Ghost citizen of chloroform's empire

I am a ghost. I am an inhabitant of the grave. I am a citizen of eternity! I am part of that mighty and universal republic, which death proclaims to be an empire under chloroform; an empire whose subjects are all anæsthetics. I am a shadowy citizen of that shadowy republic, whose very shadow is itself a universal ether, and whose laugh is chloroform, and whose very breath is laughable.