Could they but speak, high marvels had they told ✿ Of what Time did to man from first to last.
And quoth a third:—
My friend I prithee tell me, ‘neath the sky ✿ Is aught with Egypt’s Pyramids can compare?
Buildings which frighten Time, albe what dwells ✿ On back of earth in fear of Time must fare:
If on their marvels rest my sight no more, ✿ Yet these I ever shall in memory bear.
And quoth a fourth:—
Where is the man who built the Pyramids? ✿ What was his tribe, what day and where his tomb?
The monuments survive the men who built ✿ Awhile, till overthrown by touch of Doom.
And men also tell a tale of