It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,
And times and things, as in that vision, seem
Keeping along it their eternal stands,-
Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands
That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme
Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam,
The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.
Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong,
As of a world left empty of its throng,
And the void weighs on us; and then we wake,
And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along
Twixt villages, and think how we shall take
Our own calm journey on for human sake.
A Thought Of The Nile
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Poem topics: dream, journey, silence, human, young, great, hear, eternal, strong, queen, sake, extreme, grave, high, vision, void, thought, stream, world, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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