Brought from a pensive though a happy place.
This is a perfect rendering of the tone of the Sixth Æneid.
Spake of heroic arts in graver mood
Revived, with finer harmony pursued.
Quae gratia currum
Armorumque fuit vivis, quae cura nitentes
Pascere equos, eadem sequitur tellure repostos.
Æneid vi. 653.
The charm of chariot and armour that they had in life, and the same care to pasture their glossy steeds, follow them deep buried under earth.
An ampler ether, a diviner air.