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Looking like Raphael's Perugino eyes	A
So slightly subtly aquiline as brown	B
As a buck eye amorous flamed but lightly dimmed	C
Through thought of self while sitting for the artist	D
A nose well bridged with bone for will the nostrils	E
Distended as if sniffing diaphanous fire	F
A very bow for lips the under lip	G
Rich kissable like a woman's heavy cheeks	H
Propped with a rounded tower of flesh for neck	I
Thus Perugino looked says Raphael	J
And thus looked Father Whimsett at his desk	K
With vertical creases where the nose and brow	L
Together come between the eye brows slanting	M
Unequally half clown wise half Mephisto	D
With just a touch of that abandoned humor	F
And laughter at the world the race of men	N
Mephisto had for mischief which the priest	D
Has for a sense which looks upon the dream	O
And smiles yet pities those who move in it	D
And Father Whimsett smokes and reads and smiles	P
He soon will hold confessional For days	Q
he has heard nothing but complaints of lovers	R
And searched for nullities impediments	S
Through which to give sore stricken hearts relief	T
There was the youth too drunk to know he married	D
A woman never baptized Now the youth	U
Has found another oh this is the one	V
And comes and says Oh holy father help me	W
May I be free to marry her I love	X
And get the church's blessing when a court	D
Dissolves the civil contract Holy Father	F
I knew not what I did cannot remember	F
Where I was married when my mind's a blank	Y
It was the drink you know	Z
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And so it goes	A2
The will is eyeless through concupiscence	A2
And that absolves the soul that's penitent	D
And Father Whimsett reads his Latin books	A2
Searches for subtleties for faithful souls	A2
Whereby the faithful souls may have their wish	B2
Yet keep the gospel too	D
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These Latin books	A2
Leave him fatigued but not fatigued to turn	C2
Plotinus Xenophon Boccacio	A2
Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris	A2
And just this moment Father Whimsett reads	A2
Catullus killing time before he hears	A2
Confession gets the music of Catullus	A2
Along the light that enters at the eye	D2
Etherial strings plucked by the intellect	D
To vibrate to the inner ear At times	A2
He must re light his half forgot cigar	E2
And while the music of the Latin verse	A2
Which is an echo as he stops to light	D
His half forgot cigar is wafted through	D
His meditation as a tune is heard	D
After the keys are stayed it blends becomes	A2
The soul interpretation of these stories	A2
Which lovers tell him in these later days	A2
And now the clock upon the mantel chimes	A2
The quarter of the hour Up goes Catullus	A2
By Ovid on the shelf The dead cigar	E2
Is thrown away He rises from the chair	F2
When Father Conway enters just to visit	D
Some idle moments smoke and have a talk	G2
And Father Whimsett takes his seat again	N
Waves Father Conway to a comfort chair	F2
Says Have a smoke and Father Conway smokes	A2
And sees Catullus says you read Catullus	A2
And lays the morning Times upon the table	H2
And says to Father Whimsett Every day	D
The Times has stories better than Catullus	A2
And episodes which Horace would have used	D
I wish we had a poet who would take	I2
This city of Chicago write it up	J2
The old Chicago and the new Chicago	Z
The race track old caf s and gambling places	A2
The prize fights wrestling matches sporting houses	A2
As Horace wrote up Rome Or if we had	D
A Virgil he would find an epic theme	O
In this American matter typical	H2
Of our America one phase or more	K2
Concerning Elenor Murray Here to day	D
There is a story of some letters found	D
In Arthur Fouche's mansion under the floor	K2
Sensational dramatic	L2
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Father Whimsett	D
Looked steadily at Father Conway blew	D
A funnel of tobacco smoke and said	D
I scarcely read the Times these days too busy	A2
I've had a run of rich confessionals	A2
The war is ended but they still come on	M2
And most are lovers in the coils of love	X
I had one yesterday that made me think	N2
Of one I had a year ago last spring	M
The point was this they say forgive me father	F
For I have sinned then as the case proceeds	A2
A greater sin comes forth I mean the sin	O2
Of saying sin is good cannot be sin	O2
I loved the man or how can love be sin	O2
Well as a human soul I see the point	D
But have no option must lay to and say	D
Acknowledgment contrition and the promise	A2
To sin no more is necessary to	D
Win absolution Now to show the matter	F
Here comes a woman says I leave for France	A2
To serve to die I have a premonition	V
That I shall die abroad or if I live	P2
I have had fears I shall be taken wronged	D
So driven by this honor to destroy	Q2
Myself goes on and says I tell you all	R2
These fears of mine that you may search my heart	D
More gladly may absolve me Then she says	A2
These fears worked in my soul until I took	S2
The step which I confess before I leave	T2
I wait and she proceeds	A2
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O holy father	F
There is a man whom I have loved for years	A2
These five years past such hopeless happy years	A2
I love him and he loves me holy father	F
He holds me sacred as his wife he loves me	A2
With the most holy love It cannot be	A2
That any love like ours is guilty love	X
Can have no other quality than good	D
If it be love	X
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Well here's a pretty soul	U2
To sit in the confessional So I say	D
Why do you come to me Loving your sin	O2
Confessing it denying it in one breath	V2
Leaves you in sin without forgiveness	A2
Well then she tacks about and says I sinned	D
And I am sorry Wait a minute father	F
And see the flesh and spirit mixed again	N
She wants to tell me all I let her go	Z
And so she says His wife's an invalid	D
Has been no wife to him Besides she says	A2
Now watch this thrust to pierce my holy shield	D
She is not in the church's eye his wife	W2
She never was baptized I almost laughed	D
