Jessie Fauset, "The Return" (1919)
With gilly-flowers that beck and nod,
Now find that same road wild and steep
With need for compass and for rod.
And yet with feet that bleed, I pant
On blindly--stumbling back to God!
Published in The Crisis, January 1919
Also published in Palms, October 1926
Also published in Caroling Dusk, 1927