This recognition of "the continuity of life" is the main inspiration, the invigorating principle of Browning's creed. Cleon _felt_ the necessity which Reason demonstrated on La Salève. Yet again, eleven years later, the author of _Asolando_ can speak with absolute confidence of the certainty that death will afford no interruption to the energies, the activities, the progress of the soul's life. That he who has _here_ "never turned his back" will _there_ still continue the forward march. It is, in other words, the faith of Pompilia which can look beyond the limitations of the present to the boundless developments of which this life, with its struggles and apparent failures, is but the beginning: and in the hour of defeat can hold that "No work begun shall ever pause for death." It is in the midst of the "bustle of man's work-time" that "the unseen" is to be greeted. Is it too much to say that Browning, in the admonition of these closing lines of the _Asolando Epilogue_, makes confession of his belief in the Communion of Saints? But it is characteristic that the expression of faith (if such we may account it) is made in terms which admit of no distinctly formulated definition. The command comes as an inspiration to the seen and the unseen. Greet the unseen with a cheer! Bid him forward, breast and back as either should be, "Strive and thrive!" cry "Speed,--fight on, fare ever There as here!" The underlying confidence is beyond that of the reasoning of _La Saisiaz_, but not far in advance of the joyful spontaneity of the _Prologue_ _Dying we live._ Fretless and free, Soul, clap thy pinion! * * * Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more.