Kissing closed eyes to keep the visions in.

George Richmond, closed WilliamBlake's eyes when he died in 1827 in his two-room lodgings, and then kissed them ''to keep the vision in. And Blake was unaccountably true, indeed, even to his strangest prophecies. He had promised his wife that he would never leave her, and after his death he came back, she said, for several hours a day, sat down in his usual chair, and talked to her