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FUTURE STATES OF THE JUST AND THE UNJUST.
For in Nature's final strife The mortal body perishes;But the animating Spirit, In which concentrated isAll we from the Gods inherit, Must imperishably live.This too, when in life we rest No longer by the weight opprest  Of the dull and slumbering clay, Often to the mind can givePresages of coming fate,Preludes of a nobler state,  Gleams of a brighter day.
But the sinful Spirits' doomIs to dwell in rayless gloom.Floods of night and horror burstHeavily o'er the soul accurst. Theirs is the scourge's ceaseless stroke,  Th' unheeded howl, the struggle vain; 'Tis theirs to bear the blood-stain'd yoke  Of endless misery and pain.
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