The little circle of the stir he makes

Does lessen as it widens, until Death

Comes on, and straightway the round ripple is gone out.

The grave is a cup

Wherewith I dip up

My draughts from the lake of life.

(Death, loquitor.)

Death is the cup-bearer of Heaven,

God's Ganymede, and his cup is the

grave, and life is the wine that