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Frederick
George Scott
COLLECTED
POEMS
Death
As Priest
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There lived two souls who only lived for love;
The one a maiden, full of
joy and youth,
The other her young lord,
a man of truth
And very valiant. Them did God above
Knit with those holy bands none may remove
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Save
He who formed them. But next year there came
God’s angel, with
his face and wings of flame,
And bore the young wife’s soul off like a
dove.
Then did her lord, disconsolate many years,
Cry bitterly to God to
make them one,
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And
take his life, and silence the sweet past.
So Death came tenderly and stilled his tears,
Clad as a priest, and ’neath
the winter’s sun
In
a white grave re-wedded them at last. [Page
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