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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Carpenter, William

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​CARPENTER. (Lieut., 1824. f-p., 17; h-p., 23.)
William Carpenter, born 2 July, 1792, is brother of Mr. Geo. Carpenter, Gunner, R.N.; and first-cousin of Mr. Wm. Dyer, Purser and Paymaster, R.N. (1839).
This officer entered the Navy, 26 March, 1807, on board the Philomel 18, Capt. Geo. Crawley; and, on proceeding soon afterwards to the Mediterranean in the Delight 16, Capt. Philip Cosby Handfield, was present, 30 Jan. 1808, in an endeavour to re-capture four Sicilian gun-boats, on the coast of Calabria, where the Delight, having unfortunately taken the ground, was ultimately obliged to surrender, after losing, from an exposure of 15 hours to a galling fire from the enemy’s batteries and troops, two-thirds of her crew, together with her Commander and Capt. Thos. Secombe of the Glatton, who was serving on board at the time, and to both of whom Mr. Carpenter had acted on the occasion as Aide-de-camp. On 20 Feb. following he joined, as Midshipman, the Porcupine 24, Capts. Hon. Henry Duncan and Robt. Elliott, and, until Oct. 1814, he continued to serve, on the same station, in the Unite 36, Capt. Patrick Campbell, Paulina 16, Capt. W. Percival, and Unite again, Capt. Edwin Henry Chamberlayne. He then became attached to the Dee 24, Capt. John Wm. Andrew, whom he accompanied to Hudson’s Bay; and was afterwards, as Admiralty Midshipman, appointed – 3 Dec. 1815, and 19 Feb. 1817, to the Perseus 22, and Tamar 24, Capts. Thos. Rich. Toker and Hon. John Gordon, on the Newfoundland station – 10 Jan. 1820, to the Egeria 22, Capt. John Joseph Nicolas, lying at Portsmouth – 25 March, 1820, to the Pelter 12, Lieut.-Commanders Wm. Minchin and Robt. Carley Curry, likewise employed off Newfoundland – and, 30 Nov. 1822 and 18 Jan. 1823, to the Impregnable and Britannia first-rates, bearing the flag at Plymouth of Hon. Sir Alex. Cochrane. Since his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant, which took place 21 Jan. 1824, exactly 10 years after he had passed his examination, Mr. Carpenter has been on half-pay.
He married, 31 Jan. 1825, Miss Ann Elms, and has issue a son and daughter.
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# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Carpenter, Edward John

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​CARPENTER. (Captain, 1846. f-p., 17; h-p., 17.)
Edward John Carpenter is son of the late Wm. Carpenter, Esq., of Toft Monks, co. Norfolk, by Louisa, sister of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Edw. Berry, Bart., the distinguished companion in arms of the immortal Nelson, with whom he fought in the action off Cape St. Vincent, also as his Flag-Captain at the battle of the Nile, and in command of the Agamemnon at Trafalgar. Sir Edw. Berry, who was on board the Leander 50 when that ship was taken, after a deadly resistance, by the French 74 Le Généreux, further commanded the Foudroyant 80, at the memorable capture of Le Guillaume Tell, and the Agamemnon in Sir John Duckworth’s action with the French fleet off St. Domingo.
This officer entered the Navy, 15 Oct. 1813, on board the Barfleur 98, commanded in the Mediterranean by his gallant uncle, Sir E. Berry; on his removal with whom to the Royal Sovereign yacht, we find him employed in attendance upon the Allied Sovereigns on the occasion of their visit to this country. After an interval of rather more than three years, part of which period was passed at the Royal Naval College, he re-embarked, 20 Oct. 1817, on board the Inconstant frigate, Capt. Sir Jas. Lucas Yeo, stationed on the coast of Africa, where he served until his return home in Sept. 1818. After a further employment of more than five years on the East India and North America and West India stations, on board the Phaeton 46, Capts. Wm. Henry Dillon, Sir Wm. Augustus Montagu, and Henry Evelyn Pitfield Sturt, Mr. Carpenter – who had passed his examination 9 Oct. 1821, and had contributed, in the early part of 1823, to the capture, during an arduous boat-cruize off the island of Cuba, of two piratical vessels – rejoined the Royal Sovereign, then commanded by Sir Michael Seymour, from which vessel he was promoted, on the consummation of a particular service, performed with the Lords of the Admiralty on board, to the rank of Lieutenant by commission dated 10 Aug. 1824. From 9 March, 1825, until detained at Malta as a witness on the trial of some pirates, 20 Feb. 1827, he next served on the Mediterranean station, in the Gannet 18, Capt. Fras. Brace. He attained the rank of Commander 30 April in the latter year; and after an interval of half-pay, one year of which was devoted, with the permission of their lordships, to the study of the higher branches of mathematics at the Royal Naval College, was appointed, 3 Dec. 1834, to the Scylla 16, in which sloop he appears to have been employed in the West Indies until paid off, 10 April, 1836. Capt. Carpenter’s last appointment was to the command, 13 Dec. 1841, of the Geyser steam-sloop, again in the Mediterranean. He was advanced to Post-rank on the paying off of that vessel, 2 July, 1846, and has not since been afloat.
Capt. Carpenter took out a patent, in June, 1840, for a new mode of propelling vessels by means of blades or fans placed on each quarter of a vessel submerged, working on the principle of a screw. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tyssen, John

