“She knows it well, well, well,” sang the blackbird:

“Let her in! let her in!”

“Thou bringest no offerings,” said Michael,

“Naught save sin.”

And the blackbird sang, “She is sorry, sorry, sorry;

Let her in! let her in!”

When he had sung himself to sleep,

And night did begin,

One came and opened Michael’s gate,

And Magdalen went in.