Write On: Our Lady Of The Shadows (Artwork by: Hannah Dahl)
January 8, 2022
Artwork by: Hannah Dahl
Roseau Community School
Art Teacher and Supervisor:
Mary Vatnsdal
A Nation spoke to a Nation.
A Queen sent word to a Throne:
"Daughter am I in my mother's house
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open,
As the gates are mine to close,
And I set my house in order,"
Said our Lady of the Snows.
"Neither with laughter nor weeping,
Fear or the child's amaze--
Soberly under the White Man's law
My white men go their ways.
Not for the Gentiles' clamor--
Insult or threat of blows--
Bow we the...
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