Of seers, awakeners of the worshipp'd Sun!
Ask silent Tigris—Bid Euphrates tell
Where is the grove-crown'd Baal, to whose stern frown
Bow'd haughty Babylon?—Chaldea, famed
For star-taught sages,—hard Phenicia's sons.
Fierce fear-surmounting curbers of the deep,
Who stretch'd a floating sceptre o'er the seas,
And made mankind one empire?—Where is now
Egypt's wide-homag'd Isis?—where the Thors,
That shook the shakers of the Roman world?”