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The Singing Girl

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(For the Rev. Edward F. Garesche, S. J.)     There was a little maiden     In blue and silver drest,     She sang to God in Heaven     And God within her breast.     It flooded me with pleasure,     It pierced me like a sword,     When this young maiden sang:    "My soul     Doth magnify the Lord."     The stars sing all together     And hear the angels sing,     But they said they had never heard     So beautiful a thing.     Saint Mary and Saint Joseph,     And Saint Elizabeth,     Pray for us poets now     And at the hour of death.

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"(For the Rev. Edward F. Garesche, S. J.)..."

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