. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . t he looked as much as to say, Oh yes,of course, how stupid of me; I thought I knew very well may have done so, but I am bound tosay that I did not see this. Near to Cama is Grono, where Badeker says there isa chapel containing some ancient frescoes. I searchedGrono in vain for any such chapel. A few mileshigher up, the church of Soazza makes its appearanceperched upon the top of its hill, and soon afterwardsthe splendid ruin ofMesocco on anotherrock or hill whichrises in the middleof the valley. The mortuarychapel of So
. Alps and sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino (Op. 6.) . t he looked as much as to say, Oh yes,of course, how stupid of me; I thought I knew very well may have done so, but I am bound tosay that I did not see this. Near to Cama is Grono, where Badeker says there isa chapel containing some ancient frescoes. I searchedGrono in vain for any such chapel. A few mileshigher up, the church of Soazza makes its appearanceperched upon the top of its hill, and soon afterwardsthe splendid ruin ofMesocco on anotherrock or hill whichrises in the middleof the valley. The mortuarychapel of Soazza f^S^^^^:--^^^.r:;^^.>Wi;>^\J Church is the subject S0AZZA CHURCH- my friend Mr. Gogin has selected for the etchingat the beginning of this volume. There was a manmowing another part of the churchyard when I wasthere. He was so old and lean that his flesh seemedlittle more than parchment stretched over his bones,and he might have been almost taken for Deathmowing his own acre. When he was gone somechildren came to play, but he had left his scythe be-. 266 ALPS AND SANCTUARIES. hind him. These children were beyond my strengthto draw, so I turned the subject over to Mr. Goginsstronger hands. Children are dynamical; churches andfrescoes are statical. I can get on with statical sub-jects, but can do nothing with dynamical ones. Overthe door and windows are two frescoes of skeletonsholding mirrors in their hands, with a deaths head inthe mirror. This reflected head is supposed to be thatof the spectator to whom death is holding up the imageof what he will one day become. I do not rememberthe inscription at Soazza—the one in the CampoSanto at Mesocco is, Sicut vos estis nos ftiimus, etsicut nos sumns vos eritis * On my return to England I mentioned this inscrip-tion to a friend who, as a young man, had been anexcellent Latin scholar; he took a panic into his headthat eritis was not right for the second person pluralof the future tense of the verb esse Whatever itwas, i
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