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THE PROOF.
Impossible,—the eagle's flight!
A body lift itself in air?
Yet see, he soars away from sight!—
Can mortals with the immortal share?
To argue it were wordy strife;
Life only is the proof of life.
A body lift itself in air?
Yet see, he soars away from sight!—
Can mortals with the immortal share?
To argue it were wordy strife;
Life only is the proof of life.
Duration, circumstances, things,—
These measure not the eternal state:
Ah, cease from thy vain questionings
Whether an after-life await!
Rise thou from self to God, and see
That immortality must be!
These measure not the eternal state:
Ah, cease from thy vain questionings
Whether an after-life await!
Rise thou from self to God, and see
That immortality must be!
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