His prose play The Great Divide (1907) was strikingly successful when produced by Henry Miller. The Faith Healer (1909), another play in prose, because of its more exalted tone, did not win the favor of the theatre-going public. A complete edition of The Poems and Poetic Dramas of William Vaughn Moody was published in 1912 in two volumes.
In the summer of 1909 Moody was stricken with the illness from which he never recovered. He died in October, 1910.
FROM “JETSAM”
Once at a simple turning of the way
I met God walking; and although the dawn
Was large behind Him, and the morning stars
Circled and sang about his face as birds
About the fieldward morning cottager,
My coward heart said faintly, “Let us haste!
Day grows and it is far to market-town.”