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146 THE FOUNDING OF BOLTON PRIORY.

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With these dark words begins my Tale;

And their meaning is, whence can comfort spring

When Prayer is of no avail?

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The Falconer to the Lady said;

And she made answer "ENDLESS SORROW!"

For she knew that her Son was dead.

She knew it by the Falconer's words,

And from the look of the Falconer's eye;

And from the love which was in her soul

For her youthful Romilly.