Anilis, heu me, recipit Alciden sinus.
Hic tumulus illi est. Ecce, vix totam Hercules
Complevit urnam; quam leve est pondus mihi,
Cui totus aether pondus incubuit leve.
Kürzer gefasst im Hamlet, Todtengräberszene, Schlussverse:
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that that earth which kept the world in awe
Should patch a wall t’expel the winter’s flaw!
Auch GOETHES Geistesgruß klingt hier an.