“A prophet shall he be all men excelling + 

To this folk: nevermore shall fail his race,” + 

But they, “Of him have we heard no man telling, + 

Nor seen him”⁠—yet the babe was born five days! + 

But in a pathless reed-brake, oversprayed + 

With gold and purple splendours was he lying, + 

Which pansy-petals on his soft flesh rayed. + 

“So shall he,” spake his mother prophesying, + 

“Bear this name that through all time shall not fade.” + 