come to its judgment,

Weeping, her head bowing low, her hair hanging

loose on her shoulders.

Then there was silence, and Jesus was moved, so

he spake to the woman:

"Daughter, what grieves thee so sore?" and she

spake not, but dumb with her weeping

Sank at his feet; and her tears fell upon them like

rain, and she kissed them.

Simon, amazed when the Prophet forbade not the