Continuing my Hohenheim-centricism

Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Words: ~600
Genre: Gen-- angst, pastfic; Hohenhiem-centric
Rating: G
Spoilers: Wholesale, for the entire series
Notes: I'm not sure how I feel about this one, but I'm posting it anyway. May or may not be polished up later.
Previous Parts:
1-- Divine Proportion
2-- Day Star
3-- Out of the Whirlwind
4-- Risen From the Ashes
5-- Fallen From Heaven

...Perchance
I perished in an arrogant self-reliance
Ages ago; and in that act, a prayer
For one more chance went up so earnest, so
Instinct with better light let in by death,
That life was blotted out-- not so completely
But scattered wrecks enough of it remain,
Dim memories, as now, when once more seems
The goal in sight again.

--Robert Browning, "Paracelsus: Part 1: Paracelsus Aspires", 647-655

( Wisdom of Solomon 3:1-6 )