Men might well dread, and very reasonably,
This life on earth to lose, my own dear brother,
If this alone were living, and no other.
“But there’s a better life in other place,
That never shall be lost, nay, fear you naught,
Whereof God’s Son has told us, through His grace;
That Father’s Son all things that He has wrought,
And all that is has made with reasoned thought,
The Spirit which from Father did proceed
Has given a soul to each, fear not indeed.
“By word and miracle God’s only Son,
When He was in this world, declared us here
There was another life that could be won.
From "The Nun’s Tale" in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
