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Vestis angelica. It was a custom of the early English church for pious laymen to be carried in the hour of death to some monastery, that they might be clothed in the habit of the religious order, and might die amid the prayers of the brotherhood. The garment thus assumed was known as the Vestis Angelica. See Moroni: Dizionario di Erudizione Storico-Ecclesiastica, II. 78; XCVI. 212. Gather, gather! Stand Round her on either hand! O shining angel-band More pure than priest! A garment white and whole Weave for this passing soul, Whose earthly joy and dole Have almost ceased. Weave it of mothers' prayers, Of sacred thoughts and cares, Of peace beneath gray hairs, Of hallowed pain; Weave it of vanished tears, Of childlike hopes and fears, Of joys, by saintly years Washed free from stain. Weave it of happy hours, Of smiles and summer flowers, Of passing sunlit showers, Of acts of love; Of footsteps that did go Amid life's work and woe,-- Her eyes still fixed below, Her thoughts