The Immortal's Boon to Death³²

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)