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The Real Motive/But This Is Also Everlasting Life

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The Real Motive
by Dorothy Canfield
But This Is Also Everlasting Life
4172864The Real Motive — But This Is Also Everlasting LifeDorothy Canfield

BUT THIS IS ALSO EVERLASTING LIFE

We call this Time and gauge it by the clock,
Deep in such insect cares as suit that view,
As whether dresses fit, what modes are new,
And where to buy, and when to barter, stock.
We think we hold, based on some Scripture rock,
Claims on immortal life, to press when due;
Imagining some door between the two,
Our deaths shall each, with presto change, unlock.

But this is also Everlasting Life:
On Monday in the kitchen, street or store,
We are immortal, we, the man and wife;
Immortal now, or shall be nevermore.
Immortals in immortal values spend
Those lives that shall no more begin than end.