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Song About a Lost Crusade
- On her return from the Holy Land
- Maria Perez, our crusaderess,
- carried so many indulgences
- that she couldn't possibly sink,
- but they were filched along the way
- until not a single one remained.
- Indulgences are a precious thing,
- to be kept under lock and key,
- but she didn't have a decent box
- with a lock in which to keep them,
- for ever since the lock was broken
- her box has been left open.
- How can a box like that be safe
- in lodgings full of young men
- who are sure to go all through it?
- For in every place where they abound
- there's no indulgence that won't be found:
- they'll turn the hospice upside down!
- One more thing I would point out:
- the indulgences deserved to be lost,
- since they weren't very honestly got.
[English version by Richard Zenith]
