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declared to be a forgery . Had they known Cosmo Irines' views of the matter , they would not have been found in " perfect order " —a lodge that lias usurped the place it holds on thc Roll ! Is not this too bad ? " Leo" can have his own mind regarding the degrees ,
but I hold by my former statement—they might as well work the one degree as thc other . I am satisfied with " Leo's" explanation in so far that he meant operative lodges—not speculative , as any one would surmise from his remarks in THE FREEMASON , NO . 7 ,
page 9 . As for his ideas in reference to Solomon ' s Temple , I leave your readers to judge . f am , yours fraternally , AMMI .
THISTLE LODGE , No . 87 . ( To the Editor of the Freemason . ) DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In your issue of the 15 th inst ., Bro . Lavvson questions the truth of the paragraph sent you anent the anniversary supper of his lodge by stating that you had been imposed on ,
and that it was absurd . Now , to prove which of the two imposed on you , let us tako a look at Bro . L . ' s paragraph that the local press so courteously inserted :--" M ASONIC . —A convivial and truly harmonious refreshment lodge was held by the brethren of the Thistle , No . 87 , in their usual meeting-hall , Croy-place , on Tuesday night , the
20 th inst ., being in celebration of its 107 th anniversary . Bro . Thos . Paton , R . W . JI ., and Wardens John Grieve and John Dobbie officiated , supported by brethren of note in the province . The numerous toasts , songs , and sentiments given and responded to during the evening , relieved by occasional strains on the harmonium , formed a really enjoyable entertainment . "—Qlasr / oio Daily Herald , April 33 .
Then read Bro . L . ' s statement at page 7 , No . 10 , of THE FREEMASON ; compare the two . Who was the impostor ? In sending you the paragraph I told the truth , and also sent it to the proper organ for Masonic news . Why did 13 ro . L . not insert the truth in the local papers ? It would have been more honourable to
have acknowledged that it was simply a complimentary supper for the purpose of raising a fund to assist their poor old Tyler ( who , by the way , is entitled to handsome remuneration , for although only Tyler in name , he has done the Master ' s work in the lodge for a number of years—surely the labourer is worthy of his
hire !) than display it as the 107 th anniversary ; or have mado known , decently , that all their efforts to get up a supper failed , i . e ., slickit ! The next time Bro . Lawson wishes to see his namo in print , let his would-be corrections be those of errors , not of bona fide facts . I am , yours fraternally , TATIES AN' TRIPE .
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE VERSOS EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE .
( To the Editor of the Freemason . ) DEAR SIR AND B ROTHER , — On the first page of THE FBEKMASON , No . 10 , I read the following : — "Upon the model of King Solomon ' s Temple were constructed , we nre informed , nearly all those wondrous palaces and temples of the ancient world of which such
magnificent remains exist even to tho present day . ' If "The Son of Salathiel" means that Solomon ' s Temple served as the model of other temples , or that tho Egyptians copied their temples , & c , from Solomon ' s , he makes a mistake ; and I must therefore observe that Zcrubbabel , alias Shosbazzar , ought to
have known bettor , the fact being that Solomon ' s Temple was copied from them , not thom from it . Further , many ofthe noble temples , & c , " oftho ancient world , of which such magnificent remains exist even to the present day , " were erected long before Solomon was bom ! Solomon ' s Temple was begun
1012 years » . c . ; long after the Augustan age of Egyptian architecture had passed . All that Solomon could manage in architecture was to do a little in copying , iind that , too , by the help of strangers , the Jews not being any way remarkable as a nation of builders , their forte lying in a dilfcrent direction .
