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There is a village in a southern land	A
By rounded hills closed in on every hand	A
The streets slope steeply to the market square	B
Long lines of white washed houses clean and fair	B
With roofs irregular and steps of stone	C
Ascending to the front of every one	D
The people swarthy idle full of mirth	E
Live mostly by the tillage of the earth	E
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Upon the northern hill top looking down	F
Like some sequestered saint upon the town	F
Stands the great convent	G
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On a summer night	H
Ten years ago the moon with rising light	H
Made all the convent towers as clear as day	I
While still in deepest shade the village lay	I
Both light and shadow with repose were filled	J
The village sounds the convent bells were stilled	J
No foot in all the streets was now astir	B
And in the convent none kept watch but her	B
Whom they called Ursula The moonlight fell	K
Brightly around her in the lonely cell	K
Her eyes were dark and full of unshed woe	L
Like mountain tarns which cannot overflow	L
Surcharged with rain and round about the eyes	M
Deep rings recorded sleepless nights and cries	M
Stifled before their birth Her brow was pale	N
And like a marble temple in a vale	N
Of cypress trees shone shadowed by her hair	B
So still she was that had you seen her there	B
You might have thought you were beholding death	O
Her lips were parted but if any breath	O
Came from between them it were hard to know	L
By any movement of her breast of snow	L
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But when the summer night was now far spent	P
She kneeled upon the floor Her head she leant	G
Down on the cold stone of the window seat	Q
God knows if there were any vital heat	Q
In those pale brows or if they chilled the stone	C
And as she knelt she made a bitter moan	C
With words that issued from a bitter soul	R
O Mary Mother and is this thy goal	R
Thy peace which waiteth for the world worn heart	S
Is it for this I live and die apart	S
From all that once I knew O Holy God	T
Is this the blessed chastening of Thy rod	T
Which only wounds to heal Is this the cross	U
That I must carry counting all for loss	U
Which once was precious in the world to me	V
If Thou be God blot out my memory	V
And let me come forsaking all to Thee	V
But here though that old world beholds me not	W
Here though I seek Thee through my lonely lot	W
Here though I fast do penance day by day	I
Kneel at Thy feet and ever watch and pray	I
Beloved forms from that forsaken world	X
Revisit me The pale blue smoke is curled	X
Up from the dwellings of the sons of men	Y
I see it and all my heart turns back again	Y
From seeking Thee to find the forms I love	Z
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Thou with Thy saints abiding far above	Z
What canst Thou know of this my earthly pain	A2
They said to me Thou shalt be born again	Y
And learn that worldly things are nothing worth	E
In that new state O God is this new birth	E
Birth of the spirit dying to the flesh	B2
Are these the living waters which refresh	B2
The thirsty spirit that it thirst no more	B
Still all my life is thirsting to the core	B
Thou canst not satisfy if this be Thou	C2
And yet I dream or I remember how	C2
Before I came here while I tarried yet	D2
Among the friends they tell me to forget	D2
I never seemed to seek Thee but I found	E2
Thou wert in all the loveliness around	E2
And most of all in hearts that loved me well	K
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And then I came to seek Thee in this cell	K
To crucify my worldliness and pride	F2
To lay my heart's affections all aside	F2
As carnal hindrances which held my soul	R
From hasting unencumbered to her goal	R
And all this have I done or else have striven	D
To do obeying the behest of Heaven	D
And my reward is bitterness I seem	G2
To wander always in a feverish dream	G2
On plains where there is only sun and sand	A
No rock or tree in all the weary land	A
My thirst unquenchable my heart burnt dry	B
And still in my parched throat I faintly cry	B
Deliver me O Lord bow down Thine ear	B
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He will not answer me He does not hear	B
I am alone within the universe	H2
Oh for a strength of will to rise and curse	H2
God and defy Him here to strike me dead	I2
But my heart fails me and I bow my head	I2
And cry to Him for mercy still in vain	A2
Oh for some sudden agony of pain	A2
To make such insurrection in my soul	R
That I might burst all bondage of control	R
Be for one moment as the beasts that die	B
And pour my life in one blaspheming cry '	-
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The morning came and all the convent towers	J2
Were gilt with glory by the golden hours	J2
But where was Ursula The sisters came	K2
With quiet footsteps calling her by name	K2
But there was none that answered In her cell	K
The glad illuminating sunshine fell	K
On form and face and showed that she was dead	I2
May Christ receive her soul ' the sisters said	I2
And spoke in whispers of her holy life	L2
And how God's mercy spared her pain and strife	L2
And gave this quiet death The face was still	M2
Like a tired child's that lies and sleeps its fill	M2

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