Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SPINNER, by CHARLES LEO O'DONNELL


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THE SPINNER, by                    
First Line: Mary the mother of jesus, / a lady of high degree
Last Line: Her tears falling down on his hands.
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Virgin Mary


Mary the Mother of Jesus,
A lady of high degree,
Sat by her cottage spinning
In Nazareth of Galilee.

A light fell over her shoulder
As she sat in the plane-tree's shade,
While a delicate lace of shadows
The sun and the green leaves made.

Busy her foot on the treadle,
And her wheel busily whirled
As a Child looked out from the doorway,
A Child who had made the world.

Deftly she handled the distaff,
And happily whirred her wheel
As the Child came down from the doorway
And ran at her side to kneel.

'Mother,' He said as He watched her
There while she sat and spun,
'Some things are more fair than I dreamed them
The day that I made the sun.

'And you are My heart of all beauty,
My star of all seas, of all lands --'
'Hush, Child,' whispered Mary His Mother,
Her tears falling down on His hands.





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