Not to go further back at present , wo find remains of thc eighteenth dynasty of Egyptian kings ( say from 1525 to 1310 n . c ) , who built tho temple of Anien-ra ( now known by tlie name of Karnak ) , and other great edifices at Thebes , The Queen Amen-niint set up the obelisks in front of Anien-ra , and the time of
Thotines III . is " peculiarly rich in thoso tomb-paintings which reveal to us the private life of tho Egyptians . Our Museum possesses the head and arm of liis colossal statue , in red granite , found at Karnak by Belzoui . One of thc two colossal statues of Amcnoph III ., seated in front of tlio great temple which ho
built in the western suburbs of Inches , was the celebrated ' Vocal Meinnon' " This vocal Munition , or "Son of the Morning , " was used as . another piece of priestly imposition , for " Sir Gardiner Wilkinson found in the lap of the colossus a stone which on being struck
with a hammer emitted a metallic sound . A priest mig ht easily have been concealed in the position occup ied b y Wilkinson ; and thus we find tho same spirit of priestcraft 3000 years ago prompting to devices which have their parallel in tlie blood of St . Januarius and thc winking Madonnas of our own ago . "
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Even the other day , a brother holding a position in our Masonic body expressed himself to me somewhat as follows : — Although the pretended antiquity of Freemasonry was false , we should not admit it , but keep up the imposture as long as possible , it being dangerous to disturb the present ideas by examining into its history or the real state of affairs ! Could
anything be really moro unmasonic , ungentlemanly , and suicidal ? Truly far too many act upon the foolish motto , "Where ignorance is bliss (?)' twere folly to be wise . " However , I shall leave the individual I refer to , to consider the meaning of the word " hypocrisy " when next he tells a candidate the Masonic lesson to be deduced from the " square . "
The grandest period of Egyptian history was under the rule of the Nineteenth Dynasty , and during the reign of Rameses II ., or " the Great , " about _ 1300 years B . C . He reigned above 60 years . The reign of the father of Rameses was marked by one of the finest monuments of Egyptian art—the grand " Hall of Columns " in the temple of Karnak , and by the most
splendid tomb among those of the Theban kings . As to Rameses himself , who reigned three centuries before Solomon , " great remains of his vast buildings still exist both in Upper and Lower Egypt , lie adorned and enlarged the temple of Ptnh , _ at Memphis , the site of which is marked by a beautiful colossal statue of him in granite , but mutilated and
fallen on its face . Some idea maybe formed ot this colossus from the fist , now in the British Museum ; its length from the wrist to the knuckle ofthe middle finger is 32 inches , ancl its width across the knuckles ;> 0 J inches . Beyond the limits of Upper Egypt he left imperishable memorials in the rock-hewn temples of Aboii-Simbel , above the second cataract , faced with
his colossal statues—the largest in the world—besides other monuments in Nubia . But his greatest works were in Thebes itself . Besides adding to the temples of Jil-Kurnak and El-Uksor , he erected a magnificent temple on the western side of the Nile , at tho very edge of the desert . This is , doubtless , the edifice described by Diodorus Siculus as tho tomb of ( Isyman
dyas . It has been called by modern writers the Memnonium , but now , more properly , the Rameseum . Its ruins , near the village of El-Ivurnak , though much defaced , still bear the marks of that real beauty , as well as magnificence , which belongs to the best period of Egyptian art . For those who have only seen a few fragments exhibited in half-lighted rooms under a
cloudy sky , or the well-meant imitation of a temple in a reduced p laster model , can form no idea of the impression made even by the ruins of these edifices , when seen in thc midst of a vast plain , and with the deep shadows cast by a southern sun . Only in their proper place can be seen how gracefully tlie papyrusstemmed shafts and lotus-leaved or Isis-headod
capitals of the pillars blend with the masses they support , or how the whole style harmonizes with the genius of the people and their religion . Our space does not permit a description of an Egyptian temple , with its towering propyheu , its spacious colonnaded court , ils first and second sanctuary supported by many pillars , and its various chambers ; the whole approached by an avenue of obelisks and sphinxes ; and tho details
would be scarcely intelligible without a plan . But we must mention the sculptures on the walls , from which we learn the story oftho family and reign of Itamescs ; ami tho astronomical ceiling in one of the chambers , which forms the most precious monument of Egyptian science . Wis learn , too , from Diodorus , that the templo contained a sacred library . In the centre of the I'l-eat hall are the shattered remains of a colossal
