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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MESSAGE OF AN ANCIENT POET, by LEONORA CLAWSON STRYKER
First Line: I watched men digging in egyptian sands
Last Line: "my love, your face is like a lotus bud."
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: I watched men digging in egyptian sands
Last Line: "my love, your face is like a lotus bud."
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
I watched men digging in Egyptian sands,
Toiling through sifting nights and into dawn
To place an ancient wisdom in the hands
Of modern men to read and ponder on.
The hieroglyphics carved in blocks of stone
Held messages conceived by priest and sage
Who hoped that generations past their own
Might find this record of a dimmer age.
But when these secret documents were read,
And all their mystic cipherings made plain,
The most familiar message from the dead
Of Pharaoh and Ptolemy's harsh reign
Was this: some poet traced in plastic mud,
"My love, your face is like a lotus bud."
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