The Jar Is Sealed
The jar is sealed: Memories — mourners — close the tomb. Turn from the unechoing gloom Into the sounding day: Soul, freed and healed. Away! The jar is sealed.
Leonora Speyer
The jar is sealed: Memories — mourners — close the tomb. Turn from the unechoing gloom Into the sounding day: Soul, freed and healed. Away! The jar is sealed.
Imagine a sealed jar as a coffin for memory. The speaker treats the act of sealing it like a burial: memories become mourners, the past is a tomb, and whatever is locked inside can no longer echo into the present.
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