The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop ... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare |
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EPIGRAM CLXXVII.
[“Death!—]
PLUS ULTRA.
“Death!—
“What art thou, O thou great Mysterious Terror?
“The way to thee we know; diseases, famine,
“Fire, sword, and all thy ever-open gates,
“Which day and night stand ready to receive us.—
“But what's beyond them?—who shall draw that veil?
“Yet Death's not there!”
Hughes's Siege of Damascus, Act 3.
“What art thou, O thou great Mysterious Terror?
“The way to thee we know; diseases, famine,
“Fire, sword, and all thy ever-open gates,
“Which day and night stand ready to receive us.—
“But what's beyond them?—who shall draw that veil?
“Yet Death's not there!”
Hughes's Siege of Damascus, Act 3.
Beyond? and who shall draw that veil?—The Man
Whom Christian Spirit hath ennobled, can;
He from th' abyss beyond, the veil shall tear;
For 'tis His Triumph, that Death is not there!
That there, is all sublime Devotion's scope;
All Rest from Sorrow; all expanse of Hope;
There Perfect Souls, the path he treads, who trod;
There Immortality! there Heaven! there God!
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