<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">Passover</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The doors of life are two;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And, on some midnight still,</p><p class="line">The Lord shall pass your way, and do</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">According to your will.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For, lo, if your desire</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Be set upon the hearth,</p><p class="line">There He will kindle you a fire,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Pleasant and of the earth;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">And you shall take delight</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For ever in that flame,</p><p class="line">But not again shall come a night</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">When He will call your name.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Or, if you count it sin</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">That darkness wrap His shrine,</p><p class="line">His breath shall light instead therein</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The spark that is divine;</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">No shelter from the cold,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">No ease it shall afford --</p><p class="line">But by that gleam you shall behold</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">The glory of the Lord.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Now choose you!... nor forget,</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Choosing this last alone,</p><p class="line">The blood upon your lintel set</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">For sign, must be your own.</p></div><p class="byline">-- V. H. Friedlaender.</p></body></html> · Great War