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A Prodigal Son.

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Does that lamp still burn in my Father's house,     Which he kindled the night I went away?     I turned once beneath the cedar boughs,     And marked it gleam with a golden ray;     Did he think to light me home some day?     Hungry here with the crunching swine,     Hungry harvest have I to reap;     In a dream I count my Father's kine,     I hear the tinkling bells of his sheep,     I watch his lambs that browse and leap.     There is plenty of bread at home,     His servants have bread enough and to spare;     The purple wine-fat froths with foam,     Oil and spices make sweet the air,     While I perish hungry and bare.     Rich and blessed those servants, rather     Than I who see not my Father's face!     I will arise and go to my Father: -     "Fallen from sonship, beggared of grace,     Grant me, Father, a servant's place."

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