Bodily the wind did carry
The great altar of St Mary,
And the fifty tapers paling o'er it,
And the Lady Abbess stark before it,
And the weary nuns with hearts that faintly
Beat along their voices saintly—
Ingemisco y ingemisco!
Dirge for abbess laid in shroud
Sweepeth o er the shroudless dead,
Page or lady, as we said,