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CANADIAN SINGERS AND THEIR SONGS My Madonna.

I haled me a woman from off 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 Hilaire, Where you and all may
 * see.

Robert W Service Aug '18. 131