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A PRODIGAL by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON

First Line: MY HEART FORGOT ITS GOD FOR LOVE OF YOU
Last Line: BACK TO MY GOD I GO.
Subject(s): FORGIVENESS; GOD; LOVE; CLEMENCY;
MY HEART forgot its God for love of you,
And you forgot me, other loves to learn;
Now through a wilderness of thorn and rue
Back to my God I turn.

And just because my God forgets the past,
And in forgetting does not ask to know
Why I once left His arms for yours, at last
Back to my God I go.



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