Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Death and the Lady

TURN in, my lord, she said ;
    As it were the Father of Sin
  I have hated the Father of the Dead,
    The slayer of my kin ;
  By the Father of the Living led,
    Turn in, my lord, turn in.
 
  We were foes of old ; thy touch was cold,
    But mine is warm as life ;
  I have struggled and made thee loose thy hold,
  I have turned aside the knife.
Despair itself in me was bold,
  I have striven, and won the strife.
 
But that which conquered thee and rose
  Again to earth descends ;
For the last time we have come to blows.
  And the long combat ends.
The worst and secretest of foes,
  Be now my friend of friends.
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