Samuel Taylor Coleridge — My Baptismal Birth-day

God's child in Christ adopted,—Christ my all,— What that earth boasts were not lost cheaply, rather Than forfeit that blest name, by which I call The Holy One, the Almighty God, my Father?— Father! in Christ we live, and Christ in Thee— Eternal Thou, and everlasting we. The heir of heaven, henceforth I fear not death: In Christ I live! in Christ I draw the breath Of the true life!—Let then earth, sea, and sky Make war against me! On my heart I show Their mighty master's seal. In vain they try To end my life, that can but end its woe.— Is that a death-bed where a Christian lies?— Yes! but not his—'tis Death itself there dies.