No ritual read;
In silence lay me down
Among the dead.—Heine: Memento Mori.
The great German poet was evidently familiar with Horace:—
Absint inani funere næniæ,
Luctusque turpes et querimoniæ;
Compesce clamorem, ac sepulchri
Mitte supervacuos honores.—Lib. II. Carmen 26.
I am old and blind;