Le Chretien Mourant A Son Ame. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

Poem Hunter/ A. Pope/ poems/ 55/81.
This is a religious, classical poem. In the first stanza, he wishes his soul to leave his mortal body. He wants Nature to give up its struggle to stay alive; he prefers 'the bliss of dying'. Not everyone would see death like that.
He hears angels whispering, begging him to come away from life. His senses are going, he cannot see, he can't breathe freely. Is this death?
The world disappears and he sees heaven with beautiful sounds. He asks for angels' wings to fly upwards, which he does. The last two lines are quite famous: 'O Grave! where is thy victory? / O Death where is thy sting? '. This implies that the grave does not finally win; and where is the sting of death?
Pope was a Catholic in a Protestant country, but this did not hinder his writing career. If you believe as he did, you will probably agree with the poem's thoughts, meditations. But an agnostic may not accept anything of what the poet is saying. For that reason, a fascinating poem, I find.