Yea, is it so? will d**h relieve the soul Of its most secret and inveterate sin? Will all be altered when behind the goal Set to the flesh, the spirit shall pa** in? It cannot be; as we have lived we die; Prone in the arms of our unrighteous deeds At the last moment we shall surely lie And so pa** forth. Nothing there is but breeds
The thing it is; evil shall still be so, Though spirit-borne into ethereal ways; Yet there perchance a stronger will may grow, To do some work which God may bless with praise As being good; a new environment Remoulds us till we lose the old intent.