O dead body, do not refuse this present that I bring you.

It is to you that I speak, body!

That austere spirit

Who inhabited you is now as far removed

From you as from me.

—Oh, that I had been dowered with that soul! Here, all ungrateful more vainly than the urn of Aquarius empties itself....

—But you!

This is ineffable.

It is to you that I make this last offering, belovèd dead.

—Help me to lower myself.