A poor old woman with a rosary
Follows the sound, and seems to wish her feet
Were swifter to o'ertake him.”
Underneath the inscription reads,
“Better is death than life.”
And in this strain the paintings continue, until, what between the objects and the general gloom, the effect becomes most melancholy, and we heartily sympathized in Prince Henry's cry—his cri du cœur:
“Let us go forward, and no longer stay
In this great picture-gallery of Death!”
It led us straight into the heart of the old town, and with the poet we exclaimed:
“I breathe again more