...All beautiful in naked purity, The perfect semblance of its bodily frame. Instinct with inexpressive beauty and grace, Each stain of earthliness Had passed away, it reassumed Its native dignity, and stood Many of these comments are included below, and all are of interest in one way or another. In this itemized...

...and have shone The day-stars of their age; - Soul of lanthe! Awake! arise! Sudden arose 130 lanthe's Soul; it stood All beautiful in naked purity, The...couch the body lay, Wrapt in the depth of slumber: 140 Its features were fixed and meaningless, Yet animal life was there, And every organ yet performed...

...The state of the life-after-death is described in the opening verses : — " Sudden arose lanthe's soul; it stood All beautiful in naked purity, The...Its native dignity, and stood Immortal amid ruin." Later in the poem another characteristics described^: — " But matter, space, and time In those aerial...

...stands all beautiful in naked purity,' " she continued, still alluding to poor Sir Florian's soul, " ' Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace. Each stain of earthliness had passed away.' I can see him now in all his manly beauty, as we used to sit together by the hour, looking over the...