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From The Twelve-Gated City
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From The Twelve-Gated City

The Second Gate (the Prodigal Son goes to the far country)

This week’s Poetry Aloud is a reading of an excerpt from my book-length poem in progress, The Twelve-Gated City (© Anthony M. Esolen). Today’s selection, “The Second Gate,” is the second of the poem’s twelve verse narratives.

A certain man had two sons: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to m…

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