Horace Smith.
(One of the Authors of “Rejected Addresses.”)
The Answer of the Egyptian Mummy.
Child of the latter days! thy words have broken
A spell that long has bound these lungs of clay,
For since this smoke-dried tongue of mine hath spoken,
Three thousand tedious years have rolled away
Unswathed at length, I ’stand at ease’ before ye,—
List, then, oh! list, while I unfold my story.