“Is there beyond the silent night
An endless day?
Is death a door that leads to light?
We cannot say.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"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.