Would be most grateful. True indeed it is
That they whom death has hidden from our sight
Are worthiest of the mind's regard; with these
The future cannot contradict the past:
Mortality's last exercise and proof
Is undergone; the transit made that shows
The very Soul, revealed as she[475] departs.
Yet, on your first suggestion, will I give,
Ere we descend into these silent vaults,
One picture from the living.