THE MUMMYFrom out the light of many a mightier day,From Pharaonic splendour, Memphian gloom,And from the night aeonian of the tombThey brought him forth, to meet the modern ray,—Upon his brow the unbroken seal of clay,While gods have gone to a forgotten doom,And desolation and the dust assumeTemple and cot immingling in decay.From out the everlasting womb sublimeOf cyclopean death, within a landOf tombs and cities rotting in the sun,He is reborn to mock the might of time,While kings have built against OblivionWith walls and columns of the windy sand.
From out the light of many a mightier day,From Pharaonic splendour, Memphian gloom,And from the night aeonian of the tombThey brought him forth, to meet the modern ray,—Upon his brow the unbroken seal of clay,While gods have gone to a forgotten doom,And desolation and the dust assumeTemple and cot immingling in decay.From out the everlasting womb sublimeOf cyclopean death, within a landOf tombs and cities rotting in the sun,He is reborn to mock the might of time,While kings have built against OblivionWith walls and columns of the windy sand.
From out the light of many a mightier day,From Pharaonic splendour, Memphian gloom,And from the night aeonian of the tombThey brought him forth, to meet the modern ray,—Upon his brow the unbroken seal of clay,While gods have gone to a forgotten doom,And desolation and the dust assumeTemple and cot immingling in decay.From out the everlasting womb sublimeOf cyclopean death, within a landOf tombs and cities rotting in the sun,He is reborn to mock the might of time,While kings have built against OblivionWith walls and columns of the windy sand.
From out the light of many a mightier day,From Pharaonic splendour, Memphian gloom,And from the night aeonian of the tombThey brought him forth, to meet the modern ray,—Upon his brow the unbroken seal of clay,While gods have gone to a forgotten doom,And desolation and the dust assumeTemple and cot immingling in decay.
From out the light of many a mightier day,
From Pharaonic splendour, Memphian gloom,
And from the night aeonian of the tomb
They brought him forth, to meet the modern ray,—
Upon his brow the unbroken seal of clay,
While gods have gone to a forgotten doom,
And desolation and the dust assume
Temple and cot immingling in decay.
From out the everlasting womb sublimeOf cyclopean death, within a landOf tombs and cities rotting in the sun,He is reborn to mock the might of time,While kings have built against OblivionWith walls and columns of the windy sand.
From out the everlasting womb sublime
Of cyclopean death, within a land
Of tombs and cities rotting in the sun,
He is reborn to mock the might of time,
While kings have built against Oblivion
With walls and columns of the windy sand.