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ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS

XXXIV. LATIMER AND RIDLEY

ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS


HOW fast the Marian death-list is unrolled! See Latimer and Ridley in the might Of Faith stand coupled for a common flight! One (like those prophets whom God sent of old) Transfigured, from this kindling hath foretold A torch of inextinguishable light; The Other gains a confidence as bold; And thus they foil their enemy’s despite. The penal instruments, the shows of crime, Are glorified while this once-mitred pair 10 Of saintly Friends the “murtherer’s chain partake, Corded, and burning at the social stake:” Earth never witnessed object more sublime In constancy, in fellowship more fair!