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PRISON-HOUSE OF FLESH by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "OUR BODY IS OUR DOOM, A PLACE OF DEATH"
Last Line: THE SOUL ESCAPES TO GOD AND REACHES HEAVEN
Subject(s): FUTURE LIFE; RETRIBUTION;ETERNITY;AFTER LIFE;

OUR body is our doom, a place of death,
A binding chain that holds us here beneath,
A sickness of the soul, a burden sent
By Fate to be our test and punishment.
But when it leaves the limbs, death's bondage riven
The soul escapes to God and reaches heaven.



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