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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Epicurean by Thomas Moore
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+Title: The Epicurean
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+Author: Thomas Moore
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EPICUREAN***
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+                                   THE
+
+                               EPICUREAN,
+
+                                A TALE.
+
+                                   BY
+
+                              THOMAS MOORE.
+
+
+*Second Edition.*
+
+LONDON:
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+LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
+PATERNOSTER‐ROW.
+1827.
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+The Publishers beg to inform the Composers of Music, and Music Sellers,
+that MR. JAMES POWER, of the Strand, Music Seller, is the only person
+authorized by them to publish the SONGS or VERSES in this Work connected
+with Music.
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+
+                                   TO
+                            LORD JOHN RUSSELL
+                              _THIS VOLUME_
+                              IS INSCRIBED
+                    BY ONE WHO ADMIRES HIS CHARACTER
+                              AND TALENTS,
+                     AND IS PROUD OF HIS FRIENDSHIP.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    A
+                        LETTER TO THE TRANSLATOR,
+
+
+                                  FROM
+                                 ——, ESQ.
+_Cairo, June 19. 1800._
+My dear Sir,
+
+In a visit I lately paid to the monastery of St. Macarius,—which is
+situated, as you know, in the Valley of the Lakes of Natron,—I was lucky
+enough to obtain possession of a curious Greek manuscript, which, in the
+hope that you may be induced to translate it, I herewith send you.
+Observing one of the monks very busily occupied in tearing up, into a
+variety of fantastic shapes, some papers which had the appearance of being
+the leaves of old books, I enquired of him the meaning of his task, and
+received the following explanation:—
+
+The Arabs, it seems, who are as fond of pigeons as the ancient Egyptians,
+have a superstitious notion that, if they place in their pigeon‐houses
+small scraps of paper, written over with learned characters, the birds are
+always sure to thrive the better for the charm; and the monks, who are
+never slow in profiting by superstition, have, at all times, a supply of
+such amulets for purchasers.
+
+In general, the holy fathers have been in the habit of scribbling these
+mystic fragments, themselves; but a discovery, which they have lately
+made, saves them this trouble. Having dug up (as my informant stated) a
+chest of old manuscripts, which, being chiefly on the subject of alchemy,
+must have been buried in the time of Dioclesian, “we thought we could
+not,” added the monk, “employ such rubbish more properly, than in tearing
+it up, as you see, for the pigeon‐houses of the Arabs.”
+
+On my expressing a wish to rescue some part of these treasures from the
+fate to which his indolent fraternity had consigned them, he produced the
+manuscript which I have now the pleasure of sending you,—the only one, he
+said, remaining entire,—and I very readily paid him the price he demanded
+for it.
+
+You will find the story, I think, not altogether uninteresting; and the
+coincidence, in many respects, of the curious details in Chap. VI. with
+the description of the same ceremonies in the Romance of _Sethos_(1),
+will, I have no doubt, strike you. Hoping that you may be tempted to give
+a translation of this Tale to the world,
+
+                                                       I am, my dear Sir,
+                                                        Very truly yours,
+                                                                        ——
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                              THE EPICUREAN.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER I.
+
+
+It was in the fourth year of the reign of the late Emperor Valerian, that
+the followers of Epicurus, who were at that time numerous in Athens,
+proceeded to the election of a person to fill the vacant chair of their
+sect;—and, by the unanimous voice of the School, I was the individual
+chosen for their Chief. I was just then entering on my twenty‐fourth year,
+and no instance had ever before occurred, of a person so young being
+selected for that office. Youth, however, and the personal advantages that
+adorn it, were not, it may be supposed, among the least valid
+recommendations, to a sect that included within its circle all the beauty
+as well as wit of Athens, and which, though dignifying its pursuits with
+the name of philosophy, was little else than a pretext for the more
+refined cultivation of pleasure.
+
+The character of the sect had, indeed, much changed, since the time of its
+wise and virtuous founder, who, while he asserted that Pleasure is the
+only Good, inculcated also that Good is the only source of Pleasure. The
+purer part of this doctrine had long evaporated, and the temperate
+Epicurus would have as little recognised his own sect in the assemblage of
+refined voluptuaries who now usurped its name, as he would have known his
+own quiet Garden in the luxurious groves and bowers among which the
+meetings of the School were now held.
+
+Many causes, besides the attractiveness of its doctrines, concurred, at
+this period, to render our school the most popular of any that still
+survived the glory of Greece. It may generally be observed, that the
+prevalence, in one half of a community, of very rigid notions on the
+subject of religion, produces the opposite extreme of laxity and
+infidelity in the other; and this kind of re‐action it was that now mainly
+contributed to render the doctrines of the Garden the most fashionable
+philosophy of the day. The rapid progress of the Christian faith had
+alarmed all those, who, either from piety or worldliness, were interested
+in the continuance of the old established creed—all who believed in the
+Deities of Olympus, and all who lived by them. The consequence was, a
+considerable increase of zeal and activity, throughout the constituted
+authorities and priesthood of the whole Heathen world. What was wanting in
+sincerity of belief was made up in rigour;—the weakest parts of the
+Mythology were those, of course, most angrily defended, and any
+reflections, tending to bring Saturn, or his wife Ops, into contempt, were
+punished with the utmost severity of the law.
+
+In this state of affairs, between the alarmed bigotry of the declining
+Faith, and the simple, sublime austerity of her rival, it was not
+wonderful that those lovers of ease and pleasure, who had no interest,
+reversionary or otherwise, in the old religion, and were too indolent to
+enquire into the sanctions of the new, should take refuge from the
+severities of both under the shelter of a luxurious philosophy, which,
+leaving to others the task of disputing about the future, centered all its
+wisdom in the full enjoyment of the present.
+
+The sectaries of the Garden had, ever since the death of their founder,
+been accustomed to dedicate to his memory the twentieth day of every
+month. To these monthly rites had, for some time, been added a grand
+annual Festival, in commemoration of his birth. The feasts, given on this
+occasion by my predecessors in the Chair, had been invariably
+distinguished for their taste and splendour; and it was my ambition, not
+merely to imitate this example, but even to render the anniversary, now
+celebrated under my auspices, so brilliant, as to efface the recollection
+of all that went before it.
+
+Seldom, indeed, had Athens witnessed such a scene. The grounds that formed
+the original site of the Garden had, from time to time, received
+considerable additions; and the whole extent was laid out with that
+perfect taste, which knows how to wed Nature to Art, without sacrificing
+her simplicity to the alliance. Walks, leading through wildernesses of
+shade and fragrance—glades, opening, as if to afford a play‐ground for the
+sunshine—temples, rising on the very spots where imagination herself would
+have called them up, and fountains and lakes, in alternate motion and
+repose, either wantonly courting the verdure, or calmly sleeping in its
+embrace,—such was the variety of feature that diversified these fair
+gardens; and, animated as they were on this occasion, by all the living
+wit and loveliness of Athens, it afforded a scene such as my own youthful
+fancy, rich as it was then in images of luxury and beauty, could hardly
+have anticipated.
+
+The ceremonies of the day began with the very dawn, when, according to the
+form of simpler and better times, those among the disciples who had
+apartments within the Garden, bore the image of our Founder in procession
+from chamber to chamber, chanting verses in praise of—what had long ceased
+to be objects of our imitation—his frugality and temperance.
+
+Round a beautiful lake, in the centre of the garden, stood four white
+Doric temples, in one of which was collected a library containing all the
+flowers of Grecian literature; while, in the remaining three,
+Conversation, the Song, and the Dance, held, uninterrupted by each other,
+their respective rites. In the Library stood busts of all the most
+illustrious Epicureans, both of Rome and Greece—Horace, Atticus, Pliny the
+elder, the poet Lucretius, Lucian, and the biographer of the Philosophers,
+lately lost to us, Diogenes Laertius. There were also the portraits, in
+marble, of all the eminent female votaries of the school—Leontium and her
+fair daughter Danae, Themista, Philænis, and others.
+
+It was here that, in my capacity of Heresiarch, on the morning of the
+Festival, I received the felicitations of the day from some of the fairest
+lips of Athens; and, in pronouncing the customary oration to the memory of
+our Master (in which it was usual to dwell on the doctrines he inculcated)
+endeavoured to attain that art, so useful before such an audience, of
+diffusing over the gravest subjects a charm, which secures them listeners
+even among the simplest and most volatile.
+
+Though study, as may easily be supposed, engrossed but little of the
+mornings of the Garden, yet the lighter part of learning,—that portion of
+its attic honey, for which the bee is not obliged to go very deep into the
+flower—was zealously cultivated. Even here, however, the student had to
+encounter distractions, which are, of all others, least favourable to
+composure of thought; and, with more than one of my fair disciples, there
+used to occur such scenes as the following, which a poet of the Garden,
+taking his picture from the life, described:—
+
+  “As o’er the lake, in evening’s glow,
+    That temple threw its lengthening shade,
+  Upon the marble steps below,
+    There sate a fair Corinthian maid,
+  Gracefully o’er some volume bending;
+    While, by her side, the youthful Sage
+  Held back her ringlets, lest, descending,
+    They should o’er‐shadow all the page.”
+
+But it was for the evening of that day, that the richest of our luxuries
+were reserved. Every part of the Garden was illuminated, with the most
+skilful variety of lustre; while over the Lake of the Temples were
+scattered wreaths of flowers, through which boats, filled with beautiful
+children, floated, as through a liquid parterre.
+
+Between two of these boats a perpetual combat was maintained;—their
+respective commanders, two blooming youths, being habited to represent
+Eros and Anteros; the former, the Celestial Love of the Platonists, and
+the latter, that more earthly spirit, which usurps the name of Love among
+the Epicureans. Throughout the evening their conflict was carried on with
+various success; the timid distance at which Eros kept from his more
+lively antagonist being his only safeguard against those darts of fire,
+with showers of which the other continually assailed him, but which,
+luckily falling short of their mark upon the lake, only scorched the
+flowers upon which they fell, and were extinguished.
+
+In another part of the gardens, on a wide verdant glade, lighted only by
+the moon, an imitation of the torch‐race of the Panathenæa was performed,
+by young boys chosen for their fleetness, and arrayed with wings, like
+Cupids; while, not far off, a group of seven nymphs, with each a star on
+her forehead, represented the movements of the planetary choir, and
+embodied the dream of Pythagoras into real motion and song.
+
+At every turning some new enchantment broke upon the ear or eye.
+Sometimes, from the depth of a grove, from which a fountain at the same
+time issued, there came a strain of music, which, mingling with the murmur
+of the water, seemed like the voice of the spirit that presided over its
+flow;—while sometimes the strain rose breathing from among flowers; and,
+again, would appear to come suddenly from under ground, as if the foot had
+just touched some spring that set it in motion.
