THE PURIFICATION OF ST. MARY THE VIRGIN.
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urity 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 ChildThe Essence and Author of Love;The Lamb that indwelt by the DoveWas 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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