All kingdoms on the continent that be.”
Then, with the wizard in a flying mist,
I rose along the sides of that steep cone:
’Twas like an iron trunk of girdle vast;
The moon’s full globe upon all cities shone;
Tyre, by the waters; glimmering Ascalon;
The City of the Magians, girt with fire;
And in the East we saw those mountain ranges
Which separate the Nile from sacred Ganges.
Alas! all earthly things have been revised