+
+It seems strange that I should now dwell upon these minute descriptions;
+but every thing connected with that memorable night—even its long‐repented
+follies—must for ever live sacredly in my memory. The festival concluded
+with a banquet, at which I, of course, presided; and, feeling myself to be
+the ascendant spirit of the whole scene, gave life to all around me, and
+saw my own happiness reflected in that of others.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. II.
+
+
+The festival was over;—the sounds of the song and dance had ceased, and I
+was now left in those luxurious gardens, alone. Though so ardent and
+active a votary of pleasure, I had, by nature, a disposition full of
+melancholy;—an imagination that presented sad thoughts, even in the midst
+of mirth and happiness, and threw the shadow of the future over the gayest
+illusions of the present. Melancholy was, indeed, twin‐born in my soul
+with Passion; and, not even in the fullest fervour of the latter, were
+they separated. From the first moment that I was conscious of thought and
+feeling, the same dark thread had run across the web; and images of death
+and annihilation mingled themselves with the most smiling scenes through
+which my career of enjoyment led me. My very passion for pleasure but
+deepened these gloomy fancies. For, shut out, as I was by my creed, from a
+future life, and having no hope beyond the narrow horizon of this, every
+minute of delight assumed a mournful preciousness in my eyes, and
+pleasure, like the flower of the cemetery, grew but more luxuriant from
+the neighbourhood of death.
+
+This very night my triumph, my happiness had seemed complete. I had been
+the presiding genius of that voluptuous scene. Both my ambition and my
+love of pleasure had drunk deep of the cup for which they thirsted. Looked
+up to by the learned, and loved by the beautiful and the young, I had
+seen, in every eye that met mine, either the acknowledgment of triumphs
+already won, or the promise of others, still brighter, that awaited me.
+Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented
+themselves;—the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant
+recurred to my mind. Those hands I had prest—those eyes, in which I had
+seen sparkling, a spirit of light and life that should never die—those
+voices, that had talked of eternal love—all, all, I felt, were but a
+mockery of the moment, and would leave nothing eternal but the silence of
+their dust!
+
+  Oh, were it not for this sad voice,
+    Stealing amid our mirth to say,
+  That all, in which we most rejoice,
+    Ere night may be the earth‐worm’s prey;—
+  _But_ for this bitter—only this—
+  Full as the world is brimm’d with bliss,
+  And capable as feels my soul
+  Of draining to its depth the whole,
+  I should turn earth to heaven, and be,
+  If bliss made gods, a deity!
+
+Such was the description I gave of my own feelings, in one of those wild,
+passionate songs, to which this ferment of my spirits, between mirth and
+melancholy, gave birth.
+
+Seldom had my heart more fully abandoned itself to such vague sadness than
+at the present moment, when, as I paced thoughtfully among the fading
+lights and flowers of the banquet, the echo of my own step was all that
+sounded, where so many gay forms had lately been revelling. The moon was
+still up, the morning had not yet glimmered, and the calm glories of night
+still rested on all around. Unconscious whither my pathway led, I wandered
+along, till I, at length, found myself before that fair statue of Venus,
+with which the chisel of Alcamenes had embellished our Garden;—that image
+of deified woman, the only idol to which I had ever bent the knee. Leaning
+against the pedestal, I raised my eyes to heaven, and fixing them sadly
+and intently on the ever‐burning stars, as if I sought to read the
+mournful secret in their light, asked, wherefore was it that Man alone
+must perish, while they, less wonderful, less glorious than he, lived on
+in light unchangeable and for ever!—“Oh, that there were some spell, some
+talisman,” I exclaimed, “to make the spirit within us deathless as those
+stars, and open to its desires a career like theirs, burning and boundless
+throughout all time!”
+
+While I gave myself up to this train of thought, that lassitude which
+earthly pleasure, however sweet, leaves behind,—as if to show how earthly
+it is,—came drowsily over me, and I sunk at the base of the statue to
+sleep.
+
+Even in sleep, however, my fancy was still busy; and a dream, so vivid as
+to leave behind it the impression of reality, thus passed through my mind.
+I thought myself transported to a wide desert plain, where nothing seemed
+to breathe, or move, or live. The very sky above it looked pale and
+extinct, giving the idea, not of darkness, but of light that had died;
+and, had that region been the remains of some older world, left broken up
+and sunless, it could not have looked more dead and desolate. The only
+thing that bespoke life, in this melancholy waste, was a small moving
+spark, that at first glimmered in the distance, but, at length, slowly
+approached the spot where I stood. As it drew nearer, I could perceive
+that its feeble gleam was from a taper in the hand of a pale venerable
+man, who now stood, like a messenger from the grave, before me. After a
+few moments of awful silence, during which he looked at me with a sadness
+that thrilled my very soul, he said,—“Thou, who seekest eternal life, go
+unto the shores of the dark Nile—go unto the shores of the dark Nile, and
+thou wilt find the eternal life thou seekest!”
+
+No sooner had he said these words than the death‐like hue of his cheek
+brightened into a smile of more than human promise. The small torch that
+he held sent forth a radiance, by which suddenly the whole surface of the
+desert was illuminated, even to the far horizon’s edge, along whose line
+were now seen gardens, palaces, and spires, all bright and golden, like
+the architecture of the clouds at sunset. Sweet music, too, was heard
+every where, floating around, and, from all sides, such varieties of
+splendour poured, that, with the excess both of harmony and of light, I
+woke.
+
+That infidels should be superstitious is an anomaly neither unusual nor
+strange. A belief in superhuman agency seems natural and necessary to the
+mind; and, if not suffered to flow in the obvious channels, it will find a
+vent in some other. Hence, many who have doubted the existence of a God,
+have yet implicitly placed themselves under the patronage of Fate or the
+stars. Much the same inconsistency I was conscious of in my own feelings.
+Though rejecting all belief in a Divine Providence, I had yet a faith in
+dreams, that all my philosophy could not conquer. Nor was experience
+wanting to confirm me in my delusion; for, by some of those accidental
+coincidences, which make the fortune of soothsayers and prophets, dreams,
+more than once, had been to me
+
+  Oracles, truer far than oak,
+  Or dove, or tripod, ever spoke.
+
+It was not wonderful, therefore, that the vision of that night, touching,
+as it did, a chord so ready to vibrate, should have affected me with more
+than ordinary power, and sunk deeper into my memory with every effort I
+made to forget it. In vain did I mock at my own weakness;—such self‐
+derision is seldom sincere. In vain did I pursue my accustomed pleasures.
+Their zest was, as usual, for ever new; but still came the saddening
+consciousness of mortality, and, with it, the recollection of this
+visionary promise, to which my fancy, in defiance of my reason, still
+clung.
+
+Sometimes indulging in reveries, that were little else than a continuation
+of my dream, I even contemplated the possible existence of some secret, by
+which youth might be, if not perpetuated, at least prolonged, and that
+dreadful vicinity of death, within whose circle love pines and pleasure
+sickens, might be for a while averted. “Who knows,” I would ask, “but that
+in Egypt, that land of wonders, where Mystery hath yet unfolded but half
+her treasures,—where so many dark secrets of the antediluvian world still
+remain, undeciphered, upon the pillars of Seth—who knows but some charm,
+some amulet, may lie hid, whose discovery, as this phantom hath promised,
+but waits my coming—some compound of the same pure atoms, that scintillate
+in the eternal stars, and whose infusion into the frame of man might make
+him, too, fadeless and immortal!”
+
+Thus did I fondly speculate, in those rambling moods, when the life of
+excitement which I led, acting upon a warm heart and vivid fancy, produced
+an intoxication of spirit, during which I was not wholly myself. This
+bewilderment, too, was not a little increased by the constant struggle
+between my own natural feelings, and the cold, mortal creed of my sect, in
+endeavouring to escape from whose deadening bondage I but broke loose into
+the realms of romance and fantasy.
+
+Even, however, in my calmest and soberest moments, that strange vision
+perpetually haunted me. In vain were all my efforts to chase it from my
+mind; and the deliberate conclusion to which I came at last, was, that
+without, at least, a visit to Egypt, I could not rest, nor, till convinced
+of my folly by disappointment, be reasonable. I, therefore, announced
+without delay to my associates of the Garden, the intention which I had
+formed to pay a visit to the land of Pyramids. To none of them did I dare
+to confess the vague, visionary impulse that actuated me. Knowledge was
+the object that I alleged, while Pleasure was that for which they gave me
+credit. The interests of the School, it was apprehended, would suffer by
+my absence; and there were some tenderer ties, which had still more to
+fear from separation. But for the former inconvenience a temporary remedy
+was provided; while the latter a skilful distribution of vows and sighs
+alleviated. Being furnished with recommendatory letters to all parts of
+Egypt, in the summer of the year 257, A.D. I set sail for Alexandria.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. III.
+
+
+To one, who extracted such sweets from every moment on land, a sea‐voyage,
+however smooth and favourable, appeared the least agreeable mode of losing
+time that could be devised. Often did my imagination, in passing some isle
+of those seas, people it with fair forms and kind hearts, to whom most
+willingly, if I might, would I have paused to pay homage. But the wind
+blew direct towards the land of Mystery; and, still more, I heard a voice
+within me, whispering for ever “On.”
+
+As we approached the coast of Egypt, our course became less prosperous;
+and we had a specimen of the benevolence of the divinities of the Nile, in
+the shape of a storm, or rather whirlwind, which had nearly sunk our
+vessel, and which, the Egyptians on board said, was the work of their God,
+Typhon. After a day and night of danger, during which we were driven out
+of our course to the eastward, some benigner influence prevailed above;
+and, at length, as the morning freshly broke, we saw the beautiful city of
+Alexandria rising from the sea, with its Palace of Kings, its portico of
+four hundred columns, and the fair Pillar of Pillars, towering up to
+heaven in the midst.
+
+After passing in review this splendid vision, we shot rapidly round the
+Rock of Pharos, and, in a few minutes, found ourselves in the harbour of
+Eunostus. The sun had risen, but the light on the Great Tower of the Rock
+was still burning; and there was a languor in the first waking movements
+of that voluptuous city—whose houses and temples lay shining in silence
+round the harbour—that sufficiently attested the festivities of the
+preceding night.
