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Show Burfi fron1 each pyramid expiring groans, And darker fhadows firetch' d their lengthen' d cones. Day after day their deathful rout They fieer, Luftin the van, and Rapine in the rear. ''GNoMEs 1 as they march' d, You hid the gather' d fruits, The bladed grafs, fweet grains, and mealy roots; 456 Scared the tired quails, that journey' d o'er their heads, Retain'd the locufis in their earthy beds ; Bade on your fands no night-born dews di:fl:il, Stay' d with vindiB:ive hands the fcanty rill.- 460 Loud o'er the can1p the Fiend of Famine ilirieks, Calls all her brood, and cha1nps her hundred beaks; Expiring grMns. 1. 451. Mr. Savery or Mr. Volney in his Travels through Egypt has given a curious dcbiption of one of the pyramids, with the operofe methOll of clofing them, and immuring the body, (as they fuppofed) for fix thoufand years. And has endeavoured from thence to !hew, that, when a monarch died, feveral of his favourite courtiers were inclofed alive with the mummy in thcfe great maffes of fl:onework; and had food and WJter conveyed to them, as long as they lived, proper apertures being left for this purpofc, and for the admiffion of air, and for the cxclufion of ilny thing oftenfive, 3 [ 99 ] O'er ten fquare leagues her pennons broad expand, And twilight fwims upon the !huddering fand; Perch' d on her crefi the Griffin Difcord clings, And Giant Murder rides between her wings ; Blood frotn each clotted hair, and horny quill, And ihowers of tears in blended fl:reams difiil ; High poifed.. in air her fpiry neck ihe bends, Rolls her keen eye, her dragon-claws extends, 470 Darts from above, and tears at each fell f woop With iron fangs the decimated troop. "Now o'er their head the whizzing whirlwinds breathe, And the live defert pants, and heaves beneath ; Tinged by the crimfon fun, vafi columns rife Of eddying fands, and war amid the fkies, In red arcades the billowy plain furround, And whirling turrets fialk along the ground. 475 And whin'i11g turrets. 1. 4-78. "At one o'clock we alighted among fome acacia trees at Waadi el Halboub, having gone twenty-one miles. We were here at once li1rprifcd and terrified by a fight furely one of the moil magnificent in the world. In that vafl expanfe of rlefert, from W. toN. W. of us, we faw a number of prodigious pillars of f.1nd at different difl:ances. at times moving with great celerity, :~t others !lalking on with a 0 2 |