Immortality by Matthew Arnold
b"Arnold read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n Immortality\\nby Matthew Arnold (1822 \\u2013 1888)\\n\\n(Mathew Arnold died on this day \\u2013 15 April \\u2013 in 1888.)\\n\\nFoil'd by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn,\\nWe leave the brutal world to take its way,\\nAnd, Patience! in another life, we say\\nThe world shall be thrust down, and we up-borne.\\n\\nAnd will not, then, the immortal armies scorn\\nThe world's poor, routed leavings? or will they,\\nWho fail'd under the heat of this life's day,\\nSupport the fervours of the heavenly morn?\\n\\nNo, no! the energy of life may be\\nKept on after the grave, but not begun;\\nAnd he who flagg'd not in the earthly strife,\\n\\nFrom strength to strength advancing - only he,\\nHis soul well-knit, and all his battles won,\\nMounts, and that hardly, to eternal life."