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Ro her
handkerchief and crying "Viva il Papa Re!"
"They're bearing hi this way Look at the
Noble Guard in their helmets and jackboots And there are the Swiss
Guard in Joseph's coat of many colours! We can see him plainly now Do
you ses The pluviale?
That gold vestment? It's studded on his breast with precious stones How
they blaze in the sunshine! He is blessing the people, and they are
falling on their knees before hirass before the scythe!"
"How tired he looks! Hohite his face is! No, not white--ivory! No,
ht be Lazarus as dead and has come
back froel!"
"The spiritual autocrat of the world!"
"Viva il Papa Re! He's going by! Viva il Papa Re! He has
gone Well!"
She was rising fro to cover up