statue of R une-ies himself , which . when complete , must have been no less than GO feet high . " In Sir Gardiner Wilkinson ' s " Ancient Egyptians " is a small plan of the Momnoiiium , or Ilaiuoseum , according to which it would seem to have been about 101 ) 0 feet long , with two immense towers—each about 200 foot broad by 60 feet deep , and fallowing them to
have been half as high again as ( hey were broad ) 300 feet high—which flanked the entrance . 1 cannot go into this more particularly tit present for want of time ; but before I leave the Egyptian kings I might refer to Barneses the 3 rd of the Twentieth Dynasty , about 1200 n . c , who , " besides a magnificent tomb and a royal residence , built the
splendid temple , of Medinet-llubon . ' 1 he above aro only n sample of the many beautiful and magnificent edifices which wero erected long before Solomon was born . Egypt was old as a kingdom while Israel was yet in her cradle . The Egyptians were a nation of builders and tho fathers of art , which tho Jews wore not . However , whilo we acknowledge the debt we owe
to tho Egyptians as architects , we must not forget that to tho Jews wo owe our faith , which enables ' us to rise superior to tho narrow limits of our poor humanity , and to look forward with hopo to attaining a place m that Temple not made with hands , eternal in tho heavens . I must hero mention that the above quotations are principally from Mr . LMiilip Smith ' s "Ancient History , "
1 SG 8 . In reference to verse 7 of 1 st Kings vi ., I consider that it was nothing remarkable then for a temple to he built , without " any tool of iron being heard m the house , " as it has struck me that this was n ! so the
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practice in Egypt , the Egyptians preparing all their stones in the quarry , or apart from the temple , when they merely required to be set in thoir proper places ; the presence of iron being contamination , and therefore forbidden , in an Egyptian temple . As an example of the strictness of tho Egyptians in this respect , ! read lately somewhere that an immense , stone which
had taken years to transport was set aside because of some trifling accident , or incident , that occurred amongst its transporters . I have observed that Solomon occupies a more prominent position with us than he perhaps deserves . He was wise , but upon reading lst Kings ix . 13 , 1 am
afraid he was rather mean , else Hiram would not have called them "the land of * Cabul "—that is , the displeasing or dirty cities . As a man , I am inclined to admire David far more than Solomon . < I think I could not close these remarks more appropriately than by quoting those lino verses by Mr . Horace Smith : —
ADORKSS TO THE MUMJIT IN BEMONI ' S EXHIBITION . And tliou hast walked about ( how strange a stoiy ! ) In Thebes ' s streets three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium was in all its glory , And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples , palaces , and piles stupendous , Of which the very ruins are tremendous .
Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dummy , Thou hast a tongue—come , let us hear its tune ; Thou ' rt standing on thy legs above ground , Mummy ! Kevisiting the glimpses of the moon , Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures , Utit with thy bones and flesh , and limbs and features .
TeH ua—for doubtless thou canst recollect—To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenss architect l if cither pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey ' s Pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates , as sung by Homer ?
Perchance that very hand , now pinioned flat , Has hob a nobbed with Pharaoh glass to glass ; Or dropped a halfpenny in Homer ' s hat , Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass , Or held , by Solomon's own invitation , A torcli at the great Temple ' s dedication .
I need not ask thee if that hand when armed , Has any Koman soldier mauled and knuckled ; For thou wert dead , and buried , and embalmed , Ere llomulus ami Uemus had been suckled . Antiquity appears to have begun Long after thy primeval race was run .
Since first thy form was m this box extended , We have , above ground , seen some strange mutations ; The Koman Empire has begun and ended . New worlds have risen—we liave lost old nations -, And countless kings have into dust been humbled . While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled .
Dilst thou not hear the pother o ' er thy head , When the great Persian cohqueror , Cambyses , Marched armies o ' er thy tomb with thundering tread , O ' erthrew Osiris , Orus , Apis , Isis , And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder , When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder ?
