The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor . ellouscolonnade which has astonished so many visitors to theisland of Phila3. The reader of his letters can detect,however, in Mr. Taylors description of columns,aisles, roofs, walls, capitals, sculptures, monoliths,and colossi, a vein of sadness which may have coloredhis views. At all events the ruins of Philse did notimpress him as they seem to have affected other vis-itors. The fact that he was so soon to part with acompanion for whom he felt a love like that of Jona-than for David, may have had more or less influ-ence upon his capac
The life, travels, and literary career of Bayard Taylor . ellouscolonnade which has astonished so many visitors to theisland of Phila3. The reader of his letters can detect,however, in Mr. Taylors description of columns,aisles, roofs, walls, capitals, sculptures, monoliths,and colossi, a vein of sadness which may have coloredhis views. At all events the ruins of Philse did notimpress him as they seem to have affected other vis-itors. The fact that he was so soon to part with acompanion for whom he felt a love like that of Jona-than for David, may have had more or less influ-ence upon his capacity to enjoy scenery or the re-mains of antiquity : for the writer looked upon Philse asone of the most interesting localities of the lower Nile,and cannot but regard the ruined temple as one of thegrandest in Egypt. They visited the fields, villages,the tombs, the ancient quarry, wherein half-sculpturedstatues and columns still remain unmoved, and after aday of antiquarian research they rode back to theirboat, as he said with heavy hearts. The next day. PARTING AT ASSOUAN. 171 came the hour of parting; and these two men, one ayoung man, the other an elderly gentleman, who hadbeen utter strangers forty days before, now clung toeach other with the sincerest brotherly love andparted in tears. How little did Mr. Taylor thhik, ashe saw the boat sailing away for Cairo with the Saxe-Coburg colors at the peak, where he had so long keptthe Stars and Stripes, that they would meet again inthe sunny southern lands of Europe, and that anotherperson would join their company for life and make upwhat he termed a sacred triad. He thought then thatthe parting might be for all time. He was going intoan unknown wilderness, while his friend sousrht a^^ainthe lands of civilization: it was a long time beforeeither could dispel the gloom which their separationleft about them. Mr. Taylor took another boat at Assouan and pro-ceeded to Korosko, where, with the assistance of theGovernor and a wild Arab c
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