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"In heaven the angels are advancing continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel appears the youngest."
Swedenborg / Not for them the length'ning shadows / Falling coldly round our lives, / Nearer, nearer through the ages / Life's new spring for them arrives.
Not for them the doubt and anguish / Of an old and loveless age, / Dropping sadly tears of sorrow / On life's faded, blotted page.
Not for them the mournful dimming / Of the weary, tear-stained eye, / That has seen the sad procession / Of its dearest hopes go by.
Not for them the hopeless clinging / To life's worn and feeble strands, / Till the last has ceased to tremble / In our agèd, withered hands.
Never lines of light and darkness / Thread the brows forever fair, / And the eldest of the angels / Seems the youngest brother there.
There the stream of life doth never / Cross the mournful plains of death, / And the pearly gates are ever / Closed against his icy breath.