William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.
Green Golden Door
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Fanning the life a man must live,
Echoes and airs and minstrelsies,
Love and hope that he called his,
Fear and hurt and a man’s own sin
Casting them forth and sucking them in,
Green golden door, swing out, swing out!
Show me the youth that will not die,
Tell me the dream that has not waked,
Seek me the heart that never ached,
Speak me the truth men will not doubt!
Green golden door, swing out, swing out!
Long is the wailing of man’s breath,
Short is the wail of death.