LXXXII.
             
        I wage not any feud with Death
            For changes wrought on form and face;
            No lower life that earth’s embrace
        May breed with him, can fright my faith.

        Eternal process moving on,
            From state to state the spirit walks;
            And these are but the shatter’d stalks,
        Or ruin’d chrysalis of one.

        Nor blame I Death, because he bare
            The use of virtue out of earth:
            I know transplanted human worth
        Will bloom to profit, otherwhere.

        For this alone on Death I wreak
            The wrath that garners in my heart;
            He put our lives so far apart
        We cannot hear each other speak.