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- WISDOM
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- THE true faith discovered was
- When painted panel, statuary.
- Glass-mosaic, window-glass,
- Amended what was told awry
- By some peasant gospeller;
- Swept the Sawdust from the floor
- Of that working-carpenter.
- Miracle had its playtime where
- In damask clothed and on a seat
- Chryselephantine, cedar-boarded,
- His majestic Mother sat
- Stitching at a purple hoarded
- That He might be nobly breeched
- In starry towers of Babylon
- Noah's freshet never reached.
- King Abundance got Him on
- Innocence; and Wisdom He.
- That cognomen sounded best
- Considering what wild infancy
- Drove horror from His Mother's breast.
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