why these bitter words of the dying o brethren which they utter as they go hence i am parted from my brethren all my friends do i abandon and go hence but whither i go that understand i not neither what shall become of me yonder only god who hath summoned me knoweth but make commemoration of me with the song alleluia alleluia alleluia but whither now go the souls how dwell they now together there this mystery have i desired to learn but none can impart aright do they call to mind their own people as we do them or have they forgotten all those who mourn them and make the song alleluia alleluia alleluia we go forth on the path eternal and as condemned with downcast faces present ourselves before the only god eternal where then is comeliness where then is wealth where then is the glory of this world there shall none of these things aid us but only to say oft the psalm alleluia alleluia alleluia if thou hast shown mercy unto man o man that same mercy shall be shown thee there and if on an orphan thou hast shown compassion the same shall there deliver thee from want if in this life the naked thou hast clothed the same shall give thee shelter there and sing the psalm alleluia alleluia alleluia youth and the beauty of the body fade at the hour of death and the tongue then burneth fiercely and the parched throat is inflamed the beauty of the eyes is quenched then the comeliness of the face all altered the shapeliness of the neck destroyed and the other parts have become numb nor often say alleluia alleluia alleluia with ecstasy are we inflamed if we but hear that there is light eternal yonder that there is paradise wherein every soul of righteous ones rejoiceth let us all also enter into christ that we may cry aloud thus unto god alleluia alleluia alleluia 