<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=509193" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Three Knocks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WHEN the owl that scared the mouse<br>Fluffed his feathers and sat still,<br>And the night around was chill,<br>On the door of yonder house<br>Someone knocked,<br>And a hand the door unlocked.<br>While the owl, aloof and drear<br>Yellow-eyed his vigil kept,<br>Down the breeze a crying crept,<br>And it seemed to tell of fear —<br>Fear and care —<br>It was Life that entered there!<br>When the owl had greyer grown<br>By a score of years and more,<br>On the selfsame cedar door<br>Of yon house that stands alone,<br>Someone knocked,<br>And a hand the door unlocked.<br>Yet, though many gracious flowers<br>Wreathed the house from floor to roof,<br>In his shadowed haunt aloof<br>Staring sat he through the hours,<br>Unaware<br>It was Love that entered there!<br>When the owl had passed away,<br>And the mouse, no more afraid,<br>In the tree-glooms frisked and played,<br>On that door at end of day<br>Someone knocked,<br>And a hand the door unlocked.<br>Once and twice that knock had come,<br>Once for Life, and once for Love;<br>Towards the night the shadows move,<br>And the land lies still and dumb<br>Everywhere —<br>It is Death that enters there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Roderic+Quinn">Roderic Quinn</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=509193" data-title="The Three Knocks de Roderic Quinn" data-description="WHEN the owl that scared the mouse Fluffed his feathers and sat still, And the night around was chill, On the door of yonder house Someone knocked, And a hand the door unlocked. While the owl, aloof and drear Yellow-eyed his vigil kept, Down the b..."></div> </div> </div>

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