IMMORTALITY
The heart of man hears the call and feels the attraction of life beyond, as the woodland brook hears the call of the distant sea and hastens on to meet it.
(1533)
The fadeless hope of everlasting life is thus exprest by St. John Adcock:
I, that had life ere I was born
Into this world of dark and light,
Waking as one who wakes at morn
From dreams of night.
I am as old as heaven and earth;