+
+We were soon landed on the quay; and, as I walked, through a line of
+palaces and shrines, up the street which leads from the sea to the Gate of
+Canopus, fresh as I was from the contemplation of my own lovely Athens, I
+felt a glow of admiration at the scene around me, which its novelty, even
+more than its magnificence, inspired. Nor were the luxuries and delights,
+which such a city promised, among the least of the considerations on which
+my fancy, at that moment, dwelt. On the contrary, every thing around
+seemed prophetic of future pleasure. The very forms of the architecture,
+to my Epicurean imagination, appeared to call up images of living grace;
+and even the dim seclusion of the temples and groves spoke only of tender
+mysteries to my mind. As the whole bright scene grew animated around me, I
+felt that though Egypt might not enable me to lengthen life, she could
+teach the next best art,—that of multiplying its enjoyments.
+
+The population of Alexandria, at this period, consisted of the most motley
+miscellany of nations, religions, and sects, that had ever been brought
+together in one city. Beside the school of the Grecian Platonist was seen
+the oratory of the cabalistic Jew; while the church of the Christian
+stood, undisturbed, over the crypts of the Egyptian Hierophant. Here, the
+adorer of Fire, from the east, laughed at the superstition of the
+worshipper of cats, from the west. Here Christianity, too, unluckily, had
+learned to emulate the vagaries of Paganism; and while, on one side, her
+Ophite professor was seen kneeling down gravely before his serpent, on the
+other, a Nicosian was, as gravely, contending that there was no chance of
+salvation out of the pale of the Greek alphabet. Still worse, the
+uncharitableness of Christian schism was already distinguishing itself
+with equal vigour; and I heard of nothing, on my arrival, but the rancour
+and hate, with which the Greek and Latin churchmen persecuted each other,
+because, forsooth, the one fasted on the seventh day of the week, and the
+others fasted upon the fourth and sixth!
+
+To none of those religions or sects, however, except for purposes of
+ridicule, did I pay much attention. I was now in the most luxurious city
+of the universe, and gave way, without reserve, to the seductions that
+surrounded me. My reputation, as a philosopher and a man of pleasure, had
+preceded me; and Alexandria, the second Athens of the world, welcomed me
+as her own. My celebrity, indeed, was as a talisman, that opened hearts
+and doors at my approach. The usual noviciate of acquaintance was
+dispensed with in my favour, and not only intimacies, but loves and
+friendships, ripened in my path, as rapidly as vegetation springs up where
+the Nile has flowed. The dark beauty of the Egyptian women had a novelty
+in my eyes that enhanced its other charms; and that hue of the sun on
+their rounded cheeks was but an earnest of the ardour he had kindled in
+their hearts—
+
+  Th’ imbrowning of the fruit, that tells
+  How rich within the soul of sweetness dwells.
+
+Some weeks rolled on in such perpetual and ever‐changing pleasures, that
+even the melancholy voice in my heart, though it still spoke, was but
+seldom listened to, and soon died away in the sound of the siren songs
+that surrounded me. At length, however, as the novelty of these scenes
+wore off, the same gloomy bodings began to mingle with all my joys; and an
+incident that occurred, during one of my gayest revels, conduced still
+more to deepen their gloom.
+
+The celebration of the annual festival of Serapis took place during my
+stay, and I was, more than once, induced to mingle with the gay
+multitudes, that crowded to his shrine at Canopus on the occasion. Day and
+night, while this festival lasted, the canal, which led from Alexandria to
+Canopus, was covered with boats full of pilgrims of both sexes, all
+hastening to avail themselves of this pious licence, which lent the zest
+of a religious sanction to pleasure, and gave a holiday to the passions of
+earth, in honour of heaven.
+
+I was returning, one lovely night, to Alexandria. The north wind, that
+welcome visitor, freshened the air, while the banks, on either side, sent
+forth, from groves of orange and henna, the most delicious odours. As I
+had left all the crowd behind me at Canopus, there was not a boat to be
+seen on the canal but my own; and I was just yielding to the thoughts
+which solitude at such an hour inspires, when my reveries were broken by
+the sound of some female voices, coming, mingled with laughter and
+screams, from the garden of a pavilion, that stood, brilliantly
+illuminated, upon the bank of the canal.
+
+On rowing nearer, I perceived that both the mirth and the alarm had been
+caused by the efforts of some playful girls to reach a hedge of jasmin
+which grew near the water, and in bending towards which they had nearly
+fallen into the stream. Hastening to proffer my assistance, I soon
+recognised the voice of one of my fair Alexandrian friends, and, springing
+on the bank, was surrounded by the whole group, who insisted on my joining
+their party in the pavilion, and flinging the tendrils of jasmin, which
+they had just plucked, around me, led me, no unwilling captive, to the
+banquet‐room.
+
+I found here an assemblage of the very flower of Alexandrian society. The
+unexpectedness of the meeting gave it an additional zest on both sides;
+and seldom had I felt more enlivened myself, or contributed more
+successfully to circulate life among others.
+
+Among the company were some Greek women, who, according to the fashion of
+their country, wore veils; but, as usual, rather to set off than conceal
+their beauty, some gleams of which were continually escaping from under
+the cloud. There was, however, one female, who particularly attracted my
+attention, on whose head was a chaplet of dark‐coloured flowers, and who
+sat veiled and silent during the whole of the banquet. She took no share,
+I observed, in what was passing around: the viands and the wine went by
+her untouched, nor did a word that was spoken seem addressed to her ear.
+This abstraction from a scene so sparkling with gaiety, though apparently
+unnoticed by any one but myself, struck me as mysterious and strange. I
+inquired of my fair neighbour the cause of it, but she looked grave and
+was silent.
+
+In the mean time, the lyre and the cup went round; and a young maid from
+Athens, as if inspired by the presence of her countryman, took her lute,
+and sung to it some of the songs of Greece, with a feeling that bore me
+back to the banks of the Ilissus, and, even in the bosom of present
+pleasure, drew a sigh from my heart for that which had passed away. It was
+daybreak ere our delighted party rose, and unwillingly re‐embarked to
+return to the city.
+
+Scarcely were we afloat, when it was discovered that the lute of the young
+Athenian had been left behind; and, with my heart still full of its sweet
+sounds, I most readily sprung on shore to seek it. I hastened to the
+banquet‐room, which was now dim and solitary, except that—there, to my
+astonishment, still sat that silent figure, which had awakened my
+curiosity so strongly during the night. A vague feeling of awe came over
+me, as I now slowly approached it. There was no motion, no sound of
+breathing in that form;—not a leaf of the dark chaplet on its brow
+stirred. By the light of a dying lamp which stood before the figure, I
+raised, with a hesitating hand, the veil, and saw—what my fancy had
+already anticipated—that the shape underneath was lifeless, was a
+skeleton! Startled and shocked, I hurried back with the lute to the boat,
+and was almost as silent as that shape for the remainder of the voyage.
+
+This custom among the Egyptians of placing a mummy, or skeleton, at the
+banquet‐table, had been for some time disused, except at particular
+ceremonies; and, even on such occasions, it had been the practice of the
+luxurious Alexandrians to disguise this memorial of mortality in the
+manner just described. But to me, who was wholly unprepared for such a
+spectacle, it gave a shock from which my imagination did not speedily
+recover. This silent and ghastly witness of mirth seemed to embody, as it
+were, the shadow in my own heart. The features of the grave were now
+stamped on the idea that haunted me, and this picture of what I _was to
+be_ mingled itself with the sunniest aspect of what I _was_.
+
+The memory of the dream now recurred to me more livelily than ever. The
+bright assuring smile of that venerable Spirit, and his words, “Go to the
+shores of the dark Nile, and thou wilt find the eternal life thou
+seekest,” were for ever before my mind. But as yet, alas, I had done
+nothing towards realising this splendid promise. Alexandria was not
+Egypt;—the very soil on which it stood was not in existence, when Thebes
+and Memphis already counted ages of glory.
+
+“It is beneath the Pyramids of Memphis,” I exclaimed, “or in the mystic
+Halls of the Labyrinth, that I must seek those holy arcana of science, of
+which the antediluvian world has made Egypt its heir, and among
+which—blest thought!—the key to eternal life may lie.”
+
+Having formed my determination, I took leave of my many Alexandrian
+friends, and departed for Memphis.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. IV.
+
+
+Egypt was the country, of all others, from that mixture of the melancholy
+and the voluptuous, which marked the character of her people, her
+religion, and her scenery, to affect deeply a temperament and fancy like
+mine, and keep tremblingly alive the sensibilities of both. Wherever I
+turned, I saw the desert and the garden, mingling their bloom and
+desolation together. I saw the love‐bower and the tomb standing side by
+side, and pleasure and death keeping hourly watch upon each other. In the
+very luxury of the climate there was the same saddening influence. The
+monotonous splendour of the days, the solemn radiance of the nights—all
+tended to cherish that ardent melancholy, the offspring of passion and of
+thought, which had so long been the inmate of my soul.
+
+When I sailed from Alexandria, the inundation of the Nile was at its full.
+The whole valley of Egypt lay covered by its flood; and, as I saw around
+me, in the light of the setting sun, shrines, palaces, and monuments,
+encircled by the waters, I could almost fancy that I beheld the sinking
+island of Atalantis, on the last evening its temples were visible above
+the wave. Such varieties, too, of animation as presented themselves on
+every side!—
+
+  While, far as sight can reach, beneath as clear
+  And blue a heaven as ever bless’d this sphere,
+  Gardens, and pillar’d streets, and porphyry domes,
+  And high‐built temples, fit to be the homes
+  Of mighty gods, and pyramids, whose hour
+  Outlasts all time, above the waters tower!
+
+  Then, too, the scenes of pomp and joy, that make
+  One theatre of this vast, peopled lake,
+  Where all that Love, Religion, Commerce gives
+  Of life and motion, ever moves and lives.
+  Here, up the steps of temples, from the wave
+  Ascending, in procession slow and grave,
+  Priests, in white garments, go, with sacred wands
+  And silver cymbals gleaming in their hands:
+  While, there, rich barks—fresh from those sunny tracts
+  Far off, beyond the sounding cataracts—
+  Glide with their precious lading to the sea,
+  Plumes of bright birds, rhinoceros’ ivory,
+  Gems from the isle of Meröe, and those grains
+  Of gold, wash’d down by Abyssinian rains.
+
+  Here, where the waters wind into a bay
+  Shadowy and cool, some pilgrims, on their way
+  To Saïs or Bubastus, among beds
+  Of lotus‐flowers, that close above their heads,
+  Push their light barks, and hid, as in a bower,
+  Sing, talk, or sleep away the sultry hour;
+  While haply, not far off, beneath a bank
+  Of blossoming acacias, many a prank
+  Is play’d in the cool current by a train
+  Of laughing nymphs, lovely as she, whose chain
+  Around two conquerors of the world was cast,
+  But, for a third too feeble, broke at last!
