For the last time I give myself up to those memories and bid them
farewell for ever. So a miser gloating over his hoard, his gold, his
bright treasure, covers it over in the damp, grey earth; so the wick of
a smouldering lamp flickers up in a last bright flare and sinks into
cold ash. The wild creature has peeped out from its hole for the last
time at the velvet grass, the sweet sun, the blue, kindly waters, and
has huddled back into the depths, curled up, and gone to sleep. Will he
have glimpses even in sleep of the sweet sun and the grass and the blue
kindly water?...