III + 

The priestess has passed into her tomb. + 

The stone has taken up her spirit! + 

Granite over flesh: who will deny + 

its advantages? + 

Your death?⁠—water + 

spilled upon the ground⁠— + 

though water will mount again into rose-leaves⁠— + 

but you?⁠—would hold life still, + 

even as a memory, when it is over. + 

Benevolence is rare. + 

Climb about this sarcophagus, read + 

what is writ for you in these figures, + 

hard as the granite that has held them + 

with so soft a hand the while + 

your own flesh has been fifty times + 

through the guts of oxen,⁠—read! + 

“The rose-tree will have its donor + 

even though he give stingily. + 

The gift of some endures + 

ten years, the gift of some twenty + 

and the gift of some for the time a + 

great house rots and is torn down. + 

Some give for a thousand years to men of + 

one face, some for a thousand + 

to all men and some few to all men + 

while granite holds an edge against + 

the weather. + 

Judge then of love!” + 