My Son John
There is also another version of the song that tells exactly the same story. The difference is that the song is about a boy called John. The text of this version is much shorter.
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“A few days later the younger son gathered all he had and traveled to a distant country, and there he squandered his property in dissolute living.”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 15:13.
“For beauties from worth arise
Are like the grace of deities,”
—Sir John Suckling (1609–1642)