| W. Garrett Horder, comp. The Poets’ Bible: New Testament. 1895. | | | | St. Stephen | | Dante Alighieri (c. 1265–1321) |
| | Purgatorio, XV. 106–114Translated by Edward Hayes Plumptre
THEN I beheld a crowd, in heat of will, | |
| Slaying a youth with stones, and crying loud, | |
| One to another, shouting “Kill him, kill.” | |
| And I beheld him, on his knees low-bowed, | |
| To earth bent down, as heavy death drew near, | 5 |
| But evermore his eyes, as Heaven’s gates showed. | |
| And in that strife to Heaven’s high God his prayer | |
| He poured, that He his foes would pardon give, | |
| With look that made men gaze with pitying tear. | | | | |
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