The poor find solace in the fact that when death killed the penniless, it did not spare the wealthy either.

The poet presents death as the ultimate, impartial leveler in a deeply unequal world. While the poor suffer endless deprivation during their lives, they find a bittersweet solace in the certainty of mortality. No matter how much wealth or power someone accumulates, death comes for the rich just as relentlessly as it does for the destitute.