LATER LIFE: A DOUBLE SONNET OF SONNETS.

By Christina Georgina Rossetti

Before the mountains were brought forth, before

Earth and the world were made, then God was God:

And God will still be God, when flames shall roar

Round earth and heaven dissolving at His nod:

And this God is our God, even while His rod

Of righteous wrath falls on us smiting sore:

And this God is our God for evermore

Through life, through death, while clod returns to clod.

For though He slay us we will trust in Him;

We will flock home to Him by divers ways:

Yea, though He slay us we will vaunt His praise,

Serving and loving with the Cherubim,

Watching and loving with the Seraphim,

Our very selves His praise through endless days.