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Title: Egypt and its monuments
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950
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Publisher: New York, Century Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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usly reappearing^ amongtheir narrow trunks. Here and there a living thingmoved slowly, wading homeward through this sea: acamel from the sands of Ghizeh, a buffalo, two donkeys,followed by boys who held with brown hands theirdark blue skirts near their faces, a Bedouin leaningforward upon the neck of his quickly stepping horse.At one moment I seemed to look upon the lagoons ofVenice, a watery vision full of a glassy calm. Thenthe palm-trees in the water, and growing to its edge,the pale sands that, far as the eyes could see, fromGhizeh to Sakkara and beyond, fringed it toward thewest, made me think of the Pacific, of palmy islandsof a paradise where men grow drowsy in well-being,and dream away the years. And then I looked stillfarther, beyond the pallid line of the sands, and I sawa Pyramid of gold, the wonder Khufu had built. As agolden wonder it saluted me after all my years ofabsence. Later I was to see it gray as gray sands,sulphur color in the afternoon from very near at hand, lO
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THE PYRAMIDS black as a monument draped in funereal velvet for amourning under the stars at night, white as a monstrousmarble tomb soon after dawn from the sand-dunes be-tween it and Sakkara. But as a golden thing it greetedme, as a golden miracle I shall remember it. Slowly the sun went down. The second Pyramidseemed also made of gold. Drowsily splendid it andits greater brother looked set on the golden sands be-neath the golden sky. And now the gold came travel-ing down from the desert to the water, turning it surelyto a wine like the wine of gold that flowed downMidass throat; then, as the magic grew, to a Pactolus,and at last to a great surface that resembled golden ice,hard, glittering, unbroken by any ruffling wave. Theislands rising from this golden ice were jet black, thehouses black, the palms and their shadows that fellupon the marvel black. Black were the birds that flewlow from roof to roof, black the wading camels, blackthe meeting leaves of the tall lebbek-trees that for

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