Explore "The Old Pole Star" by Edith Wharton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the days / Man tethered Change to his fixed star, and said: / "The elder races, that long since are dead, / Marched by that light; it swerves not from its base / Though all the worlds about it wax and fade."
When Egypt saw it, fast in reeling spheres, / Her Pyramids shaft-centred on its ray / She reared and said: "Long as this star holds sway / In uninvaded ether, shall the years / Revere my monuments -- " and went her way.