The sinless Mother and her sinless Child
Offered themselves at bidding of the law:
She to be purified, the Undefiled!
While he on his redemption-offering smiled.
Obedience! never did thy secret power
Brood calmer o’er a world of passions wild
Than to God’s temple, in that silent hour,
When Son and Mother came, wearing thy lowly flower.
V.
Luke ii. 48.