212. What shall I say of the mother 2 Macc. vii. 20. who with joy looked on the corpses of her
children as so many trophies, and found delight in the voices of her
dying sons, as though in the songs of singers, noting in her children
the tones of the glorious harp
of her own heart, and a sweeter harmony of love
than any strain of the lute could give?