The next panel represents Endymion, in Keats’s poem of that name, lying asleep on Mount Latmos, with his lover, Diana, the Moon, shining down upon him. The painter, however, had no special passage of the poem in mind. [Illustration: STUDY.--BY CHARLES SPRAGUE PEARCE.] The third panel is based on Wordsworth’s lines beginning, “There was a Boy.” A boy is seated by the side of a lake the surface of which reflects the stars:-- There was a Boy; ye knew him well, ye cliffs And islands of Winander!--many a time, At evening, when the earliest stars began To move along the edges of the hills, Rising or setting, would he stand alone, Beneath the trees, or by the glimmering lake; And there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him.... Then, sometimes, in that silence, while he hung Listening, a gentle shock of mild surprise Has carried far into his heart the voice Of mountain-torrents; or the visible scene Would enter unawares into his mind With all its solemn imagery, its rocks, Its woods, and that uncertain heaven received Into the bosom of the steady lake. For Emerson, Mr. Walker has selected the poem of _Uriel_, representing the angel retired in scorn from his companions, on account of the anger with which they have received his proposition:-- Line in nature is not found; Unit and universe are round; In vain produced, all rays return; Evil will bless, and ice will burn. [Illustration: GANYMEDE.--H. O. WALKER.] In the selection of this subject, Mr. Walker has commemorated Emerson in a very interesting personal way--for the poem was written soon after the famous Phi Beta Kappa oration of 1838, and is understood to voice Emerson’s feelings regarding the storm of opposition which that address had called forth. Milton is represented by a scene out of the masque of _Comus_--the vile enchanter Comus (in the guise of a shepherd) entranced at hearing the song of the Lady. The words which he speaks in the poem, and which Mr. Walker seeks to illustrate in his painting, are as follows:-- Can any mortal mixture of earth’s mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment? In Shakespeare, the artist has gone to _Venus and Adonis_, showing the dead body of Adonis, killed by the boar, lying naked in the forest. The painting refers to no particular lines in the poem. The broad border at the west end is occupied by an idyllic summer landscape containing three seated female figures and a youth--the two figures to the left, one of them caressing a lamb, representing the more joyful moods of lyric poetry, and the other two its more solemn feelings. At the top is a streamer, with the words, from Wordsworth:--