"Buddha" by Herman Melville

Buddha
By Herman Melville

'For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeareth

for a little time and then vanisheth away.'

Swooning swim to less and less,

Aspirant to nothingness!

Sobs of the worlds, and dole of kinds

That dumb endurers be-

Nirvana! absorb us in your skies,

Annul us into thee.