Immortality.

Foiled by our fellow-men, depressed, outworn, We leave the brutal world to take its way, And, Patience! in another life, we say, The world shall be thrust down, and we upborne.

And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn The world’s poor, routed leavings? or will they Who failed under the heat of this life’s day Support the fervors of the heavenly morn?

No, no! the energy of life may be Kept on after the grave, but not begun; And he who flagged not in the earthly strife,

From strength to strength advancing,--only he, His soul well-knit, and all his battles won, Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.