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FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME	A
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Memphis	B
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'Tis true alas the mysteries and the lore	C
I came to study on this wondrous shore	C
Are all forgotten in the new delights	D
The strange wild joys that fill my days and nights	D
Instead of dark dull oracles that speak	E
From subterranean temples those I seek	E
Come from the breathing shrines where Beauty lives	F
And Love her priest the soft responses gives	F
Instead of honoring Isis in those rites	D
At Coptos held I hail her when she lights	D
Her first young crescent on the holy stream	G
When wandering youths and maidens watch her beam	G
And number o'er the nights she hath to run	H
Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun	H
While o'er some mystic leaf that dimly lends	I
A clew into past times the student bends	I
And by its glimmering guidance learns to tread	J
Back thro' the shadowy knowledge of the dead	J
The only skill alas I yet can claim	A
Lies in deciphering some new loved one's name	A
Some gentle missive hinting time and place	K
In language soft as Memphian reed can trace	K
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And where oh where's the heart that could withstand	L
The unnumbered witcheries of this sun born land	L
Where first young Pleasure's banner was unfurled	M
And Love hath temples ancient as the world	M
Where mystery like the veil by Beauty worn	N
Hides but to win and shades but to adorn	N
Where that luxurious melancholy born	N
Of passion and of genius sheds a gloom	O
Making joy holy where the bower and tomb	O
Stand side by side and Pleasure learns from Death	P
The instant value of each moment's breath	P
Couldst thou but see how like a poet's dream	G
This lovely land now looks the glorious stream	G
That late between its banks was seen to glide	Q
'Mong shrines and marble cities on each side	Q
Glittering like jewels strung along a chain	R
Hath now sent forth its waters and o'er plain	R
And valley like a giant from his bed	J
Rising with outstretched limbs hath grandly spread	J
While far as sight can reach beneath as clear	S
And blue a heaven as ever blest our sphere	S
Gardens and pillared streets and porphyry domes	T
And high built temples fit to be the homes	T
Of mighty Gods and pyramids whose hour	U
Outlasts all time above the waters tower	U
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Then too the scenes of pomp and joy that make	V
One theatre of this vast peopled lake	V
Where all that Love Religion Commerce gives	F
Of life and motion ever moves and lives	F
Here up the steps of temples from the wave	W
Ascending in procession slow and grave	W
Priests in white garments go with sacred wands	X
And silver cymbals gleaming in their hands	Y
While there rich barks fresh from those sunny tracts	Z
Far off beyond the sounding cataracts	Z
Glide with their precious lading to the sea	A2
Plumes of bright birds rhinoceros ivory	A2
Gems from the Isle of Meroe and those grains	B2
Of gold washed down by Abyssinian rains	B2
Here where the waters wind into a bay	C2
Shadowy and cool some pilgrims on their way	C2
To Sa s or Bubastus among beds	D2
Of lotus flowers that close above their heads	D2
Push their light barks and there as in a bower	U
Sing talk or sleep away the sultry hour	U
Oft dipping in the Nile when faint with heat	E2
That leaf from which its waters drink most sweet	E2
While haply not far off beneath a bank	F2
Of blossoming acacias many a prank	F2
Is played in the cool current by a train	R
Of laughing nymphs lovely as she whose chain	R
Around two conquerors of the world was cast	G2
But for a third too feeble broke at last	G2
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For oh believe not them who dare to brand	L
As poor in charms the women of this land	L
Tho' darkened by that sun whose spirit flows	H2
Thro' every vein and tinges as it goes	H2
'Tis but the embrowning of the fruit that tells	I2
How rich within the soul of ripeness dwells	I2
The hue their own dark sanctuaries wear	J2
Announcing heaven in half caught glimpses there	J2
And never yet did tell tale looks set free	A2
The secret of young hearts more tenderly	A2
Such eyes long shadowy with that languid fall	K2
Of the fringed lids which may be seen in all	K2
Who live beneath the sun's too ardent rays	L2
Lending such looks as on their marriage days	L2
Young maids cast down before a bridegroom's gaze	L2
Then for their grace mark but the nymph like shapes	M2
Of the young village girls when carrying grapes	M2
From green Anthylla or light urns of flowers	N2
Not our own Sculpture in her happiest hours	N2
E'er imaged forth even at the touch of him	O2
Whose touch was life more luxury of limb	O2
Then canst thou wonder if mid scenes like these	P2
I should forget all graver mysteries	P2
All lore but Love's all secrets but that best	Q2
