<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119356" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Return</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knocks at the door so late, so late—<br>Who knocks so late at the door?<br>Is it one who comes as a stranger comes,<br>Or one who has knocked before?<br>Is it one who stays with intent to bless,<br>Or one who stands to implore?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My days have been as the years, she said,<br>And my heart, my heart is sore;<br>Love looked in my face for a moment's space<br>One happy spring of yore—<br>Looked in my face with a wistful grace:<br>And left me to grieve evermore!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through all the days the door stood wide,<br>For hope had breathed a vow<br>That love should ne'er be kept outside.<br>The years were long and hope hath died;<br>The door at last is barred and fast—<br>Why comes this knocking now?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet woe the waiting heart, she said,<br>And the heart it waiteth for!<br>And woe the truth and wasted youth<br>That nothing shall restore!<br>The faith that's fled, the hope that's dead,<br>The dreams that come no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who knocks at the gate—so late, so late?<br>Thou foolish heart, be still!<br>What is 't to thee if love or hate<br>Knocks in the midnight chill?<br>Art thou, poor heart, compassionate?<br>Is love so hard to kill?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ah me! the night is cold, she said;<br>Would I might all forget;<br>But memory lives when hope is dead,<br>And pity heals regret;<br>As light still lingers overhead<br>When sun and moon are set.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Mine and Thine</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119356" data-title="The Return de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="Who knocks at the door so late, so late—/Who knocks so late at the door?/Is it one who comes as a stranger comes,/Or one who has knocked before?/Is it one who stays with intent to bless,/Or one who stands to implore?/My days have been as the yea..."></div> </div> </div>

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