Richard Crashaw


DIVINE EPIGRAMS.

LUKE XV.

On the Prodigal.
TELL me, bright boy, tell me, my golden lad,
Whither away so frolic ?  why so glad ?
What all thy wealth in council ? all thy state ?
Are husks so dear ?  troth 'tis a mighty rate.




Source:
The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw. William B. Turnbull, Ed.
London: John Russell Smith, 1858.  17.



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