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When the Eternal deigned to look |
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On us poor folk to make us free |
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He chose a Maiden whom He took |
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From Nazareth in Galilee; |
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Since when the islands of the Sea, |
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The Field, the City, and the Wild, |
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Proclaim aloud triumphantly |
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A Female Figure with a Child. |
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These mysteries profoundly shook |
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The Reverend Doctor Leigh D.D., |
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Who therefore stuck into a Nook, |
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(Or Niche) of his Incumbency, |
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A figure filled with majesty |
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To represent the Undefiled, |
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The Universal Mother—She— |
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A Female Figure with a Child. |
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His bishop who had read a book |
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That proved as plain as plain could be |
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That all the mutts had been mistook |
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Who talked about a Trinity, |
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Wrote off at once to Doctor Leigh |
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In manner very far from mild, |
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And said, 'Remove them instantly! |
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A Female Figure with a Child'. |
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Envoi |
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Prince Jesus in mine agony, |
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Permit me, broken and defiled, |
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Through glazed and blurring eyes to see, |
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A Female Figure with a Child. |
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Hilaire Belloc |
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