And those who neither knew nor cared the hour,

To life and death alike indifferent,

Or fain themselves would snap the fragile thread;

Mankind in all conditions and degrees

Of culture, affluence and penury,

Of multiform endowments and desires,

With differing talents and proclivities,

Yea, all varieties and types of men,

With pathways various and diversified,

Have found their paths converging at the grave.