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​TYSSEN. (Lieutenant, 1832.)
John Tyssen passed his examination in 1831; and attained the rank of Lieutenant 30 March, 1832. His succeeding appointments were – 25 June, 1834, to the Tribune 24, Capt. Jas. Tomkinson, in the Mediterranean – 16 Dec. 1836, to the Stag 46, Capt. Thos. Ball Sulivan, fitting for South America – 18 Nov. 1839, to the command of the Sparrow ketch, on the same station, whence he returned in 1842 – and in 1843 and 1846 to that of the Montreal schooner and Mohawk steamer of 60 horse-power on Lakes Erie and Huron. He has been on half-pay since Aug. 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Usher, William Armstrong

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​USHER. (Lieut., 1815. f-p., 33; h-p., 11.)
William Armstrong Usher entered the Navy, 1 Dec. 1803, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Triton guard-ship at Waterford, Capt. Wm. Cashman. In Nov. 1805 he removed to the Rose 18, Capts. Lucius Curtis, Philip Pipon, and Thos. Mansell, employed at first in the Mediterranean and next in the Channel; and he served afterwards, chiefly in the capacity of Midshipman – from Dec. 1807 until May, 1809, in the Pelican sloop and Daedalus and Bacchante frigates, all commanded, in the West Indies, by Capt. Wm. Ward – from May, 1809, until May, 1813, on the Home station, in the Magicienne 36, Capt. L. Curtis, Sarpedon 10, Capt. Jas. Green, Fylla 20, Capts. Hon. Edw. Rodney and Henry Prescott, Swan cutter, Lieut.-Commander Henry Rowed, Puissant 74, Capt. Benj. Wm. Page, and Bold 14, Capt. John Skekel – and from May to Oct. 1813, in the Crescent 38, Capt. John Quilliam at Newfoundland. He obtained his commission 30 May, 1815; was employed during the next 12 months in the Mediterranean in the Sparrowhawk 18, Capt, Fred. Wm. Burgoyne; and filled, from 17 Feb, 1821 until 1838, an appointment in the Coast Guard. He had since been on half-pay. Agents – Goode and Lawrence.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Urmston, William Brabazon

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​URMSTON. (Lieutenant, 1848.)
William Brabazon Urmston, born 11 Feb. 1828, is son of Sir Jas. Brabazon Urmston, Kt., President of Supercargoes at Canton, by Elizabeth, sister of the present John Oliver Hanson, Esq., of Killingbeck Hall, co. York, a Merchant in the City of London, a Director of the Bank of England, Chairman of the Atlas Assurance Company, and a Member of the Court of Lieutenancy of the City of London. He is nephew of Capt. John Hanson, 26th Light Dragoons, who fell at the head of his squadron in leading a charge against a very superior force of French cavalry, at Villa Franca, in Spain, 13 Sept. 1812, aged 25.
This officer passed his examination in Aug. 1847; was appointed, 8 Sept. following, Mate of the Collingwood 80, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Francis Seymour in the Pacific; and was advanced to his present rank 29 Sept. 1848.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Ussher, Sydney Henry

