  At Bedrashein between the pyramids I saw the wingÈd sun fold up his pinions And sink into the nether world's dominions Where Set sent ill on the Egyptian dead. I saw the ancient Desert, that outbids The Nile for the date-lands between them spread, Fling over Memphis that is vanishÈd, Another shroud of sand, then bid his minions, The winds, lie down upon their boundless bed. I saw where temples vowed to Serapis And granite splendours men name Pharaonic Are kept by Time in silence and sardonic Concealment—mummied in deep mystic tombs. I heard Eternity with all its dooms, Past and to come, sound softly the mnemonic Of Death who waits all worlds that Life enwombs. |
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