LOCKED INSIDEfShe beats upon her bolted door,With faint weak hands;Drearily walks the narrow floor;Sullenly sits, blank walls before;Despairing stands.Life calls her, Duty, Pleasure, Gain—Her dreams respond;But the blank daylights wax and wane,Dull peace, sharp agony, slow pain—No hope beyond.Till she comes a thought! She lifts her head,The world grows wide!A voice—as if clear words were said—“Your door, O long imprisonéd,Is locked inside!”
She beats upon her bolted door,With faint weak hands;Drearily walks the narrow floor;Sullenly sits, blank walls before;Despairing stands.Life calls her, Duty, Pleasure, Gain—Her dreams respond;But the blank daylights wax and wane,Dull peace, sharp agony, slow pain—No hope beyond.Till she comes a thought! She lifts her head,The world grows wide!A voice—as if clear words were said—“Your door, O long imprisonéd,Is locked inside!”
She beats upon her bolted door,With faint weak hands;Drearily walks the narrow floor;Sullenly sits, blank walls before;Despairing stands.Life calls her, Duty, Pleasure, Gain—Her dreams respond;But the blank daylights wax and wane,Dull peace, sharp agony, slow pain—No hope beyond.Till she comes a thought! She lifts her head,The world grows wide!A voice—as if clear words were said—“Your door, O long imprisonéd,Is locked inside!”
She beats upon her bolted door,With faint weak hands;Drearily walks the narrow floor;Sullenly sits, blank walls before;Despairing stands.
She beats upon her bolted door,
With faint weak hands;
Drearily walks the narrow floor;
Sullenly sits, blank walls before;
Despairing stands.
Life calls her, Duty, Pleasure, Gain—Her dreams respond;But the blank daylights wax and wane,Dull peace, sharp agony, slow pain—No hope beyond.
Life calls her, Duty, Pleasure, Gain—
Her dreams respond;
But the blank daylights wax and wane,
Dull peace, sharp agony, slow pain—
No hope beyond.
Till she comes a thought! She lifts her head,The world grows wide!A voice—as if clear words were said—“Your door, O long imprisonéd,Is locked inside!”
Till she comes a thought! She lifts her head,
The world grows wide!
A voice—as if clear words were said—
“Your door, O long imprisonéd,
Is locked inside!”