Julia Goddard

“ One born to die, one born to live,
The two yet needful for perfection;
And birth the link, and death the sword,
That bind and loose the strange connection,
Through which it haps my Soul and I,
Are fashioned to Humanity? ”

“ To unknown seas?
Must I drift on? and are my struggles vain?
The hand I lift all powerless to control?
To fight and fail still be my maddening lot,
And lose my soul?
Why have a soul, if that its fate is fixed? ”