Max Jacob's Prayer to the Virgin Mary

Praise be to this little country girl,

Who deserved to be the mother of God!

I believe she was born in Brittany

And that she lived there before my very eyes….

She is the only one.

She is greeted by Gabriel;

She deserves it:

That is why God is upon her.

He is in her, he is around her;

He is her husband, her son, her father;

She is his nurse and his mother;

She is his queen, he is her king.

Virgin Mary, watch over me. 


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