Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE CLOSED ROOM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: In the marvelous house of life
Last Line: Is turned by the keeper -- time!
Subject(s): Time


IN the marvelous House of Life
Each year is a closed room;
It is filled with peace and strife;
It is packed with glow and gloom.

There are hopes in the hues of dream;
There are cares in their grim array;
There are pleasures that glint and gleam;
And sorrows in drugget gray.

For some, with his infinite grace,
Love waits when the portal jars;
For some, with his sphinx-like face,
Death stands when the door unbars.

Some back from the threshold shrink,
As loath from the past to part;
But the most plunge over the brink
With never a fear at heart.

Then silent closes the door
At the sound of the last old chime,
And the key -- Forevermore --
Is turned by the keeper -- Time!





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