• Why dost thou hail with songful lips no more
    The glorious sunrise?—Why is Memnon mute,
    Whose voice was tuned as is the silvery flute
    When Thebes sat queenly by the Nile’s low shore?
    The chained slaves sweat no longer at the oar,
    No longer shrines are raised to man and brute,
    Yet dawn by dawn the sun thou didst salute
    Gives thee the...