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​USSHER. (Captain, 1846.)
Sydney Henry Ussher is eldest son of the late Rear-Admiral Sir Thos. Ussher, Kt., C.B., K.C.H.
This officer entered the Navy 7 Feb. 1822; obtained his first commission 12 Aug. 1828; and was successively appointed, on the North America and West India station – 22 Feb. 1830, to the Blanche 46, Capt. Arthur Farquhar – 19 July, 1833, as First-Lieutenant, to the Sapphire 28, Capt. Hon. Geo. Rolle Walpole Trefusis – 16 July, 1834, to the President 52, flag-ship of Sir Geo. Cockburn – and 4 Sept. following to the command, which he retained until March, 1836, of the Skipjack schooner, of 5 guns. While in the vessel last mentioned he made prize of a Spanish slave-brig of 8 guns (pierced for 20) and 75 men. He attained the rank of Commander 10 Jan. 1837; was employed in the Coast Guard from 8 Aug. 1838 until the close of 1843; and commanded the Wasp 16, on the coast of Africa, from 4 June, 1844, until advanced, on being paid off, to his present rank 23 Nov. 1846. He has since been on half-pay. Agents – Messrs. Ommanney.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Utlay, John Taylor

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​UTLAY. (Lieut., 1811. f-p., 15; h-p., 32.)
John Taylor Utlay entered the Navy, 14 Feb. 1800, as Ordinary, on board the Nimble, Lieut.-Commander Jas. Lloyd, employed at first at Dartmouth and next on the coast of Ireland; where he served from April until July, 1802, as Clerk, on board the Express, Lieut.-Commander Robt. Sayes. From Sept. in the latter year until June, 1810, he cruized with the greatest activity and success in the Downs, North Sea, and Channel, as Midshipman and Master’s Mate in the Vixen 14 and Plover 18, both commanded by the present Rear-Admiral Philip Browne; in July, 1810 (the Plover had been commanded intermediately by Capt. Colin Campbell), he removed, as a Supernumerary, to the Salvador del Mundo, flag-ship of Sir Robt. Calder at Plymouth; and on 1 Aug. 1811 he was made Lieutenant into the Hermes 20, commanded by his former Captain, Browne. In the course of the same month he was appointed to the Boyne 98; in which ship and the Ville de Paris 110, bearing each the flag of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, he continued employed otf Brest and L’Orient and in Basque Roads until Aug. 1814. He has since been on half-pay.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tyrrell, George

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​TYRRELL. (Lieut., 1812. f-p., 13; h-p., 31.)
George Tyrrell entered the Royal Naval Academy 21 Feb. 1803; and embarked, 11 Oct. 1807, ​on board the Swiftsure 74, Capt. Wm. Geo. Rutherford, lying at Portsmouth. He joined next the Namur 74, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Thos. Wells at the Nore; and, in the capacity of Midshipman, the Ariadne 20, Capt. Arthur Farquhar, and Bucephalus troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Pelly. In the latter vessel he accompanied the expeditious to the Walcheren and against the Isle of France. On leaving her he joined, as Master’s Mate, in Jan. 1811, the Barracouta 18, Capt. Wm. Fitzwilliam Owen; of which vessel, after assisting in the Illustrious 74, Commodore Wm. Robt. Broughton, at the reduction of Java, he was nominated, 1 Jan. 1812, Acting-Lieutenant. In the ensuing April (his commission bears date 9 of the month last mentioned) he went back to the Illustrious. He returned to England in Aug. 1813 with Capt. Barrington Reynolds in his former ship the Bucephalus; and was lastly, from Jan. 1814 until Dec. 1815, employed, on the North America and West India station, in the Newcastle 50, Capts. Lord Geo. Stuart and Sam. Roberts.
# A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Tyte, Robert William

