Author: James Henry Leigh Hunt

Cited by

• Eliot Warburton (1)
  • IN: The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel, Volume I. (1846) Non-Fiction, Irish
    EPIGRAPH: It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands, Like some grave, mighty thought, threading a dream; And times, and things, as in that vision seem, Keeping, along it, their eternal stands, Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands, That roamned through the young earth;- the flag extreme Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam, The laughing Queen that caught the world's great hands. Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong, As of a world left empty of its throng; And the void weighs on us: and then to wake, And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along, 'Twixt villages, and think how we shall take Our own calm journey on, for human sake.
    FROM: A Thought of the Nile, (None), Poem, UK