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In westering clouds the sun is hid;Eve gathers round the pyramid:
The twilight flings a parting smile
Upon the broad and glorious Nile:
The sunset breezes rise, and shed
Soft music from the palm-tree's head;
And one light boat with sail and oar
Hath crossed the stream and gained the shore.
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Such great reflections of the past,
As where she glimmered round the path
Of Joseph and of Asenath;
Bade Israel's children cease from toil,
Or saw them rich with Pharaoh's spoil.
—'Tis gone and o'er. I would the strain
That hath call'd up the past again,
And told of that Almighty Hand
So oft stretched out on Zoan's strand,
And tried, too boldly, to relate
Each change and chance of human fate,
Were worthier, land of God! to be
A record of the past and thee!
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