+
+Enchanted with the whole scene, I lingered on my voyage, visiting all
+those luxurious and venerable places, whose names have been consecrated by
+the wonder of ages. At Saïs I was present during her Festival of Lamps,
+and read, by the blaze of innumerable lights, those sublime words on the
+temple of Neitha: “I am all that has been, that is, and that will be, and
+no man hath ever lifted my veil.” I wandered among the prostrate obelisks
+of Heliopolis, and saw, not without a sigh, the sun smiling over her
+ruins, as if in mockery of the mass of perishable grandeur, that had once
+called itself, in its pride, “The City of the Sun.” But to the Isle of the
+Golden Venus was my fondest pilgrimage;—and as I explored its shades,
+where bowers are the only temples, I felt how far more fit to form the
+shrine of a Deity are the ever‐living stems of the garden and the grove,
+than the most precious columns that the inanimate quarry can supply.
+
+Every where new pleasures, new interests awaited me; and though
+Melancholy, as usual, stood always near, her shadow fell but half‐way over
+my vagrant path, and left the rest more welcomely brilliant from the
+contrast. To relate my various adventures, during this short voyage, would
+only detain me from events, far, far more worthy of record. Amidst such
+endless variety of attractions, the great object of my journey was
+forgotten;—the mysteries of this land of the sun were, to me, as much
+mysteries as ever, and I had as yet been initiated in nothing but its
+pleasures.
+
+It was not till that evening, when I first stood before the Pyramids of
+Memphis, and saw them towering aloft, like the watch‐towers of Time, from
+whose summit, when he expires, he will look his last,—it was not till this
+moment that the great secret, of which I had dreamed, again rose, in all
+its inscrutable darkness, upon my thoughts. There was a solemnity in the
+sunshine that rested upon those monuments—a stillness, as of reverence, in
+the air around them, that stole, like the music of past times, into my
+heart. I thought what myriads of the wise, the beautiful, and the brave,
+had sunk into dust since earth first beheld those wonders; and, in the
+sadness of my soul, I exclaimed,—“Must man alone, then, perish? must minds
+and hearts be annihilated, while pyramids endure? Death, Death, even on
+these everlasting tablets,—the only approach to immortality that kings
+themselves could purchase,—thou hast written our doom, saying, awfully and
+intelligibly, ‘There is, for man, no eternal mansion, but the tomb!’”
+
+My heart sunk at the thought; and, for the moment, I yielded to that
+desolate feeling, which overspreads the soul that hath no light from the
+future. But again the buoyancy of my nature prevailed, and again, the
+willing dupe of vain dreams, I deluded myself into the belief of all that
+I most wished, with that happy facility which makes imagination stand in
+place of happiness. “Yes,” I cried, “immortality _must_ be within man’s
+reach; and, as wisdom alone is worthy of such a blessing, to the wise
+alone must the secret have been revealed. Deep, it is said, under yonder
+pyramid, has for ages lain concealed the Table of Emerald, on which the
+Thrice‐Great Hermes engraved, before the flood, the secret of Alchemy,
+that gives gold at will. Why may not the mightier, the more god‐like
+secret, that gives life at will, be recorded there also? It was by the
+power of gold, of endless gold, that the kings, who repose in those massy
+structures, scooped earth to the centre, and raised quarries into the air,
+to provide themselves with tombs that might outstand the world. Who can
+tell but that the gift of immortality was also theirs? who knows but that
+they themselves, triumphant over decay, still live—those mansions, which
+we call tombs, being rich and everlasting palaces, within whose depths,
+concealed from this withering world, they still wander, with the few who
+are sharers of their gift, through a sunless, but illuminated, elysium of
+their own? Else, wherefore those structures? wherefore that subterraneous
+realm, by which the whole valley of Egypt is undermined? Why, else, those
+labyrinths, which none of earth hath ever beheld—which none of heaven,
+except that God, with the finger on his hushed lip, hath trodden!”
+
+While I indulged in these dreams, the sun, half sunk beneath the horizon,
+was taking, calmly and gloriously, his leave of the Pyramids,—as he had
+done, evening after evening, for ages, till they had become familiar to
+him as the earth itself. On the side turned to his ray they now presented
+a front of dazzling whiteness, while, on the other, their great shadows,
+lengthening to the eastward, looked like the first steps of Night,
+hastening to envelope the hills of Araby in her shade.
+
+No sooner had the last gleam of the sun disappeared, than, on every house‐
+top in Memphis, gay, gilded banners were seen waving aloft, to proclaim
+his setting,—while a full burst of harmony pealed from all the temples
+along the shores.
+
+Startled from my musing by these sounds, I at once recollected, that, on
+that very evening, the great festival of the Moon was to be celebrated. On
+a little island, half‐way over between the gardens of Memphis and the
+eastern shore, stood the temple of that goddess,
+
+                 Whose beams
+  Bring the sweet time of night‐flowers and dreams.
+  _Not_ the cold Dian of the North, who chains
+  In vestal ice the current of young veins;
+  But she, who haunts the gay, Bubastian grove,
+  And owns she sees, from her bright heav’n above,
+  Nothing on earth, to match that heav’n, but love!
+
+Thus did I exclaim, in the words of one of their own Egyptian poets, as,
+anticipating the various delights of the festival, I cast away from my
+mind all gloomy thoughts, and, hastening to my little bark, in which I now
+lived, like a Nile‐bird, on the waters, steered my course to the island‐
+temple of the Moon.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CHAP. V.
+
+
+The rising of the Moon, slow and majestic, as if conscious of the honours
+that awaited her upon earth, was welcomed with a loud acclaim from every
+eminence, where multitudes stood watching for her first light. And seldom
+had she risen upon a scene more beautiful. Memphis,—still grand, though no
+longer the unrivalled Memphis, that had borne away from Thebes the crown
+of supremacy, and worn it undisputed through so many centuries,—now,
+softened by the moonlight that harmonised with her decline, shone forth
+among her lakes, her pyramids, and her shrines, like a dream of glory that
+was soon to pass away. Ruin, even now, was but too visible around her. The
+sands of the Libyan desert gained upon her like a sea; and, among solitary
+columns and sphinxes, already half sunk from sight, Time seemed to stand
+waiting, till all, that now flourished around, should fall beneath his
+desolating hand, like the rest.
+
+On the waters all was life and gaiety. As far as eye could reach, the
+lights of innumerable boats were seen, studding, like rubies, the surface
+of the stream. Vessels of all kinds,—from the light coracle, built for
+shooting down the cataracts, to the large yacht that glides to the sound
+of flutes,—all were afloat for this sacred festival, filled with crowds of
+the young and the gay, not only from Memphis and Babylon, but from cities
+still farther removed from the scene.
+
+As I approached the island, I could see, glittering through the trees on
+the bank, the lamps of the pilgrims hastening to the ceremony. Landing in
+the direction which those lights pointed out, I soon joined the crowd;
+and, passing through a long alley of sphinxes, whose spangling marble
+shone out from the dark sycamores around them, in a short time reached the
+grand vestibule of the temple, where I found the ceremonies of the evening
+already commenced.
+
+In this vast hall, which was surrounded by a double range of columns, and
+lay open over‐head to the stars of heaven, I saw a group of young maidens,
+moving in a sort of measured step, between walk and dance, round a small
+shrine, upon which stood one of those sacred birds, that, on account of
+the variegated colour of their wings, are dedicated to the moon. The
+vestibule was dimly lighted,—there being but one lamp of naptha on each of
+the great pillars that encircled it. But, having taken my station beside
+one of those pillars, I had a distinct view of the young dancers, as in
+succession they passed me.
+
+Their long, graceful drapery was as white as snow; and each wore loosely,
+beneath the rounded bosom, a dark‐blue zone, or bandelet, studded, like
+the skies at midnight, with little silver stars. Through their dark locks
+was wreathed the white lily of the Nile,—that flower being accounted as
+welcome to the moon, as the golden blossoms of the bean‐flower are to the
+sun. As they passed under the lamp, a gleam of light flashed from their
+bosoms, which, I could perceive, was the reflection of a small mirror,
+that, in the manner of the women of the East, each wore beneath her left
+shoulder.
+
+There was no music to regulate their steps; but, as they gracefully went
+round the bird on the shrine, some, by the beat of the castanet, some, by
+the shrill ring of the sistrum,—which they held uplifted in the attitude
+of their own divine Isis,—harmoniously timed the cadence of their feet;
+while others, at every step, shook a small chain of silver, whose sound,
+mingling with those of the castanets and sistrums, produced a wild, but
+not an unpleasing harmony.
+
+They seemed all lovely; but there was one—whose face the light had not yet
+reached, so downcast she held it,—who attracted, and, at length, riveted
+all my attention. I knew not why, but there was a something in those half‐
+seen features,—a charm in the very shadow, that hung over their imagined
+beauty,—which took me more than all the out‐shining loveliness of her
+companions. So enchained was my fancy by this coy mystery, that her alone,
+of all the group, could I either see or think of—her alone I watched, as,
+with the same downcast brow, she glided round the altar, gently and
+aërially, as if her presence, like that of a spirit, was something to be
+felt, not seen.
+
+Suddenly, while I gazed, the loud crash of a thousand cymbals was
+heard;—the massy gates of the Temple flew open, as if by magic, and a
+flood of radiance from the illuminated aisle filled the whole vestibule;
+while, at the same instant, as if the light and the sounds were born
+together, a peal of rich harmony came mingling with the radiance.
+
+It was then,—by that light, which shone full upon the young maiden’s
+features, as, starting at the blaze, she raised her eyes to the portal,
+and, as suddenly, let fall their lids again,—it was then I beheld, what
+even my own ardent imagination, in its most vivid dreams of beauty, had
+never pictured. Not Psyche herself, when pausing on the threshold of
+heaven, while its first glories fell on her dazzled lids, could have
+looked more beautiful, or blushed with a more innocent shame. Often as I
+had felt the power of looks, none had ever entered into my soul so far. It
+was a new feeling—a new sense—coming as suddenly as that radiance into the
+vestibule, and, at once, filling my whole being;—and had that vision but
+lingered another moment before my eyes, I should have wholly forgotten who
+I was and where, and thrown myself, in prostrate adoration, at her feet.
+
+But scarcely had that gush of harmony been heard, when the sacred bird,
+which had, till now, stood motionless as an image, expanded his wings, and
+flew into the Temple; while his graceful young worshippers, with a
+fleetness like his own, followed,—and she, who had left a dream in my
+heart never to be forgotten, vanished with the rest. As she went rapidly
+past the pillar against which I leaned, the ivy that encircled it caught
+in her drapery, and disengaged some ornament which fell to the ground. It
+was the small mirror which I had seen shining on her bosom. Hastily and
+tremulously I picked it up, and hurried to restore it;—but she was already
+lost to my eyes in the crowd.
