<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374711" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ishmonie</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The traveller tells how, in that ancient clime <br>Whose mystic monuments and ruins hoar <br>Still struggle with the antiquary's lore, <br>To guard the secrets of a by-gone time, <br>He saw, uprising from the desert bare, <br>Like a white ghost, a city of the dead, <br>With palaces and temples wondrous fair, <br>Where moon-horn'd Isis once was worshipped. <br>But silence, like a pall, did all enfold, <br>And the inhabitants were turn'd to stone -- <br>Yea, stone the very heart of every one! <br>Once to a rich man I this tale re-told. <br>&quot;Stone hearts! A traveller's myth!&quot; -- he turn'd aside, <br>As Hunger begg'd, pale-featured and wild-eyed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+Booth+Loughran">Edward Booth Loughran</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374711" data-title="Ishmonie de Edward Booth Loughran" data-description="The traveller tells how, in that ancient clime Whose mystic monuments and ruins hoar Still struggle with the antiquary's lore, To guard the secrets of a by-gone time, He saw, uprising from the desert bare, Like a white ghost, a city of the de..."></div> </div> </div>

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