| Show SAMENESS OF RIVER NILE golden monotony of light and souna in beautiful land of the th Phara pharaohs some soma people talk or of the samen elss of the nile a and a d there li is a lovely level sameness of golden light of 0 delicious air ol of and or of scenery for FOI eg egypt t Is li after all mainly a 8 gr great C at riv er with strips on tare side of culli va bated land a an d flat grmela not very varied river green plains yellow plains pink brown bron steel ray gray or pale yol yd low n mail of wall of yes I 1 I 1 there Is a sameness aun eness a sort of golden monotony in this land pera pervaded ded with light and pern abed ax alth fill soun roun I 1 always there 1 light around you and you are inthong in in it ind and nearby aldays it if vou ou ar an living iving as I 1 was on tho the water there I 1 la s a multitude of mingling sounds floating floating to our ears A at there are two lines of green lind land two ans of mountain following the ans course of r the nile 0 o are there two lines or of notes that cease their calling and their irging ouia is as vou ou drav dra near to nubia for then with the green land they fade aina a av thes miles upon miles of calling and singing lo 10 loan L o oan n men and amber and ruddy sands creep down ward vard to the nile and the air seems subtly changing and the light perhaps growing a little harder birder and you ou arf are aware of other regions unlit thoi you vou are leaving more african more less suave less ime a dream ing and especially the makes m thes H bredt impression on you rut but be corp you enter ahli silence ille bt bleen een the amber and valli alli that will aill lead ou on to nut ulli ii and to the land 0 of t the crocodile VOM have a visit to pay for here high up on a terrace 1 Is kom ambos and koru koro ambos la the temple of tile the crocodile god ce cen un I 1 A dictum I 1 it Is a frame of minu mini here as it was a frame arne of mind there to zeal asly cherish the sanity of existence to labor albeit in what a turmoil of grim stress with the cho twinkle of mirth in your heart and the light of co corn rn n your eye never to gi alvo 0 over tho the pursuit of beauty in v ill all things never to abandon the ink ling of d earns however vague and dim in the dust of daily endeavor thus thug shall you increase the alon on of your soul and realize the joy oy of life robert bowman peck |
