Analysis of The House of Life: 66. The Heart of the Night

From child to youth; from youth to arduous man;
        From lethargy to fever of the heart;
        From faithful life to dream-dower'd days apart;
    From trust to doubt; from doubt to brink of ban;--
    Thus much of change in one swift cycle ran
        Till now. Alas, the soul!--how soon must she
        Accept her primal immortality,--
    The flesh resume its dust whence it began?

O Lord of work and peace! O Lord of life!
      O Lord, the awful Lord of will! though late,
      Even yet renew this soul with duteous breath:
  That when the peace is garner'd in from strife,
      The work retriev'd, the will regenerate,
      This soul may see thy face, O Lord of death!