If the tomb a secrets may not be confessed , The nature of thy private life unfold ; A heart has throbbed beneath that leathern breast , And tears adown that dusky chuck have rolled . Have children climbed those knees and kissed llmt face ? What was thy name aud station , age and race ?
Statue of flesh—immortal of the dead ! Imperishable type of evanescence ! Posthumous man , who quitt' .-t thy narrow bed , And slamlcsl uiideeaycd within our presence , Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning , When the groat trump shall thrill thee with its warning .
Why should this worthless tegument endure , If its unifying guest be lost for ever ? O let us keep the soul embalmed mid pure Iu living virtue , that , when both must sever , Although corruption may our frame consume , The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom . I am , yours fraternally , I BEO .
THE NAWAII OP UKNOAI . and suite , the son of the late King Theodore , and the son of the Viceroy of Egypt honoured the Hoyal Alhambni Palace with their presence on Wednesday , the l'Jth inst . Bro . * Strange , the managing director , received them , and a double lino was formed bv the employees of the
establishment , under the Kupcriutcndaueo of Bro . Itoeves . l'revious to leaving , the distinguished visitors expressed the pleasure they find received by the excellent entertainment afforded them . Prayer offered up to God for mercy for one ' s self or oth ' .. rs , should bo the asking of a mind that is sincere and always of relig ious thought . The prayer ofthe blasphemer or any habitually ungodly
person , is ( louOllul when sunt lor a special purpose , without feeling or intention to reform . As in the electric telegraph , if the line is not continuous , like truo sincerity iu thought , the question may be put , but no answer will be received . Au ungodly being is like ono iu a wilderness . I'ioturc a blind man without a guide , a friend , or provider , and all the horrors of hell appear . — Ellis .
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declared to be a forgery . Had they known Cosmo Irines' views of the matter , they would not have been found in " perfect order " —a lodge that lias usurped the place it holds on thc Roll ! Is not this too bad ? " Leo" can have his own mind regarding the degrees ,
but I hold by my former statement—they might as well work the one degree as thc other . I am satisfied with " Leo's" explanation in so far that he meant operative lodges—not speculative , as any one would surmise from his remarks in THE FREEMASON , NO . 7 ,
page 9 . As for his ideas in reference to Solomon ' s Temple , I leave your readers to judge . f am , yours fraternally , AMMI .
THISTLE LODGE , No . 87 . ( To the Editor of the Freemason . ) DEAR SIR AND BROTHER , —In your issue of the 15 th inst ., Bro . Lavvson questions the truth of the paragraph sent you anent the anniversary supper of his lodge by stating that you had been imposed on ,
and that it was absurd . Now , to prove which of the two imposed on you , let us tako a look at Bro . L . ' s paragraph that the local press so courteously inserted :--" M ASONIC . —A convivial and truly harmonious refreshment lodge was held by the brethren of the Thistle , No . 87 , in their usual meeting-hall , Croy-place , on Tuesday night , the
20 th inst ., being in celebration of its 107 th anniversary . Bro . Thos . Paton , R . W . JI ., and Wardens John Grieve and John Dobbie officiated , supported by brethren of note in the province . The numerous toasts , songs , and sentiments given and responded to during the evening , relieved by occasional strains on the harmonium , formed a really enjoyable entertainment . "—Qlasr / oio Daily Herald , April 33 .
Then read Bro . L . ' s statement at page 7 , No . 10 , of THE FREEMASON ; compare the two . Who was the impostor ? In sending you the paragraph I told the truth , and also sent it to the proper organ for Masonic news . Why did 13 ro . L . not insert the truth in the local papers ? It would have been more honourable to
have acknowledged that it was simply a complimentary supper for the purpose of raising a fund to assist their poor old Tyler ( who , by the way , is entitled to handsome remuneration , for although only Tyler in name , he has done the Master ' s work in the lodge for a number of years—surely the labourer is worthy of his
hire !) than display it as the 107 th anniversary ; or have mado known , decently , that all their efforts to get up a supper failed , i . e ., slickit ! The next time Bro . Lawson wishes to see his namo in print , let his would-be corrections be those of errors , not of bona fide facts . I am , yours fraternally , TATIES AN' TRIPE .
