There was also set, very handy to the mere,
warm water in a vessel, if any of the martyrs
desired to forsake his faith and bathe his body
in the warm water, for the winter's tartness.
Then it began in the evening to freeze awfully,
so that the ice seized upon the aforesaid martyrs,
so that their flesh cracked by reason of the frost.
Then one of them turned coward on account of the exceeding chill,
cast away his faith, and desired to bathe himself
in the luke water, and turned from his companions;
but he died as soon as he touched the water,
and the warmness was turned into death to him,
because his faith did not last until the end,
even as the Lord Himself said in the prison.
Then the others saw how it befell that one,
and sung this song, as if with one mouth,
'Be not angry with us. Lord, in these deep floods,
neither let Thy hot displeasure be in this water.
As for him who for this sharpness separated himself from us,
his limbs are relaxed and he has quickly perished;
we will never part from Thee, O Lord,
until Thou quicken us, O Lord, to Thy praise.
"We will show forth Thy name, Thee whom verily praise
all creatures and all deeps,
fire and hail, snow and cold ice,
winds and storms, which fulfil Thy word.
Thou goest over sea even as over green earth,
and Thou easily stillest her strong waves;
Thou heardest, Lord, the patriarch Jacob
when he fled away from the wicked threats
which his own brother Esau spake.
Thou wert with Joseph in the land of Egypt,
and didst raise him from serfdom to lordship;
Thou leddest Moses from that same land
