for your sad funeral rites, brother,
to give you the final gift of death
and vainly address your ashes
since it be that fortune has removed from me yourself.
to give you the final gift of death
and vainly address your ashes
since it be that fortune has removed from me yourself.
Oh, poor unhappy
brother, snatched from me!
Now, however, so that ancestral precedent and custom
may be fulfilled, as a sad funeral gift,
accept a brother’s amply-flowing tears,
and here, in perpetuum, brother, greetings! and goodbye.
Now, however, so that ancestral precedent and custom
may be fulfilled, as a sad funeral gift,
accept a brother’s amply-flowing tears,
and here, in perpetuum, brother, greetings! and goodbye.
