Our poet then proceeds to demonstrate the immortality of the soul:=

```“And shall the soul, the fount of reason, die,

```When dust and darkness round its temple lie?

```Did God breathe in it no ethereal fire.

```Dimless and quenchless, though the breath expire?”=

The soul is a fountain; and therefore it is not to die, though dust

and darkness lie round its temple, because an ethereal fire has been

breathed into it, which cannot be quenched though its breath expire.

Is it the fountain, or the temple, that breathes, and has fire breathed

into it?

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