...loved to repeat to myself the words, — Hark! they whisper: angels say, "Sister spirit, come away!"— The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring. A hymn that I learned a little later expressed to me the same satisfying thought:...

...my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my Spirit, draws my breath! Tell me, my Soul! can this be death? The world recedes - it disappears; Heaven opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring; Lend, lend your wings! I mount, I fly! O grave, where is thy victory? O death,...