XXXVIII + 

Likewise an epitaph with tears + 

He writes upon his parents’ tomb, + 

And thus ancestral dust reveres. + 

Oh! on the fields of life how bloom + 

Harvests of souls unceasingly + 

By Providence’s dark decree! + 

They blossom, ripen and they fall + 

And others rise ephemeral! + 

Thus our light race grows up and lives, + 

A moment effervescing stirs, + 

Then seeks ancestral sepulchres, + 

The appointed hour arrives, arrives! + 

And our successors soon shall drive + 

Us from the world wherein we live. + 