And amidst it nestled angry serpents,
Which, though hidden, drank her eyelight’s brightness.
Then she mourn’d her misery—mourn’d despairing;
Thus she spoke unto her lord and husband:
“O convey me, Paul, my lord and husband!
To thy sister’s church convey me swiftly;
For that church, perchance, may heal and save me.”
So, when Paul had heard his wife’s petition,
To his sister’s church he swiftly bore her.
Hardly had they reach’d the church’s portal,