I write, Theophilus, to confirm what you've learnt...
In Herod's days, priest Zacharias incense burnt
When the angel Gabriel appeared, and him told
His wife Elizabeth'd bear a son, John, though old.
The priest, for doubting, was struck dumb till the birth came,
While his wife's cousin, a virgin, Mary by name
Was told by Gabriel that JESUS she'd conceive,
Who'd be called the Son of God - and she did believe.
When the two women met, foetus John, in womb, leapt;
Both women prophesied, by the Holy Ghost swept.
Zacharias too prophesied as John was born,
That God had visited, raising salvation's horn.
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