# Immortal Part

- Link: https://mohammadjazim.blog/2022/08/27/immortal-part/
- Published: 2022-08-27T02:49:34+05:30
- Author: Mohammad Jazim

When I meet the morning beam,
Or lay me down at night to dream,I hear my bones within
me say,“Another night, another day.”

“When shall this slough of sense be cast,
This dust of thoughts be laid at last,
The man of flesh and soul be slainAnd the man of bone remain?”

“This tongue that talks, these lungs that shout,
These thews that hustle us about,
This brain that fills the skull with schemes,And its humming hive of dreams,—”

“These to-day are proud in power
And lord it in their little hour:The immortal bones
obey controlOf dying flesh and dying soul.”

” ‘Tis long till eve and morn are gone:
Slow the endless night comes on,And late
to fulness grows the birthThat shall last as long as earth.”

“Wanderers eastward, wanderers west,
Know you why you cannot rest?‘Tis that every
mother’s sonTravails with a skeleton.”

“Lie down in the bed of dust;
Bear the fruit that bear you must;Bring the eternal
seed to light,And morn is all the same as night.”

“Rest you so from trouble sore,
Fear the heat o’ the sun no more,Nor the snowing
winter wild,Now you labour not with child.”

“Empty vessel, garment cast,
We that wore you long shall last.—Another night, another
day.”So my bones within me say.

Therefore they shall do my will
To-day while I am master still,And flesh and soul,
now both are strong,Shall hale the sullen slaves along,

Before this fire of sense decay,
This smoke of thought blow clean away,And leave
with ancient night aloneThe stedfast and enduring bone.

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