In you are sent
The types of TRUTHS whose life is THE TO COME;
in you soars up the Adam from the fall;
In you the FUTURE as the PAST is given-
Ev''n in our death ye bid us hail our birth;-
Unfold these pages, and behold the Heaven,
Without one grave-stone left upon the Earth

BULWER-LYTTON - The Souls of Books.