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE VERSOS EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE .
( To the Editor of the Freemason . ) DEAR SIR AND B ROTHER , — On the first page of THE FBEKMASON , No . 10 , I read the following : — "Upon the model of King Solomon ' s Temple were constructed , we nre informed , nearly all those wondrous palaces and temples of the ancient world of which such
magnificent remains exist even to tho present day . ' If "The Son of Salathiel" means that Solomon ' s Temple served as the model of other temples , or that tho Egyptians copied their temples , & c , from Solomon ' s , he makes a mistake ; and I must therefore observe that Zcrubbabel , alias Shosbazzar , ought to
have known bettor , the fact being that Solomon ' s Temple was copied from them , not thom from it . Further , many ofthe noble temples , & c , " oftho ancient world , of which such magnificent remains exist even to the present day , " were erected long before Solomon was bom ! Solomon ' s Temple was begun
1012 years » . c . ; long after the Augustan age of Egyptian architecture had passed . All that Solomon could manage in architecture was to do a little in copying , iind that , too , by the help of strangers , the Jews not being any way remarkable as a nation of builders , their forte lying in a dilfcrent direction .
Not to go further back at present , wo find remains of thc eighteenth dynasty of Egyptian kings ( say from 1525 to 1310 n . c ) , who built tho temple of Anien-ra ( now known by tlie name of Karnak ) , and other great edifices at Thebes , The Queen Amen-niint set up the obelisks in front of Anien-ra , and the time of
Thotines III . is " peculiarly rich in thoso tomb-paintings which reveal to us the private life of tho Egyptians . Our Museum possesses the head and arm of liis colossal statue , in red granite , found at Karnak by Belzoui . One of thc two colossal statues of Amcnoph III ., seated in front of tlio great temple which ho
built in the western suburbs of Inches , was the celebrated ' Vocal Meinnon' " This vocal Munition , or "Son of the Morning , " was used as . another piece of priestly imposition , for " Sir Gardiner Wilkinson found in the lap of the colossus a stone which on being struck
with a hammer emitted a metallic sound . A priest mig ht easily have been concealed in the position occup ied b y Wilkinson ; and thus we find tho same spirit of priestcraft 3000 years ago prompting to devices which have their parallel in tlie blood of St . Januarius and thc winking Madonnas of our own ago . "
Original Correspondence.
Even the other day , a brother holding a position in our Masonic body expressed himself to me somewhat as follows : — Although the pretended antiquity of Freemasonry was false , we should not admit it , but keep up the imposture as long as possible , it being dangerous to disturb the present ideas by examining into its history or the real state of affairs ! Could
anything be really moro unmasonic , ungentlemanly , and suicidal ? Truly far too many act upon the foolish motto , "Where ignorance is bliss (?)' twere folly to be wise . " However , I shall leave the individual I refer to , to consider the meaning of the word " hypocrisy " when next he tells a candidate the Masonic lesson to be deduced from the " square . "
The grandest period of Egyptian history was under the rule of the Nineteenth Dynasty , and during the reign of Rameses II ., or " the Great , " about _ 1300 years B . C . He reigned above 60 years . The reign of the father of Rameses was marked by one of the finest monuments of Egyptian art—the grand " Hall of Columns " in the temple of Karnak , and by the most
splendid tomb among those of the Theban kings . As to Rameses himself , who reigned three centuries before Solomon , " great remains of his vast buildings still exist both in Upper and Lower Egypt , lie adorned and enlarged the temple of Ptnh , _ at Memphis , the site of which is marked by a beautiful colossal statue of him in granite , but mutilated and
fallen on its face . Some idea maybe formed ot this colossus from the fist , now in the British Museum ; its length from the wrist to the knuckle ofthe middle finger is 32 inches , ancl its width across the knuckles ;> 0 J inches . Beyond the limits of Upper Egypt he left imperishable memorials in the rock-hewn temples of Aboii-Simbel , above the second cataract , faced with
his colossal statues—the largest in the world—besides other monuments in Nubia . But his greatest works were in Thebes itself . Besides adding to the temples of Jil-Kurnak and El-Uksor , he erected a magnificent temple on the western side of the Nile , at tho very edge of the desert . This is , doubtless , the edifice described by Diodorus Siculus as tho tomb of ( Isyman
