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The Pope he was saying the high high mass	A
All on Saint Peter's day	B
With the power to him given by the saints of heaven	C
To wash men's sins away	B
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The Pope he was saying the blessed mass	A
And the people kneel'd around	D
And from each man's soul his sins did pass	A
As he kiss'd the holy ground	D
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And all among the crowded throng	E
Was still both limb and tongue	F
While through vaulted roof and aisles aloof	G
The holy accents rung	F
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At the holiest word he quiver'd for fear	H
And falter'd in the sound	D
And when he would the chalice rear	H
He dropp'd it to the ground	D
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'The breath of one of evil deed	I
Pollutes our sacred day	B
He has no portion in our creed	I
No part in what I say	B
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'A being whom no blessed word	J
To ghostly peace can bring	K
A wretch at whose approach abhorr'd	L
Recoils each holy thing	K
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'Up up unhappy haste arise	M
My adjuration fear	H
I charge thee not to stop my voice	N
Nor longer tarry here '	-
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Amid them all a pilgrim kneel'd	L
In gown of sackcloth grey	B
Far journeying from his native field	L
He first saw Rome that day	B
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For forty days and nights so drear	B
I ween he had not spoke	O
And save with bread and water clear	B
His fast he ne'er had broke	O
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Amid the penitential flock	P
Seem'd none more bent to pray	B
But when the Holy Father spoke	O
He rose and went his way	B
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Again unto his native land	L
His weary course he drew	B
To Lothian's fair and fertile strand	L
And Pentland's mountains blue	B
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His unblest feet his native seat	L
'Mid Eske's fair woods regain	Q
Thro' woods more fair no stream more sweet	L
Rolls to the eastern main	Q
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And lords to meet the pilgrim came	R
And vassals bent the knee	S
For all 'mid Scotland's chiefs of fame	R
Was none more famed than he	S
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And boldly for his country still	T
In battle he had stood	L
Ay even when on the banks of Till	T
Her noblest pour'd their blood	L
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Sweet are the paths O passing sweet	L
By Eske's fair streams that run	C
O'er airy steep through copsewood deep	U
Impervious to the sun	C
	-
There the rapt poet's step may rove	V
And yield the muse the day	B
There Beauty led by timid Love	W
May shun the tell tale ray	B
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From that fair dome where suit is paid	L
By blast of bugle free	S
To Auchendinny's hazel glade	L
And haunted Woodhouselee	T
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Who knows not Melville's beechy grove	V
And Roslin's rocky glen	X
Dalkeith which all the virtues love	W
And classic Hawthornden	X
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Yet never a path from day to day	B
The pilgrim's footsteps range	Y
Save but the solitary way	B
To Burndale's ruin'd grange	Y
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A woful place was that I ween	X
As sorrow could desire	B
For nodding to the fall was each crumbling wall	T
And the roof was scathed with fire	B
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It fell upon a summer's eve	Z
While on Carnethy's head	L
The last faint gleams of the sun's low beams	A2
Had streak'd the grey with red	L
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And the convent bell did vespers tell	T
Newbattle's oaks among	F
And mingled with the solemn knell	T
Our Ladye's evening song	E
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The heavy knell the choir's faint swell	T
Came slowly down the wind	L
And on the pilgrim's ear they fell	T
As his wonted path he did find	L
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Deep sunk in thought I ween he was	B2
Nor ever raised his eye	C2
Until he came to that dreary place	D2
Which did all in ruins lie	C2
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He gazed on the walls so scathed with fire	B
With many a bitter groan	X
And there was aware of a Gray Friar	B
Resting him on a stone	X
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'Now Christ thee save ' said the Gray Brother	B
'Some pilgrim thou seemest to be '	-
But in sore amaze did Lord Albert gaze	E2
Nor answer again made he	S
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'O come ye from east or come ye from west	L
Or bring reliques from over the sea	S
Or come ye from the shrine of St James the divine	X
Or St John of Beverley '	-
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'I come not from the shrine of St James the divine	X
Nor bring reliques from over the sea	S
I bring but a curse from our father the Pope	F2
Which for ever will cling to me '	-
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'Now woful pilgrim say not so	G2
But kneel thee down to me	S
And shrive thee so clean of thy deadly sin	X
That absolved thou mayst be '	-
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'And who art thou thou Gray Brother	B
That I should shrive to thee	S
When He to whom are given the keys of earth and heaven	X
Has no power to pardon me '	-
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'O I am sent from a distant clime	S
Five thousand miles away	B
And all to absolve a foul foul crime	S
Done	X
here	B
'twixt night and day	B
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The pilgrim kneel'd him on the sand	L
And thus began his saye	B
When on his neck an ice cold hand	L
Did that Gray Brother laye	B

Sir Walter Scott

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