Immaculate

Dec 8th, 2020

Recuerdo 
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
We were very tired, we were very merry—
 

We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.


It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable—


But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table,


We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;


And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came 
soon.


We were very tired, we were very merry—


We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry;


And you ate an apple, and I ate a pear,


From a dozen of each we had bought somewhere;


And the sky went wan, and the wind came cold,


And the sun rose dripping, a bucketful of gold


We were very tired, we were very merry


We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry.


We hailed, “Good morrow, mother!” to a shawl-
covered head,


And bought a morning paper which neither of us
 read;


And she wept, “God bless you!” for the apples and 
pears,


and we gave her all our money but our subway fares.
 

“Recuerdo” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Public domain. 

Mary was sinless and so knew how to contemplate mysteries, angels, Sacred Spirits.

She will happily show us how.