Reflecting thus, the goldsmith breath’d his last;

The handmaid’s love and grief behind her cast.

A dead mate’s love can never more be shown;

A dead mate’s voice will never more be known;190

Love for the living, in the heart and eyes,

Will ever spring; the dead no more can rise.

One Living is there, death that never knows;

Love Him! The life from Him alone still flows.

Love Him, whom saints and prophets all have loved;

Through whom alone we all have lived and moved.