Hear him! and in your goodness give the scoff
The virtue of a prayer! So saying, she raised
Her hands in fervent action claspt to Heaven:
Then as, still claspt, they fell, toward her sire
She turn’d her eyes, beholding him through tears.
The look, the gesture, and that silent woe,
Soften’d her father’s heart, which in this hour
Was open to the influences of love.
Priest, thy vocation were a blessed one,
Said Julian, if its mighty power were used