<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477618" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Behind The Arras</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As in some dim baronial hall restrained,<br>A prisoner sits, engirt by secret doors<br>And waving tapestries that argue forth<br>Strange passages into the outer air;<br>So in this dimmer room which we call life,<br>Thus sits the soul and marks with eye intent<br>That mystic curtain o'er the portal death;<br>Still deeming that behind the arras lies<br>The lambent way that leads to lasting light.<br>Poor fooled and foolish soul! Know now that death<br>Is but a blind, false door that nowhere leads,<br>And gives no hope of exit final, free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Laurence+Dunbar">Paul Laurence Dunbar</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=477618" data-title="Behind The Arras de Paul Laurence Dunbar" data-description="As in some dim baronial hall restrained, A prisoner sits, engirt by secret doors And waving tapestries that argue forth Strange passages into the outer air; So in this dimmer room which we call life, Thus sits the soul and marks with eye intent Th..."></div> </div> </div>

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