William Penn. (1644–1718). Fruits of Solitude.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| Part II |
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| Union of Friends |
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| 127. They that love beyond the World, cannot be separated by it. | 1 |
| 128. Death cannot kill, what never dies. | 2 |
| 129. Nor can Spirits ever be divided that love and live in the same Divine Principle; the Root and Record of their Friendship. | 3 |
| 130. If Absence be not death, neither is theirs. | 4 |
| 131. Death is but Crossing the World, as Friends do the Seas; They live in one another still. | 5 |
| 132. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is Omnipresent. | 6 |
| 133. In this Divine Glass, they see Face to Face; and their Converse is Free, as well as Pure. | 7 |
| 134. 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. | 8 |
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