+
+In vain I tried to follow;—the aisles were already filled, and numbers of
+eager pilgrims pressed towards the portal. But the servants of the Temple
+prevented all further entrance, and still, as I presented myself, their
+white wands barred the way. Perplexed and irritated amid that crowd of
+faces, regarding all as enemies that impeded my progress, I stood on
+tiptoe, gazing into the busy aisles, and with a heart beating as I caught,
+from time to time, a glimpse of some spangled zone, or lotus wreath, which
+led me to fancy that I had discovered the object of my search. But it was
+all in vain;—in every direction, files of sacred nymphs were moving, but
+nowhere could I see her, whom alone I sought.
+
+In this state of breathless agitation did I stand for some
+time,—bewildered with the confusion of faces and lights, as well as with
+the clouds of incense that rolled around me,—till, fevered and impatient,
+I could endure it no longer. Forcing my way out of the vestibule into the
+cool air, I hurried back through the alley of sphinxes to the shore, and
+flung myself into my boat.
+
+There is, to the north of Memphis, a solitary lake (which, at this season
+of the year, mingles with the rest of the waters,) upon whose shores
+stands the Necropolis, or City of the Dead—a place of melancholy grandeur,
+covered over with shrines and pyramids, where many a kingly head, proud
+even in death, has for ages awaited the resurrection of its glories.
+Through a range of sepulchral grots underneath, the humbler denizens of
+the tomb are deposited,—looking out on each successive generation that
+visits them, with the same face and features they wore centuries ago.
+Every plant and tree, that is consecrated to death, from the asphodel‐
+flower to the mystic plantain, lends its sweetness or shadow to this place
+of tombs; and the only noise that disturbs its eternal calm, is the low
+humming sound of the priests at prayer, when a new inhabitant is added to
+the silent city.
+
+It was towards this place of death that, in a mood of mind, as usual, half
+bright, half gloomy, I now, almost unconsciously, directed my bark. The
+form of the young Priestess was continually before me. That one bright
+look of hers, the very memory of which was worth all the actual smiles of
+others, never left my mind. Absorbed in such thoughts, I rowed on, scarce
+knowing whither I went, till, startled by finding myself within the shadow
+of the City of the Dead, I looked up, and saw, rising in succession before
+me, pyramid beyond pyramid, each towering more loftily than the
+other,—while all were out‐topped in grandeur by one, upon whose summit the
+moon seemed to rest, as on a pedestal.
+
+Drawing near to the shore, which was sufficiently elevated to raise this
+city of monuments above the level of the inundation, I lifted my oar, and
+let the boat rock idly on the water, while my thoughts, left equally
+without direction, fluctuated as idly. How various and vague were the
+dreams that then passed through my mind—that bright vision of the temple
+mingling itself with all! Sometimes she stood before me, like an aërial
+spirit, as pure as if that element of music and light, into which I had
+seen her vanish, was her only dwelling. Sometimes, animated with passion,
+and kindling into a creature of earth, she seemed to lean towards me with
+looks of tenderness, which it were worth worlds, but for one instant, to
+inspire; and again—as the dark fancies, that ever haunted me, recurred—I
+saw her cold, parched, and blackening, amid the gloom of those eternal
+sepulchres before me!
+
+Turning away, with a shudder, from the cemetery at this thought, I heard
+the sound of an oar plying swiftly through the water, and, in a few
+moments, saw, shooting past me towards the shore, a small boat in which
+sat two female figures, muffled up and veiled. Having landed them not far
+from the spot where I lay,—concealed by the shadow of a monument on the
+bank,—the boat again departed, with the same fleetness, over the flood.
+
+Never had the prospect of an adventure come more welcome than at this
+moment, when my fancy was weaving such chains for my heart, as threatened
+a bondage, of all others, the most difficult to break. To become enamoured
+thus of a creature of my own imagination, was the worst, because the most
+lasting, of follies. Reality alone gives a chance of dissolving such
+spells, and the idol I was now creating to myself must for ever remain
+ideal. Any pursuit, therefore, that seemed likely to divert me from such
+thoughts—to bring back my imagination to earth and reality, from the vague
+region in which it was wandering, was a relief too seasonable not to be
+welcomed with eagerness.
+
+I had watched the course which the two figures took, and, having hastily
+fastened my boat to the bank, stepped gently on shore, and, at a little
+distance, followed them. The windings through which they led were
+intricate; but, by the bright light of the moon, I was enabled to keep
+their forms in view, as, with rapid step, they glided among the monuments.
+At length, in the shade of a small pyramid, whose peak barely surmounted
+the plane‐trees that grew nigh, they vanished from my sight. I hastened to
+the spot, but there was not a sign of life around; and had my creed
+extended to another world, I might have fancied that these forms were
+spirits, sent from thence to mock me,—so instantaneously they disappeared.
+I searched through the neighbouring grove, but all there was still as
+death. At length, in examining one of the sides of the pyramid, which, for
+a few feet from the ground, was furnished with steps, I found, midway
+between peak and base, a part of the surface, which, though presenting an
+appearance of smoothness to the eye, gave to the touch, I thought,
+indications of a concealed opening.
+
+After a variety of efforts and experiments, I, at last, more by accident
+than skill, pressed the spring that commanded this mysterious aperture. In
+an instant the portal slid aside, and disclosed a narrow stair‐way within,
+the two or three first steps of which were discernible by the moonlight,
+while the rest were lost in utter darkness. Though it was difficult to
+conceive that the persons whom I had followed would have ventured to pass
+through this gloomy opening, yet to account for their disappearance
+otherwise was still more difficult. At all events, my curiosity was now
+too eager in the chase to relinquish it;—the spirit of adventure, once
+raised, could not be so easily laid. Accordingly, having sent up a gay
+prayer to that bliss‐loving Queen whose eye alone was upon me, I passed
+through the portal and descended into the pyramid.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. VI.
+
+
+At the bottom of the stair‐way I found myself in a low, narrow passage,
+through which, without stooping almost to earth, it was impossible to
+proceed. Though leading through a multiplicity of dark windings, this way
+seemed but little to advance my progress,—its course, I perceived, being
+chiefly circular, and gathering, at every turn, but a deeper intensity of
+darkness.
+
+“Can this,” I thought, “be the sojourn of any thing human?”—and had
+scarcely asked myself the question, when the path opened into a long
+gallery, at the farthest end of which a gleam of light was visible. This
+welcome glimmer appeared to come from some cell or alcove, in which the
+right‐hand wall of the gallery terminated, and, breathless with
+expectation, I stole gently towards it.
+
+Arrived at the end of the gallery, a scene presented itself to my eyes,
+for which my fondest expectations of adventure could not have prepared me.
+The place from which the light proceeded was a small chapel, of whose
+interior, from the dark recess in which I stood, I had, unseen myself, a
+full and distinct view. Over the walls of this oratory were painted some
+of those various symbols, by which the mystic wisdom of the Egyptians
+loves to shadow out the History of the Soul—the winged globe with a
+serpent,—the rays descending from above, like a glory, and the Theban
+beetle, as he comes forth, after the waters have passed away, and the
+first sunbeam falls on his regenerated wings.
+
+In the middle of the chapel stood a low altar of granite, on which lay a
+lifeless female form, enshrined within a case of crystal,—as they preserve
+their dead in Ethiopia,—and looking as freshly beautiful as if the soul
+had but a few hours departed. Among the emblems of death, on the front of
+the altar, were a slender lotus‐branch, broken in two, and a bird, just
+winging its flight from the spray.
+
+To these memorials of the dead, however, I but little attended; for there
+was a living object there upon which my eyes were most intently fixed.
+
+The lamp, by which the whole of the chapel was illuminated, was placed at
+the head of the pale image in the shrine; and, between its light and me,
+stood a female form, bending over the monument, as if to gaze upon the
+silent features within. The position in which this figure was placed,
+intercepting a strong light, afforded me, at first, but an imperfect and
+shadowy view of it. Yet even at this mere outline my heart beat high,—and
+memory, as it proved, had as much share in this feeling as imagination.
+For, on the head changing its position, so as to let a gleam fall on the
+features, I saw with a transport, which had almost led me to betray my
+lurking‐place, that it was she—the young worshipper of Isis—the same, the
+very same, whom I had seen, brightening the holy place where she stood,
+and looking like an inhabitant of some purer world.
+
+The movement, by which she had now given me an opportunity of recognising
+her, was made in raising from the shrine a small cross(2) of silver, which
+lay directly over the bosom of the lifeless figure. Bringing it close to
+her lips, she kissed it with a religious fervour; then, turning her eyes
+mournfully upwards, held them fixed with an inspired earnestness, as if,
+at that moment, in direct communion with heaven, they saw neither roof,
+nor any other earthly barrier between them and the skies.
+
+What a power hath innocence, whose very helplessness is its safeguard—in
+whose presence even Passion himself stands abashed, and turns worshipper
+at the altar which he came to despoil. She, who, but a short hour before,
+had presented herself to my imagination, as something I could have risked
+immortality to win—she, whom gladly, from the floor of her own lighted
+temple, in the very face of its proud ministers, I would have borne away
+in triumph, and defied all punishments, both human and sacred, to make her
+mine,—she was now before me, thrown, as if by fate itself, into my
+power—standing there, beautiful and alone, with nothing but her innocence
+for her guard! Yet, no—so touching was the purity of the whole scene, so
+calm and august that protection which the dead seemed to extend over the
+living, that every earthlier feeling was forgotten as I gazed, and love
+itself became exalted into reverence.
+
+Entranced, indeed, as I felt in witnessing such a scene, thus to enjoy it
+by stealth, seemed a wrong, a sacrilege—and, rather than let her eyes meet
+the flash of mine, or disturb, by a whisper, that sacred silence, in which
+Youth and Death held communion through Love, I would have let my heart
+break, without a murmur, where I stood. Gently, as if life depended upon
+every movement, I stole away from that tranquil and holy scene—leaving it
+still tranquil and holy as I found it—and, gliding back through the same
+passages and windings by which I had entered, regained the narrow stair‐
+way, and again ascended into light.
+
+The sun had just risen, and, from the summit of the Arabian hills, was
+pouring down his beams into that vast valley of waters,—as if proud of the
+homage that had been paid to his own Isis, now fading away in the superior
+light of her Lord. My first impulse was to fly from this dangerous spot,
+and in new loves and pleasures seek forgetfulness of the scene which I had
+witnessed. “Once out of the circle of this enchantment,” I exclaimed, “I
+know my own susceptibility to new impressions too well, to doubt that I
+shall soon break the spell that is around me.”
