MADRE MARIA.
On the mountain Lucia * Was Madre Maria, With book of gold. Half was she reading, Half praying and pleading ♦For sorrow foretold, ■ s x Came her son Jesus To the mountain Lucia ; “What are you doing then, Madre Maria?” * “Nor reading nor sleeping, K But dreaming a dream. A On Calvary’s hilltop % Three crosses gleam. Bare in the moonlight; Your body- on one, Nailed feet and hands, 0 my dear little Son!” “Be it so, he it so, 0 mi Madre Maria!” Who says this prayer - Th ree times a day v’ Will find Heaven’s doors . * Opened always ' '■ And Hell’s doors shut Forever and ay '*• Amen, Jesus! ~ * T, l'; s . is * a Mexico folksong translated ,« and adapted by Alice Corbin, in the Literary Digest. 4
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New Zealand Tablet, 24 February 1921, Page 33
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127MADRE MARIA. New Zealand Tablet, 24 February 1921, Page 33
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