FROM all the rest I single out you, having a message for you,You are to die—let others tell you what they please, I cannot prevaricate,I am exact and merciless, but I love you—there is no escape for you.Softly I lay my right hand upon you, you just feel it,I do not argue, I bend my head close and half envelop it,I sit quietly by, I remain faithful,I am more than nurse, more than parent or neighbor,I absolve you from all except yourself spiritual bodily, that is eter- nal, you yourself will surely escape,The corpse you will leave will be but excrementitious.The sun bursts through in unlooked-for directions,Strong thoughts fill you and confidence, you smile,You forget you are sick, as I forget you are sick,You do not see the medicines, you do not mind the weeping friends, I am with you,I exclude others from you, there is nothing to be commiserated,I do not commiserate, I congratulate you.