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'Twas only the land when we saw it, / Unfettered, unharnessed and free, / Awaiting the will of the Master, / Who the future alone could see.
Long before ere the cold Egyptian / Had fashioned the Sphinx in the East, / Growing old ere the death of Adam, / And the flood on the Earth had ceased.