When earth's voices sound no more;
Dead men hear no mourners' speech,
Tears can not restore.
“Eat and drink in peace to-day,
When you go, your goods remain;
He who fares the last long way
Comes not back again.”
Still more hopeless are the words put into the mouth of the wife of the high priest of Memphis at the close of the first century before our era—
“O my brother, my spouse, and my friend,
High priest of Memphis!