354. Last Lines by Emily Bronte
b'E Bronte read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nLast Lines\\n\\nby Emily Bronte (1818 \\u2013 1848) \\n\\nNo coward soul is mine, \\nNo trembler in the world\\u2019s storm-troubled sphere: \\n I see Heaven\\u2019s glories shine, \\nAnd faith shines equal, arming me from fear. \\n \\n O God within my breast, \\nAlmighty, ever-present Deity! \\n Life\\u2014that in me has rest, \\nAs I\\u2014undying Life\\u2014have power in Thee! \\n \\n Vain are the thousand creeds \\nThat move men\\u2019s hearts: unutterably vain; \\n Worthless as wither\\u2019d weeds, \\nOr idlest froth amid the boundless main, \\n \\n To waken doubt in one \\nHolding so fast by Thine infinity; \\n So surely anchor\\u2019d on \\nThe steadfast rock of immortality. \\n \\n With wide-embracing love \\nThy Spirit animates eternal years, \\n Pervades and broods above, \\nChanges, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears. \\n \\n Though earth and man were gone, \\nAnd suns and universes cease to be, \\n And Thou were left alone, \\nEvery existence would exist in Thee. \\n \\n There is not room for Death, \\nNor atom that his might could render void: \\n Thou\\u2014Thou art Being and Breath, \\nAnd what Thou art may never be destroyed. \\n\\nFirst aired: 12 November 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008'