| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | Madre María | | By Alice Corbin |
| | From “New Mexico Folk-songs”
ON the mountain Lucía | |
| Was Madre María, | |
| With book of gold. | |
| Half was she reading, | |
| Half praying and pleading | 5 |
| For sorrow foretold. | |
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| Came her son Jésus | |
| To the mountain Lucía: | |
| “What are you doing then, | |
| Madre María?” | 10 |
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| “Nor reading nor sleeping, | |
| But dreaming a dream. | |
| On Calvary’s hill-top | |
| Three crosses gleam, | |
| Bare in the moonlight; | 15 |
| Your body on one | |
| Nailed feet and hands, | |
| O my dear little son!” | |
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| “Be it so, be it so, | |
| O mi Madre María!” | 20 |
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| Who says this prayer | |
| Three times a day | |
| Will find Heaven’s doors | |
| Opened alway, | |
| And Hell’s doors shut | 25 |
| Forever and aye….. | |
| Amen, Jésus! | | | | |
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