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And Mountfort!--it was given me,

(For I had prayed incessantly),

To be the David to this giant.--

An Albigensian warrior

My husband was. He, in the war,

The Pope had thundered on defiant

Thoulouse and outlawed Languedoc,

Stood with Earl Raymond like a rock.

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