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I	A
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It is a lie their Priests their Pope	B
Their Saints their all they fear or hope	B
Are lies and lies there through my door	C
And ceiling there and walls and floor	C
There lies they lie shall still be hurled	D
Till spite of them I reach the world	D
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II	A
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You think Priests just and holy men	E
Before they put me in this den	E
I was a human creature too	F
With flesh and blood like one of you	F
A girl that laughed in beauty's pride	G
Like lilies in your world outside	G
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III	A
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I had a lover shame avaunt	G
This poor wrenched body grim and gaunt	G
Was kissed all over till it burned	G
By lips the truest love e'er turned	G
His heart's own tint one night they kissed	G
My soul out in a burning mist	G
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IV	H
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So next day when the accustomed train	I
Of things grew round my sense again	E
That is a sin '' I said and slow	J
With downcast eyes to church I go	J
And pass to the confession chair	K
And tell the old mild father there	K
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V	H
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But when I falter Beltran's name	L
Ha '' quoth the father much I blame	L
The sin yet wherefore idly grieve	H
Despair not strenuously retrieve	H
Nay I will turn this love of thine	M
To lawful love almost divine	M
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VI	H
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For he is young and led astray	N
This Beltran and he schemes men say	N
To change the laws of church and state	G
So thine shall be an angel's fate	G
Who ere the thunder breaks should roll	O
Its cloud away and save his soul	O
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VII	H
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For when he lies upon thy breast	G
Thou mayst demand and be possessed	G
Of all his plans and next day steal	P
To me and all those plans reveal	P
That I and every priest to purge	Q
His soul may fast and use the scourge ''	-
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VIII	H
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That father's beard was long and white	G
With love and truth his brow seemed bright	G
I went back all on fire with joy	R
And that same evening bade the boy	R
Tell me as lovers should heart free	H
Something to prove his love of me	H
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IX	N
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He told me what he would not tell	S
For hope of heaven or fear of hell	S
And I lay listening in such pride	G
And soon as he had left my side	G
Tripped to the church by morning light	G
To save his soul in his despite	G
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X	N
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I told the father all his schemes	N
Who were his comrades what their dreams	N
And now make haste '' I said to pray	N
The one spot from his soul away	N
To night he comes but not the same	L
Will look '' At night he never came	L
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XI	N
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Nor next night on the after morn	T
I went forth with a strength new born	T
The church was empty something drew	F
My steps into the street I knew	F
It led me to the market place	N
Where lo on high the father's face	N
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XII	N
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That horrible black scaffold dressed	G
That stapled block God sink the rest	G
That head strapped back that blinding vest	G
Those knotted hands and naked breast	G
Till near one busy hangman pressed	G
And on the neck these arms caressed	G
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XIII	N
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No part in aught they hope or fear	U
No heaven with them no hell and here	V
No earth not so much space as pens	N
My body in their worst of dens	N
But shall bear God and man my cry	H
Lies lies again and still they lie	H

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