Urn and sarcophagus erst were with life adorn'd by the heathen:
Fauns are dancing around, while with the Bacchanal troop
Chequer'd circles they trace; and the goat-footed, puffy-cheek'd player
Wildly produceth hoarse tones out of the clamorous horn.
Cymbals and drums resound; we see and we hear, too, the marble.
Fluttering bird! oh how sweet tastes the ripe fruit to thy bill!
Noise there is none to disturb thee, still less to scare away Amor,
Who, in the midst of the throng, learns to delight in his torch.
Thus doth fulness overcome death; and the ashes there cover'd
Seem, in that silent domain, still to be gladden'd with life.
Thus may the minstrel's sarcophagus be hereafter surrounded
With such a scroll, which himself richly with life has adorn'd.