Mankind + 

They do not know that they are wholly dead, + 

Nor that their bodies are to the worm given o’er; + 

They pass beneath the sky forevermore; + 

With their dead flesh the earth is cumbered. + 

Each day they drink of wine and eat of bread, + 

And do the things that they have done before; + 

And yet their hearts are rotten to the core, + 

And from their eyes the light of life is fled. + 

Surely the sun is weary of their breath; + 

They have no ears, and they are dumb and blind; + 

Long time their bodies hunger for the grave. + 

How long, O God, shall these dead corpses rave? + 

When shall the earth be clean of humankind? + 

When shall the sky cease to behold this death? + 