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To The Nile.

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Month after month the gathered rains descend     Drenching yon secret Aethiopian dells,     And from the desert's ice-girt pinnacles     Where Frost and Heat in strange embraces blend     On Atlas, fields of moist snow half depend.     Girt there with blasts and meteors Tempest dwells     By Nile's aereal urn, with rapid spells     Urging those waters to their mighty end.     O'er Egypt's land of Memory floods are level     And they are thine, O Nile - and well thou knowest     That soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil     And fruits and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.     Beware, O Man - for knowledge must to thee,     Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.

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