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THREE months had passed since she had knelt before	A
The grate of the confessional and he	B
The priest had wondered why she came no more	A
To tell her sinless sins the vanity	B
Whose valid reason graced her simple dress	C
The prayers forgotten or the untold beads	D
The little thoughtless words the slight misdeeds	D
Which made the sum of her unrighteousness	D
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She was the fairest maiden in his fold	E
With her sweet mouth and musical pure voice	D
Her deep grey eyes her hair's tempestuous gold	E
Her gracious graceful figure's perfect poise	D
Her happy laugh her wild unconscious grace	D
Her gentle ways to old or sick or sad	F
The comprehending sympathy she had	F
Had made of her the idol of the place	D
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And when she grew so silent and so sad	F
So thin and quiet pale and hollow eyed	G
And cared no more to laugh and to be glad	F
With other maidens by the waterside	F
All wondered kindly grieved the elders were	H
And some few girls went whispering about	F
'She loves who is it Let us find it out '	-
But never dared to speak of it to her	H
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But the priest's duty bade him seek her out	F
And say 'My child why dost thou sit apart	F
Hast thou some grief Hast thou some secret doubt	F
Come and unfold to me thine inmost heart	F
God's absolution can assuage all grief	I
And all remorse and woe beneath the sun	J
Whatever thou hast said or thought or done	J
The Holy Church can give thy soul relief '	-
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He stood beside her young and strong and swayed	F
With pity for the sorrow in her eyes	D
Which as she raised them to his own conveyed	F
Into his soul a sort of sad surprise	D
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For in those grey eyes had a new light grown	K
The light that only bitter love can bring	L
And he had fancied her too pure a thing	L
For even happy love to dare to own	K
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Yet all the more he urged on her 'Confess	D
And do not doubt some comfort will be lent	F
By Holy Church thy penitence to bless	D
Trust her my child ' With unconvinced consent	F
She answered 'I will come ' and so at last	F
Out of the summer evening's crimson glow	M
With heart reluctant and with footsteps slow	M
Into the cool great empty church she passed	F
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'By my own fault my own most grievous fault	F
I cannot say for it is not ' she said	F
Kneeling within the grey stone chapel's vault	F
And on the ledge her golden hair was spread	F
Over the clasping hands that still increased	F
Their nervous pressure poor white hands and thin	N
While with hot lips she poured her tale of sin	N
Into the cold ear of the patient priest	F
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'Love broke upon me in a dream it came	O
Without beginning for to me it seemed	F
That all my life this thing had been the same	O
And never otherwise than as I dreamed	F
I only knew my heart entire complete	F
Was given to my other self my love	P
That I through all the world would gladly move	Q
So I might follow his ador d feet	F
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'I dreamed my soul saw suddenly appear	R
Immense abysses infinite heights unknown	K
Possessed new worlds new earths sphere after sphere	R
New sceptres kingdoms crowns became my own	K
When I had all all earth all time all space	D
And every blessing human and divine	S
I hated the possessions that were mine	S
And only cared for his belov d face	D
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'I dreamed that in unmeasured harmony	B
Rain of sweet sounds fell on my ravished sense	D
And thrilled my soul with swelling ecstasy	B
And rose to unimagined excellence	D
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And while the music bade my heart rejoice	D
And on my senses thrust delicious sway	T
I wished the perfect melody away	T
And in its place longed for his worshipped voice	D
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'And at the last I felt his arms enfold	F
His kisses crown my life his whispered sighs	D
Echo my own unrest his spirit hold	F
My spirit powerless underneath his eyes	D
My face flushed with new joy and felt more fair	U
He clasped me close and cried 'My own my own '	-
And then I woke in dawn's chill light alone	K
With empty arms held out to empty air	U
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'I never knew I loved him till that dream	V
Drew from my eyes the veil and left me wise	D
What I had thought was reverence grew to seem	V
Only my lifelong love in thin disguise	D
And in my dream it looked so sinless too	F
So beautiful harmonious and right	F
The vision faded with the morning light	F
The love will last as long as I shall do	F
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'But in the world where I have wept my tears	D
My love is sinful and a bitter shame	O
How can I bear the never ending years	D
When every night I hear him call my name	O
For though that first dream's dear delight is past	F
Yet since that night each night I dream him there	U
With lips caressing on my brow and hair	U
And in my arms I hold my heaven fast '	-
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'Child have you prayed against it ' 'Have I prayed	F
Have I not clogged my very soul with prayer	U
Stopped up my ears with sound of praying made	F
My very body faint with kneeling there	U
Before the sculptured Christ and all for this	D
That when my lips can pray no more and sleep	W
Shuts my unwilling eyes my love will leap	W
To dreamland's bounds to meet me with his kiss	D
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'Strive against this what profit is the strife	X
If through the day a little strength I gain	Y
At night he comes and calls me 'love' and 'wife '	-
And straightway I am all his own again	Z
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And if from love's besieging force my fight	F
Some little victory have hardly won	J
What do I gain As soon as day is done	J
I yield once more to love's delicious might '	-
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'Avoid him ' 'Ay in dewy garden walk	A2
How often have I strayed avoiding him	B2
And heard his voice mix with the common talk	A2
Yet never turned his way My eyes grow dim	B2
With weeping over what I lose by day	T
And find by night yet never have to call	C2
My own O God is there no help at all	C2
No hope no chance and no escapeful way '	-
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'And who is he to whom thy love is given '	-
'What Holy Church demands to know his name	O
No rest for me on earth no hope of heaven	J
Unless I tell it Ah for very shame	O
I cannot yet why not I will I can	D2
I have grown mad with brooding on my curse	D
Here Take the name no better and no worse	D
My case will be Father thou art the man '	-
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An icy shock shivered through all his frame	O
An overwhelming cold astonishment	F
But on the instant the revulsion came	O
His blood felt what her revelation meant	F
And madly rushed along his veins and cried	F
'For you too life is possible and love	P
No more a word you miss the meaning of	P
But all your life's desire unsatisfied '	-
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Then through his being crept a new strange fear	R
Fear of himself and through himself for her	H
His every fibre felt her presence near	R
Disquiet in his breast began to stir	H
'Lord Christ ' his soul cried while his heart beat fast	F
'Give strength in this my hour of utmost need '	-
And with the prayer strength came to him indeed	F
And with calm voice he answered her at last	F
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'Child go in peace Wrestle and watch and pray	T
And I will spend this night in prayer for thee	B
That God will take thy strange great grief away	T
Thou hast confessed thy sin Absolvo te '	-
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Silence most absolute a little while	E2
Then passed the whisper of her trailing gown	F2
Over the knee worn stones and soft died down	F2
The dim deserted incense memoried aisle	E2
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She passed away and yet when she was gone	G2
His heart still echoed her remembered sighs	D
What sin unpardonable had he done	J
That evermore those grey unquiet eyes	D
Floated between him and the dying day	T
How had she grown so desperately dear	R
Why did her love words echo in his ear	H2
Through all the prayers he forced his lips to say	T
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All night he lay upon the chancel floor	A
And coined his heart in tears and prayers and new	F
Strange longings he had never known before	A
Her very memory so thrilled him through	F
That to his being's core a shiver stole	I2
Of utter boundless measureless delight	F
Even while with unceasing desperate mi	B