Luke 3:23: Jesus...began to be about thirty years of age

Who came to make His Father known
For thirty years Himself conceal'd.
Nor then His ministry begun
When first to pul)lic view reveal'd;
He teaches by His long retreat,
His silence bids our hearts be still,
His toil instructs us to submit,
And serve in man's His Father's will.

Jesus, my long-sequester'd God,
The lesson of Thy life I hear;
It bids me shun the noisy crowd,
And Thee in solitude revere;
Important far above our thought
Was Thy conceal'd humility;
Silence for thirty years it taught,
Thy other truths were taught in three.