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The effect produced by the dose was evidently what Benedict had wished, and for a long time the sufferer was far more quiet. "O, Benedict," he feebly exclaimed, "my head, my head!" "Well, it will be better soon." "Nay, I know I'm dying; 'twas a fatal fall, and I cannot shrive myself."
They had thought him mad, but humored him; but now he was almost furious in his wild cries for a priest, not only to shrive him, but to bear his message to the King. They had tried to gratify him, but their distance from any town or monastery had prevented it; and they now, therefore, hailed Father Ambrose almost as sent from heaven to save a sinner by absolution ere he died.
There was a murmur of assent from those around, and two or three started to the priest's house, situated only a few yards away, being one of the end houses of the village. The priest soon appeared, came up to the spot, and received orders to shrive the Frenchwoman.
What mercy did you ever show to any that you dare ask now for mercy?" He looked at me with dazed eyes, and from me to Galeotto. He shuddered and turned a greenish hue. His knees were loosened by terror, and he sank back into the chair from which he had risen. "At least... at least," he gasped, "let me have a priest to shrive me. Do not... do not let me die with all my sins upon me!"
Once more the smoke, rising again in denser clouds, cut me off, and through the blinding blue haze of it I saw the Indians running up with green branches to beat it down lest it should spoil their sport oversoon by smothering us out of hand. With the chance to gasp and breathe again I would have confessed in full to Richard Jennifer and had him shrive me if he would.
As we looked at the monument we thought of this poem which, in its majestic sweep of thought, is as stately as the Potomac: John Brown of Ossawatomie spoke on his dying day: "I will not have to shrive my soul a priest in Slavery's pay, But let some poor slave-mother whom I have striven to free, With her children, from the gallows stair put up a prayer for me."
On her knees, her hanging hands clasped and her face, raised to the Symbol, she spoke, and the deep voice was sweet with its sliding minors. "Jesu mia," she said softly, "forgive Thou our sins Ours. Teach me Thy lesson, me with pain that will not cease. For him, Oh, Thou Lord of Heaven, comfort him living, shrive him Thyself in dying! Let not the unspeakable happen!
Badly have lords done to give their heirs' lands Away to the Orders that have no pity; Money rains upon their altars. There where such parsons be living at ease They have no pity on the poor; that is their "charity". Ye hold you as lords; your lands are too broad, But there shall come a king and he shall shrive you all And beat you as the bible saith for breaking of your Rule.
As soon as he has filled our flagons, I will ask good Father Gottlieb to wait upon you, and I doubt not he will shrive with any in the land, although he has been this while back somewhat out of practice. His habit is rather tattered and stained with the drippings of his new vocation, but I warrant you, you will know the sheep, even though his fleece be torn. And now, again, good-night, my Lord."
"In the cold I will rise, I will bathe In the waters of ice; Myself Will shiver, and will shrive myself Alone in the dawn, and anoint Forehead and feet and hands; I will shutter the windows from light, I will place in their sockets the four Tall candles and set them a-flame In the grey of the dawn; And myself Will lay myself straight in my bed, And draw the sheet under my chin."
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