1. I say to her though she has soared aloft
Like heroes - but no, you shall not heed -

2. That even if you begged one extra day
Beyond your time, you'd not be obeyed

3. So resignation in death's sphere, resignation
For immortality's not to be obtained

4. Nor the raiment of eternity with the robes of honor
To be folded off from my weak, helpless brother

5. Death's path's the goal of every living thing
Its caller to earth's people ever calling

6. And he who's not preoccupied grows bored and aged
And the Fates deliver him to cessation

7. A man has no good in a life
When he's counted among the fallen riches