	C
Crazy contorted mindless born	D2
The gentle's pity the cruel's scorn	D2
Who shall bar you the gates of Day	A
So you have simple faith to say	A
Ave Maria	D

Alfred Austin

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