For Katrina's Window

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Title:     For Katrina's Window
Author: Henry Van Dyke [More Titles by Van Dyke]

IN HER TOWER OF YADDO

This is the window's message,
In silence, to the Queen:
"Thou hast a double kingdom
And I am set between:
Look out and see the glory,
On hill and plain and sky:
Look in and see the light of love
That nevermore shall die!"

_L'ENVOI_

_Window in the Queen's high tower,
This shall be thy magic power!
Shut the darkness and the doubt,
Shut the storm and conflict, out;
Wind and hail and snow and rain
Dash against thee all in vain.
Let in nothing from the night,--
Let in every ray of light!_

[The end]
Henry Van Dyke's poem: For Katrina's Window

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