The intense grasp death's strangle-hold has over me   confines me to my own personal agony   Set me free, let me go   Release the chilling grasp with which it clutches me      The earth issues it's extreme unction   as I realise my punishment for sin   Enguifed by death for all eternity   In my bones I no longer feel the cold   as the mire unbosoms it's secrets to me      Ubiquitous fetidness, death is everywhere   My God, unshackle me      My suffering grows with increase of my guilt   Destroy devotion. Be at one with the earth   I sink down into the clammy soil   At one with the earth.