All her beauty fresh and fair,

They heeded not in their despair,

Their eager lust for conflict there.

And her sire the attendants bade

To lift her, when the prayer was said,

Above the altar like a kid,

Her face and form in thick veil hid;

Yea, with ruthless heart and bold,

O'er her gracious lips to hold

Their watch, and with the gag's dumb pain