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And nowhere gladly thou abidest, save

Where naught disturbs the concord of thy reign.

"Sphinx of my quiet hearth! who deign'st to dwell

Friend of my toil, companion of mine ease,

Thine is the lore of Ra and Rameses;

That men forget dost thou remember well,

Beholden still in blinking reveries,

With sombre sea-green gaze inscrutable."