Thus they lived some ages B.C. (in the thirtieth cent'ry),
Cannibals, six feet high, and long-legged Libyan gentry,
Buried à la trussed fowl, with heads on which wavy brown hair rose;
These were the folk who once made things pretty hot for the Pharaohs.
Dig then, Petrie, away 'mid potsherds, mummies, and cinders,
Delve on, and add fresh towns to the underground kingdom of Flinders!
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