Almond blossom, sent to teach us That the spring days soon will reach us.
One can be a soldier without dying and a lover without sighing.
What good I see humbly I seek to do, And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
Sweetest smile is made saddest tear-drop!
For death, Now I know, is that first breath Which our souls draw when we enter Life, which is of all life center.
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones.