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Madre Mia is a poem by William Hope Hodgson. It is presented as the dedication to his novel The Boats of the Glen Carrig.People may say thou art no longer youngAnd yet to me thy youth was yesterdayA yesterday that seemsStill mingled with my dreams.Ah! how the years have o’er thee flungTheir soft mantilla grey.And e’en to them thou art not over old;How could’st thou be! Thy hairHast scarcely lost its deep old glorious dark:Thy face is scarcely lined. No markDestroys its calm serenity.