Walter Murdoch (1874–1970). The Oxford Book of Australasian Verse. 1918.
36. Immortality
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For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return
If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire,
As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.
Surely here is soul: with it we have eternal breath:
In the fire of love we live, or pass by many ways,
By unnumbered ways of dream to death.