This spirit-face is the realisation of a high ideal of beauty, sweetness, and spirituality. The beauty of it we cannot now fully comprehend; but, as we gaze on it, we may say in the words of Michael Angelo:—
“Souls burn for souls—spirits to spirits cry,
I seek the splendour in thy fair face storèd;
Yet living man that beauty scarce can learn,
And he who fain would find it first must die.”
[See [page 92], tenth line.