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THE SECRET OF IT by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS

First Line: WHERE DOES THE CLERK OF THE WEATHER STORE
Last Line: "AND OPEN THE WRONG HEART-ROOM."
Subject(s): WEATHER;

"Where does the clerk of the weather store
The days that are sunny and fair?"
"In your heart is a room with a close-shut door,
And all of those days are there."

"Where does the clerk of the weather keep
The days that are dreary and blue?"
"In a second room in your heart they sleep,
And you have the keys of the two."

"And why are my days so often, I pray,
Filled full of clouds and of gloom?"
"Because you go at the break of day
And open the wrong heart-room."



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