IX.
[Vous avez allumé les lampes]
WHY have you lighted all the links — I see the sun in the garden! — Why have you lighted all the links? I see the sunlight through the chinks! Open the doors to the garden!
To the end of the trail / Richard Hovey [electronic text]
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- To the end of the trail / Richard Hovey [electronic text]
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- Hovey, Richard, 1864-1900.
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- New York: Duffield & Company
- 1908
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Pages
IX.
Page 102
— The keys that ope the doors are lost, And we must wait, and we must wait; The three keys fell from the tower wall And we must wait and we must wait And we must wait till the morrows.
The morrows will open wide the doors, The forest hides the locks, The forest burns about our walls. It is the light of the autumn leaves That shines on the sills of the doors —
— The morrows weary on the way; The morrows fear — they fear as well. The morrows will not come this way; The morrows die — they die as well, And we as well shall die.…