The Knight of Faith

The Accolade (1901) by Edmund Blair Leighton

Even the strongest knight

Bows low before the queen

For his greatest fight

Is the one that isn’t seen.

Each man is a weapon

In the hand of his master

Slave, for death, to sin

Or, for life, to his Mother.

She is no more a mere woman

Than the cross is mere wood.

She is nothing less than

The source of all earthly good.

From her came the Prince,

The Savior of the land,

For whom the knight has since

Declared to take his stand.