When a most mysterious voice address’d them:
“Come not here, young woman! come not hither!
For this church can neither heal nor save thee.”
Bitter was her anguish when she heard it;
And her lord the woman thus entreated:
“In the name of God! my lord! my husband!
Never, never bear me to our dwelling.
Bind me to the wild steeds’ tails, and drive them;
Drive them in the immeasurable desert;
Let them tear my wretched limbs asunder.”