(Southey, _The Doctor_, vol. iii. p. 235.)--ED. [5] 1837. That … 1835. [6] The pile of buildings, composing the palace and convent of San Lorenzo, has, in common usage, lost its proper name in that of the _Escurial_, a village at the foot of the hill upon which the splendid edifice, built by Philip the Second, stands. It need scarcely be added, that Wilkie is the painter alluded to.--W.W. 1835. THE FOREGOING SUBJECT RESUMED Composed 1834.--Published 1835. One of the “Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.”--ED. Among a grave fraternity of Monks, For One, but surely not for One alone, Triumphs, in that great work, the Painter’s skill, Humbling the body, to exalt the soul; Yet representing, amid wreck and wrong 5 And dissolution and decay, the warm And breathing life of flesh, as if already Clothed with impassive majesty, and graced With no mean earnest of a heritage Assigned to it in future worlds. Thou, too, 10 With thy memorial flower, meek Portraiture! From whose serene companionship I passed Pursued by thoughts that haunt me still; thou also-- Though but a simple object, into light Called forth by those affections that endear 15 The private hearth; though keeping thy sole seat In singleness, and little tried by time, Creation, as it were, of yesterday-- With a congenial function art endued For each and all of us, together joined 20 In course of nature under a low roof By charities and duties that proceed Out of the bosom of a wiser vow. To a like salutary sense of awe Or sacred wonder, growing with the power 25 Of meditation that attempts to weigh, In faithful scales, things and their opposites, Can thy enduring quiet gently raise A household small and sensitive,--whose love, Dependent as in part its blessings are 30 Upon frail ties dissolving or dissolved On earth, will be revived, we trust, in heaven.[7] [7] In the class entitled “Musings,” in Mr. Southey’s Minor Poems, is one upon his own miniature picture, taken in childhood, and another upon a landscape painted by Gaspar Poussin. It is possible that every word of the above verses, though similar in subject, might have been written had the author been unacquainted with those beautiful effusions of poetic sentiment. But, for his own satisfaction, he must be allowed thus publicly to acknowledge the pleasure those two poems of his Friend have given him, and the grateful influence they have upon his mind as often as he reads them, or thinks of them.--W.W. 1835. TO A CHILD WRITTEN IN HER ALBUM[8] Composed 1834.--Published 1835