Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Immortality

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Immortality.

CHAPTER XXXV.

THE LAST LETTER.

Strong as the death it masters, is the hope
That onward looks to immortality:
Let the frame perish, so the soul survive,
Pure, spiritual, and loving. I believe
The grave exalts, not separates, the ties
That hold us in affection to our kind.
I will look down from yonder pitying sky,
Watching and waiting those I loved on earth
Anxious in heaven, until they too are there.
I will attend your guardian angel's side,
And weep away your faults with holy tears;
Your midnight shall be filled with solemn thought:
And when, at length, death brings you to my love,
Mine the first welcome heard in Paradise.

Blanchard’s title is:

IMMORTALITY

In The New York Mirror (24th March 1838), as Hopes of Immortality

In the Bouquet (1846), under (Locust) Robinia pseudo-acacia as Affection beyond the grave