it stood
All beautiful in naked purity,
The perfect semblance of its bodily frame,
Instinct with inexpressible beauty and grace, Each stain of earthliness
Had passed away, it re-assumed
Its native dignity, and stood Immortal amid ruin.
...
the remembrance
With which the happy spirit contemplates
Its well-spent pilgrimage on earth
...
Footnotes
↑Shelley on the Immortality of the Spirit by Sotheran, Charles, Spiritual Scientist
↑Fellow Theos. Society – one of the original Institutors.
