Meditation 7.50-52

50. 'The earth-born parts return to earth again,
⁠But what did blossom of ethereal seed
⁠Returns again to the celestial pole.'

Or else this: an undoing of the interlacement of the atoms and a similar shattering of the senseless molecules.

51. 'With gifts of meat and drink and magic charms
⁠Turning aside the current not to die.'
⁠'Man must endure whatever wind doth blow
⁠From God, and labour still without lament.'

52. 'A better man at wrestling': but not more sociable or more modest or better trained to meet occasion or kinder to the faults of neighbours.