On the Trial of Death and its Various Occurrences

A single, dreadful law presses upon all mortals:
Death comes swiftly, yet with uncertainty and not to be feared.

The rising and traveling sun bestows life;
And likewise, when it sets, it brings to nothing that which was nothing before.

Thus it gives, and thus it withdraws—repeatedly it extends and draws back;
All things given by the circling sun, it takes away of its own accord.

For those born from the womb, the law is set: to be, but also to go;
Nothing under the sun is fixed to endure.

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