Identifier: egyptitsmonument00hich (find matches)
Title: Egypt and its monuments
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hichens, Robert Smythe, 1864-1950
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Publisher: New York, Century Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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that lies beyondthem, looks on them from a little distance, their attitudeis like a summons to men to contend no more, to bestill, to enter into rest. Come to this temple when you leave the hall of Seti.There you are in a place of triumph. Scarlet, somesay, is the color of a great note sounded on a bugle.This hall is like a bugle-call of the past, thrilling evennow down all the ages with a triumph that is surelygreater than any other triumph. It suggests blaze—blaze of scarlet, blaze of bugle, blaze of glory, blazeof life and time, of ambition and achievement. In thesecolumns, in the putting up of them, dead men soughtto climb to sun and stars, limitless in desire, limitlessin industry, limitless in will. And at the tops of thecolumns blooms the lotus, the symbol of rising. Whata triumph in stone this hall was once, what a triumphin stone its ruin is to-day! Perhaps, among temples,it is the most wondrous thing in all Egypt, as it wasno doubt the most wondrous temple in the world; 84
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KARNAK among temples, I say, for the Sphinx is of all the marvelsof Egypt by far the most marvelous. The grandeurof this hall almost moves one to tears, like the march-ing past of conquerors, stirs the heart with leapingthrills at the capacities of men. Through the thicketof columns, tall as forest trees, the intense blue of theAfrican sky stares down, and their great shadows liealong the warm and sunlit ground. Listen! Thereare voices chanting. Men are working here—workingas men worked how many thousands of years ago. Butthese are calling upon the Mohammedans god as theyslowly drag to the appointed places the mighty blocks ofstone. And it is to-day a Frenchman who oversees them. Help! Help! Allah give us help !Help! Help! Allah give us help ! The dust flies up about their naked feet. Triumphand work; work succeeded by the triumph all can see.I like to hear the workmens voices within the hall ofSeti. I like to see the dust stirred by their tramping feet. And then I like to go once m

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