May 18, 2019

Bluebeard by Edna St. Vincent Millay

THIS door you might not open, and you did;      
    So enter now, and see for what slight thing     
You are betrayed…. Here is no treasure hid,       
    No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring            
The sought-for truth, no heads of women slain   
    For greed like yours, no writhings of distress,
But only what you see…. Look yet again—            
    An empty room, cobwebbed and comfortless.
Yet this alone out of my life I kept
    Unto myself, lest any know me quite;   
And you did so profane me when you crept        
    Unto the threshold of this room to-night          
That I must never more behold your face.           
    This now is yours. I seek another place.           

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