William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922.
Green Golden Door
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Fanning the life a man must live,
Echoes and airs and minstrelsies,
Love and hope that he called his,
Fear and hurt and a man’s own sin
Casting them forth and sucking them in,
Green golden door, swing out, swing out!
Show me the youth that will not die,
Tell me the dream that has not waked,
Seek me the heart that never ached,
Green golden door, swing out, swing out!
Long is the wailing of man’s breath,
Short is the wail of death.