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DEATH IS A DOOR by NANCY BYRD TURNER

First Line: DEATH IS ONLY AN OLD DOOR
Last Line: IN AN OLD WALL.
Subject(s): GRIEF; SORROW; SADNESS;
DEATH IS ONLY an old door
Set in a garden wall;
On gentle hinges it gives, at dusk
When the thrushes call.

Along the lintel are green leaves,
Beyond the light lies still;
Very willing and weary feet
Go over that sill.

There is nothing to trouble any heart;
Nothing to hurt at all.
Death is only a quiet door
In an old wall.



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