Murderer's Confession - Crisparkle Lyrics

CRISPARKLE
Could Rosa's mother love another? Know you well:
If man should land a hand on her, he'd go to Hell!
I'm free from blasphemy but as some see me crude:
Though C. of E. . .still I confess: I murdered Drood!

I saw another in Rosa's face:
Fair Rosa's mother stood in her place!
And could I let this Edwin Drood
Have her I'd loved and wooed?
This love of mine must never wed!
One shove of mine and Drood was dead!
Baptized with bashes, his neck I trussed!
Capsized to ashes, thus dust to dust.
And then I bore him from the gloom
And sanctified his tomb.

He ceased to shiver! He ceased to quiver!
I did deliver him to God!
And she is mine now, a love divine now - 
Some find me odd, but
Living am I and vanished is Drood!
Satan must die and vanquished is Drood!

(Spoken)
Well, that's that, then! I couldn't let anyone, not even Drood, marry Rosa's mother, could I, eh John?

JASPER
You're a warped man, Reverend Crisparkle. Rosa's mother, the woman you loved, has been dead some dozen years! Drood was no threat to you.

CRISPARKLE
Oh, really? Really? Well, the joke's on me then, isn't it? Well, I must be off. Bless you all!