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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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nges. And on the very day of my arrival she calmlyreassured me. She told me in her supremely magicalway that all was well with her. She taught me oncemore a lesson I had not quite forgotten, but that I wasglad to learn again—the lesson that Egypt owes hermost subtle, most inner beauty to Kheper, althoughshe owes her marvels to men; that when he createdthe sun which shines upon her, he gave her the lusterof her life, and that those who come to her must besun-worshipers if they would truly and intimately un-derstand the treasure of romance that lies heaped withinher bosom. Thoth, says the old legend, traveled in the Boat ofthe Sun. If you would love Egypt rightly, you, too,must be a traveler in that bark. You must not fear tosteep yourself in the mystery of gold, in the mysteryof heat, in the mystery of silence that seems softlyshowered out of the sun. The sacred white lotus mustbe your emblem, and Horus, the hawk-headed, mergedin Ra, your special deity. Scarcely had I set foot once 6
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THE PYRAMIDS more in Egypt before Thoth lifted me into the Boat ofthe Sun and soothed my fears to sleep. I arrived in Cairo. I saw new and vast hotels; Isaw crowded streets; brilliant shops; English officialsdriving importantly in victorias, surely to pay dreadfulcalls of ceremony; women in gigantic hats, withNiagaras of veil, waving white gloves as they talked of—I guessed—the latest Cairene scandal. I perceived onthe right hand and on the left waiters created in Switzer-land, hall porters made in Germany, Levantine touts,determined Jews holding false antiquities in their leanfingers, an English Baptist minister, in a white helmet,drinking chocolate on a terrace, with a guide-book inone fist, a ticket to visit monuments in the other. Iheard Scottish soldiers playing, I 11 be in Scotlandbefore ye! and something within me, a lurking hope,I suppose, seemed to founder and collapse—but onlyfor a moment. It was after four in the afternoon. Soonday would be declining. And I seemed to

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