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Robert W Service - My Madonna
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I haled me a woman from the street, 
    Shameless, but, oh, so fair! 
I bade her to sit in the model`s seat 
    And I painted her sitting there. 

I hid all trace of her heart unclean; 
    I painted a babe at her breast; 
I painted her as she might have been 
    If the Worst had been the Best. 

She laughed at my picture and went away. 
    Then came, with a knowing nod, 
A connossieur, and I heard him say; 
    “’Tis Mary, the Mother of God.” 

So I painted a halo round her hair, 
    And I sold her and took my fee, 
And she hangs in the church of Saint Hillaire, 
    Where you and all may see.
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