Herself fell, torn to pieces, limb from limb,

By sisters in full chorus glad and grim.

XIV

And still so much remains of that gray cult,

That even now, of nights, do women steal

To the sole Menhir standing, and insult

The antagonistic church-spire by appeal

To power discrowned in vain, since each adult

Believes the gruesome thing she clasps may heal

Whatever plague no priestly help can cure: