If I could go to sleep (in a moment) Without saying goodbye As if where I should rest should become where I will lie If I can rest at ease At night without a (final) farewell And pass on, silence, to my peace under soft sleeps unwaking spell If all my words, all my deeds Could say what passed unsaid I would hug you one last time A kiss upon your head. Your smiles bid me well I have done my best Now comes the gentle night like an honored guest To welcome this old spirit To his final rest. Like pharaohs go I to the deeps beyond the unknown, the river and the pale horizon where the gods still sleep Beyond the parting of the veil Till sleep beckons my dust once more Out from the ages ceaseless turning And I an old soul who once forgot Remembers that eternal spark The call of my spirits enduring Yearning for that lost fire, still burning Since the founding of the world Or the beginning in the universes early dark Like the very first golden dawn, a brilliant landmark. hark! The monolith, or gravestone of some immortal patriarch. He left like I, long ago.