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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=533789" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Two Keys</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There was a Boy, long years ago,<br> Who hour by hour awake would lie,<br>And watch the white moon gliding slow<br> Along her pathway in the sky. <br>And every night as thus he lay<br> Entranced in lonely fantasy,<br>Borne swiftly on a bright moon-ray<br> There came to him a Golden Key. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And with that Golden Key the Boy<br> Oped every night a magic door<br>That to a melody of Joy<br> Turned on its hinges evermore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, trembling with delight and awe,<br> When he the charmèd threshold crossed,<br>A radiant corridor he saw—<br> Its end in dazzling distance lost. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Great windows shining in a row<br> Lit up the wondrous corridor,<br>And each its own rich light did throw<br> In stream resplendent on the floor. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One window showed the Boy a scene<br> Within a forest old and dim,<br>Where fairies danced upon the green<br> And kissed their little hands to him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet strains of elfin harp and horn<br> He heard so clearly sounding there,<br>And he to Wonderland was borne<br> And breathed its soft enchanted air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then, passing onward with the years,<br> He turned his back on Elf and Fay,<br>And sadly sweet, as if in tears,<br> The fairy music died away. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The second window held him long:<br> It looked upon a field of fight<br>Whereon the countless hordes of Wrong<br> Fought fiercely with the friends of Right. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, lo! upon that fateful field,<br> Where cannon thundered, banners streamed,<br>And rushing squadrons rocked and reeled,<br> His sword a star of battle gleamed. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And when the hordes of Wrong lay still,<br> And that great fight was fought and won,<br>He stood, bright-eyed, upon a hill,<br> His white plume shining in the sun. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A glorious vision! yet behind<br> He left it with its scarlet glow,<br>And faint and far upon the wind<br> He heard the martial trumpets blow. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For to his listening ear was borne<br> A music more entrancing far<br>Than strains of elfin harp or horn,<br> More thrilling than the trump of war. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No longer as a dreamy boy<br> He trod the radiant corridor:<br>His young man’s heart presaged a joy<br> More dear than all the joys of yore. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">To that third window, half in awe,<br> He moved, and slowly raised his eyes—<br>And was it earth grown young he saw?<br> Or was it man’s lost Paradise? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all the flowers that ever bloomed<br> Upon the earth, and all the rare<br>Sweet Loveliness by Time entombed,<br> Seemed blushing, blooming, glowing there. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And every mellow-throated bird<br> That ever sang the trees among<br>Seemed singing there, with one sweet word—<br> “Love! Love!” on every little tongue. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then he by turns grew rosy-red,<br> And he by turns grew passion-pale.<br>“Sweet Love!” the lark sang overhead,<br> “Sweet Love!” sang Love’s own nightingale. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In mid-heart of the hawthorn-tree<br> The thrush sang all its buds to bloom;<br>“Love! Love! Love! Love! Sweet Love,” sang he<br> Amidst the soft green sun-flecked gloom. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>She stood upon a lilied lawn,<br> With dreamful eyes that gazed afar:<br>A maiden tender as the Dawn<br> And lovely as the Morning Star. <br>She stooped and kissed him on the brow,<br> And in a low, sweet voice said she:<br>“I am this country’s queen—and thou?”<br> “I am thy vassal,” murmured he. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She hid him with her hair gold-red,<br> That flowed like sunshine to her knee;<br>She kissed him on the lips, and said:<br> “Dear heart! I’ve waited long for thee.” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And, oh, she was so fair, so fair,<br> So gracious was her beauty bright,<br>Around her the enamoured air<br> Pulsed tremulously with delight. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In passionate melody did melt<br> Bird-voices, scent of flower and tree,<br>And he within his bosom felt<br> The piercing thorn of ecstasy. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The years passed by in dark and light,<br> In storm and shine; the man grew old,<br>Yet never more by day or night<br> There came to him the Key of Gold. <br>But ever, ere the great sun flowers<br> In gold above the sky’s blue rim,<br>All in the dark and lonely hours<br> There comes an Iron Key to him. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And with that key he opes a wide<br> And gloomy door—the Door of Fate—<br>That makes, whene’er it swings aside,<br> A music sad and desolate, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A music sad from saddest source:<br> He sees beside the doorway set<br>The chill, gray figure of Remorse,<br> The pale, cold image of Regret. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For all the glory and the glow<br> Of Life are passed, and dead, and gone:<br>The Light and Life of Long Ago<br> Are memories only—moonlight wan. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is no man of woman born<br> So brave, so good, so wise but he<br>Must sometimes in a night forlorn<br> Take up and use the Iron Key.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Victor+James+Daley">Victor James Daley</a><div class=q>
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