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First Line: Purity born of a maid
Last Line: Her god and redeemer and child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Virtue; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


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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