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​TYTE. (Retired Commander, 1840. f-p., 14; h-p., 40.)
Robert William Tyte entered the Navy, 19 Feb. 1793, as Ordinary, on board the Iris 32, Capt. Geo. Lumsdaine; and on 13 May following was present in a severe action with the Citoyenne Française French frigate, productive of a loss to the British of 4 men killed and 32 wounded, and to the enemy of 15 killed and 37 wounded. From March, 1794, until transferred, in April, 1800, to the Tigre 74, Capt. Sir Wm. Sidney Smith, he served, part of the time as Midshipman, in the Theseus 74, commanded, amongst others, by Capts. Robt. Calder, Herbert Browell, John Aylmer, and Ralph Willet Miller. In July, 1797, he accompanied (under the flag of Sir Horatio Nelson) the expedition to Teneriffe; and on 1 Aug. 1798 he was present at the battle of the Nile. In the Tigre he shared in Sir Sidney Smith’s operations in Egypt and assisted at the defence of St. Jean d’Acre. From 29 June until 7 Oct. 1801, he served off the latter place and again on the coast of Egypt, as Acting-Lieutenant and Commander, in La Dangereuse: he was confirmed a Lieutenant 22 April, 1802; and was afterwards employed – from 14 May, 1803, until 23 Sept. 1804, in command, off the coast of Kent and Suffolk, of gun-vessel No. 1 – from 25 May until 27 Sept. 1805, in the Romulus 36, Capt. Thos. Burton, off the Naze – and from 28 Sept. 1805 until 31 Aug. 1806, and from 6 Sept. 1811 until 7 June, 1814, in command of the Desperate gun-vessel and Glory, off Boulogne and in the river Medway. He was admitted to the out-pension of Greenwich Hospital 18 Dec. 1823; and placed on the list of Retired Commanders 30 June, 1840. Agents – Messrs. Halford and Co.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/An Early Levée

AN EARLY LEVÉE
Addressed to Ch'ēn, the Hermit
At Ch'ang-an — a full foot of snow; A levée at dawn — to bestow congratulations on the Emperor. Just as I was nearing the Gate of the Silver Terrace,
After I had left the suburb of Hsin-ch'ang
On the high causeway my horse's foot slipped;
In the middle of the journey my lantern suddenly went out. Ten leagues riding, always facing to the North;
The cold wind almost blew off my ears. I waited for the bell outside the Five Gates;
I waited for the summons within the Triple Hall. My hair and beard were frozen and covered with icicles;
My coat and robe — chilly like water. Suddenly I thought of Hsien-yu Valley
And secretly envied Ch'ēn Chü-shih,
In warm bed-socks dozing beneath the rugs
And not getting up till the sun has mounted the sky.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Ballad of the Western Island in the North Country

BALLAD OF THE WESTERN ISLAND IN THE NORTH COUNTRY
"Seeing the plum-tree I thought of the Western Island
And I plucked a branch to send to the North Country. I put on my dress of apricot-yellow silk
And bound up my hair black as the crow's wing.
But which is the road that leads to the Western Island?
I'll ask the man at the ferry by the Bridge of Boats.
But the sun is sinking and the orioles flying home:
And the wind is blowing and sighing in the walnut-tree.
I'll stand under the tree just beside the gate:
I'll stand by the door and show off my enameled hair-pins." She's opened the gate, but her lover has not come:
She's gone out at the gate to pluck red lotus.
As she plucks the lotus on the southern dyke in autumn,
The lotus flower stands higher than a man's head.
She bends down and plays with the lotus seeds, The lotus seeds are green like the lake-water.
She gathers the flowers and puts them into her gown —
The lotus-bud that is red all through.
She thinks of her lover, her lover that does not come:
She looks up and sees the wild geese flying —
The Western Island is full of wild geese.
To look for her lover she climbs the Blue Tower.
The tower is high: she looks, but cannot see:
All day she leans on the balcony rails.
The rail is twisted into a twelve-fold pattern.
She lets fall her hand white like the colour of jade. She rolls up the awning, she sees the wide sky,
And the sea-water waving its vacant blue. "The sea shall carry my dreams far away,
So that you shall be sorry at last for my sorrow. If the South wind only knew my thoughts
It would blow my dreams till they got to the Western Island."
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Burial Songs

