I died as mineral and became a plant; I died as plant and rose to animal; I died as animal and I was man. Why should I fear disappearance through death? Yet, once more, I shall die as man, to soar with angels blessed, but even from angelhood I must pass on; all except God do perish. When I have sacrificed my angel soul, I shall become what no mind ever conceived. Oh! Let me not exist, for non-existence proclams in organ-tones, "To Him we shall return."