. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. standsalone in its grandeur, monarch of all that human handshave reared, and will doubtless stand until the earth andsea shall give up their dead. I asked of Time: * To whom arose this high,Majestic pile, here mouldering in decay?He answered not, but swifter sped his way,With ceaseless pinions winnowing the sky. To Fame I turned: Speak thou whose sons defyThe waste of years and deathless works essay!She heaved a sigh, as one to grief a prey,And silent, downward cast her eye.
. Wanderings in Bible lands: notes of travel in Italy, Greece, Asia-Minor, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, Cush, and Palestine. standsalone in its grandeur, monarch of all that human handshave reared, and will doubtless stand until the earth andsea shall give up their dead. I asked of Time: * To whom arose this high,Majestic pile, here mouldering in decay?He answered not, but swifter sped his way,With ceaseless pinions winnowing the sky. To Fame I turned: Speak thou whose sons defyThe waste of years and deathless works essay!She heaved a sigh, as one to grief a prey,And silent, downward cast her eye. Onward I passed, but sad and thoughtful grown;? When, stern in aspect, oer the ruined shrine,I saw oblivion stalk from stone to stone, WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. 137 Dread Power! I cried, tell me, whose vast design?He checked my further speech, in sullen tone;Whose once it was, I care not; now tis mine. We next visit the colossal Sphinx, about eight hun-dred steps from the Great Pyramid. It is one among themost famous monuments in Egypt. For thousands ofyears it has kept its silent, sleepless watch over the vast. The Sphinx from the Northeast. burial-ground around the pyramids. Vedder, the great ar-tist, has painted a picture which he named The Secret ofthe Sphinx! In the picture we see a brown, half-naked,toil-worn fellah laying his ear to the stone lips of a colos-sal sphinx, buried to the neck in sand. Some instinct ofthe old Egyptian blood tells him the creature is is conscious of a great mystery lying far back in thepast. He has, perhaps, a dim, confused notion that theBig Head knows it all, whatever it may be. He has neverheard of the morning song of Memnon; but fancies, some-how, that those closed lips might speak if questioned. 138 WANDERINGS IN BIBLE LANDS. Fellah and sphinx are alone in the desert. It is night, andthe stars are shining. Has he chosen the right hour?What does he seek to know? What does he hope to hear?Each must interpret for himself the sec
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