I leave with thee my life’s love deep. I go where all are free,
I go where are no tortures, where th’ oppressor’s power shall be
Destroyed, where faith kills not, where He who reigns is God.
Farewell, my parents, brothers, friends of my infancy,
Dear fragments of my heart, once to my bosom pressed
Round our lost hearth. Give thanks to God in glad tranquillity
That after day’s long, weary hours I sleep eternally.
Farewell lov’d beings, stranger sweet; to die is but to rest.