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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409473" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hermes Trismegistus</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still through Egypt's desert places<br>Flows the lordly Nile,<br>From its banks the great stone faces<br>Gaze with patient smile.<br>Still the pyramids imperious<br>Pierce the cloudless skies,<br>And the Sphinx stares with mysterious,<br>Solemn, stony eyes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But where are the old Egyptian<br>Demi-gods and kings?<br>Nothing left but an inscription<br>Graven on stones and rings.<br>Where are Helios and Hephaestus,<br>Gods of eldest eld?<br>Where is Hermes Trismegistus,<br>Who their secrets held? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where are now the many hundred<br>Thousand books he wrote?<br>By the Thaumaturgists plundered,<br>Lost in lands remote;<br>In oblivion sunk forever,<br>As when o'er the land<br>Blows a storm-wind, in the river<br>Sinks the scattered sand. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Something unsubstantial, ghostly,<br>Seems this Theurgist,<br>In deep meditation mostly<br>Wrapped, as in a mist.<br>Vague, phantasmal, and unreal<br>To our thought he seems,<br>Walking in a world ideal,<br>In a land of dreams. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Was he one, or many, merging<br>Name and fame in one,<br>Like a stream, to which, converging<br>Many streamlets run?<br>Till, with gathered power proceeding,<br>Ampler sweep it takes,<br>Downward the sweet waters leading<br>From unnumbered lakes. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">By the Nile I see him wandering,<br>Pausing now and then,<br>On the mystic union pondering<br>Between gods and men;<br>Half believing, wholly feeling,<br>With supreme delight,<br>How the gods, themselves concealing,<br>Lift men to their height. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or in Thebes, the hundred-gated,<br>In the thoroughfare<br>Breathing, as if consecrated,<br>A diviner air;<br>And amid discordant noises,<br>In the jostling throng,<br>Hearing far, celestial voices<br>Of Olympian song. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who shall call his dreams fallacious?<br>Who has searched or sought<br>All the unexplored and spacious<br>Universe of thought?<br>Who, in his own skill confiding,<br>Shall with rule and line<br>Mark the border-land dividing<br>Human and divine? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Trismegistus! three times greatest!<br>How thy name sublime<br>Has descended to this latest<br>Progeny of time!<br>Happy they whose written pages<br>Perish with their lives,<br>If amid the crumbling ages<br>Still their name survives! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thine, O priest of Egypt, lately<br>Found I in the vast,<br>Weed-encumbered sombre, stately,<br>Grave-yard of the Past;<br>And a presence moved before me<br>On that gloomy shore,<br>As a waft of wind, that o'er me<br>Breathed, and was no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q>
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Flows the lordly Nile,
From its banks the great stone faces
Gaze with patient smile.
Still the pyramids imperious
Pierce the cloudless skies,
And the Sphinx stares with mysterious,
Solemn, stony eyes. 

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