<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341858" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Open Door</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Mystery of life,<br>That, after all our strife,<br>Defeats, mistakes,<br>Just as, at last, we see<br>The road to victory,<br>The tired heart breaks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Just as the long years give<br>Knowledge of how to live,<br>Life's end draws near;<br>As if, that gift being ours,<br>God needed our new powers<br>In worlds elsewhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There, if the soul whose wings<br>Were won in suffering, springs<br>To life anew,<br>Justice would have some room<br>For hope beyond the tomb,<br>And mercy, too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since, without this dream<br>No light, no faintest gleam<br>Answers our 'why';<br>But earth and all its race<br>Must pass and leave no trace<br>On that blind sky;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shall reason close that door<br>On all we struggled for,<br>Seal the soul's doom;<br>Make of this universe<br>One wild answering curse,<br>One lampless tomb?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mine be the dream, the creed<br>That leaves for God, indeed,<br>For God, and man,<br>One open door whereby<br>To prove His world no lie<br>And crown His plan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Noyes">Alfred Noyes</a><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=341858" data-title="The Open Door de Alfred Noyes" data-description="O Mystery of life, That, after all our strife, Defeats, mistakes, Just as, at last, we see The road to victory, The tired heart breaks. Just as the long years give Knowledge of how to live, Life's end draws near; As if, that gift being ours, God ..."></div> </div> </div>

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