Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
and a time to die...
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was:
and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
I wished you farewell, and I wished you safe journey
I nodded in peace, wiped a tear from my eye,
Like releasing a songbird to sing with the dawn again,
On wings strong of spirit you'll now learn to fly
In time, soon enough, I will be there to join you,
For this river just runs between shores,
And it's still hand in hand that we walk here together
Just with me now on my side - you yours.
If a man die, shall he live again?
...I am the resurrection and the life...
For behold, this is my work and my glory--
to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.
"A part of you has grown in me,
together forever we shall be,
never apart,
not in distance,
and not in heart".
