Hot raged the quarrel: then came Justice in,

And to the court we swept—I in my shroud—

To try the cause.

This was the verdict given:

"A woman who has been to burial borne,

Made fast and left and locked in with the dead;

Who at her husband's door has stood and plead

For entrance, and has heard her prayer denied;

Who from her father's house is urged and chased,

Must be adjudged as dead in law and fact.