Leigh Hunt



                   A Thought of the Nile


                   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.

                   First publication date: 1818


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