Unconquer’d! Holy be your memory!

Bless’d and glorious now and evermore

Be your heroic names!... Led by the sound,

As thus he cried aloud, a woman came

Toward him from the ruins. For the love

Of Christ, she said, lend me a little while

Thy charitable help!... Her words, her voice,

Her look, more horror to his heart convey’d

Than all the havoc round: for though she spake

With the calm utterance of despair, in tones