Crossword-Solution: REJA 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Some days ago, having received a message from _my nun_ that a girl was about to take the veil in her convent, I went there about six o'clock, and knowing that the church on these occasions is apt to be crowded to suffocation, I proceeded to the _reja_, and speaking to an invisible within, requested to know in what part of the church I could have a place.

Formerly they were put in at the _reja_, at the window of the porter's lodge; but this had to be given up, in consequence of the tricks played by boys or idle persons, who put in dogs, cats, or dead animals.

While zome, a-gwaïn from pleäce to pleäce, Do daily meet wi' zome new feäce, When my day's work is at an end, Let me zit down at hwome, an' spend A happy hour wi' zome wold friend, An' by my own vire-zide rejaïce In zome wold naïghbour's welcome vaïce, An' looks I know'd avore, John.

They vound a pleäce, where we mid seek The gifts o' greäce vrom week to week; An' built wi' stwone, upon the hill, A tow'r we still do call our own; With bells to use, an' meäke rejaïce, Wi' giant vaïce, at our good news: An' lifted stwones an' beams to keep The raïn an' cwold vrom us asleep.

But he is himself the real captive, ensnared during his short sojourn, and still held in chains by the olive-skinned _poblana_, whose dark liquid eyes may be seen on the other side of the reja, flashing with love, or melting with sad tenderness at the prospect of parting.