Lines (poem)

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'Lines' is a poem written by Patrick Branwell Bronte in 1834. He wrote it to set it to music.

The poem:

Lines

We leave our bodies in the Tomb,
Like dust to moulder and decay,
But, while they waste in coffined gloom,
Our parted spirits, where are they?
In endless night or endless day?
Buried as our bodies are
Beyond all earthly hope or fear?
Like them no more to reappear,
But festering fast away?
For future's but the shadow thrown
From present and, the substance gone,
Its shadow cannot stay!


Main Themes which are considered in the poem:

Death
Hope
Life after death