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Strike lightning above this house, / This house of God where we are dying, / Where we think lightly of Thee, God, / And, thinking lightly, sing / Hallelujah.
Were it not for Thee, / we had loved men; / Had courted and married, / Brought up children, / Taught them and sung / Hallelujah.
Thou hast cheated us, / poor wretches!
And we, defrauded and unlucky, / Ourselves have fooled Thee, / And howled and sung: Hallelujah.
With barber's shears hast put us in this nunnery, / And we -- young women still --
We dance and sing, / And singing say: Hallelujah.