Embalming Quotes

“Wikipedia: Embalming”

“Of course they embalm’d you! Yet not so sweet
  Were aloes and nard, as the youthful glow
Which Amenti stole when the small dark feet
  Wearied of treading our world below.”

“They told me, Francis Hinsley, they told me you were hung
With red protruding eye-balls and black protruding tongue.
I wept as I remembered how often you and I
Had laughed about Los Angeles and now ’tis here you’ll lie;
Here pickled in formaldehyde and painted like a whore,
Shrimp-pink incorruptible, not lost nor gone before.”