Religion
Purity born of a Maid
From Verses (1893)
Religion
Purity born of a Maid:
Was such a Virgin defiled?
Nay, by no shade of a shade.
She offered her gift of pure love,
A dove with a fair fellow-dove.
She offered her Innocent Child
The Essence and Author of Love;
The Lamb that indwelt by the Dove
Was spotless and holy and mild;
More pure than all other,
More pure than His Mother,
Her God and Redeemer and Child.
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Codex Note
Verses (1893), section: Some Feasts and Fasts / The Purification Of St. Mary The Virgin.
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MLA
Rossetti, Christina. “Purity born of a Maid.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/695/.
Chicago
Rossetti, Christina. “Purity born of a Maid.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/695/.
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