+
+But vain were my efforts and resolves. Even while I swore to fly, my steps
+were still lingering round the pyramid—my eyes still turned towards the
+secret portal, which severed this enchantress from the world of the
+living. Hour after hour did I wander through that City of Silence,—till,
+already, it was noon, and, under the sun’s meridian eye, the mighty
+pyramid of pyramids stood, like a great spirit, shadowless.
+
+Again did those wild and passionate feelings, which had, for a moment,
+been subdued into reverence by her presence, return to kindle up my
+imagination and senses. I even reproached myself for the awe, that had
+held me spell‐bound before her. “What would my companions of the Garden
+say, did they know that their chief,—he, whose path Love had strewed with
+trophies—was now pining for a simple Egyptian girl, in whose presence he
+had not dared to give utterance to a sigh, and who had vanquished the
+victor, without even knowing her triumph!”
+
+A blush came over my cheek at the humiliating thought, and my
+determination was fixed to await her coming. That she should be an inmate
+of those gloomy caverns seemed inconceivable; nor did there appear to be
+any issue from their depths but by the pyramid. Again, therefore, like a
+sentinel of the dead, did I pace up and down among these tombs,
+contrasting, in many a mournful reflection, the burning fever within my
+own veins with the cold quiet of those who slept around.
+
+At length the fierce glow of the sun over my head, and, still more, that
+ever restless agitation in my heart, were too much for even strength like
+mine to bear. Exhausted, I lay down at the base of the pyramid—placing
+myself directly under the portal, where, even should slumber surprise me,
+my heart, if not my ear, might still be on the watch, and her footstep,
+light as it was, could not fail to awake me.
+
+After many an ineffectual struggle against drowsiness, I at length sunk
+into sleep—but not into forgetfulness. The same image still haunted me, in
+every variety of shape, with which imagination, assisted by memory, could
+invest it. Now, like Neïtha, upon her throne at Saïs, she seemed to sit,
+with the veil just raised from that brow, which mortal had never, till
+then, beheld,—and now, like the beautiful enchantress Rhodope, I saw her
+rise out of the pyramid in which she had dwelt for ages,—
+
+  “Fair Rhodope, as story tells,
+  The bright, unearthly nymph, who dwells
+  Mid sunless gold and jewels hid,
+  The Lady of the Pyramid!”
+
+So long, amid that unbroken silence, did my sleep continue, that I found
+the moon again shining above the horizon, when I awoke. All around was
+silent and lifeless as before, nor did a print upon the herbage betray
+that any foot had passed it since my own. Refreshed by rest, and with a
+fancy still more excited by the mystic wonders of which I had been
+dreaming, I now resolved to revisit the chapel in the pyramid, and put an
+end, if possible, to this illusion that haunted me.
+
+Having learned from the experience of the preceding night, the
+inconvenience of encountering those labyrinths without a light, I now
+hastened to provide myself with a lamp from my boat. Tracking my way back
+with some difficulty to the shore, I there found, not only my lamp, but
+some dates and dried fruits, with a store of which, for my roving life
+upon the waters, I was always supplied,—and which now, after so many hours
+of abstinence, were a welcome and necessary relief.
+
+Thus prepared, I again ascended the pyramid, and was proceeding to search
+out the secret spring, when a loud, dismal noise was heard at a distance,
+to which all the echoes of the cemetery answered. It came, I knew, from
+the Great Temple on the shore of the Lake, and was the shriek which its
+gates—the Gates of Oblivion, as they were called—sent forth from their
+hinges, in opening at night, to receive within their precincts the newly‐
+landed dead.
+
+I had heard that sound before, and always with sadness; but, at this
+moment, it thrilled through me, like a voice of ill omen, and I almost
+doubted whether I should not abandon my enterprise. The hesitation,
+however, was but momentary;—even while it passed through my mind, I had
+touched the spring of the portal. In a few seconds more, I was again in
+the passage beneath the pyramid, and being enabled by my lamp to follow
+the windings of the way more rapidly, soon found myself at the door of the
+small chapel in the gallery.
+
+I entered, still awed, though there was now nothing living within. The
+young Priestess had fled—had vanished, like a spirit, into the darkness.
+All the rest was as I had left it on the preceding night. The lamp still
+stood burning upon the crystal shrine—the cross lay where the hands of the
+young mourner had placed it, and the cold image beneath wore the same
+tranquil look, as if resigned to the solitude of death—of all lone things
+the loneliest. Remembering the lips that I had seen kiss that cross, and
+kindling with the recollection, I raised it passionately to my own;—but,
+at the same moment, I fancied the dead eyes met mine, and, saddened in the
+midst of my ardour, I replaced the cross upon the shrine.
+
+I had now lost all clue to the object of my pursuit, and was preparing
+slowly to retrace my steps to earth, with that gloomy satisfaction which
+certainty, even when unwelcome, brings,—when, as I held forth my lamp, on
+leaving the chapel, I could perceive that the gallery, instead of
+terminating here, took a sudden bend to the left, which had before eluded
+my eye, and which gave a promise of leading still further into those
+recesses. Re‐animated by this discovery, which opened a new source of hope
+to my heart, I cast but one hesitating look at my lamp, as if to ask
+whether it would be faithful through the gloom I was about to encounter,
+and, without further thought, rushed eagerly forward.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. VII.
+
+
+The path led, for some time, through the same sort of narrow windings as
+those which I had encountered in descending the stair‐way; and at length
+opened, in a similar manner, into a straight and steep gallery, along each
+side of which stood, closely ranged and upright, a file of lifeless
+bodies, whose glassy eyes threw a preternatural glare upon me as I passed.
+
+Arrived at the end of this gallery, I found my hopes a second time vanish.
+The path, I perceived, extended no further. The only object that I could
+discern, by the glimmering of my lamp, which now, every minute, burned
+fainter and fainter, was the mouth of a huge well, that lay gaping before
+me—a reservoir of darkness, black and unfathomable. It now crossed my
+memory that I had heard of such wells, as being used occasionally for
+passages by the Priests. Leaning down, therefore, over the edge, I looked
+anxiously within, to discover whether it was possible to descend into the
+chasm; but the sides were hard and smooth as glass, being varnished all
+over with that dark pitch, which the Dead Sea throws out on its slimy
+shore.
+
+After a more attentive scrutiny, however, I observed, at the depth of a
+few feet, a sort of iron step, projecting dimly from the side, and, below
+it, another, which, though hardly perceptible, was just sufficient to
+encourage an adventurous foot to the trial. Though all hope of tracing the
+young Priestess was at an end,—it being impossible that female foot should
+have dared this descent,—yet, as I had so far engaged in the adventure,
+and there was, at least, a mystery to be unravelled, I determined, at all
+hazards, to explore the chasm. Placing my lamp (which was hollowed at the
+bottom, so as to fit like a helmet) firmly on my head, and having thus
+both hands at liberty for exertion, I set my foot cautiously on the iron
+step, and descended into the well.
+
+I found the same footing, at regular intervals, to a considerable depth;
+and had already counted near a hundred of these steps, when the ladder
+altogether ceased, and I could descend no farther. In vain did I stretch
+down my foot in search of support—the hard, slippery sides were all that
+it encountered. At length, stooping my head, so as to let the light fall
+below, I observed an opening or window directly above the step on which I
+stood, and, taking for granted that the way must lie in that direction,
+with some little difficulty clambered through the aperture.
+
+I now found myself on a rude and narrow stair‐way, the steps of which were
+cut out of the living rock, and wound spirally downward in the same
+direction as the well. Almost dizzy with the descent, which seemed as if
+it would never end, I, at last, reached the bottom, where a pair of massy
+iron gates closed directly across my path, as if to forbid any further
+progress. Massy, however, and gigantic as they were, I found, to my
+surprise, that the hand of an infant might have opened them with ease—so
+readily did their great folds give way to my touch,
+
+  “Light as a lime‐bush, that receives
+  Some wandering bird among its leaves.”
+
+No sooner, however, had I passed through, than the din, with which the
+gates clashed together again, was such as might have awakened death
+itself. It seemed as if every echo, throughout that vast, subterranean
+world, from the Catacombs of Alexandria to Thebes’s Valley of Kings, had
+caught up and repeated the thundering sound.
+
+Startled, however, as I was, not even this supernatural clangour could
+divert my attention from the light that now broke upon me—soft, warm, and
+welcome as are the stars of his own South to the mariner who has been
+wandering through the seas of the north. Looking for the source of this
+splendour, I saw, through an archway opposite, a long illuminated alley,
+stretching away as far as the eye could reach, and fenced, on one side,
+with thickets of odoriferous shrubs, while, along the other, extended a
+line of lofty arcades, from which the light, that filled the whole area,
+issued. As soon, too, as the din of the deep echoes had subsided, there
+stole gradually on my ear a strain of choral music, which appeared to
+come, mellowed and sweetened in its passage, through many a spacious hall
+within those shining arcades. Among the voices I could distinguish some
+female tones, towering high and clear over all the rest, and forming the
+spire, as it were, into which the harmony tapered, as it rose.
+
+So excited was my fancy by this sudden enchantment, that—though never had
+I caught a sound from the young Egyptian’s lips,—I yet persuaded myself
+that the voice I now heard was hers, sounding highest and most heavenly of
+all that choir, and calling to me, like a distant spirit out of its
+sphere. Animated by this thought, I flew forward to the archway, but
+found, to my mortification, that it was guarded by a trellis‐work, whose
+bars, though invisible at a distance, resisted all my efforts to force
+them.
+
+While occupied in these ineffectual struggles, I perceived, to the left of
+the archway, a dark, cavernous opening, which seemed to lead in a
+direction parallel to the lighted arcades. Notwithstanding my impatience,
+however, the aspect of this passage, as I looked shudderingly into it,
+chilled my very blood. It was not so much darkness, as a sort of livid and
+ghastly twilight, from which a damp, like that of death‐vaults, exhaled,
+and through which, if my eyes did not deceive me, pale, phantom‐like
+shapes were, at that very moment, hovering.
+
+Looking anxiously round, to discover some less formidable outlet, I saw,
+over the vast folding‐gates through which I had just passed, a blue,
+tremulous flame, which, after playing for a few seconds over the dark
+ground of the pediment, settled gradually into characters of light, and
+formed the following words:—
+
+  You, who would try
+    Yon terrible track,
+  To live, or to die,
+    But ne’er to look back—
+
+  You, who aspire
+    To be purified there,
+  By the terrors of Fire,
+    Of Water, and Air,—
+
+  If danger, and pain,
+    And death you despise,
+  On—for again
+    Into light you shall rise;
+
+  Rise into light
+    With that Secret Divine,
+  Now shrouded from sight
+    By the Veils of the Shrine!
