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I tore this weed from the rank dark soil	A
Where it grew in the monkish time	B
I trimmed it close and set it again	C
In a border of modern rhyme	B
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I	-
Long years ago when the Devil was loose	D
And faith was sorely tried	E
Three monks of Basle went out to walk	F
In the quiet eventide	E
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A breeze as pure as the breath of Heaven	G
Blew fresh through the cloister shades	H
A sky as glad as the smile of Heaven	G
Blushed rose o'er the minster glades	H
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But scorning the lures of summer and sense	I
The monks passed on in their walk	F
Their eyes were abased their senses slept	E
Their souls were in their talk	F
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In the tough grim talk of the monkish days	J
They hammered and slashed about	E
Dry husks of logic old scraps of creed	E
And the cold gray dreams of doubt	E
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And whether Just or Justified	E
Was the Church's mystic Head	E
And whether the Bread was changed to God	E
Or God became the Bread	E
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But of human hearts outside their walls	K
They never paused to dream	L
And they never thought of the love of God	E
That smiled in the twilight gleam	L
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II	-
As these three monks went bickering on	M
By the foot of a spreading tree	N
Out from its heart of verdurous gloom	O
A song burst wild and free	N
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A wordless carol of life and love	P
Of nature free and wild	E
And the three monks paused in the evening shade	E
Looked up at each other and smiled	E
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And tender and gay the bird sang on	M
And cooed and whistled and trilled	E
And the wasteful wealth of life and love	P
From his happy heart was spilled	E
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The song had power on the grim old monks	Q
In the light of the rosy skies	R
And as they listened the years rolled back	S
And tears came into their eyes	R
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The years rolled back and they were young	T
With the hearts and hopes of men	C
They plucked the daisies and kissed the girls	U
Of dear dead summers again	C
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III	-
But the eldest monk soon broke the spell	V
'Tis sin and shame quoth he	N
To be turned from talk of holy things	W
By a bird's cry from a tree	N
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Perchance the Enemy of Souls	X
Hath come to tempt us so	Y
Let us try by the power of the Awful Word	E
If it be he or no	Y
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To Heaven the three monks raised their hands	Z
We charge thee speak they said	E
By His dread Name who shall one day come	A2
To judge the quick and the dead	E
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Who art thou Speak The bird laughed loud	E
I am the Devil he said	E
The monks on their faces fell the bird	E
Away through the twilight sped	E
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A horror fell on those holy men	C
The faithful legends say	B2
And one by one from the face of the earth	C2
They pined and vanished away	B2
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IV	P
So goes the tale of the monkish books	D2
The moral who runs may read	E
He has no ears for Nature's voice	E2
Whose soul is the slave of creed	E
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Not all in vain with beauty and love	P
Has God the world adorned	E
And he who Nature scorns and mocks	F2
By Nature is mocked and scorned	E

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