Section: Literature and Composition
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Read "Last Lines" by Emily Bronte and answer the following questions.
- No coward soul is mine,
- No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere:
- I see Heaven's glories shine,
- And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
- O God within my breast,
- Almighty, ever-present Deity!
- Life - that in me has rest,
- As I - undying Life - have power in thee!
- Vain are the thousand creeds
- That move men's hearts: unutterably vain;
- Worthless as withered weeds,
- Or idlest froth amid the boundless main,
- To waken doubt in one
- Holding so fast by thine infinity;
- So surely anchored on
- The steadfast rock of immortality.
- With wide-embracing love
- Thy spirit animates eternal years,
- Pervades and broods above,
- Changes, sustains, dissolves, creates, and rears.
- Though earth and man were gone,
- And suns and universes ceased to be,
- And thou were left alone,
- Every existence would exist in thee.
- There is not room for Death,
- Nor atom that his might could render void:
- Thou - thou art Being and Breath,
- And what thou art may never be destroyed.
In line 7, Bronte uses the phrase "Life - that in me has rest." "Rest" is an allusion for what?