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If the sudden tidings came / That on some far, foreign coast, / Buried ages long from fame, / Had been found a remnant lost / Of that hoary race who dwelt / By the golden Nile divine, / Spake the Pharaoh's tongue and knelt / At the moon-crowned Isis' shrine -- / How at reverend Egypt's feet, / Pilgrims from all lands would meet!
If the sudden news were known, / That anigh the desert-place / Where once blossomed Babylon, / Scions of a mighty race / Still survived, of giant build, / Huntsmen, warriors, priest and sage, / Whose ancestral fame had filled, / Trumpet-tongued, the earlier age, / How at old Assyria's feet / Pilgrims from all lands would meet!