Your doctrine of life eternal
And everything else supernal
Might well he pronounced an infernal;
Delusion!
For Solomon said at an ancient date
That everything dieth early or late,
And man or beast, or small or great,
Hath but one fate.
Your future life is an awful bore;
I've tried life once, and I want it no more.
You may guess and imagine o'er and o'er,
But where's the proof?
Yet nevertheless, I won't deny
You may live without brains in realms on high,
But as for myself I'd rather not try,
I'd rather die.