The furious flame thy faith confessed

Which shrank not from the awful test:

And thou, in every heart enshrined,

Shalt live the best of womankind.”

He ceased: he bade the three adieu,

And home to heaven exulting flew.

Canto CXXII. Indra's Boon.

Then Indra, he whose fiery stroke

Slew furious Páka, turned and spoke: