THE SOUL.

“Your soul! your soul!” the preachers cry.

“What is a soul?” is man's reply.

“To know his soul, must man not die?”

“What is a soul?” I'm glad you ask.

The soul is life, the form, the mask.

The answer was not such a task.

The soul is in the ambient air,

Down in the earth, in landscape fair.

‘ Tis in the sea,‘ tis everywhere.

To know his soul man must not die,

For‘ tis the life he liveth by,

Connecting him with God on high.