. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. X ). ,; if ^. :??. ^A^ ADVENTURE ON THE NILE 59 ments for artists, since there is quite a large tradedone to-day in Nile mummy dust for fertilising,and for a special brown tint much employed by oilpainters. Yet the significance of those antique,rock-hewn graves is the same. It was the land ofresolute belief, the land of an assured and univer-sal conviction that mans real existen
. Wandering words. Reprinted, by permission, from papers published in the "Daily telegraph" and foreign journals and magazines. By Sir Edwin Arnold. With illustrations from drawings by Ben Boothby and from photographs. X ). ,; if ^. :??. ^A^ ADVENTURE ON THE NILE 59 ments for artists, since there is quite a large tradedone to-day in Nile mummy dust for fertilising,and for a special brown tint much employed by oilpainters. Yet the significance of those antique,rock-hewn graves is the same. It was the land ofresolute belief, the land of an assured and univer-sal conviction that mans real existence is eternal,of which every one of these elaborately excavatedsepulchres is a monument, noble and pathetic. AsI myself have written to the mummy of an Egyptianlady, whose burial-chest we opened, to find only herdust and her slippers— You Averc born in the Egypt that did not doubt; You were never sad with our new-fashioned sorrows ;You were sure, Avhen your playtimes on earth ran out, Of playtimes to come, as we of our ! wise little maid of the Delta ! , . . The pyramids themselves are mighty witnesses ofthe same firm belief, being, as they were, giganticcaskets, with
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