And the only loveless look the look with which you passed;
’Twas all unlike your great and gracious ways.
REGINA CŒLI
By Coventry Patmore
Say, did his sisters wonder what could Joseph see
In a mild, silent little Maid like thee?
And was it awful, in that narrow house,
With God for Babe and Spouse?
Nay, like thy simple, female sort, each one
Apt to find Him in Husband and in Son,