Travels in the Far East

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The Pyramids from the Nile, Cairo
BY ELLEN M. H. PECK ( Mrs. James Sidney Peck )
NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1909
By Ellen M. H. Peck
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.
OZYMANDIAS
I MET a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
To My Daughter
AS the inspiration which caused the making of this Tour came from my daughter (the you of my story), and as she wished a record of the same published, my desire has been to give her as complete an idea of my journeyings as is possible by descriptive text and illustrations. The interest of friends in the plan has caused them to be included in my thought, and if the public desire to be added to the personal acquaintances whom I regard as my readers it will prove a pleasant recognition of a modest plan.