ODE TO MOTHER MARY     We greet you Mother Mary dear, bouquet of sunshine in the gloom .  Without you  life is blank and drear.  We greet you Mother Mary dear and run to meet you like a  deer to plains where trees and flowers bloom. We greet you Mother Mary dear. bouquet of sunshine in the gloom.     When earth  is   darksome, preasures  rain we place our world  in your sweet care . Beneath your eyes, we shall  remain . When earth  is  darksome, preasures rain We pray for  hope  to fill the  plain and  grace to sooth  these souls so bare. When earth  is   darksome, preasures rain we place our world in your sweet  care.       Across the desert  storms   of  life my heart  will thirst.I need your  love when worldly pains  attack  like knife . Across the desert  storms of  life You are there to lift me from  strife and send  your grace to be my dove. Across the desert  and storms of life my heart  will thirst, I need your love.     Agatha Lai  ( 02.07.03 )