. The baptistery, or, The way of eternal life . - ■. I # ®i)t §9ears of lEternttg. Dread stillness, when the gate of life shall close For ever ! and for ever ! infinite In immortality of dying woes, The fathomless abyss of penal night! Thought lifts her hands aghast, and with affright Against the dreadful image shuts the door, And back recoils from that dread word—no more. O unimagind sad realities,The adamantine wall, the burning chains,Wherein the worm of anguish never dies,Where nothing but the change of woe remains,Beyond the furthest reach of earthly pains !For ever ! Hell grows darker at
. The baptistery, or, The way of eternal life . - ■. I # ®i)t §9ears of lEternttg. Dread stillness, when the gate of life shall close For ever ! and for ever ! infinite In immortality of dying woes, The fathomless abyss of penal night! Thought lifts her hands aghast, and with affright Against the dreadful image shuts the door, And back recoils from that dread word—no more. O unimagind sad realities,The adamantine wall, the burning chains,Wherein the worm of anguish never dies,Where nothing but the change of woe remains,Beyond the furthest reach of earthly pains !For ever ! Hell grows darker at the fame,And echoes from its lowest depths the name. For ever ! thousand upon thousand years,And centuries on centuries to pile,Ages on ages, yet no end appears,No thought of termination to beguile;Upon the horizon drear no gleam the while;It fools our reckoning, like the trackless wind,And sets imagination far 2 200 THE YEARS OF ETERNITY. Philosophy in nature saw that Hell, A death that died not, seeing vice led on To pain and ruin i
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