They had come thither to enjoy a summer evening: outside the magnificent gates their carriage waited to take them home; the green sweeps of turf spread round them quiet and dim; the palace rose at a distance, white as a crag on Pentelicus; the evening star shone above it; a forest of flowering shrubs embalmed the climate of this spot; the hour was still and sweet; the scene, but for this group, was solitary.
Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad.
In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages.
Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, , Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, , But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet , Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 、、 White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; ; And mid-May's eldest child, , The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, , The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
In ancient Egypt, cats were so revered that when one died, the owner placed embalmed mice in the cat's coffin so he'd have food in the afterlife.
It is a duty we owe to ourselves that we may be nice and fat when we come to be embalmed with sage and onions and apples.
