The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1.
John Greenleaf Whittier, Ed.

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[412] And there she walked, as duty bade her go,
     Safe and unsullied as a cloistered nun,
Shamed with her plainness Fashion's gaudy show,
     And overcame the world she did not shun.

In Earlham's bowers, in Plashet's liberal hall,
     In the great city's restless crowd and din,
Her ear was open to the Master's call,
     And knew the summons of His voice within.

Tender as mother, beautiful as wife,
     Amidst the throngs of prisoned crime she stood
In modest raiment faultless as her life,
     The type of England's worthiest womanhood!

To melt the hearts that harshness turned to stone
     The sweet persuasion of her lips sufficed,
And guilt, which only hate and fear had known,
     Saw in her own the pitying love of Christ.

So wheresoe'er the guiding Spirit went
     She followed, finding every prison cell
It opened for her sacred as a tent
     Pitched by Gennesaret or by Jacob's well.

And Pride and Fashion felt her strong appeal,
     And priest and ruler marvelled as they saw
How hand in hand went wisdom with her zeal,
     And woman's pity kept the bounds of law.

She rests in God's peace; but her memory stirs
     The air of earth as with an angel's wings,
And warms and moves the hearts of men like hers,
     The sainted daughter of Hungarian kings.