| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Immortality |
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| WE must pass like smoke or live within the spirit ’s fire, | |
| For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return, | |
| If our thought has changed to dream or will unto desire. | |
| As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn. | |
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| Lights of infinite pity star the gray dusk of our days: | 5 |
| Surely here is soul; with it we have eternal breath: | |
| In the fire of love we live or pass by many ways, | |
| By unnumbered ways of dream to death. | |
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