THE PRODIGAL CHILD.
This is not only an impressive hymn as sung in sympathetic music, but a touching poem.
Come home! come home!
You are weary at heart,
For the way has been dark
And so lonely and wild—
O prodigal child,
Come home!
Come home! Come home!
For we watch and we wait,
And we stand at the gate
While the shadows are piled;
O prodigal child,
Come home!
The author is Mrs. Ellen M.H. Gates, known to the English speaking world by her famous poem, “Your Mission.”