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SANDY STAR: 4. THE WAY by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE

First Line: HE COULD NOT TELL THE WAY HE CAME
Last Line: THE DARK'S AT HIS DOOR.
Subject(s): MYSTERY;

He could not tell the way he came,
Because his chart was lost:
Yet all his way was paved with flame
From the bourne he crossed.

He did not know the way to go,
Because he had no map:
He followed where the winds blow, —
And the April sap.

He never knew upon his brow
The secret that he bore, —
And laughs away the mystery now
The dark's at his door.



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