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MARY of Magdala came to bed; / There were no soft curtains round her head; / She had no mother to hold of worth / The little baby she brought to birth.
Mary of Magdala groaned and prayed: / "O God, I am very much afraid; / For out of my body, by sin defiled, / Thou biddest me make a little child.