BURIAL SONGS
[1]
"The dew on the garlic-leaf," sung at the burial of kings and princes.
How swiftly it dries,
The dew on the garlic-leaf.
The dew that dries so fast
To-morrow will fall again.
But he whom we carry to the grave
Will never more return.
[2]
"The Graveyard," sung at the burial of common men.
What man's land is the graveyard?
It is the crowded home of ghosts, —
Wise and foolish shoulder to shoulder.
The King of the Dead claims them all;
Man's fate knows no tarrying.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Arriving at Hsün-yang

ARRIVING AT HSÜN-YANG
[Two Poems]
[1]
A bend of the river brings into view two triumphal arches; That is the gate in the western wall of the suburbs of Hsün-yang. I have still to travel in my solitary boat three or four leagues —
By misty waters and rainy sands, while the yellow dusk thickens.
[2]
We are almost come to Hsün-yang: how my thoughts are stirred
As we pass to the south of Yü Liang's tower and the east of P'ēn Port. The forest trees are leafless and withered,— after the mountain rain;
The roofs of the houses are hidden low among the river mists. The horses, fed on water grass, are too weak to carry their load;
The cottage walls of wattle and thatch let the wind blow on one's bed. In the distance I see red-wheeled coaches driving from the town-gate;
They have taken the trouble, these civil people, to meet their new Prefect!
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Bibliographical Notes

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
1. H. A. Giles, "Chinese Poetry in English Verse." 1896. 212 pp. Combines rhyme and literalness with wonderful dexterity.
2. Hervey St. Denys, "Poésies des Thang." 1862. 301 pp. The choice of poems would have been very different if the author had selected from the whole range of T'ang poetry, instead of contenting himself, except in the case of Li Po and Tu Fu, with making extracts from two late anthologies. This book, the work of a great scholar, is reliable—except in its information about Chinese prosody.
3. Judith Gautier, "Le Livre de Jade." 1867 and 1908. It has been difficult to compare these renderings with the original, for proper names are throughout distorted or interchanged. For example, part of a poem by Po Chü-i about Yang T'ai-chēn is here given as a complete poem and ascribed to "Yan-Ta-Tchen" as author. The poet Han Yü figures as Heu-Yu; T'ao Han as Sao Nan, etc. Such mistakes are evidently due to faulty decipherment of someone else's writing. Nevertheless, the book is far more readable than that of St. Denys, and shows a wider acquaintance with Chinese poetry on the part of whoever chose the poems. Most of the credit for this selection must certainly be given to Ting Tun-ling, the literatus whom Théophile Gautier befriended. But the credit for the beauty of these often erroneous renderings must go to Mademoiselle Gautier herself.
4. Anna von Bernhardi, in "Mitteil d. Seminar f. Orient. Sprachen," 1912, 1915, and 1916. Two articles of Tao Ch'ien and one on Li Po. All valuable, though not free from mistakes.
5. Zottoli, "Cursus Litteraturae Sinicae." 1886. Chinese text with Latin translation. Vol. V deals with poetry. None of the poems is earlier than T'ang. The Latin is seldom intelligible without reference to the Chinese. Translators have obviously used ​Zottoli as a text. Out of eighteen Sung poems in Giles's book, sixteen will be found in Zottoli.
6. A. Pfizmaier, two articles [1886 and 1887] on Po Chü-i in "Denkschr. d. Kais. Ak. in Wien." So full of mistakes as to be of very little value, except in so far as they served to call the attention of the European reader to this poet.
7. L. Woitsch, "Aus den Gedichten Po Chü-i's." 1908. 76 pp. A prose rendering with Chinese text of about forty poems, not very well selected. The translations, though inaccurate, are a great advance on Pfizmaier.
8. E. von Zachs, "Lexicographische Beiträge." Vols, ii and iv. Re-translation of two poems previously mistranslated by Pfizmaier.
9. S. Imbault-Huart, "La Poésie Chinoise du 14 au 19 siècle." 1886. 93 pp.
10. S. Imbault-Huart, "Un Poète Chinois du 18 Siècle." (Yüan Mei.) Journ. of China Branch, Royal As. Soc., N.S., vol. xix, part 2, 42 pp.
11. S. Imbault-Huart, "Poésies Modernes." 1892. 46 pp.
12. A. Forke, "Blüthen Chinesischer Dichtung." 1899. Rhymed versions of Li Po and pre-T'ang poems.
A fuller bibliography will be found in Cordier's "Bibliotheca Sinica."
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Battle

