Still the heart and stay the breath -- There's a deeper death than death! This is death, when living soul Yields to deadly sin's control; When, beneath the devil's arts, Love, the light of life, departs; When the body, moving still, Bears about a lifeless will, And the spirit, formed to rise Ever-growing in the skies, Is a dead and empty seed: This, ah, this is death indeed! Rich the years, with fruitage rife -- There's a higher life than life! This is life, when spirits press Into every nobleness; When on failure and defeat Power sets his lordly seat; When, although the body fail, Spirit energies prevail, And the world beholds a man After the Creator's plan, Soul from all its bondage freed; This, ah, this is life indeed! Hear the resurrection cry: Dying, yet you shall not die! Christ is He that conquereth All this deeper death than death; Christ, from out of mortal strife, Won this higher life than life -- Wins it through eternity, Just for you and just for me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 10. THE TOYS by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE EPIPSYCHIDION by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AS THE GREEK'S SIGNAL FLAME by WALT WHITMAN GHOST STARS by MADELEINE AARON MOTHER'S WORLD by MARGARET H. ALDEN TRAVELOGUE by EVA K. ANGLESBURG CLIO, NINE ECLOGUES IN HONOUR OF NINE VIRTUES: 8. OF CONSTANCY by WILLIAM BASSE DEDICATIONS AND INSCRIPTIONS: 11. TO EDWARD THOMAS, WITH A PLAY by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |