Then, though it begins higher (A4 in the tenor at [b]), Rest is quietly enjoined to sink below, with a blessing, so that quiet can fill us (repeated notes at (c). An A major triad is reached as V of D minor, but then an evocative phrase entirely in A major expresses "as a grave rests in flowers."
Continuing and turning more chromatic, the music reaches Ab major (at [d]), and then a sudden return to the opening at (e) is filled out to a PAC and drooping melodic figures (first box in the second system). A codetta extension repeats the descents in chromatic form over a sustained tonic bass.
The harsh interruption at (f)—"Let the stormy heart be quieted" (pianissimo for "quieted"/"schweigen")—initiates the second half. At (g), a determined chromatic ascent for "as they grow, as they rise, grows and rises the Soul's pain" ends with stark octaves for the repetition of "Seele Pein" at (h).
Rest is then enjoined again to bring peace to the earth, so that the Soul can be healed and rise from the grave: at (j) and (k) dramatically, then following another quiet "codetta" with bass pedal at (m), dramatically again in repetition at (n). Note that is there is no PAC: the tenor rises by step from ^1 to ^3 (and all the lower voices also rise).
Rising figures that close a composition in such dramatic, expressive mode are very rare, but then the ending here is clearly at one with everything that precedes it.
