AN OPEN DOOR.
City, of thine a single, simple door,By some new Power reduplicate must beEven yet my life-porch in eternity.
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI.
THAT longed-for door stood open, and he passed On through the star-sown fields of light, and stayed Before its threshold, glad and unafraid, Since all that Life or Death could do at last Was over, and the hour so long forecast Had brought his footsteps thither. Undismayed He entered. Were his lips on her lips laid? God knows. They met, and their new day was vast:
Night shall not darken it, nor parting blight: "Whatever is to know," they know it now: He comes to her with laurel on his brow, Hero and conqueror from his life's fierce fight, And Longing is extinguished in Delight, — "I still am I," his eyes say, "Thou art thou!"