+
+  But if——
+
+Here the letters faded away into a dead blank, more awfully intelligible
+than the most eloquent words.
+
+A new hope now flashed across me. The dream of the Garden, which had been
+for some time almost forgotten, returned to my mind. “Am I then,” I
+exclaimed, “in the path to the promised mystery? and shall the great
+secret of Eternal Life _indeed_ be mine?”
+
+“Yes!” seemed to answer, out of the air, that spirit‐voice, which still
+was heard crowning the choir with its single sweetness. I hailed the omen
+with transport. Love and Immortality, both beckoning me onward—who could
+give a thought to fear, with two such bright hopes in view? Having invoked
+and blessed that unknown enchantress, whose steps had led me to this abode
+of mystery and knowledge, I plunged into the chasm.
+
+Instead of that vague, spectral twilight which had at first met my eye, I
+now found, as I entered, a thick darkness, which, though far less
+horrible, was, at this moment, still more disconcerting, as my lamp, which
+had been, for some time, almost useless, was fast expiring. Resolved,
+however, to make the most of its last gleam, I hastened, with rapid step,
+through this gloomy region, which seemed wider and more open to the air
+than any that I had yet passed. Nor was it long before the appearance of a
+bright blaze in the distance announced to me that my first great Trial was
+at hand. As I drew nearer, the flames burst high and wide on all
+sides;—and the spectacle that now presented itself was such as might have
+appalled even hearts more habituated to dangers than mine.
+
+There lay before me, extending completely across my path, a thicket, or
+grove of the most combustible trees of Egypt—tamarind, pine, and Arabian
+balm. Around their stems and branches were coiled serpents of fire, which,
+twisting themselves rapidly from bough to bough, spread their own wild‐
+fire as they went, and involved tree after tree in one general blaze. It
+was, indeed, rapid as the burning of those reed‐beds of Ethiopia, whose
+light brightens, at night, the distant cataracts of the Nile.
+
+Through the middle of this blazing grove, I perceived, my only pathway
+lay. There was not a moment to be lost—the conflagration gained rapidly on
+either side, and already the narrowing path between was strewed with fire.
+Casting away my now useless lamp, and holding my robe as some protection
+over my head, with a tremor, I own, in every limb, I ventured through the
+blaze.
+
+Instantly, as if my presence had given new life to the flames, a fresh
+outbreak of combustion arose on all sides. The trees clustered into a
+bower of fire above my head, while the serpents, that hung hissing from
+the red branches, shot showers of sparkles down upon me, as I passed.
+Never were decision and activity more serviceable;—one minute later, and I
+must have perished. The narrow opening, of which I had so promptly availed
+myself, closed instantly behind me; and, as I looked back, to contemplate
+the ordeal which I had passed, I saw that the whole grove was already one
+mass of fire.
+
+Happy at having escaped this first trial, I plucked from one of the pine‐
+trees a bough that was but just kindled, and, with this for my only guide,
+hastened breathlessly forward. I had gone but a few paces, when the path
+turned suddenly off,—leading downwards, as I could see by the glimmer of
+my brand, into a more confined space, through which a chilling air, as if
+from some neighbouring waters, blew over my brow. Nor had I proceeded very
+far, when the sound of torrents fell on my ear,—mingled, as I thought,
+from time to time, with shrill wailings, like the cries of persons in
+danger or distress. At every step the noise of the dashing waters
+increased, and I now perceived that I had entered an immense rocky cavern,
+through the middle of which, headlong as a winter‐torrent, the flood, to
+whose roar I had been listening, rushed. Upon its surface, too, there
+floated strange, spectre‐like shapes, which, as they went by, sent forth
+those dismal shrieks, as if in fear of some precipice to whose brink they
+were hurrying.
+
+I saw too plainly that my course must be across that torrent. It was
+fearful; but in courage lay my only hope. What awaited me on the opposite
+shore, I knew not; for all there was wrapped in impenetrable gloom, nor
+could the weak light I held reach half so far. Dismissing, however, all
+thoughts but that of pressing onward, I sprung from the rock on which I
+stood into the flood,—trusting that, with my right hand, I should be able
+to buffet the current, while, with the other, I might contrive to hold my
+brand aloft, as long as a glimmer of it remained, to guide me to the
+shore.
+
+Long and formidable was the struggle I had to maintain. More than once,
+overpowered by the rush of the waters, I had almost given myself up, as
+destined to follow those apparitions, that still passed me, hurrying, with
+mournful cries, to their doom in some invisible gulf before them.
+
+At length, just as my strength was nearly exhausted, and the last remains
+of the pine‐branch were falling from my hand, I saw, outstretching towards
+me into the water, a light double balustrade, with a flight of steps
+between, ascending, almost perpendicularly, from the wave, till they
+seemed lost in a dense mass of clouds above. This glimpse—for it was no
+more, as my light expired in giving it—lent new spring to my courage.
+Having now both hands at liberty, so desperate were my efforts, that after
+a few minutes’ struggle, I felt my brow strike against the stairway, and,
+in an instant more, my feet were on the steps.
+
+Rejoiced at my rescue from that perilous flood, though I knew not whither
+the stairway led, I promptly ascended it. But this feeling of confidence
+was of short duration. I had not mounted far, when, to my horror, I
+perceived, that each successive step, as my foot left it, broke away from
+beneath me,—leaving me in midair, with no other alternative than that of
+mounting still by the same momentary footing, and with the dreadful doubt
+whether it would even endure my tread.
+
+And thus did I, for a few seconds, continue to ascend, with nothing
+beneath me but that awful river, in which—so tranquil it had become—I
+could hear the plash of the falling fragments, as every step in succession
+gave way under my feet. It was a trying moment, but still worse remained.
+I now found the balustrade, by which I had held during my ascent, and
+which had hitherto seemed firm, grow tremulous in my hand,—while the step
+to which I was about to trust myself, tottered under my foot. Just then, a
+momentary flash, as if of lightning, broke around, and I saw, hanging out
+of the clouds, within my reach, a huge brazen ring. Instinctively I
+stretched forth my arm to seize it, and, at the same instant, both
+balustrade and steps gave way beneath me, and I was left swinging by my
+hands in the dark void. As if, too, this massy ring, which I grasped, was
+by some magic power linked with all the winds in heaven, no sooner had I
+seized it than, like the touching of a spring, it seemed to give loose to
+every variety of gusts and tempests, that ever strewed the sea‐shore with
+wrecks or dead; and, as I swung about, the sport of this elemental strife,
+each new burst of its fury threatened to shiver me, like a storm‐sail, to
+atoms!
+
+Nor was even this the worst;—still holding, I know not how, by the ring, I
+felt myself caught up, as if by a thousand whirlwinds, and round and
+round, like a stone‐shot in a sling, whirled in the midst of all this
+deafening chaos, till my brain grew dizzy, and my recollection confused,
+and I almost fancied myself on that wheel of the infernal world, whose
+rotations, it is said, Eternity alone can number!
+
+Human strength could no longer sustain such a trial. I was on the point,
+at last, of loosing my hold, when suddenly the violence of the storm
+moderated;—my whirl through the air gradually ceased, and I felt the ring
+slowly descend with me, till—happy as a shipwrecked mariner at the first
+touch of land—I found my feet once more upon firm ground.
+
+At the same moment, a light of the most delicious softness filled the
+whole air. Music, such as is heard in dreams, came floating at a distance;
+and, as my eyes gradually recovered their powers of vision, a scene of
+glory was revealed to them, almost too bright for imagination, and yet
+living and real. As far as the sight could reach, enchanting gardens were
+seen, opening away through long tracts of light and verdure, and sparkling
+every where with fountains, that circulated, like streams of life, among
+the flowers. Not a charm was here wanting, that the imagination of poet or
+prophet, in their pictures of Elysium, ever yet dreamed or promised.
+Vistas, opening into scenes of indistinct grandeur,—streams, shining out
+at intervals, in their shadowy course,—and labyrinths of flowers, leading,
+by mysterious windings, to green, spacious glades, full of splendour and
+repose. Over all this, too, there fell a light, from some unseen source,
+resembling nothing that illumines our upper world—a sort of golden
+moonlight, mingling the warm radiance of day with the calm and melancholy
+lustre of night.
+
+Nor were there wanting inhabitants for this sunless Paradise. Through all
+the bright gardens were wandering, with the serene air and step of happy
+spirits, groups both of young and old, of venerable and of lovely forms,
+bearing, most of them, the Nile’s white flowers on their heads, and
+branches of the eternal palm in their hands; while, over the verdant turf,
+fair children and maidens went dancing to aërial music, whose source was,
+like that of the light, invisible, but which filled the whole air with its
+mystic sweetness.
+
+Exhausted as I was by the trials I had undergone, no sooner did I perceive
+those fair groups in the distance, than my weariness, both of frame and
+spirit, was forgotten. A thought crossed me that she, whom I sought, might
+be among them; and, notwithstanding the awe, with which that unearthly
+scene inspired me, I was about to fly, on the instant, to ascertain my
+hope. But in the act of making the effort, I felt my robe gently pulled,
+and turning, beheld an aged man before me, whom, by the sacred hue of his
+garb, I knew to be a Hierophant. Placing a branch of the consecrated palm
+in my hand, he said, in a solemn voice, “Aspirant of the Mysteries,
+welcome!”—then, regarding me for a few seconds with grave attention,
+added, in a tone of courteousness and interest, “The victory over the body
+hath been gained!—Follow me, young Greek, to thy resting place.”
+
+I obeyed in silence,—and the Priest, turning away from this scene of
+splendour, into a secluded path, where the light faded away, as we
+advanced, conducted me to a small pavilion, by the side of a whispering
+stream, where the very spirit of slumber seemed to preside, and, pointing
+to a bed of dried poppy‐leaves within it, left me to repose.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. VIII.
+
+
+Though the sight of that splendid scene which opened upon me, like a
+momentary glimpse into another world, had, for an instant, re‐animated my
+strength and spirit, so completely had fatigue overmastered my whole
+frame, that, even had the form of the young Priestess stood before me, my
+limbs would have sunk in the effort to reach her. No sooner had I fallen
+on my leafy couch, than sleep, like a sudden death, came over me; and I
+lay, for hours, in the deep, and motionless rest, which not even a shadow
+of life disturbs.
