Longing After Immortality

It must be so–Plato, thou reasonest well!–
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror,
O falling into nought? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
‘Tis the divinity that stirs within us;
‘Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
~Joseph Addison, Cato (act V, sc. 1)~

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