Hymn of the Nuns + 

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. + 