dyas . It has been called by modern writers the Memnonium , but now , more properly , the Rameseum . Its ruins , near the village of El-Ivurnak , though much defaced , still bear the marks of that real beauty , as well as magnificence , which belongs to the best period of Egyptian art . For those who have only seen a few fragments exhibited in half-lighted rooms under a
cloudy sky , or the well-meant imitation of a temple in a reduced p laster model , can form no idea of the impression made even by the ruins of these edifices , when seen in thc midst of a vast plain , and with the deep shadows cast by a southern sun . Only in their proper place can be seen how gracefully tlie papyrusstemmed shafts and lotus-leaved or Isis-headod
capitals of the pillars blend with the masses they support , or how the whole style harmonizes with the genius of the people and their religion . Our space does not permit a description of an Egyptian temple , with its towering propyheu , its spacious colonnaded court , ils first and second sanctuary supported by many pillars , and its various chambers ; the whole approached by an avenue of obelisks and sphinxes ; and tho details
would be scarcely intelligible without a plan . But we must mention the sculptures on the walls , from which we learn the story oftho family and reign of Itamescs ; ami tho astronomical ceiling in one of the chambers , which forms the most precious monument of Egyptian science . Wis learn , too , from Diodorus , that the templo contained a sacred library . In the centre of the I'l-eat hall are the shattered remains of a colossal
statue of R une-ies himself , which . when complete , must have been no less than GO feet high . " In Sir Gardiner Wilkinson ' s " Ancient Egyptians " is a small plan of the Momnoiiium , or Ilaiuoseum , according to which it would seem to have been about 101 ) 0 feet long , with two immense towers—each about 200 foot broad by 60 feet deep , and fallowing them to
have been half as high again as ( hey were broad ) 300 feet high—which flanked the entrance . 1 cannot go into this more particularly tit present for want of time ; but before I leave the Egyptian kings I might refer to Barneses the 3 rd of the Twentieth Dynasty , about 1200 n . c , who , " besides a magnificent tomb and a royal residence , built the
splendid temple , of Medinet-llubon . ' 1 he above aro only n sample of the many beautiful and magnificent edifices which wero erected long before Solomon was born . Egypt was old as a kingdom while Israel was yet in her cradle . The Egyptians were a nation of builders and tho fathers of art , which tho Jews wore not . However , whilo we acknowledge the debt we owe
to tho Egyptians as architects , we must not forget that to tho Jews wo owe our faith , which enables ' us to rise superior to tho narrow limits of our poor humanity , and to look forward with hopo to attaining a place m that Temple not made with hands , eternal in tho heavens . I must hero mention that the above quotations are principally from Mr . LMiilip Smith ' s "Ancient History , "
1 SG 8 . In reference to verse 7 of 1 st Kings vi ., I consider that it was nothing remarkable then for a temple to he built , without " any tool of iron being heard m the house , " as it has struck me that this was n ! so the
Original Correspondence.
practice in Egypt , the Egyptians preparing all their stones in the quarry , or apart from the temple , when they merely required to be set in thoir proper places ; the presence of iron being contamination , and therefore forbidden , in an Egyptian temple . As an example of the strictness of tho Egyptians in this respect , ! read lately somewhere that an immense , stone which
had taken years to transport was set aside because of some trifling accident , or incident , that occurred amongst its transporters . I have observed that Solomon occupies a more prominent position with us than he perhaps deserves . He was wise , but upon reading lst Kings ix . 13 , 1 am
afraid he was rather mean , else Hiram would not have called them "the land of * Cabul "—that is , the displeasing or dirty cities . As a man , I am inclined to admire David far more than Solomon . < I think I could not close these remarks more appropriately than by quoting those lino verses by Mr . Horace Smith : —
ADORKSS TO THE MUMJIT IN BEMONI ' S EXHIBITION . And tliou hast walked about ( how strange a stoiy ! ) In Thebes ' s streets three thousand years ago ; When the Memnonium was in all its glory , And time had not begun to overthrow Those temples , palaces , and piles stupendous , Of which the very ruins are tremendous .
