tsarina alexandra - having sewn diamonds into the clothes of the children

bullets and bayonets were stopped - 

and for a moment it might have seemed 
as if divine protection had taken them under wing; 

and the nine man firing squad,
for just a moment, may have looked up,

to see if arch of michaels sword, traced with flame,
were about to cut them down - 

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