The Basel Dance of Death 16

Matthäus Merian, The Basel Dance of Death: The Canon (1616) 

"So, Canon, you have been singing, 
many sweet songs in your choir. 
Now hear the sound of my fife, 
Announcing that your death is here." 

"I sang as a free canon, 
of many voices and melodies. 
Death's fife sounds so different; 
It has so deeply frightened me."