As onward I follow to taste the sweetness of this my day, + 

And peacefully journey to eld and the bourne that Fate doth ordain + 

For my life. For we all must die: alike are we passing away, + 

Though our fortune be diverse. How far soever one’s gaze may strain, + 

Too frail is man to attain to the heaven brazen-floored. + 

Even so did wingèd Pegasus fling his earthly lord, + 