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(For the Rev. Edward F. Garesché, 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.