[BNP/E3, 78A – 17]

Many an evil, many a bliss

     Go to make existence' hell,

But the greatest evil of all is this:

     To live and to know it well.

Since this from life at once we see

     Thus simply gatherèd,

Must not the greatest bliss then be

     To die and know oneself dead?

That's true, as far as I guess,

That's true and impossible,

As far as I know and tell.

So much for happiness!

Alexander Search

January 10^th. 1908.