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see this truth of both Is theirs who part essence from accident,
Substance from shadow. Indestructible, Learn
thou! the Life is,
spreading life through all; It cannot anywhere, by any means, Be
anywise diminished, stayed, or changed. But for these fleeting
frames which it informs With spirit deathless, endless, infinite,
They perish. Let them perish, Prince! and fight! He who shall say,
"Lo! I have slain a man!" He who shall think, "Lo! I
am slain!" those both Know naught! Life cannot slay.
Life is not slain! Never the spirit was
born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not;
End and Beginning are dreams! Birthless and deathless and changeless
remained the spirit for ever; Death hath not touched it at all,
dead though the house of it seems! Who knoweth it exhaustless,
self-sustained, Immortal, indestructible,- shall such Say, "I
have killed a man, or caused to kill?"
Nay, but as when one layed
His worn-out
robes away, And, taking new ones, sayeth, "These will I wear
to-day!" So putted by the spirit Lightly its garb of
flesh, And passed to inherit A residence afresh.
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