As They Lay Me

In sickness and in health,
will you be there to help?
In triumph and in pain,
will both of us gain?
In glory and in honor,
will there still be ardor?
In life and in death,
will you give your last breath?

Will in sickness we survive
or in health we will thrive?
Will triumph make us feel victorious
or pain will be more sumptuous?
Will glory be as the Romans
or as honorable as the Spartans?
Will ardor give us life
or just suffering and strife?
Will I still savour your breath
before they lay me to my bed of death?