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<h2> THE CLOSED DOOR </h2>
<p>It is not so, and so for evermore,<br/>
That thou and I must live our lives apart;<br/>
I with a patient smother at my heart,<br/>
And thy hand resting on a closed door?<br/>
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What couldst thou ever ask me that I should<br/>
Not bend me to achieve thy high behest?<br/>
What cannot men achieve with lance in rest<br/>
Who carry noble valour in their blood?<br/>
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And some nobility of high emprise,<br/>
Lady, couldst thou make possible in me;<br/>
If living ‘neath the pureness of thy eyes,<br/>
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I found the key to inner majesty;<br/>
And reaching outward, heart-strong, from thy hand,<br/>
Set here and there a beacon in the land.<br/></p>
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