Front matter
Reading edition
This spirit-face is the realisation of a high ideal of beauty, sweetness, and spirituality. The beauty of it we cannot now fully comprehend; but, as we gaze on it, we may say in the words of Michael Angelo:—
“Souls burn for souls—spirits to spirits cry, I seek the splendour in thy fair face storèd; Yet living man that beauty scarce can learn, And he who fain would find it first must die.” [See page 92, tenth line.