But answered her You think adultery	A2
Is less adultery in a case like this	A2
Well no she says but could he be divorced	D
The church would marry us Go on I said	D
And then she paused a little and went on	M2
I said I loved this man and it is true	D
And years ago I gave myself to him	X2
And then his wife found out there was a woman	V
But not that I was the woman years ago	Z
At confirmation I confessed it all	R2
Need only say this time I gave him up	J2
And crushed him out with work was chaste for years	A2
And then I met a man a different man	Y2
Who stirred me otherwise kept after me	A2
At last I weakened sinned three months ago	Z
And suffered for it For he took me left me	A2
As if he wanted body of me alone	Z2
And was not pleased with that And after that	D
I think that I was mad a furious passion	V
Was kindled by this second man and left	D
With nothing to employ its flame Two weeks	A2
Went by he did not seek me out none knew	D
The hour of our departure Then I thought	D
How little I had been to this first lover	F
And of the years when I denied him so	Z
To recompense his love to serve him father	F
Yes to allay this passion newly raised	D
By this new lover whom I thought I loved	D
I went to my old lover free of will	A3
And took his lips and said to him O take me	A2
I am yours to do with as you choose to night	D
He turned as pale as snow and shook with fear	B3
His heart beat in his throat I terrified him	X2
With this great will of mine in this small body	A2
I went on while he stood there by the window	Z
His back toward me Make me wholly yours	A2
Take no precaution prudence throw away	D
As mean unworthy Let your life precede	D
Forestall the intruder's if one be And if	C3
A child must be yours shall it be	A2
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He turned	D
And took me in his arms	A2
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And so to make	I2
As nearly as might be a marriage father	F
I took but let me tell you I had thought	D
His wife might die at any time so thinking	M
During these years I had bought bridal things	A2
A veil embroideries silk lingerie	D
And I took to our room my negligee	D3
Boudoir cap satin slippers so to make	I2
All beautiful as we were married father	F
How have I sinned I cannot deem it wrong	E3
Do I not soil my soul with penitence	A2
And smut this loveliness with penitence	A2
Can I regret my work nor take a hurt	D
Upon my very soul How keep it clean	F3
Confessing what I did if I thought so	A2
As evil and unclean	F3
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The devil again	N
Entered with casuistry as you perceive	T2
And so to make an end I said to her	F
You must bring to this sacrament a heart	D
Contrite and humble promise me beside	D
To sin no more The case is in your hands	A2
You can confess with lips deny with heart	D
God only knows I don't it's on your soul	U2
To speak the truth or lie to me Confess	A2
And I'll absolve you For in truth my heart	D
Was touched by what she said her lovely voice	A2
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But now the story deepened For she said	D
I have not told you all And she renewed	D
Suppose you pack your trunk and have your lunch	G3
Go to the station but no train arrives	A2
And there you wait and wait until you're hungry	A2
And nothing to do but wait no place to lunch	G3
You cannot leave the station lest the train	H3
Should come while you are gone Well so it was	A2
The weeks went by and still we were not called	D
And I had closed my old life sat and waited	D
The time of leaving to begin new life	W2
And after I had sinned with my first lover	F
Parted from him said farewell ended it	D
Could not go back to him at least could think	N2
Of no way to return that would not dull	H2
The hour we lived together look this man	Y2
This second lover looks me up again	N
And overwhelms me with a flaming passion	V
It seemed he had thought over what I was	A2
Become all fire for me He came to me	A2
And said I love you love you looked at me	A2
And I could see the love light in his eyes	A2
The light that woman knows Well I was weak	I3
Lonely and bored He stirred my love besides	A2
And then a curious thought came in my brain	H3
The spirit is not found save through the flesh	J3
O holy father and I thought to self	K3
Bring as you may these trials close together	F
In point of time and see where spirit is	A2
Where flesh directs to spirit most And so	A2
I went with him again and found in truth	U
I loved him he was mine and I was his	A2
We two were for each other my old lover	F
Was just my love's beginning not my love	X
Fully and wholly rapturously this man	Y2
Body and spirit harmonized with me	A2
I found him through the love of my old lover	F
And knew by contrast memory of the two	D
And this immediate comparison	V
Of spirits and of bodies that this man	Y2
Who left me whom I turned from to the first	D
As I have tried to tell you was the one	V
O holy father he is married too	D
And as I leave for France this ends as well	J
No child in me from either I confess	A2
That I have sinned most grievously I repent	D
And promise I shall sin no more	K2
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And so	A2
I gave her absolution Well you see	A2
The church was dark but I knew who it was	A2
I knew the voice She left Another penitent	D
Entered with a story What is this	A2
Here is a woman who's promiscuous	A2
Tried number one and then tries number two	D
And comes and tells me she has taken proof	L3
Weighed evidence of spirit and of body	A2
And thinks she knows at last affirms as much	M3
Such conduct will not do that's plain enough	N3
Not even if the truth of love is known	Z2
This way no other way	D
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Then Father Conway	D
Began as follows I've a case like that	D
A woman married but she found her husband	D
Was just the cup of Tantulus and so	A2
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But Father Whimsett said Why look at that	D
I'm over due a quarter of an hour	F
Come in to morrow father tell me then	N
The two priests rose and left the room together	F