What is a man's life span?
In the end he returns to formlessness
I think how you too have died
And how much there is to afflict a man's heart
Your good mother still unburied
Your one daughter only ten years old
In the cold vastness beyond the walls
I hear desolate the sound of lamentation
Floating clouds male the expanse of the skies
Birds fly and do not sing
That traveller—how lonely
And even the sun gleams cold.
I remember how when you were still alive
You asked me to teach you about the absolute
And I encouraged you 0 $(but now I grieve)$
That 0 $(I was dilatory)$ and so you failed—
All your friends have made you offerings
And these also are too late for your lifetime
Not along one way only did I fail you—
And I am weeping as I go back home.