seated at a small oblong table. Beside him the youth
Daniel, looking only fifteen or sixteen, graceful and
gentle, interprets. At the side of the quatrefoil,
out of a small wreath of cloud, comes a small bent
hand, writing, as if with a pen upside down on a piece
of Gothic wall. [4-25]
For modern bombast as opposed to old simplicity,
compare the Belshazzar's feast of John Martin!
43. The next subject begins the series of the minor prophets.