I have lived, loved, and lost; I crave
Nothing again of all life gave;
I only crave to find
Oblivion for the mind.
As one who leaps into bright death
Where the sea shudders underneath,
To escape the fellowship
Of his confined ship;
So I, from this heart's crowded home,
Sink into the eternal Rome.
If these waves wash me down,
I am content to drown.