Speak ! for thou long enough hast acted dummy , Thou hast a tongue—come , let us hear its tune ; Thou ' rt standing on thy legs above ground , Mummy ! Kevisiting the glimpses of the moon , Not like thin ghosts or disembodied creatures , Utit with thy bones and flesh , and limbs and features .
TeH ua—for doubtless thou canst recollect—To whom should we assign the Sphinx's fame ? Was Cheops or Cephrenss architect l if cither pyramid that bears his name ? Is Pompey ' s Pillar really a misnomer ? Had Thebes a hundred gates , as sung by Homer ?
Perchance that very hand , now pinioned flat , Has hob a nobbed with Pharaoh glass to glass ; Or dropped a halfpenny in Homer ' s hat , Or doffed thine own to let Queen Dido pass , Or held , by Solomon's own invitation , A torcli at the great Temple ' s dedication .
I need not ask thee if that hand when armed , Has any Koman soldier mauled and knuckled ; For thou wert dead , and buried , and embalmed , Ere llomulus ami Uemus had been suckled . Antiquity appears to have begun Long after thy primeval race was run .
Since first thy form was m this box extended , We have , above ground , seen some strange mutations ; The Koman Empire has begun and ended . New worlds have risen—we liave lost old nations -, And countless kings have into dust been humbled . While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled .
Dilst thou not hear the pother o ' er thy head , When the great Persian cohqueror , Cambyses , Marched armies o ' er thy tomb with thundering tread , O ' erthrew Osiris , Orus , Apis , Isis , And shook the Pyramids with fear and wonder , When the gigantic Memnon fell asunder ?
If the tomb a secrets may not be confessed , The nature of thy private life unfold ; A heart has throbbed beneath that leathern breast , And tears adown that dusky chuck have rolled . Have children climbed those knees and kissed llmt face ? What was thy name aud station , age and race ?
Statue of flesh—immortal of the dead ! Imperishable type of evanescence ! Posthumous man , who quitt' .-t thy narrow bed , And slamlcsl uiideeaycd within our presence , Thou wilt hear nothing till the Judgment morning , When the groat trump shall thrill thee with its warning .
Why should this worthless tegument endure , If its unifying guest be lost for ever ? O let us keep the soul embalmed mid pure Iu living virtue , that , when both must sever , Although corruption may our frame consume , The immortal spirit in the skies may bloom . I am , yours fraternally , I BEO .
THE NAWAII OP UKNOAI . and suite , the son of the late King Theodore , and the son of the Viceroy of Egypt honoured the Hoyal Alhambni Palace with their presence on Wednesday , the l'Jth inst . Bro . * Strange , the managing director , received them , and a double lino was formed bv the employees of the
establishment , under the Kupcriutcndaueo of Bro . Itoeves . l'revious to leaving , the distinguished visitors expressed the pleasure they find received by the excellent entertainment afforded them . Prayer offered up to God for mercy for one ' s self or oth ' .. rs , should bo the asking of a mind that is sincere and always of relig ious thought . The prayer ofthe blasphemer or any habitually ungodly
person , is ( louOllul when sunt lor a special purpose , without feeling or intention to reform . As in the electric telegraph , if the line is not continuous , like truo sincerity iu thought , the question may be put , but no answer will be received . Au ungodly being is like ono iu a wilderness . I'ioturc a blind man without a guide , a friend , or provider , and all the horrors of hell appear . — Ellis .