My heart is a small room,
And life is the light of day
That peeps in through the window
Joyous and gay.
When Time draws down the blind
And leaves me to the night,
Will God come then, I wonder,
And bring me light?
Elfrida De Renne Barrow (1884 - 1970) USA
Source: Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, edited by Harriet Monroe, Vol 20, No. 1, 1922
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