University of Virginia Library

2906.

[Impotent their rage and vain]

They cried out, and cast off their clothes, —xxii. 23.

Impotent their rage and vain
The sons of violence show,
Bound, beyond their secret chain
The murderers cannot go:
Let them storm and tear the ground,
And rave, and mingle earth and skies,
Paul in Christ as safe is found
As Paul in paradise.