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{{CTD literature
 | author = Lancaster, A. E.
 | title = Reincarnation
 | has text = yes
 | original language = English
 | publication date = November 1887
 | publication date sortable = 1887-11
 | publication place = ''The Path''
 | publications = [[Path/Vol2/Text|''The Path'', vol. II, no. 8]], November 1887, p. 230
 | read links = [[Path/Vol2/Text|Electronic journal edition in Teopedia]]
 | note = Signed "A. E. Lancaster."
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{{Style P-Poem|Is it my doom, though many myriad years
And many a rhythmic life and death to rise
To the rich calm of the nirvana skies
That swallows this mortality of tears?
On hopes, despairs, remorses, passions, fears,
Shall I then close my long-enduring eyes,
Nor severed selfhoods fondly recognize
Throughout their multitudinous careers?
Shall I with joy feel that unending rest
Melt my full being in its drowsy tide,
Never again to sin, or weep, or plod?
Or will I shriek, with memory-maddened breast,
"O give me back that human love which died
Before I sought identity with God!"}}

{{Style P-Signature|A. E. Lancaster.}}

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