| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| Green Golden Door |
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| GREEN golden door, swing in, swing in! | |
| 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 | 5 |
| Casting them forth and sucking them in, | |
| Green golden door, swing out, swing out! | |
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| Green golden door, swing in, swing in! | |
| Show me the youth that will not die, | |
| Tell me the dream that has not waked, | 10 |
| Seek me the heart that never ached, | |
| Green golden door, swing out, swing out! | |
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| Green golden door, swing in, swing out! | |
| Long is the wailing of man’s breath, | |
| Short is the wail of death. | 15 |
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