Poems of Pleasure — Deathless

DEATHLESS.

There lies in the center of each man’s heart, A longing and love for the good and pure;

And if but an atom, or larger part, I tell you this shall endure--endure After the body has gone to decay-- Yea, after the world has passed away.

The longer I live and the more I see Of the struggle of souls toward the heights above, The stronger this truth comes home to me: That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love;

A love so limitless, deep, and broad, That men have renamed it and called it--God.

And nothing that ever was born or evolved, Nothing created by light or force, But deep in its system there lies dissolved A shining drop from the Great Love Source;

A shining drop that shall live for aye-- Though kingdoms may perish and stars decay.