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LIFE AND DEATH by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY

First Line: DEATH PREYS ON LIFE
Last Line: THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.
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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