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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EGYPT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poet's Biography
First Line: The sun, a scarabaeus of bronze gold
Last Line: And but as shards the remnants of their power!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Egypt; History; Historians
First Line: The sun, a scarabaeus of bronze gold
Last Line: And but as shards the remnants of their power!
Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Egypt; History; Historians
THE sun, a scarabaeus of bronze gold,
Slowly ascends the heaven's eastern wall;
The immemorial palm-trees, towering tall,
Where Nile rolls seaward, fold on tawny fold,
Are mirrored in the water; and behold,
Above them, hued like skies at evenfall,
Flamingoes in their flight majestical
Wing as they winged ere yet the world waxed old!
Silence and Death and Time and all things hoar
Brood here, -- and man, how like a shade he seems,
Now seen, now gone, ephemera of an hour!
Pharaoh and Ptolemy, mighty names of yore,
To-day are but as sounds dim-heard in dreams,
And but as shards the remnants of their power!
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