Christ Giving the Keys to Peter, ca. 1315
German

He the Christ has left,

Pass’d o’er the light,

O’ but His people now bereft,

How do they escape eternal night?

So hither comes the Man,

A blude-red tiara o’er his head,

O’ to be crown’d from His Grace,

And be the giver of thy bread.

Christ giveth the keys of His Kingdom,

To be received by this crown’d man,

And now he shall be the keeper,

O’ the era of the Pope thus began.

He the Keeper shall obey the gude Lorde,

And be His messenger with strength,

And voice the teachings o’ His Spirit,

And be o’ true virtue to great length.