<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=455962" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Egyptian Theosophy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Far in the introspective East <br>A meditative Memphian Priest </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Would solve--such is the Sage's curse-- <br>The riddle of the Universe. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thought, turning round itself, revolved, <br>How was this puzzling World evolved? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">How came the starry sky to be, <br>The sun, the earth, the Nile, the sea? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And Man, most tragi-comic Man, <br>Whence came he here, and where began? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Communing with the baffling sky, <br>Who twinkled, but made no reply, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He brooded, till his heated brain <br>Grew fairly addled with the strain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For in that dim, benighted age <br>Philosopher and hoary sage </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had not yet had the saving grace <br>To teach the Schools that Time and Space, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And all the marvels they contain, <br>Are but the phantoms of the brain. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But that profound Egyptian Seer <br>Maybe--who knows?--came pretty near; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When, after days of strenuous fast, <br>He hit the startling truth at last; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on select, mysterious nights, <br>Veiled in occult, symbolic rites: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He taught--that once upon a time-- <br>To disbelieve it were a crime-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The World's great egg--refute who can, <br>That meditates on Life and Man-- </div><div style="margin:10px 0">While deafening cacklings spread the news-- <br>Was laid by an Almighty Goose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mathilde+Blind">Mathilde Blind</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=455962" data-title="Egyptian Theosophy de Mathilde Blind" data-description="Far in the introspective East A meditative Memphian Priest Would solve--such is the Sage's curse-- The riddle of the Universe. Thought, turning round itself, revolved, How was this puzzling World evolved? How came the starry sky to be, T..."></div> </div> </div>

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