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They called them "Night-Blooming Lilies," and sure enough they blanketed the rugged pathway that night like so many tiny white Fairies. Indeed there was something beautifully weird in their white wonder against the night. They looked like frail, earth-angels playing in the star-light, sending out a sweet odor which mingled strangely with the odor of sulphur from the volcano.
There may be a class of beings, human once, but now invisible to humanity, to whom, from afar, our disorder may seem order our unpicturesqueness picturesque, in a word, the earth-angels, for whose scrutiny more especially than our own, and for whose death refined appreciation of the beautiful, may have been set in array by God the wide landscape-gardens of the hemispheres."
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