Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Gate

Thomas Bailey Aldrich was American poet, novelist, editor. Explore interesting quotes on gate.

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“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,
Named of the four winds, North, South, East and West;
Portals that lead to an enchanted land…
Here, it is written, Toil shall have its wage
And Honor honor, and the humblest man
Stand level with the highest in the law.
Of such a land have men in dungeons dreamed
And with the vision brightening in their eyes
Gone smiling to the fagot and the sword.

O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well
To leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast
Fold Sorrow’s children, soothe the hurts of Fate,
Lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel
Stay those who to thy sacred portals come
To waste the gifts of Freedom.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Unguarded Gates; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Aldrich, Thomas. "The Unguarded Gates." Literature for Composition. Ed. Sylvan Barnet, William Burto, William E. Cain. Boston: Perdue, 2014. 1113. Print.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“The Unguarded Gates [1885]”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

“Wide open and unguarded stand our gates”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich