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Rh Land on pale quays of that so stately temple, Sonorous with a gorgeous ritual.— Now on a roofless column builds the stork! Here, they believe, slumbers a mighty god, Osiris, Love incarnate, and the Judge; Also the Solar orb, and sacred Nile; Who, with moon'd Isis and her little child, Shadoweth forth a triune Deity. His awful name none dare to breathe aloud: An oath avails to bind for evermore One who hath sworn "by Him that sleeps in Philæ."

Most ancient realm of all this ancient earth,$2$ Thought faints to sound thine hoar antiquity! Europe and Asia were not when thy form Brooded in solemn grandeur, as to-day, Over dark ocean! when Dicynodon, Ancestor of thy huge Leviathan, Ruled over mightier seas and estuaries; When melancholy vapours veil'd strange stars, Ere man's wan yearning unavailing eyes Awoke to wonder! ere the cataclysm