Burning Wheel

<SPAN name="DOORS_OF_THE_TEMPLE"></SPAN>DOORS OF THE TEMPLE.<br/> <br/> <br/> Many are the doors of the spirit that lead<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Into the inmost shrine:</span><br/> And I count the gates of the temple divine,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Since the god of the place is God indeed.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And these are the gates that God decreed</span><br/> Should lead to his house:&mdash;kisses and wine,<br/> Cool depths of thought, youth without rest,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And calm old age, prayer and desire,</span><br/> The lover's and mother's breast,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The fire of sense and the poet's fire.</span><br/> <br/> But he that worships the gates alone,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Forgetting the shrine beyond, shall see</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The great valves open suddenly,</span><br/> Revealing, not God's radiant throne,<br/> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">But the fires of wrath and agony.</span><br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />