The cruel edge-play. Suddenly, I heard, The hero doomed to slaughter leapt from sleep, And hosts of men sought the pavilion Were in the shining tent, the noble Judith Bore, drew to the bright town, Bethulia, Gold-fretted, treasure more than cunning man Through Judith's prudent teaching, noble They, the brave earls, brought from the As her own meed, the sword and bloody helm For all this Judith gave to God the 315 PROSE Adamnan ca. (625-709) LIFE OF COLUMBA1 according to custom, on the Lord's day; all on a sudden the face of the venerable man (Columba), as his eyes are lifted upward, is seen suffused with a ruddy glow, for, as it solemnities of masses were being celebrated, 5 is written, 'When the heart is glad the face In the course of a few days, while the 1 Translation by J. T. Fowler (1895), by permission of the Oxford University Press, Publishers. |