Immaculate, illumined; who e’er knew
Disdain could wear a look so like to Love’s?
And thrice Eustratius Proculus read out
Sentence, whereby the virgin Theodora,
A Christian obdurate and impious,
Must die indeed, but first must be immured,
Until the day break, in the house of shame.
He ended: “May thy God for thee achieve
The best He can!” She added: “Ay, He will.
As Daniel from the lions, from the deeps