Poems, Texts and Writing
- Edward Grim wrote about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury who was murdered on December 29, 1170 as the person ...promised by God to be the next to receive the crown of immortality....
- The preface to Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem The Revolt of Islam contain: Should the public judge that my composition is worthless, I shall indeed bow before the tribunal from which Milton received his crown of immortality....
- A Latter Day Saints scripture, Doctrine and Covenants 81:6, contain: And if thou art faithful unto the end thou shalt have a crown of immortality, and eternal life in the mansions which I have prepared in the house of my Father..
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