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 Next to a far land thou com'st and a black race

Who dwell beside the fountains of the sun,

Where is the Æthiopian river. By whose banks

Work onwards till thou reach the cataract

Where from the Bybline heights the Nile sends down

Its limpid holy flood. And this will lead thee

To the three-cornered Nile-land, where 'tis writ,

Io, that thou and sons of thine shall found

Your far off colony. If aught of this

Seem vague to thee or difficult in sense,

Question me on it, and learn perfectly;

For I have leisure here more than I would.

If thou hast aught remaining, aught passed o'er,

To tell her yet of her vexed wanderings

Say on. But, if thou hast told all, give now

The boon we begged, borne doubtless in thy mind.

She has now learned her journey's full extent.

And yet, that she may see 'tis no fond tale

She hears from me, I'll speak what she has borne

Before her coming, and in that give proof