In the feasts of the Silver Mountain, the heavenly courts,

The abode of blessedness:

And in the Light

Of the Happy Fields,

May he dwell a life

Eternal, holy,

In the presence of the gods

Who inhabit Assyria.”—H. F. Talbot.

Here is undoubtedly expressed a belief in the soul’s immortality, which also appears in the following prayer for the spirit of a dying man:—

“Like a bird may it fly to a lofty place!