They That Love Beyond the World

They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it
Death cannot kill what never dies
Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship
If absence be not death, neither is theirs
Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still
For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent
In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure
This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal