Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, I AM THE DOOR, by ANONYMOUS


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I AM THE DOOR, by                    
First Line: "a traveler once, when skies were rose and gold"
Last Line: For us his timid sheep - 'I am the door!'
Subject(s): God


A traveler once, when skies were rose and gold
With Syrian sunset, paused beside the fold
Where an Arabian shepherd housed his flock;
Only a circling wall of rough, grey rock—
No door, no gate, but just an opening wide
Enough for snowy, huddling sheep to come inside.
"So," questioned he, "then no wild beasts you dread?"
"Ah, yes, the wolf is near," the shepherd said.
"But"—strange and sweet the words Divine of yore
Fell on his startled ear: "I am the door!
When skies are sown with stars, and I may trace
The velvet shadows in this narrow space,
I lay me down. No silly sheep may go
Without the fold but I, the shepherd, know.
Nor need my cherished flock close-sheltered, warm,
Fear ravening wolf, save o'er my prostrate form."O word of Christ—illumined

evermore
For us his timid sheep—"I am the door!"





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