Prayer for May 2008

 

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The May Magnificat

 

 

 

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May is Mary's month, and I

Muse at that and wonder why:

             Her feasts follow reason,

             Dated due to season --

 

Candlemas, Lady Day;

But the Lady Month, May,

            Why That fasten upon her,

                                                              With a feasting in her honor?

 

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Is it only its being brighter

Than the most are must delight her?

                           Is it opportunest

                          And flowers finds soonest?

 

All things rising, all things sizing

Mary sees, sympathising

                          With that world of good,

                          Nature's motherhood.

 

 

Ask of her, the mighty mother:

Her reply puts this other

                         Question: What is Spring? --

                         Growth in everything --

 

Flesh and fleece, fur and feather,

Grass and Greenworld all together;

                        Star-eyed strawberry-breasted

                        Throstle above her nested

 

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Cluster of bugle blue eggs thin

Forms and warms the life within;

                      And GERD and blossom swell

                      In sod or sheath or shell.

 

This magnifying of each its kind

With delight calls to mind

                      How she did in her stored

                      Magnify the Lord.

 

 

Well there was more purpose than this;

Spring's universal bliss

                                             Much, had much to say

                                            To offering Mary May.

 

 

 

This ecstasy all through mothering earth

Tells Mary her mirth till Christ's birth

                                       To remember and exultation

                                       In God who was her salvation.

                                                                                               

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The Prayer for May was submitted by Monica Gribben