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O sight of shame and pain and dole	A
O fearful thought a convict Soul	A
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RANG the refrain along the hall the prison	B
Rose to the roof the vaults of heaven above	C
Pouring in floods of melody in tones so pensive sweet and strong	D
the like whereof was never heard	E
Reaching the far off sentry and the armed guards who ceas'd their	F
pacing	G
Making the hearer's pulses stop for extasy and awe	H
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O sight of pity gloom and dole	A
O pardon me a hapless Soul	A
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The sun was low in the west one winter day	I
When down a narrow aisle amid the thieves and outlaws of the land	J
There by the hundreds seated sear faced murderers wily	K
counterfeiters	L
Gather'd to Sunday church in prison walls the keepers round	M
Plenteous well arm'd watching with vigilant eyes	N
All that dark cankerous blotch a nation's criminal mass	O
Calmly a Lady walk'd holding a little innocent child by either hand	J
Whom seating on their stools beside her on the platform	P
She first preluding with the instrument a low and musical prelude	Q
In voice surpassing all sang forth a quaint old hymn	R
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THE HYMN	R
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A Soul confined by bars and bands	S
Cries Help O help and wrings her hands	S
Blinded her eyes bleeding her breast	T
Nor pardon finds nor balm of rest	T
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O sight of shame and pain and dole	A
O fearful thought a convict Soul	A
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Ceaseless she paces to and fro	U
O heart sick days O nights of wo	U
Nor hand of friend nor loving face	V
Nor favor comes nor word of grace	V
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O sight of pity gloom and dole	A
O pardon me a hapless Soul	A
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It was not I that sinn'd the sin	W
The ruthless Body dragg'd me in	W
Though long I strove courageously	K
The Body was too much for me	K
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O Life no life but bitter dole	A
O burning beaten baffled Soul	A
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Dear prison'd Soul bear up a space	V
For soon or late the certain grace	V
To set thee free and bear thee home	X
The Heavenly Pardoner Death shall come	Y
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Convict no more nor shame nor dole	A
Depart a God enfranchis'd Soul	A
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The singer ceas'd	Z
One glance swept from her clear calm eyes o'er all those upturn'd	Z
faces	A2
Strange sea of prison faces a thousand varied crafty brutal	B2
seam'd and beauteous faces	A2
Then rising passing back along the narrow aisle between them	C2
While her gown touch'd them rustling in the silence	D2
She vanish'd with her children in the dusk	E2
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While upon all convicts and armed keepers ere they stirr'd	Z
Convict forgetting prison keeper his loaded pistol	B2
A hush and pause fell down a wondrous minute	Z
With deep half stifled sobs and sound of bad men bow'd and moved	Z
to weeping	G
And youth's convulsive breathings memories of home	X
The mother's voice in lullaby the sister's care the happy	K
childhood	Z
The long pent spirit rous'd to reminiscence	D2
A wondrous minute then But after in the solitary night to many	K
many there	F
Years after even in the hour of death the sad refrain the tune	F2
the voice the words	G2
Resumed the large calm Lady walks the narrow aisle	H2
The wailing melody again the singer in the prison sings	I2
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O sight of shame and pain and dole	A
O fearful thought a convict Soul	A

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