and say,
“Shattered is Niniveh—who will pity her?
Whence shall I seek for comforters to thee?”
Shalt thou be better than No-Amon,[300]
Which sat upon the Nile streams[301]—waters were
round her—
Whose rampart was the sea,[302] and waters her wall?[303]
Kush was her strength and Miṣraim without end;
Phut and the Lybians were there to assist her.[304]
Even she was for exile, she went to captivity: