p. 9 | Letters from Egypt by Louis V. Ledoux

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 13, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 40.

Letters from Egypt

By Louis V. Ledoux

MEMPHIS and Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, the Nile: Of these your letters told; and I who read, Saw loom on dim horizons Egypt's dead In march across the desert, mile on mile;— A ghostly caravan in slow defile Between the sand and stars; and at their head From unmapped darkness into darkness fled The gods that all men feared a little while. There black against the night I saw them loom, With captive kings and armies in array, Remembered only by their sculptured doom; And thought: What Egypt was are we to-day. Time's vanguard marched through the sombre gloom; The rearguard gathers; let us watch and pray. —Louis V. Ledoux, in "The Pathfinder."