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«'Tis twice three years at summer title« Since first among our frercs he came;

«Anti here it soothes him to abide 8 oo

«Kor some dark deed lie will not uaine.

«But never at our vesper prayer,

<.Nor e’er before confession chairu Kneels he, nor recks he when arise«Incense or anthem to the ski^s, 8o5

«But broods within his cell alone,

«(His faith and race alike unknown.ftThe sea from Paynim land he crost,

«And here ascended from the coast;

it "Yet seems lie not of Othman race, 8 ia

ftllut only Christian in his face:

« I’d judge him some stray renegade,

«Repentant of the change he made,

«Save that he shuns our holy shrine,

«Nor tastes the sacred bread and wine. 8 i 5wCreal largess to these walls he brought,((And thus our abbot's favour bought;ffllut were I Prior, not a day«Should brook such stranger's further slay,<?Or pent within our penance cell 820

»Should doom him there for ave to dwell,«Mucli in his visious mu Iters he«Of maiden ’whelmed beneath the sea;

<*Of sabres clashing, foemeu flyiug,

«Wrongs aveng’d, and Moslem dying. 825**Ou cliff he hath been known to stand,