“Is there beyond the silent night
An endless day?
Is death a door that leads to light?
We cannot say.”

"The Devil" (1899) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38804/38804-h/38804-h.htm Section IX, "Conclusion: Declaration of the Free" Compare: "the door of Darkness", The Rubaiyat, stanza 64.

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