Let it forevermore of thee be told
How from the thousand hands of a brute foe
Thou savedst once the spouse of Christ for Him.
Ah, Didymus, Didymus! of the eternal crown
Rob me not thou: for thine to thee I gave.
Didymus. Thy sovereign pinion overmasters harm,
Life, Death, and me: and if I feared, I erred.
We shall not be divided: and therefore
Blessèd be One who hath despised me not,
And, of His clemency, absolved from ill