"You Shaped This Soul Of Mine"

You Painted no Madonnas

On chapel walls in Rome,

but with a touch diviner

You lived one in your home.

You wrote no lofty poems

That critics counted art,

But with a nobler vision

you lived them in your heart.

You carved no shapless marbles

To some high-souled design;

But with a finer sculpture

You shaped this soul of mine.

You built no great cathedrals

That centuries applaud,

But with a grace exquisite

Your life cathedraled God.

Had I the gift of Raphael

Or Michelangelo,

Oh, what a rare Madonna

My mother's life would show!

Happy Mother's Day to two of the greatest Moms God ever created.

We love you.