| Priest
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| Diseased
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| Poison in your mind
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| Try
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| To preach
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| Your sermon for the weak
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| While
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| Your lungs
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| Are crawling ‘round your spine
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| Regur-
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| Gitate
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| When you are running past your peak
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| Horny
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| Monks
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| Clutching tightly ‘round their throats
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| Frivolous
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| Nuns
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| You better heed the call
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| Berserkers
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| Burning
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| The contents of your scrolls
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| Heathen
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| Beliefs
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| Still strong within us all
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| Blood
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| Red sky
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| An omen to respect
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| Night
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| To day
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| A monastery ablaze
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| Swords
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| Of death
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| A mission to protect
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| The hea-
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| Then Gods
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| Our pagan heritage
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| BLOOD OF SAINTS — Crushing Christianity
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| Dragonships, the scourge of the seven seas
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| BLOOD OF SAINTS — Crushing Christianity
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| Norsemen, the scourge of your belief
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| Spoken words of the middle part:
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| When the pagans desecrated the sanctuaries of God, and poured out the blood of
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| saints around the altar, laid waste the house of our hope, trampled on the
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| bodies of saints in the temple of God, like dung in the street. |
| What can we say
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| except lament in our soul with you before Christ’s altar, and say: «Spare,
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| O Lord, spare thy people, and give not thine inheritance to the Gentiles,
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| lest the pagan say, ‘Where is the God of the Christians?»
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| (Alcuin, the deacon of Lindisfarne Monastery in a letter to Higbald,
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| bishop of Lindisfarne Monastery 793) |