Mary's Child
Nathan Rogers

We came to clear the land.nTo save the child, convert the mannBut all we could do was watch them die.nIt seems that every soul we saved was destined for an early gravenAnd the brothers barely stopped to question why.nnWhen we boarded a ship from France it seemed like we'd have anchance to do God's work out in the cold and wild.nBut every deathbed conversion was just another sad perversion.nI wonder what became of Mary's childnnIn the village of Ste Marie I saw her.nShe was twenty-three.nI thought that we would help to ease her pain.nMy mother and father died. My husband's dead.nThey're gone. She cried.nMy unborn child and I remain.nnWhen we boarded a ship from France it seemed like we'd have anchance to do God's work out in the cold and wild.nBut every deathbed conversion was just another sad perversion.nI wonder what became of Mary's childnnShe gave her new son life but it was something she could not survive.nWe buried her ben4eath a Christian name and the boy was taken back tonChartes.nForever he would live apart.nI know nothing of the man that he became.nnWhen we boarded a ship from France it seemed like we'd have anchance to do God's work out in the cold and wild.nBut every deathbed conversion was just another sad perversion.nI wonder what became of Mary's childnnEvery deathbed conversion...

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