1. Those whom my affection clung have gone and left me;
Alone I stay, bereft of friends and loved ones.

2. If but two handspans of earth divide the quick
From dead, that breadth is deepest chasm wide.

3. Could graves be opened, none might know his lord
Or slave, so changed what shrouding earth doth hide.

4. He who treads not the soil beneath his feet
Shall have it piled above his brow and cheek.