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strange such a waking ! Such an entombment 

 and such a resurrection ! Yet the evidence is 

 undoubted. Well, then, may we ask with the 

 poet 



" And deems weak man tiie future promise vain, 

 When worms can die, and glorious rise again ?" 



Well may we ask with Paul, and in words 

 supplied by Him who is Himself the Eesurrec- 

 tion and the Life, " Why should it be thought 

 a thing incredible (with you) that God should 

 raise the dead ?" 



11 Can it be ? 



Matter immortal ? And shall spirit die ? 

 Above the nobler, shall less noble rise ? 

 Shall man alone, for whom* all else revives, 

 No resurrection know? 



Here dormant matter waits a call to life ; 

 Half-life, half-death, join there ; here, life and sense ; 

 There, sense from reason steals a glimm'ring ray ; 

 Eeason shines out in man. But how preserved 

 The chain unbroken, upward to the realms 

 Of incorporeal life ? Those realms of bliss 

 SVhere death hath no dominion ?" 



" The time draws on 

 When not a single spot of burial earth, 

 Whether on land, or in the spacious sea, 

 But must give back its long-committed dust 

 Inviolate : And faithfully shall these 



