The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-28

Ruled by her mightest dynasties most potent
In Afric and on earth, when rose her cities
Between the Testish ocean and the desert,
Supremacy islanded, thronged with muttudinous
Life, all solitary in her majesty
Tale.
Twas when Nitocris, rose checked sovereign
Of Menfs reigned alone; her royal husband
Menduhelph Manduophisy son of Phope
Some years foregone had sunk in blood enyironed
By the fierce weapons of conspiring mobiles;
And she to monumentaze her sorrow,
And guard his relics till the hour when thunder
Shall burst the solemn houses of the departed
And yield their forms to the recussitants spirit
Asar-adar, had pyramid erected
Close to the mountain tombs of Khnena and Keefu;
And all believed her grief of love had altered
To resign'd calm, when, on the day that witnessed
The mighty sepulchral chamber complete she ordered
Rites of Thanksgiving for the work accomplished.
Bidding moreover to the customary banquet
Held in the bright deep subterraneous chambers
The foes she pardoned.
Sunset from the desert
Planned on the ctys and temples,
Massive of dark green porphory and red granite
Ponderous with multitudinous kngy columns
Giants in stone, sedent on solid thrones;
On the impershable Sphynx and Pyramids,
Supremacy Ger the structures Of all living
Eminent, and dark against the western glory,
Encompassed by dead cities spreading lonely
Toward the sad sand and the realm of the Dead
On whose flame frontier three forms colossal
sentineling the shores of the Unreasonable expansure.
Eastward, the light tinged the Arabian summis,
And the long deluge of the yellow river,
Wherein the mat-sailed barges foated, bearing
Tributes of ebony, ingots, ivory, spices,
Perfumes and grain, from bright Berence and Harnos
Glowed on long caravans tong Ger tedious roadways
From west and south, past clusters of black negresses
Grouped by we'll in the golden light of the desert
Or halng through level flames dark figures standing
Before their black haired tents upon the margin
Of some fresh shadowy, spring fed fruit Astounding
Island of green amid the shimmering antre,
Heaved here and there in tawney burning sand hills.
But norhward toward Campus it shone DER regions
Opulent with grain and with cool palm forest
Fields of ripe barley and wheat and towering melon,
Orchard and pomgranite garden, city, and temple,
Gir by its village domed with many-eaved sycamore
Amid the black wet arabic plain of the waters;
And travel trains with long crooked lines of cames
Winding through of verdure bright who pausing
Upon mound tree-shaded, the smooth ruin
On side, and the glory on the other
Heard in the evening quieness beneath them
Mellifuous music from the lowands flowing.
Already the dipp'd in scarlet levels
Of the dry haze outAung the frightening shadows
Of the great ombs of the kings across the city;
Within whose balconed courts and on whose roof tops
Women had gathered, weaving, embroidering,
And Egypts ladies to inhale the evening
Couched while the black slaves piled the fans of feathers
Mid thick stone water jars, fruit heaps, glass cases,
While all the thronged in the cool of twlga
By groups in costume of their casts white linen
Or linen striped in varied colors; and numerous
Arose the murmur of voices and tinkle of anklets.
Long trains of slaves returning from the brick fields
Chained, passed some palm-enshaded canal bank
Where fed on piles of dates the quiet camels,
Or where tunick'd dancing girls springing
Before crowd reposing. Now in their chambers
The wealthy amid their washers and anonters
Prepared for feasting; and in starry highway
Rose sounds of futst and lyris or procession
Moved to a shrine, driving gazells before them
And geese and capricorns, offering to some deity
Around whose image in the inner temple
From whose great cedar roof lamps dim from distance