An ode to the great Lady Jane Grey, Queen of England for merely nine days. She was beheaded for her strong belief in the reformation of the Catholic Church at the age of 16. To this day she is championed as a heroine of the protestant reformation for her boldness in defending the Word of God against the corruptions of the established church.

Nine days for a Lady with eternity

Worldly crown and splendor traded for blood

Shed for convictions kept yet by posterity

Grace and beauty blooming in that short-lived bud

Sixteen but well beyond her years in faith

A queen of wisdom, petals cut before spring

In the fount of her Lord’s blood did she bathe

Full blossom in the next, to this world she wouldn’t cling

Gray shadows marked the end of her faithful fight

But joy was closer as she awaited her living Head

Reformation spread as men brought light

To the scripture with which the sheep are fed

And surely all to Lady Jane’s delight.

“The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith." ~ Lady Jane Grey