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Just a bit of ashes / Grey, grey ashes -- spent --
God! how fierce the fires burned / Down to this content.
Just a bit of ashes, / Not a single spark / Lives in this residuum / Crumbling cold and dark.
Just a bit of ashes --
To the judgment day, / I go with my memories --
Pray, sweet virgin, pray!