Santa Agueda, thou that wast accursed + 

With presence of a demon dressed in Man, + 

Blessed art thou, for on thy stones there ran + 

The vampire blood from bitter torture nursed; + 

Along thy streets there flashed the lightning-burst, + 

“Delivered!” flaming on from eye to eye, + 

Though lips said “killed,” and all thy gateways hearsed + 

In lying black, made mourning mockery. + 

Blessed art thou! From thee went forth the cry, + 

“Vengeance yet loves, Renunciation hates, + 

And justice smites: the torturer shall die;” + 

Across his path the steel-nerved slayer waits + 

“And both shall burn together,”⁠—one in light + 

Of unconsuming hell and reddened night; + 

And one with feet on hell and brow dawn-rayed, pure white. + 