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My Madonna
by Robert William Service

featuring a reading by actor, Jamie Renell

I haled me a woman from the street,
  Shameless, but, oh, so fair!
I bade her sit in the model’s seat
  And painted her sitting there.

I hid all traces 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.

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Robert W. Service
 (1874-1958)

  Born in Preston, Lancashire, England, Robert spent his childhood in Scotland. He migrated to Canada in 1894, in search of adventure.  Traveling across the vast country, he wound up working for the Canadian Bank of Commerce in the Yukon for 8 years.  He is known all over the world for his poetry on the Yukon. 
  
Learn more about him at Robert W Service.com