GOD WALKED ONE NIGHT FROM END TO END OF THE MILKY WAY

by: Elsa Barker (1869-1954)

      OD walked one night from end to end of the Milky Way;
      He was looking for something that He could not find.
      I could have told Him where to find it;
      But being so simple in most ways, I am like a child who joys to have a secret from its father,
      And so I held my peace.
      What think you that God went seeking in all the shops along the great White Road?
      Was it a jewel of rich price, in a ring of cunning workmanship, which should gleam on His finger upheld in admonition of the archangels when they were slow in their world-building?
      Nay, dear, God sought not a stone.
      But someone had told him of a gay and vagabond angel, who enjoyed freedom of space and companionship with all things, yet desired not rule and power.
      Yea, God was looking for me, to make me Lord of a planet;
      But I hid myself in the floating hair of an outbound comet, and held my breath and smiled.

"God Walked One Night From End to End of the Milky Way" is reprinted from Songs of a Vagrom Angel. Elsa Barker. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1916.

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