In wreaths of endless myriads involved

The blinding glory of the angel choir,

Rolling through deeps of wheeling cloud and light

The thunder of their vast antiphonies.

The visions of Perpetua not less

Possessed us with their homely tenderness—

As one, wherein she saw a rock-set pool

And weeping o'er its rim a little child,

Her brother, long since dead, Dinocrates:

Though sore athirst, he could not reach the stream,