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First Line: So soon my body will have gone
Last Line: A wave that never finds the shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


So soon my body will have gone
Beyond the sound and sight of men,
And tho' it wakes and suffers now,
Its sleep will be unbroken then;
But oh, my frail immortal soul
That will not sleep forevermore,
A leaf borne onward by the blast,
A wave that never finds the shore.






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