It flows through old hushed Ægypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a dream,
And times and things, as in that vision, seem
Keeping along it their eternal stands,-
Caves, pillars, pyramids, the shepherd bands
That roamed through the young world, the glory extreme
Of high Sesostris, and that southern beam,
The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.
Then comes a mightier silence, stern and strong,
As of a world left empty of its throng,
And the void weighs on us; and then we wake,
And hear the fruitful stream lapsing along
Twixt villages, and think how we shall take
Our own calm journey on for human sake.
The Nile
James Henry Leigh Hunt
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Poem topics: dream, journey, silence, human, young, great, hear, eternal, strong, queen, sake, extreme, grave, high, vision, void, thought, stream, world, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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