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Identifier: sanfrancwat4192581930spri (find matches)
Title: San Francisco water
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Spring Valley Water Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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forty high Nilesin the Twenty-fifth Dynasty. Does it not seem futile, this attempt tobridle the Nile with words? The Nile wasflowing serenely before the first Egyptianmonuments—pyramids, temples, Nilometers—were thought of, and it flows just as se-renely today past the mockery of Ozyman-jdias and Tut-Ankhamen. The Nile is a uni-iversal symbol. Shall you not feel reverencejfor the Nile, the mixing bowl of Egypt?demanded Apollonius of Tyana when theChristian era was new. And when the Em- peror Vespasian wished to impress upon hisdoubtful Egyptian subjects the beneficenceof his rule, he told them, You shall drawas liberally upon me as vou do upon theNile. During the reign of Augustus Caesar, thegreat geographer Strabo set out upon histravels, note-book ever in hand. Judgingfrom his work, no place that he visited im-pressed him more than the valley of the Nile.He was, doubtless, as keenly responsive toits allure as Herodotus had been hundredsof years before. But (Concluded on page 16)
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- ig to the seasonal needs of the SAN FRANCISCO WATER January, 1928 • Two Poems on Water ^By Robert Southey ON the following pages are given two ofthe most famous English poems everwritten on the subject of water, and, strangelyenough, both were written by Robert Southey. The Well of St. Keyne was written in1798; The Cataract of Lodore in 1820,when Southey was Poet Laureate. Both werein the nature of jeux desprit, and Southeydid not value them highly. He felt sure thathis fame as a poet would be perpetuated bysuch epic and narrative poems as Joan ofArc, Thalaba, and The Curse of Ke-hama, not by the simple little effusions thathe dashed off for the amusement of his chil-dren. It is probable that not more than adozen living persons have waded through thepretentious poems upon which he staked hisclaim to immortality. But The Cataract ofLodore and The Well of St. Keyne, to-gether with Mary, the Maid of the Inn,The Inchcape Rock, and The Battle ofBlenheim (It was a famous victory), werea

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