Classic Poem

Though this world linked together by mountains joined with hills
is thought to be shared in common by the three kings,
there have been those who alone held power and yet their years
have passed until all their wealth could not help them
but only the righteous actions they had sown could be
of any aid to them at all. As Death seizes lives
and the relatives assemble and weep, such help is hard
to gather for those who have given up
that raft which carries one from this to the other shore!