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 Day of calm serenity,

By no twilight followed—

Day when age was changed to youth,

Death in victory swallowed.

There, Mauritius, spite his name,

Shines in heavenly whiteness:

Ethiopian Candidus

Puts on candid brightness:

Exuperius o'er his foes

There superior standeth;

Victor, vanquished though by death,

With the victors bandeth;

Innocentius meetly falls,

Innocence defending:

And Vitalis for his meed

Hath the life unending.

Six the chiefs that led the war,

Thousands six they guided;

For the truth they stood in fight,

Careless what betided:

Though their necks endured the sword,

They, the gallant-hearted,

From their Head—their Head and ours—

Never could be parted.

Pray, ye valiant six, that we

Still may bid defiance,

So we gain the six-stepped Throne,

To the twice six lions: