The Immortal's Boon to Death

Death:
   "I am Thy lifeless child
   With ignorance dark and wild.
   Father, my brother life
   Ever dislikes my fife.
   He dwells within Thy Heart
   To pierce my pride with his dart.
   O change my fruitless fate,
   And write the immortal Date
   Upon the brow of the earth.
   Father, give me true birth."

The Immortal:
   "Thy bosom's mourning sore,
   My child, shall last no more.
   Within Thy naked night
   I stand with my footsteps' light.
   I give you life, O Death!
   My Bounty's ceaseless Breath
   Shall flow across the soil.
   I hush all time-turmoil.
   My Truth's supremacy
   Wills Immortality."

(1955)