Religion
Rameses II
From The Golden Whales of California (1920)
Religion
Would that the brave Rameses, King of Time
Were throned in your souls, to raise for you
Vast immemorial dreams dark Egypt knew,
Filling these barren days with Mystery,
With Life and Death, and Immortality,
The Devouring Ages, the all-consuming Sun:
God keep us brooding on eternal things,
God make us wizard-kings.
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Lindsay, Vachel. “Rameses II.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/173/.
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Lindsay, Vachel. “Rameses II.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lindsay/173/.
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