Lie down and be forgotten in the dust,

I and the modest partners of my days 695

Making a silent company in death;

Love, knowledge, all my manifold delights

All buried with me without monument

Or profit unto any but ourselves.

It must not be, if I, divinely taught, 700

Be privileged to speak as I have felt

Of what in man is human or divine.

While yet an innocent little-one, with a heart