Poem March 10, 1962 ISSUE

THE HEIR

Doris Peel

The Father has given to the sonnot sober suit, not uniform,but a many-colored coatall fresh, all gay.

What is relinquished is the graysackcloth stuff: the orphan's shift,the widow's veil, the liveryso dark and stained of servitude and prisonment.These we are stripped of, every oneby His command, and given insteadthis multi-hued,

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