"The speel of the Yukon" and other verses by Robert W. Service FEATURING THE SUPERB EMOTIONAL ACTRESS MME. PETROVA

"MY MADONNA" Adapted from the poem of the same name from "The speel of the Yukon" and other verses by Robert W. Service FEATURING THE SUPERB EMOTIONAL ACTRESS MME. PETROVA one of her Greatest Successes Before the Camera"The Speel of the yukon" Robert Service
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My Madonna



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 Hillaire,
Where you and all may see.