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Strong Death, proud power invisible, even now / Slowly thou drawest near me in the dark, -- / And though within me the clear glowing spark / Of life is warm and beats in heart and brow, / My body shall grow colder, till I bow, / White as the ash, thine unresisting mark. / But for the word from the veiled years I hark, -- / As calm and as invincible as Thou. / And when at last I feel thy kisses, -- Death, -- / My fading lips shall smiling tell thee this -- / "Master thou art not! On my Spirit's shrine / Deathless, although the altar crumbleth. / Ascend twin flames in one, -- to find God's bliss, / As God immortal, -- my Love's love and mine! "