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Mary
Mary did not weep or know distress
bur sang a song of joy
just after she was told
in Gabriel's address
she’d quicken soon
because she’d be
by spirit and by overshading power won
and give birth to in nine month’s time
the Most High’s holy son.
She did not feel thereby
herself undone
or that her “yes” to Gabriel
was costly or against her will
constrained.
Instead, she praised the Lord
with ringing words, refrains,
that signaled she was raptured,
pleased,
to be the chosen means
the handmaiden,
through which the sovereign will
of Yahweh for his servant Israel
to be released from its oppressors’
wiles and hands
would be enfleshed
and bring to pass God’s reign
within the Land
and that she would be named
by generations yet to come
a woman they’d call blessed.
bur sang a song of joy
just after she was told
in Gabriel's address
she’d quicken soon
because she’d be
by spirit and by overshading power won
and give birth to in nine month’s time
the Most High’s holy son.
She did not feel thereby
herself undone
or that her “yes” to Gabriel
was costly or against her will
constrained.
Instead, she praised the Lord
with ringing words, refrains,
that signaled she was raptured,
pleased,
to be the chosen means
the handmaiden,
through which the sovereign will
of Yahweh for his servant Israel
to be released from its oppressors’
wiles and hands
would be enfleshed
and bring to pass God’s reign
within the Land
and that she would be named
by generations yet to come
a woman they’d call blessed.
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