Should Somebody One Day

Should somebody one day knock at your door

Announcing he's an emissary of mine,

Never believe him, nor that it is I;

For to knock does not go with my vainglory,

Even at the unreal door of the sky.

But should you, naturally and without hearing

Anyone knock, come to your door, unbar it

And find somebody waiting (it appears)

To dare to knock, give it some thought. It was

My emissary and I and the retinue of my glorying

In what drives to despair and what despairs.

Unbar to who does not knock at your door!