White Mary
"And I had a prayer like a white rose pinned on the Viegin Mary's blouse"?
from " A Christmas Childhood" by Patrick Kavanagh
could anybody explain this line for me.. what i don't get is " i had a prayer" .. is he saying it out loud.. or did he have a prayer somewhere in a book or what???
*** Virgin Mary's
sorry for spelling
I had a prayer that was as obvious and real as that flower. The scene and season the speaker is describing is a type of nativity. All the allusions are there as well as the wonderment of childhood, especially for those soaked in christianity that this story is real, and then look, for a six year old it is a prayer as real as a white rose and with the Virgin,
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