Which made the world great terror-pangs endure;
Nought it availed that she nor shrank nor feared, 70
So that, when Mary tarried yet below,
She on the Cross above with Christ appeared.
But lest I tell it too obscurely so, 73
By these two lovers, in my speech diffuse,
Thou Poverty and Francis now mayst know.
Their concord and their looks of joy profuse, 76
The love, the wonder, and the aspect sweet,
Made men in holy meditation muse,