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First Line: There is a chamber in my house of life
Last Line: I fear the prisoner!
Subject(s): Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners


THERE is a chamber in my house of life,
A secret room that holds a prisoner—
A prisoner so bound about with chains
That he can scarcely stir.

There is a jailer stands without the door,
To keep him guarded in that secret room
And gagged, so that he cannot cry aloud,
Alone there in the gloom.

But should he some day throw off his restraint,
And burst his way through the well guarded door
Of that small, secret room, life would be changed—
Yes, changed forevermore.

I am the jailer who stands at the door,
To guard him so he may not shout nor stir;
The secret prison room is my own heart—
I fear the prisoner!





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