In heaven or earth the art of being blest	Q2
Yet are there times tho' brief I own their stay	C2
Like summer clouds that shine themselves away	C2
Moments of gloom when even these pleasures pall	R2
Upon my saddening heart and I recall	K2
That garden dream that promise of a power	U
Oh were there such to lengthen out life's hour	U
On on as thro' a vista far away	C2
Opening before us into endless day	C2
And chiefly o'er my spirit did this thought	S2
Come on that evening bright as ever brought	S2
Light's golden farewell to the world when first	T2
The eternal pyramids of Memphis burst	T2
Awfully on my sight standing sublime	U2
Twixt earth and heaven the watch towers of Time	U2
From whose lone summit when his reign hath past	G2
From earth for ever he will look his last	G2
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There hung a calm and solemn sunshine round	V2
Those mighty monuments a hushing sound	V2
In the still air that circled them which stole	W2
Like music of past times into my soul	W2
I thought what myriads of the wise and brave	W
And beautiful had sunk into the grave	W
Since earth first saw these wonders and I said	J
Are things eternal only for the Dead	J
Hath Man no loftier hope than this which dooms	X2
His only lasting trophies to be tombs	X2
But 'tis not so earth heaven all nature shows	H2
He may become immortal may unclose	H2
The wings within him wrapt and proudly rise	H2
Redeemed from earth a creature of the skies	H2
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And who can say among the written spells	H2
From Hermes' hand that in these shrines and cells	H2
Have from the Flood lay hid there may not be	A2
Some secret clew to immortality	A2
Some amulet whose spell can keep life's fire	U
Awake within us never to expire	Y2
'Tis known that on the Emerald Table hid	Z2
For ages in yon loftiest pyramid	Z2
The Thrice Great did himself engrave of old	A3
The chymic mystery that gives endless gold	A3
And why may not this mightier secret dwell	B3
Within the same dark chambers who can tell	B3
But that those kings who by the written skill	C3
Of the Emerald Table called forth gold at will	C3
And quarries upon quarries heapt and hurled	M
To build them domes that might outstand the world	M
Who knows but that the heavenlier art which shares	H2
The life of Gods with man was also theirs	H2
That they themselves triumphant o'er the power	U
Of fate and death are living at this hour	U
And these the giant homes they still possess	H2
Not tombs but everlasting palaces	H2
Within whose depths hid from the world above	D3
Even now they wander with the few they love	D3
Thro' subterranean gardens by a light	E3
Unknown on earth which hath nor dawn nor night	E3
Else why those deathless structures why the grand	L
And hidden halls that undermine this land	L
Why else hath none of earth e'er dared to go	F3
Thro' the dark windings of that realm below	F3
Nor aught from heaven itself except the God	G3
Of Silence thro' those endless labyrinths trod	G3
Thus did I dream wild wandering dreams I own	H3
But such as haunt me ever if alone	H3
Or in that pause 'twixt joy and joy I be	A2
Like a ship husht between two waves at sea	A2
Then do these spirit whisperings like the sound	V2
Of the Dark Future come appalling round	V2
Nor can I break the trance that holds me then	I3
Till high o'er Pleasure's surge I mount again	I3
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Even now for new adventure new delight	E3
My heart is on the wing this very night	E3
The Temple on that island halfway o'er	U
From Memphis' gardens to the eastern shore	C
Sends up its annual rite to her whose beams	H2
Bring the sweet time of night flowers and dreams	H2
The nymph who dips her urn in silent lakes	H2
And turns to silvery dew each drop it takes	H2
Oh not our Dian of the North who chains	H2
In vestal ice the current of young veins	H2
But she who haunts the gay Bubastian grove	J3
And owns she sees from her bright heaven above	D3
Nothing on earth to match that heaven but Love	D3
Think then what bliss will be abroad to night	E3
Besides those sparkling nymphs who meet the sight	E3
Day after day familiar as the sun	H
Coy buds of beauty yet unbreathed upon	K3
And all the hidden loveliness that lies	H2
Shut up as are the beams of sleeping eyes	H2
Within these twilight shrines tonight shall be	A2
Let loose like birds for this festivity	A2
And mark 'tis nigh already the sun bids	H2
His evening farewell to the Pyramids	H2
As he hath done age after age till they	C2
Alone on earth seem ancient as his ray	C2
While their great shadows stretching from the light	E3
Look like the first colossal steps of Night	E3
Stretching across the valley to invade	L3
The distant hills of porphyry with their shade	L3
Around as signals of the setting beam	G
Gay gilded flags on every housetop gleam	G
While hark from all the temples a rich swell	B3
Of music to the Moon farewell farewell	B3