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Thebes.
Her praises shall the verse inspire , Her favoured land shall wake the lyre , Where first , as earlier hards have sung , The Arts arose , ancl Learning sprung . N . L . TORRE , D . P . G . M . for Warwickshire . NOTES .
Verse 58 . —The famous statue of Memnon , near the city of Thebes , was said to utter a sound like the snapping asunder of a musical string , when it was struck by the first beams of the sun . It was a colossal figure of gigantic size , the mutilated bust of which , weighing nearly twelve tons , was sent to England by Belzoni in 1818 , and is now in the British Museum . Verse 123 . —Thebes sank in importance when Lower Egypt began to
be more thickly inhabited , and the new capital Memphis arose . It still remained , however , the chief seat of reli gion , until the fury of Cambyses , or , more correctly speaking , his religious fanaticism , destroyed most of its priesthood , and overthrew its proudest structures , from which period it rapidly declined . Verse 138 . — " It is absolutel y impossible , " says the enterprising Belzoni" to imagine the scene displayed at Thebeswithout seeing it
, , . The most sublime ideas that can be formed from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture , would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins : for such is the difference not onl y in magnitude , hut in form , proportion and construction , that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole . It appeared to me like entering a city of giants , who after a long conflict were all destroyed , leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proof of their existence . "
The Death Of The Templars.
THE DEATH OF THE TEMPLARS .
THEY fell—but not in the open fight Where man contends with man in his might—Where with dauntless breasts and iron hand , They level the lance or grasp the brand ; As they rushed to meet the paynim foe , And strike for the cross the kni ghtly blow .
They fell—but not in the battle field . Each mail-clad kni ght on his red cross shield ; Nor in the foe-beleaguered wall , Did the Temple ' s sworn defenders fall ; Nor in ambush wild or foray rude , Or ' mid the lone desert ' s solitude . They died on the rack , in pain and shame , At the martyr ' s stake with bliditccl fame ;
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Thebes.
Her praises shall the verse inspire , Her favoured land shall wake the lyre , Where first , as earlier hards have sung , The Arts arose , ancl Learning sprung . N . L . TORRE , D . P . G . M . for Warwickshire . NOTES .
Verse 58 . —The famous statue of Memnon , near the city of Thebes , was said to utter a sound like the snapping asunder of a musical string , when it was struck by the first beams of the sun . It was a colossal figure of gigantic size , the mutilated bust of which , weighing nearly twelve tons , was sent to England by Belzoni in 1818 , and is now in the British Museum . Verse 123 . —Thebes sank in importance when Lower Egypt began to
be more thickly inhabited , and the new capital Memphis arose . It still remained , however , the chief seat of reli gion , until the fury of Cambyses , or , more correctly speaking , his religious fanaticism , destroyed most of its priesthood , and overthrew its proudest structures , from which period it rapidly declined . Verse 138 . — " It is absolutel y impossible , " says the enterprising Belzoni" to imagine the scene displayed at Thebeswithout seeing it
, , . The most sublime ideas that can be formed from the most magnificent specimens of our present architecture , would give a very incorrect picture of these ruins : for such is the difference not onl y in magnitude , hut in form , proportion and construction , that even the pencil can convey but a faint idea of the whole . It appeared to me like entering a city of giants , who after a long conflict were all destroyed , leaving the ruins of their various temples as the only proof of their existence . "
The Death Of The Templars.
THE DEATH OF THE TEMPLARS .
THEY fell—but not in the open fight Where man contends with man in his might—Where with dauntless breasts and iron hand , They level the lance or grasp the brand ; As they rushed to meet the paynim foe , And strike for the cross the kni ghtly blow .
They fell—but not in the battle field . Each mail-clad kni ght on his red cross shield ; Nor in the foe-beleaguered wall , Did the Temple ' s sworn defenders fall ; Nor in ambush wild or foray rude , Or ' mid the lone desert ' s solitude . They died on the rack , in pain and shame , At the martyr ' s stake with bliditccl fame ;