<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508507" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Madonna</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I haled me a woman from the street,<br> Shameless, but, oh, so fair!<br>I bade her sit in the model's seat<br> And I painted her sitting there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I hid all trace of her heart unclean;<br> I painted a babe at her breast;<br>I painted her as she might have been<br> If the Worst had been the Best.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She laughed at my picture and went away.<br> Then came, with a knowing nod,<br>A connoisseur, and I heard him say;<br> &quot;'Tis Mary, the Mother of God.&quot;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I painted a halo round her hair,<br> And I sold her and took my fee,<br>And she hangs in the church of Saint Hillaire,<br> Where you and all may see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+William+Service">Robert William Service</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=508507" data-title="My Madonna de Robert William Service" data-description="I haled me a woman from 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..."></div> </div> </div>

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