Valeria, the Martyr of the Catacombs: A Tale of Early Christian Life in Rome

Scene In The Catacombs—At The Martyr's Tomb.
Author of The Catacombs of Rome and their Testimony Relative to Primitive Christianity, Etc.
Valeria Sleeps In Peace.
TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS. MONTREAL: C.W. COATES. HALIFAX: S.F. HUESTIS.
BY CHARLES J. PETERSON.
They lie all around me, countless in their number,
Each martyr with his palm.
No torture now can rack them: safe they slumber,
Hushed in eternal calm!
I read the rude inscriptions, written weeping,
At night with hurried tears.
Yet what a tale they tell! their secret keeping