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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE OBELISK DURING THE GREAT FROST, 1881, by MATHILDE BLIND Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou sign post of the desert! Obelisk
Last Line: Is this the sun which fired thine orient day?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Obelisks
First Line: Thou sign post of the desert! Obelisk
Last Line: Is this the sun which fired thine orient day?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Obelisks
THOU sign-post of the Desert! Obelisk,
Once fronting in thy monumental pride
Egypt's fierce sun, that blazing far and wide,
Sheared her of tree and herb, till like a disk
Her waste stretched shadowless, and fraught with risk
To those who with their beasts of burden hied
Across the seas of sand until they spied
Thy pillar, and their flagging hearts grew brisk:
Now reared beside our Thames so wintry gray,
Where blocks of ice drift with the drifting stream,
Thou risest o'er the alien prospect! Say,
Yon dull, blear, rayless orb whose lurid gleam
Tinges the snow-draped ships and writhing steam,
Is this the sun which fired thine orient day?
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