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death thou shalt die.

This morning, with heart heavy at what from her many friends’ viewpoint appears to be a tragic and inexplicable death, I offer others’words as a reminder that indeed death has lost its sting, and a beloved woman is with her Lord now. And furthermore, the day will come when there will be no more death.
“Death is swallowed up in victory.
Oh, death, where is your victory?
Death has lost,it’s sting.” I Corinthians 15:55
“he will wipe very tear from their eyes, and death will be no more…” Rev. 21:5

“Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee do go,
Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.
Thou’art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy’or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”
John Donne, Holy Sonnet 10

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