Excerpted from the same aforementioned.
“There Was a Little Girl” by Fr. Leonard Feeney
“There was a little girl just like you,
With eyes as big and bright and true.
She loved to laugh and play and run,
The same as you or anyone.
O dulcis, et pia
Puellula Maria!
And in the April of the year,
When all the long lost flowers appear,
An angel came to her one day,
And said to put her dolls away.
O dulcis, et pia
Puellula Maria!
She meekly bowed her little head,
To what the blessed angel said,
And swift as the flying of a dove,
She changed from child to mother love.
O dulcis, et pia
Puellula Maria!
Thus as the years go by for you,
You’ll change, as all must children do.
Love with its burdens, love with its woe,
Will come as it came, long, long ago…
O dulcis, et pia
Puellula Maria!
But lest your little heart be torn,
With sorrows ache and sorrows thorn,
Teach it to love and ever stand,
Close to the touch of the little hand…of
O dulcis, et pia
Puellula Maria!
And when you’re old and gray and lone,
She’ll come to claim you for her own,
Take you to heaven, out of pain,
Make you a little girl, ever again…
O dulcis, et pia
Puellula Maria!”
Topic: Fr. Leonard Feeney, S.J. (RIP) Poems (Read 2632 times)