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My Madonna

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I haled me a woman from the street,     Shameless, but, oh, so fair!     I bade her 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 connoisseur, 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 Hilaire,     Where you and all may see.

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