"When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd, And the great star early droop'd in the western sky in the night, I mourn'd, and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring." In the context of the whole work, it doesn't matter where the door is. Whitman wrote the poem was written to mourn the death of Abraham Lincoln. Hindemith set it to mourn the death of Franklin Roosevelt. It's a lovely elegaic piece, currently attracting a lot of interest. Anne Ozorio <[log in to unmask]>