1. The ships of death emerged from their dust,
And sailed with those they gently bore.

2. Death enfolded them in its dark abysses,
And destinies folded them in shrouds.

3. With them a banner gesturing toward the shore,
And a spirit it intrepidly guides.

4. Whenever death circled, with a roaring sound,
It raised its citadel loftily, undaunted.

5. They braved death hurrying with time,
You see life in their muddy wake-

6. Crushing the waves lightly then rising
In a darkly gloomy firmament.

7. And death spread its yellowness on both sides,
So it drew radiance from the evening.

8. In ivory skiffs sailing
With a fluttering sail of radiance.

9. Birds on the wing of ardour
Swimming on the bellies of plasma-

10. Time scattered their gathering and they went
Travelers over weakening life.

11. The breeze breathes in it a scented spikenard
Pulsating, ringed by fragrance.

12. The two shores plunder its redolence
To bestow on their blossoms drowsiness.

13. And I see my broken ship tossed among them
Reeling about confusedly.

14. Misfortunes then beset it from every direction
Leaving it battered by the storm.

15. In the tails of the spheres it hankers for the shore
Then the current bends it, suppressed.

16. When a specter returns it from the shore,
Gleaming from its citadel, chasing the whale,

17. And how many nights passed before me
Speeding, chanting like shadows-

18. As if the hours in them, days and all times
Were the light of sunset.

19. In you these years died. Oh night
While the rest of time languishes.

20. You unfold time in life only to fold
It up again, some in tatters.