The Prodigal by Louise Ayres Garnett. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1920. Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920.

The Prodigal

Louise Ayres Garnett


GOD has such a splendid way
Of launching his unchallenged yea:

Of giving sphery grapes their sheen;
Of painting trees and grasses green;

Of crooning April rains that we	5
May wash us in simplicity;

Of swinging little smiling moons
Beyond the reach of noisy noons;

Of storing in the honey bee
The whole of life’s epitome.	10

God has such a splendid way
Of tempting beauty out of clay,

And from the scattered dusts that sleep
Summoning men who laugh and weep;

And, by and by, of letting death	15
Draw into space our thread of breath. Poetry, A Magazine of Verse