CHAPTER ONE
​BATTLE
By Ch'ü Yüan [332–295 B. C.], author of the famous poem "Li Sao," or "Falling into Trouble." Finding that he could not influence the conduct of his prince, he drowned himself in the river Mi-lo. The modern Dragon Boat Festival is supposed to be in his honour.
"We grasp our battle-spears: we don our breast-plates of hide. The axles of our chariots touch: our short swords meet. Standards obscure the sun: the foe roll up like clouds. Arrows fall thick: the warriors press forward. They menace our ranks: they break our line. The left-hand trace-horse is dead: the one on the right is smitten. The fallen horses block our wheels: they impede the yoke-horses!"
They grasp their jade drum-sticks: they beat the sounding drums. Heaven decrees their fall: the dread Powers are angry.
The warriors are all dead: they lie on the moor-field. They issued but shall not enter: they went but shall not return. The plains are flat and wide; the way home is long. Their swords lie beside them: their black bows, in their hand.
Though their limbs were torn, their hearts could not be repressed. They were more than brave: they were inspired with the spirit of "Wu." Steadfast to the end, they could not be daunted. Their bodies were stricken, but their souls have taken Immortality —
Captains among the ghosts, heroes among the dead.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Being on Duty all night in the Palace and dreaming of the Hsien-yu Temple

BEING ON DUTY ALL NIGHT IN THE PALACE AND DREAMING OF THE HSIEN-YU TEMPLE
At the western window I paused from writing rescripts;
The pines and bamboos were all buried in stillness. The moon rose and a calm wind came;
Suddenly, it was like an evening in the hills. And so, as I dozed, I dreamed of the South West
And thought I was staying at the Hsien-yu Temple. When I woke and heard the dripping of the Palace clock
I still thought it the murmur of a mountain stream.
1 Where the poet used to spend his holidays.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Being visited by a Friend during Illness

BEING VISITED BY A FRIEND DURING ILLNESS
I have been ill so long that I do not count the days;
At the southern window, evening — and again evening. Sadly chirping in the grasses under my eaves
The winter sparrows morning and evening sing. By an effort I rise and lean heavily on my bed;
Tottering I step towards the door of the courtyard. By chance I meet a friend who is coming to see me;
Just as if I had gone specially to meet him. They took my couch and placed it in the setting sun;
They spread my rug and I leaned on the balcony-pillar. Tranquil talk was better than any medicine;
Gradually the feelings came back to my numbed heart.
# A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems/Bearer's Song

BEARER'S SONG
By Miu Hsi [died A. D. 245]. Cf. the "Han Burial Songs," p. 58.
When I was alive, I wandered in the streets of the Capital:
Now that I am dead, I am left to lie in the fields.
In the morning I drove out from the High Hall:
In the evening I lodged beneath the Yellow Springs. When the white sun had sunk in the Western Chasm
I hung up my chariot and rested my four horses.
Now, even the mighty Maker of All
Could not bring the life back to my limbs.
Shape and substance day by day will vanish:
Hair and teeth will gradually fall away.
Forever from of old men have been so:
And none born can escape this thing.