Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-02-13

And thou hast walked about, (how strange storyD
Ia Thcbe.' streets three thousand years ago,
When the Memnonium was In all Its glory,
And time had not begun to overthrow
Those temples, palaces aud piles stnfendo1s,
or which the very ruins are tremendous.
Speak for thou long enough hast acted Dummy
Thou hast n tongue-eome, let US hear it' tune
Thou'rt s,snding on thy legs, above ground, Mummy
Revisiting ,he glimpse. OF the mo"n'
Not like tain ghosts, or dsenbodied creatures,
Bu, with thy bones aud hssh aud limbs, aud features
Tell us-fpr doubtless thou canst rccolleci,
To whom we should assign the srhinx's iamei
Wa. Cheops, or Csphrenes architect
Ofeither Pyramid iha, bears his name
I. Pompsy's pillar really a msnomer
Had Thobes a hundred gates, ns sung by Homer'
srhnps thou vast . mason. and forbidden
BY oath 10 tell the my sleries Of thy trade,
Then say what secret melody wus hidden
Ia Memnon's statue which at SUNRISE played
Perhaps thou vast n Presi-fso, my struggles
Are vsin for priestcran never owns its juggles.
Psrchance that very hand, now pinioned fiat,
Has hob -a-nobd with Pharaoh, glass TO glass
or dropp'd a half f-penny in Homer's hat,
Or doh'd thine own TO lot Queen Dido pass,
Or held, by solonon's own invitation,
A torch at the great Temples dedication.
I neod not ask thee II that hand, when armed,
Hs. any Roman soldier mnul'd, and knuckled,
For thou vast dead, and buried aud emhalmed,
Ere Romulus and Remus, had been sucked -
Antiquity appears to have begun,
Long amer thy prirneval race was run.
Thou couIdst deveiops, if that withered tongue
Might tell us what those sishtess orbs have seen,
How the world looked " hen Il was fresh and young;
And the great dclugs still had lei, II green
Or was II then so old that Iiistory's pages,
Contained no record of early ages
sim silent incommunicativc elf
Art sworn TO scores, then keep Thy vows
But prithie tell us something Of Ihyselt
Reveal the secrets fthy prison house
Since In the world Of spirits thou hast slsmberd
What hast thou ssen-whst strange adventures num-
ber'dI
Since arst thy form was in this box extended,
We hive above ground some strange nutationsj
The Romnn empire has begun, and ended,
New worlds have risen-we have lost old nations,
And countless kings have into dust been BUNDLED,
While not n fragment OF thy fesh has crumblsd.
Dtd'st tnOu not near tue pothcT oi Nhy he"",
When the srea, Persian conqueror Cnmbyses
Marched armies DER thy tomb with laundering tread,
O'erthrew Osiris, Orus, Apis, Isis,
Aud shook the Pyramids with fear, aud wonder,
When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder'
1.-THE tomb's secrets may not be con fessd,
The nature Of thy private iifs unfold;
heart has throbb'd beneath that ieathern breast,
Aud tears adown that dusky cheek have rolrdi
HIVE children cmbd those knees, and Kissed that face,
What was thy name, and station, age and racs'
STATUE Of nesh--immortai OF the dend
Imperishnbic type of evanescence!
Posihnmous man, who qutl'd thy narrow bed,
And standest undscay'd within our presence
Thou wilt hear nothing TIL the judgment morning
Whom tho great trump shall thrill thee with its warning
Why should this worthless tegument endure,
fits undying guest be lost forsver!
. let us keep the soul embalin'd and pure,
In living virtue, that when both must sever,
Although corruption msy our frame consume,
Tn immortal spirit in the skies may bloom.