Percussse gelido trepidant sub pectore fibre, 

 Et nova desuetis subrepens vita medullis 

 Miscetur morti: tune omnis palpitat artus 

 Tenduntur nervi ; nee se tellure cadaver 

 Paullatim per membra levat; terraque repulsum est 

 Erectumque simul. 



LUCAN. vi. 752. 



The form which lay before inert and dead, 

 Sudden a piercing thrill of change o'erspread ; 

 Returning life gleams in the stony face, 

 The fibres quiver and the sinews brace, 

 Move the stiff limbs ; nor did the body rise 

 With tempered strength which genial life supplies, 

 But upright starting, its full stature held, 

 As though the earth the supine corse repelled. 



