And wherefore do I seem to love

The things that live, the things that move?

Why do I look upon the sky?

I do not live for what I see.

Why open thus mine eyes? To die 15

Is all that now is left for me,

If I could smother up my heart

My life would then at once depart.

My friends, you live, and yet you seem

To me the people of a dream; 20