Gazeth over the world. Then it groweth warm,

His house becomes heated by the heavenly gleam;

The herbs wax hot; the house steameth

With the sweetest of savors; in the sweltering heat,

215 In the furious flame, the fowl with his nest

Is embraced by the bale-fire; then burning seizeth

The disheartened one’s house; in hot haste riseth

The fallow flame, and the Phœnix it reacheth,

In fullness of age. Then the fire eateth,

220 Burneth the body, while borne is the soul,