Anthology of Massachusetts Poets

<h2><SPAN name="chap62"></SPAN>GREEN GOLDEN DOOR</h2> <p class="poem"> Green golden door, swing in, swing in!<br/> Fanning the life a man must live,<br/> Echoes and airs and minstrelsies,<br/> Love and hope that he called his,<br/> Fear and hurt and a man&rsquo;s own sin<br/> Casting them forth and sucking them in,<br/> Green golden door, swing out, swing out!<br/> <br/> Green golden door, swing in, swing in!<br/> Show me the youth that will not die,<br/> Tell me the dream that has not waked,<br/> Seek me the heart that never ached,<br/> Green golden door, swing out, swing out!<br/> <br/> Green golden door, swing in, swing out!<br/> Long is the wailing of man&rsquo;s breath,<br/> Short is the wail of death.<br/></p> <p class="left"> JEANNETTE MARKS</p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />