<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391852" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wanderer's Return</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My home is so glad, my heart is so light,<br>My wandering boy has returned to­p;night.<br>He is blighted and bruised, I know, by sin,<br>But I am so glad to welcome him in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The child of my tenderest love and care<br>Has broken away from the tempter's snare;<br>tonight my heart is o'erflowing with joy,<br>I have found again my wandering boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My heart has been wrung with a thousand fears,<br>Mine eyes have been drenched with the bitterest tears;<br>Like shadows that fade are my past alarms,<br>My boy is enclasped in his mother's arms.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The streets were not safe for my darling child;<br>Where sin with its evil attractions smiled.<br>But his wandering feet have ceased to roam,<br>And tonight my wayward boy is at home­.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At home with the mother that loves him best,<br>With the hearts that have ached with sad unrest,<br>With the hearts that are thrilling with untold joy<br>Because we have found our wandering boy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In that wretched man so haggard and wild<br>I only behold my returning child,<br>And the blissful tears from my eyes that start<br>Are the overflow of a happy heart.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have trodden the streets in lonely grief,<br>I have sought in prayer for my sole relief;<br>But the depths of my heart tonight are stirred,<br>I know that the mother's prayer has been heard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">If the mother-love be so strong and great<br>For her child, sin-weary and desolate,<br>Oh what must the love of the Father be<br>For souls who have wandered like you and me!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frances+Ellen+Watkins+Harper">Frances Ellen Watkins Harper</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391852" data-title="Wanderer's Return de Frances Ellen Watkins Harper" data-description="My home is so glad, my heart is so light, My wandering boy has returned to­p;night. He is blighted and bruised, I know, by sin, But I am so glad to welcome him in. The child of my tenderest love and care Has broken away from the tempter's snare;..."></div> </div> </div>

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