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Thank God Those gazers' eyes are gone at last	A
The guards are crouching underneath the rock	B
The lights are fading in the town below	C
Around the cottage which this morn was ours	D
Kind sun to set and leave us here alone	E
Alone upon our crosses with our God	F
While all the angels watch us from the stars	G
Kind moon to shine so clear and full on him	H
And bathe his limbs in glory for a sign	I
Of what awaits him Oh look on him Lord	J
Look and remember how he saved thy lamb	K
Oh listen to me teacher husband love	L
Never till now loved utterly Oh say	M
Say you forgive me No you must not speak	N
You said it to me hours ago long hours	D
Now you must rest and when to morrow comes	O
Speak to the people call them home to God	F
A deacon on the Cross as in the Church	P
And plead from off the tree with outspread arms	Q
To show them that the Son of God endured	R
For them and me Hush I alone will speak	N
And while away the hours till dawn for you	S
I know you have forgiven me as I lay	M
Beneath your feet while they were binding me	T
I knew I was forgiven then When I cried	U
'Here am I husband The lost lamb returned	V
All re baptized in blood ' and you said 'Come	T
Come to thy bride bed martyr wife once more '	W
From that same moment all my pain was gone	X
And ever since those sightless eyes have smiled	Y
Love love Alas those eyes They made me fall	Z
I could not bear to see them bleeding dark	A2
Never no never to look into mine	I
Never to watch me round the little room	T
Singing about my work or flash on me	T
Looks bright with counsel Then they drove me mad	B2
With talk of nameless tortures waiting you	S
And I could save you You would hear your love	L
They knew you loved me cruel men And then	C2
Then came a dream to say one little word	D2
One easy wicked word we both might say	M
And no one hear us but the lictors round	E2
One tiny sprinkle of the incense grains	F2
And both both free And life had just begun	G2
Only three months short months your wedded wife	H2
Only three months within the cottage there	I2
Hoping I bore your child	Y
Ah husband Saviour God think gently of me	T
I am forgiven	G2
And then another dream	T
A flash so quick I could not bear the blaze	J2
I could not see the smoke among the light	K2
To wander out through unknown lands and lead	L2
You by the hand through hamlet port and town	M2
On on until we died and stand each day	M
To glory in you as you preached and prayed	N2
From rock and bourne stone with that voice those words	O2
Mingled with fire and honey you would wake	P2
Bend save whole nations would not that atone	E
For one short word ay make it right to save	Q2
You you to fight the battles of the Lord	J
And so and so alas you knew the rest	R2
You answered me	T
Ah cruel words No Blessed godlike words	O2
You had done nobly had you struck me dead	L2
Instead of striking me to life the temptress	S2
'Traitress apostate dead to God and me '	W
'The smell of death upon me ' so it was	T2
True true well spoken hero Oh they snapped	U2
Those words my madness like the angel's voice	V2
Thrilling the graves to birth pangs All was clear	W2
There was but one right thing in the world to do	S
And I must do it Lord have mercy Christ	X2
Help through my womanhood or I shall fail	Y2
Yet as I failed before I could not speak	N
I could not speak for shame and misery	T
And terror of my sin and of the things	Z2
I knew were coming but in heaven in heaven	G2
There we should meet perhaps and by that time	T
I might be worthy of you once again	C2
Of you and of my God So I went out	A3
	W
Will you hear more and so forget the pain	B3
And yet I dread to tell you what comes next	C3
Your love will feel it all again for me	T
No it is over and the woe that's dead	L2
Rises next hour a glorious angel Love	L
Say shall I tell you Ah your lips are dry	D3
To morrow when they come we must entreat	L2
And they will give you water One to day	L2
A soldier gave me water in a sponge	E3
Upon a reed and said 'Too fair too young	F3
She might have been a gallant soldier's wife '	W
And then I cried 'I am a soldier's wife	H2
A hero's ' And he smiled but let me drink	G3
God bless him for it	L2
So they led me back	H3
And as I went a voice was in my ears	I3
Which rang through all the sunlight and the breath	J3
And blaze of all the garden slopes below	C
And through the harvest voices and the moan	E
Of cedar forests on the cliffs above	L
And round the shining rivers and the peaks	K3
Which hung beyond the cloud bed of the west	L2
And round the ancient stones about my feet	L2
Out of all heaven and earth it rang and cried	L2
'My hand hath made all these Am I too weak	N
To give thee strength to say so ' Then my soul	L3
Spread like a clear blue sky within my breast	L2
While all the people made a ring around	L2
And in the midst the judge spoke smilingly	T
'Well hast thou brought him to a better mind '	W
'No He has brought me to a better mind '	W
I cried and said beside I know not what	L2
Words which I learnt from thee I trust in God	L2
Nought fierce or rude for was I not a girl	M3
Three months ago beneath my mother's roof	N3
I thought of that She might be there I looked	L2
She was not there I hid my face and wept	L2
And when I looked again the judge's eye	D3
Was on me cold and steady deep in thought	L2
'She knows what shame is still so strip her ' 'Ah '	W
I shrieked 'Not that Sir Any pain So young	F3
I am a wife too I am not my own	E
But his my husband's ' But they took my shawl	Z
And tore my tunic off and there I stood	L2
Before them all Husband you love me still	O3
Indeed I pleaded Oh shine out kind moon	P3
And let me see him smile Oh how I prayed	L2
While some cried 'Shame ' and some 'She is too young '	W
And some mocked ugly words God shut my ears	I3
And yet no earthquake came to swallow me	T
While all the court around and walls and roofs	Q3
And all the earth and air were full of eyes	R3
Eyes eyes which scorched my limbs like burning flame	T
Until my brain seemed bursting from my brow	S3
And yet no earthquake came And then I knew	S
This body was not yours alone but God's	T3
His loan He needed it and after that	L2
The worst was come and any torture more	U3
A change a lightening and I did not shriek	N
Once only once when first I felt the whip	V3
It coiled so keen around my side and sent	L2
A fire flash through my heart which choked me then	C2
I shrieked that once The foolish echo rang	W3
So far and long I prayed you might not hear	X3
And then a mist which hid the ring of eyes	R3
Swam by me and a murmur in my ears	I3
Of humming bees around the limes at home	T
And I was all alone with you and God	L2
And what they did to me I hardly know	C
I felt and did not feel Now I look back	H3
It was not after all so very sharp	Y3
So do not pity me It made me pray	L2
Forget my shame in pain and pain in you	S
And you in God and once when I looked down	M2
And saw an ugly sight so many wounds	Z3
'What matter ' thought I 'His dear eyes are dark	A2
For them alone I kept these limbs so white	L2
A foolish pride As God wills now 'Tis just '	W
But then the judge spoke out in haste 'She is mad	L2
Or fenced by magic arts She feels no pain '	W
He did not know I was on fire within	A4
Better he should not so his sin was less	B4
Then he cried fiercely 'Take the slave away	L2
And crucify her by her husband's side '	W
And at those words a film came on my face	C4
A sickening rush of joy was that the end	L2
That my reward I rose and tried to go	C
But all the eyes had vanished and the judge	D4
And all the buildings melted into mist	L2
So how they brought me here I cannot tell	E4
Here here by you until the judgment day	L2
And after that for ever and for ever	F4
Ah If I could but reach that hand One touch	G4
One finger tip to send the thrill through me	T
I felt but yesterday No I can wait	L2
Another body Oh new limbs are ready	T
Free pure instinct with soul through every nerve	H4
Kept for us in the treasuries of God	L2
They will not mar the love they try to speak	N

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