His murderer’s soul to rest.
‘Now tell me, I pray, thou palmer gray,
Why thou kneelest at this shrine;
And why dost thou cry so eagerly
Upon the help Divine?
‘Oh, tell me who the man may be,
And what his deadly sin,
That the Church’s prayer, for his soul’s despair,
The mercy of Christ may win.’
‘I cry at this shrine on the help Divine