Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY


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LIFE AND DEATH, by                    
First Line: Death preys on life
Last Line: That we might live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John
Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology


Death preys on Life,
And Life on Death doth live.
For without death
No creature that draws breath
Could live.
Strange paradox, and thought provocative,
That Life must live by death, --
That without death
Life cannot live, --
That Christ Himself,
The Lord of Life,
His life did give
That we might live.





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