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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LIFE WITHOUT DEATH, by STEPHEN TEETS
First Line: Death doth not wait as most things wait
Last Line: You live, though you do not die!
Subject(s): Immortality
First Line: Death doth not wait as most things wait
Last Line: You live, though you do not die!
Subject(s): Immortality
Death doth not wait as most things wait
-- Not for any laggard's sake:
It beckons to the soul of you
And with it you must pass from view
But are not gone . . .
God shall ever see your way --
Onward toward that heaven-blue;
Where cherubs sing and deity presides.
And where a born-hope never dies . . .
And there, with whatever fate may share,
You live, though you do not die!
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