• Little, i ween, did Mary guess,
      As on her arm her baby lay,
    What tides of joy would swell and beat,
      Through ages long, on Christmas day.

    And what if she had known it all,—
      The awful splendor of his fame?
    The inmost heart of all her joy
      Would still, methinks, have been the same:

    The joy that every mother knows...