A Key Into the Language of America, or an Help to the Language of the Natives in That Part of America Called New-England / Together with Briefe Observations of the Customes, Manners, and Worships, &c. of the Aforesaid Natives, etc.

by Roger Williams

The Indians say their bodies die,

Their soules they do not die;

Worse are then Indians such, as hold

The soules mortalitie.

Our hopelesse Bodie rots, say they,

Is gone eternally,

English hope better, yet some’s hope

Proves endless miserie.

Two worlds of Men shall rise and stand

’Fore Christ’s most dreadfulle barre;