From what Stephen v benet poem is the line "Life is not lost by dying," etc.? And what year was it written?

http://www.wikipedia.org/

Under 'Benet' (check to see you have the right one) there is quite a list of work, with most titles published during or before 1938, putting them at 70 years after copyright was taken... BUT according to U.S. copyright laws, an author's work is usually held in copyright for 70 yrs after the author's death.

Still-- there is work to be seen on Gutenberg (though not much) and through a Canadian site, if allowed.

http://www.gutenberg.org/

This link so you can check titles and see if anything rings a bell...

... and the French or Canadian link, with a couple more, are under his entry in Wiki, under "External Links" --suggest you try all of them.

Best of luck.

It's from a Passion Play in poem format called "A Child Is Born" that aired on the radio show Cavalcade of America on Dec 20 1943 w/ Helen Hayes and Philip Merivale. You can find the transcript here:

http://www.genericradio.com/show.php?id=TGCJAOTI8

You can listen to the original radio performance here (Scroll down to Item 288/Episode 310 on the right or the broadcast one year later, Item 340/Episode 362):

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Cavalcade_of_Amer...