"When a golden girl can win
Prayer from out the lips of sin
When the barren almond bears
And a little child gives aways its tears,
Then shall all the house be still
And peace come to Canterville."
But I don't know what they mean.'
'They mean,' he said sadly, 'that you must weep with me for my sins, because I have no tears, and pray with me for my soul, because I have no faith, and then, if you have always been sweet, and good, and gentle, the Angel of death will have mercy on me.