Idylls and Lyrics of The Nile By H. D. Rawnsley |
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Idylls and Lyrics of The Nile | ||
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LIV IN A KING'S TOMB
(BIBAN EL MÛLUK)
Oh, if I had been the soul of a king
Built up in a painted charnel cave,
My hands would have tried wide open to fling
The prison gate of my stifling grave.
Built up in a painted charnel cave,
My hands would have tried wide open to fling
The prison gate of my stifling grave.
And down thro' the valley of herbless heat
I should surely have sought the blossoming plain;
There sat among clover, and cool green wheat,
And nevermore back have returned again.
I should surely have sought the blossoming plain;
There sat among clover, and cool green wheat,
And nevermore back have returned again.
For crocodile jaws and serpents of flame,
And pigs and purgatorial fires
Are well in their way, but the texts are the same;
Of ‘Āpepi's’ folds one very soon tires.
And pigs and purgatorial fires
Are well in their way, but the texts are the same;
Of ‘Āpepi's’ folds one very soon tires.
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And the soul escaped from the body's thrall
Had little need more of lounging chairs,
Of harpers harping upon the wall,
Of pots of unguent and funeral wares.
Had little need more of lounging chairs,
Of harpers harping upon the wall,
Of pots of unguent and funeral wares.
And loosed from the flesh that has felt Death's sting,
And freed from the body's anguish and strife,
One would give all the painter's imagining
For a vision of growth and of painless life.
And freed from the body's anguish and strife,
One would give all the painter's imagining
For a vision of growth and of painless life.
Idylls and Lyrics of The Nile | ||