"Now one more, Concelio," said Ramona; "that little hymn."

Changing the expression of her face at once to one of the deepest devotion, the Indian woman sang:

O Maria, O Maria,

Save us from our foes,

From the heat and snows;

Save us while we sing

From every evil thing,

O Maria!

When at morn we rise,

Watch us from the skies;