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Et virtus altissimi obumbrabit tibi.
God his great Sonne begot ere time begunne,Mary in time brought forth her little Sonne.
Of double substance, one, life hee began,
God without Mother, without Father Man.
Great is this birth, and 'tis a stranger deed,
That shee no man, then God no wife should need.
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And God himselfe became to her a shade.
O strange descent! who is lights Author, hec
Will to his creature thus a shadow bee.
As unseene light did from the Father flow,
So did seene light from Virgin Marie grow.
When Moses sought God in a shade to see,
The Fathers shade was, Christ the Deitie.
Let's seeke for day we darknesse, whil'st our sight
In light findes darknesse, and in darknesse light.
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