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He had various folios of reproductions, and aelico's "Entry of the Blessed into

Paradise" This filled Anna with bliss The beautiful, innocent

way in which the Blessed held each other by the hand as they

elic melody, made

her ith happiness The floweriness, the bea of hands, was almost toothrough the door of Paradise, day

after day she entered into the brightness The child in her

shone till she herself was a beam of sunshine; and how lovely

was the sunshine that loitered and wandered out of doors, where

the catkins on the big hazel bushes at the end of the garden

hung in their shaken, floating aureole, where little fumes like

fire burst out fro to the branches One day bluebells were along the

hedge-bottoolden and

evanescent on the meadows She was full of a rich drowsiness and

loneliness How happy she was, how gorgeous it was to live: to

have known herself, her husband, the passion of love and

begetting; and to know that all this lived and waited and burned

on around her, a terrible purifying fire, through which she had

passed for once to coolden radiance, when

she ith child, and innocent, and in love with her husband