Excerpt from Earth's Voices, Transcripts From Nature, Sospitra: And Other Poems From Afric depths I come With ever mightier flow, Thro' deserts vast I go, Past crumbling cities dumb And dead, and Sphinxes fair That with a stony stare Brood on in old despair. Past Thebes and Memphis I Roll on my turbid flood Tired now of ceaseless blood, Beneath this blazing sky I fain would bring long peace, From drought a long surcease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.