The poetical works of Bayard Taylor . a, <. X Q <w Q O o HIiiPrilIII iiiii I HASSAN TO HIS MARE 75 XV Mid the sounds of salutation, mid thesplendor and the balm, Knelt the sacred child, proclaiming,with a brow of heavenly calm : God is God ; there is none other ; Ihis chosen Prophet ami Indian Ocean, 1853. TO THE NILE Mysterious Flood,—that throughthe silent sandsHast wandered, century on century,Watering the length of great Egyptianlands. Which were not, but forthee,— Art thou the keeper of that eldestlore,Written ere yet thy hieroglyphsbeganWhen dawned upon thy fresh, un-trampled shore

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The poetical works of Bayard Taylor . a, <. X Q <w Q O o HIiiPrilIII iiiii I HASSAN TO HIS MARE 75 XV Mid the sounds of salutation, mid thesplendor and the balm, Knelt the sacred child, proclaiming,with a brow of heavenly calm : God is God ; there is none other ; Ihis chosen Prophet ami Indian Ocean, 1853. TO THE NILE Mysterious Flood,—that throughthe silent sandsHast wandered, century on century,Watering the length of great Egyptianlands. Which were not, but forthee,— Art thou the keeper of that eldestlore,Written ere yet thy hieroglyphsbeganWhen dawned upon thy fresh, un-trampled shoreThe earliest life of Man ? Thou guardest temple and vast pyra-midWhere the gray Past records itsancient speech ;But in thine unrevealing breast lieshidWhat they refuse to teach. All other streams with human joysand fearsRun blended, oer the plains of His-tory :Thou takst no note of Man ; a thou-sand yearsAre as a day to thee. What were to thee the Osirian festi-vals ?Or Memnons music on the Thebanplain ?The carnage, when Cambyses

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