They ascended slowly and solemnly out of the gloomy depths to the shining heights.

In front of all came a couple, our first father, Adam, walking with Eve.

Just behind them Abel, arm-in-arm with Cain.

Then crowded up the patriarchs, the judges, the kings, the prophets, and the psalmists, among them Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, Solomon and David, Zachariah and Josiah, Eleazar and Jehoiakim, and quite at the back--an old man, walking alone, supporting himself on a stick from which lilies sprouted--Joseph, her husband.

He was in no hurry; he stopped and looked round at Mary.
So all passed into Paradise.
That was what Mary saw, and then day dawned..