It is time, love, to break off that sombre rose,
shut up the stars and bury the ash in the earth;
and, in the rising of the light, wake with those who awoke
or go on in the dream, reaching the other shore of the sea which has no other shore.

- Pablo Neruda

"The Watersong Ends" (La Barcarola Termina) (1967),
in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda