Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists — Richard Le Gallienne

" ...]most strangely exquisite, once in an inspired hour painted such a face, a face wrought of the porcelain of earth with the art of heaven. But, whoever should paint it, God certainly made it-must have been the comment of any one who caught a glimpse of that little figure vanishing heavenwards up that stair, like an Assumption of Fra Angelico's-that is, any one interested in art and angels. She had not long to wait outside the door she sought, for the poet, who had listened all day for the sound, ...]."