Matchless in feature, and of graceful mein—

"Zenobia, of the Alps," Aurelian said,

"The daughter of Chilperic, the Burgundian king,

Clotilda is her name; fair maids her praises sing.

"She dwells among the Alps, in forest glade,

And by the shore of its most famous lake;

But fairer than that land is this fair maid;

And brighter than its peaks at morn's awake;

A Christian girl is she, whose heart God has renewed,

And her fine, comely mind with grace and truth embued."