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A.D.G. TO J.U.P. [J.U. POWELL], by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear powell, / be sure I will cause you to ken it, if I dis
Last Line: A. D. Godley
Alternate Author Name(s): Godley, A. D.
Subject(s): Egypt


Oct. 8, 1912.
DEAR POWELL,
Be sure I will cause you to ken it, if I discover the source of that singular
genitive. When I float on the Nile 'neath a canopy hid (as I'm told Cleopatra when visiting
did): when I stray by its banks, where the Yankee supposes that he's looking right here at
the Cradle of Moses: when I roam o'er the Desert, that natural Links, with the seventeenth
hole at the foot of the Sphinx, -- you may think of me still as attempting to trace to its
earliest birth that remarkable case.
I'm told, is a far from uncommon one, and experience has proved he's a frequent phenomenon: 'tis a
fact, tho' it's one which in language most plain I cuss, that the tourist in Egypt is often
Germanicus.
Yours sincerely,
A. D. GODLEY





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