Surely death cannot host these timeless ends
For beyond the end nothing is confined
A tomb unchained cannot restore amends

Beyond the error that's been all but spent
There's rest in the reason of a spotless mind
Surely death cannot host this timeless end

Eternity found us farther than that time when time relents
And closed the curtain of a stage we had designed
A tomb unchained cannot restore amends

That stage wore out the work of her own hand
The act refrained, its players had resigned
Surely death cannot host this timeless end

Beyond the life and death of human judgements
The course of justice will be strained and blind
A tomb unchained cannot restore amends

T'is an opened grave on which our way depends
And eternity will keep the keys behind
Surely death cannot host these timeless ends
Nor could a tomb unchained restore amends