+
+On awaking I saw, beside me, the same venerable personage, who had
+welcomed me to this subterranean world on the preceding night. At the foot
+of my couch stood a statue, of Grecian workmanship, representing a boy,
+with wings, seated gracefully on a lotus‐flower, and having the forefinger
+of his right hand pressed to his lips. This action, together with the
+glory round his brows, denoted, as I already knew, the God of Silence and
+Light.
+
+Impatient to know what further trials awaited me, I was about to speak,
+when the Priest exclaimed, anxiously, “Hush!”—and pointing to this statue
+at the foot of the couch, said—“Let the spell of that Spirit be on thy
+lips, young stranger, till the wisdom of thy instructors shall think fit
+to remove it. Not unaptly doth the same god preside over Silence and
+Light; since it is only out of the depth of contemplative silence, that
+the great light of the soul, Truth, arises!”
+
+Little used to the language of dictation or instruction, I was now
+preparing to rise, when the priest again restrained me; and, at the same
+moment, two boys, beautiful as the young Genii of the stars, entered the
+pavilion. They were habited in long garments of the purest white, and bore
+each a small golden chalice in his hand. Advancing towards me, they
+stopped on opposite sides of the couch, and one of them, presenting to me
+his chalice of gold, said, in a tone between singing and speaking,—
+
+  “Drink of this cup—Osiris sips
+    The same in his halls below;
+  And the same he gives, to cool the lips
+    Of the Dead, who downward go.
+
+  “Drink of this cup—the water within
+    Is fresh from Lethe’s stream;
+  ’Twill make the past with all its sin,
+    And all its pain and sorrows, seem
+    Like a long‐forgotten dream!
+
+  “The pleasure, whose charms
+    Are steep’d in woe;
+  The knowledge, that harms
+    The soul to know;
+
+  “The hope, that, bright
+    As the lake of the waste,
+  Allures the sight,
+    But mocks the taste;
+
+  “The love, that binds
+    Its innocent wreath,
+  Where the serpent winds,
+    In venom, beneath;—
+
+  “All that, of evil or false, by thee
+    Hath ever been known or seen,
+  Shall melt away in this cup, and be
+    Forgot, as it never had been!”
+
+Unwilling to throw a slight on this strange ceremony, I leaned forward,
+with all due gravity, and tasted the cup; which I had no sooner done than
+the young cup‐bearer, on the other side, invited my attention, and, in his
+turn, presenting the chalice which he held, sung, with a voice still
+sweeter than that of his companion, the following strain:—
+
+  “Drink of this cup—when Isis led
+    Her boy, of old, to the beaming sky,
+  She mingled a draught divine, and said—
+    ‘Drink of this cup, thou’lt never die!’
+
+  “Thus do I say and sing to thee,
+    Heir of that boundless heav’n on high,
+  Though frail, and fall’n, and lost thou be,
+    Drink of this cup, thou’lt never die!”
+
+Much as I had endeavoured to keep my philosophy on its guard, against the
+illusions with which, I knew, this region abounded, the young cup‐bearer
+had here touched a spring of imagination, over which, as has been seen, my
+philosophy had but little controul. No sooner had the words, “thou shalt
+never die,” struck on my ear, than the dream of the Garden came fully to
+my mind, and, starting half‐way from the couch, I stretched forth my hands
+to the cup. Recollecting myself, however, and fearful of having betrayed
+to others a weakness only fit for my own secret indulgence, with an
+affected smile of indifference I sunk back again on my couch,—while the
+young minstrel, but little interrupted by my movement, still continued his
+strain, of which I heard but the concluding words:—
+
+  “And Memory, too, with her dreams shall come,
+    Dreams of a former, happier day,
+  When Heaven was still the Spirit’s home,
+    And her wings had not yet fallen away;
+
+  “Glimpses of glory, ne’er forgot,
+    That tell, like gleams on a sunset sea,
+  What once hath been, what now is not,
+    But, oh, what again shall brightly be!”
+
+Though the assurances of immortality, contained in these verses, would, at
+any other moment,—vain and visionary as I thought them,—have sent my fancy
+wandering into reveries of the future, the effort of self‐control I had
+just made enabled me to hear them with indifference.
+
+Having gone through the form of tasting this second cup, I again looked
+anxiously to the Hierophant, to ascertain whether I might be permitted to
+rise. His assent having been given, the young pages brought to my couch a
+robe and tunic, which, like their own, were of linen of the purest white;
+and having assisted to clothe me in this sacred garb, they then placed
+upon my head a chaplet of myrtle, in which the symbol of Initiation, a
+golden grasshopper, was seen shining out from among the dark leaves.
+
+Though sleep had done much to refresh my frame, something more was still
+wanting to restore its strength; and it was not without a smile at my own
+reveries I reflected, how much more welcome than the young page’s cup of
+immortality was the unpretending, but real, repast now set before
+me,—fresh fruits from the Isle of Gardens in the Nile, the delicate flesh
+of the desert antelope, and wine from the Vineyard of the Queens at
+Anthylla, fanned by one of the pages with a palm‐leaf, to keep it cool.
+
+Having done justice to these dainties, it was with pleasure I heard the
+proposal of the Priest, that we should now walk forth together, and
+meditate among the scenes without. I had not forgotten the elysium that
+welcomed me last night,—those enchanted gardens, that mysterious music,
+and light, and the fair forms I saw wandering about,—as if, in the very
+midst of happiness, still seeking it. The hope, which had then occurred to
+me, that, perhaps, among those sparkling groups, might be the maiden I
+sought, now returned with increased strength. I had little doubt that my
+guide was about to lead to the same Elysian scene, and that the form, so
+fit to inhabit it, would again appear before my eyes.
+
+But far different was the region to which he conducted me; nor could the
+whole world produce a scene more gloomy, or more strange. It had the
+appearance of a small, solitary valley, inclosed, on every side, by rocks,
+which seemed to rise, almost perpendicularly, to the very sky;—for it was,
+indeed, the blue sky that I saw shining between their summits, and whose
+light, dimmed and half lost, in its descent thus far, formed the
+melancholy daylight of this nether world.(3) Down the side of these rocky
+walls fell a cataract, whose source was upon earth, and on whose waters,
+as they rolled glassily over the edge above, a gleam of radiance rested,
+that showed how brilliant was the sunshine they left. From thence,
+gradually darkening, and broken, in its long descent, by alternate chasms
+and projections, the stream fell, at last, in a pale and thin mist—the
+phantom of what it had been on earth—into a small lake that lay at the
+base of the rock to receive it.
+
+Nothing could be more bleak and saddening than the appearance of this
+lake. The usual ornaments of the waters of Egypt were not wanting: the
+lotus here uplifted her silvery flowers, and the crimson flamingo floated
+over the tide. But they were, neither of them, the same as in the upper
+world;—the flower had exchanged its whiteness for a livid hue, and the
+wings of the bird hung heavy and colourless. Every thing wore the same
+half‐living aspect; and the only sounds that disturbed the mournful
+stillness were the wailing cry of a heron among the sedges, and that din
+of the waters, in their midway struggle, above.
+
+There was an unearthly sadness in the whole scene, of which no heart,
+however light, could resist the influence. Perceiving how I was affected
+by it, “Such scenes,” said the Priest, “are best suited to that solemn
+complexion of mind, which becomes him who approaches the Great Secret of
+futurity. Behold,”—and, in saying thus, he pointed to the opening over our
+heads, through which I could perceive a star or two twinkling in the
+heavens, though the sun had but a short time passed his meridian,—“as from
+this gloomy depth we can see those stars, which are now invisible to the
+dwellers upon the bright earth, even so, to the sad and self‐humbled
+spirit, doth many a mystery of heaven reveal itself, of which they, who
+walk in the light of the proud world, know not!”
+
+He now led me towards a rustic seat or alcove, beside which stood an image
+of that dark Deity, that God without a smile, who presides over the
+kingdom of the Dead.(4) The same livid and lifeless hue was upon his
+features, that hung over every thing in this dim valley; and, with his
+right hand, he pointed directly downwards, to denote that his melancholy
+kingdom lay there. A plantain—that favourite tree of the genii of
+Death—stood behind the statue, and spread its branches over the alcove, in
+which the Priest now, seating himself, signified that I should take my
+place by his side.
+
+After a long pause, as if of thought and preparation,—“Nobly,” said he,
+“young Greek, hast thou sustained the first trials of Initiation. What
+remains, though of vital import to the soul, brings with it neither pain
+nor peril to the body. Having now proved and chastened thy mortal frame,
+by the three ordeals of Fire, of Water, and of Air, the next task to which
+we are called is the purification of thy spirit,—the cleansing of that
+inward and immortal part, so as to render it fit for the reception of the
+last luminous revealment, when the Veils of the Sanctuary shall be thrown
+aside, and the Great Secret of Secrets unfolded to thee!—Towards this
+object, the primary and most essential step is, instruction. What the
+three purifying elements, through which thou hast passed, have done for
+thy body, instruction will effect for——”
+
+“But that lovely maiden!” I exclaimed, bursting from my silence, having
+fallen, during his speech, into a deep revery, in which I had forgotten
+him, myself, the Great Secret, every thing—but her.
+
+Startled by this profane interruption, he cast a look of alarm towards the
+statue, as if fearful lest the God should have heard my words. Then,
+turning to me, in a tone of mild solemnity, “It is but too plain,” said
+he, “that thoughts of the upper world, and of its vain delights, still
+engross thee too much, to let the lessons of Truth sink profitably into
+thy heart. A few hours of meditation amid this solemn scenery—of that
+wholesome meditation, which purifies, by saddening—may haply dispose thee
+to receive, with reverence, the holy and immortal knowledge that is in
+store for thee. With this hope, I now leave thee to thy own thoughts, and
+to that God, before whose calm and mournful eye the vanities of the world,
+from which thou comest, wither!”
+
+Thus saying, he turned slowly away, and passing behind the statue, towards
+which he had pointed during the last sentence, suddenly, and as if by
+enchantment, disappeared from my sight.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. IX.
+
+
+Being left to my own solitary thoughts, I had now leisure to reflect, with
+coolness, on the inconveniences, if not dangers, of the situation into
+which my love of adventure had hurried me. However ready my imagination
+was to kindle, in its own ideal sphere, I have ever found that, when
+brought into contact with reality, it as suddenly cooled;—like those
+meteors, that seem stars in the air, but, the moment they touch earth, are
+extinguished. Such was the disenchantment that now succeeded to the dreams
+in which I had been indulging. As long as Fancy had the field of the
+future to herself, even immortality did not seem too distant a race for
+her. But when human instruments interposed, the illusion vanished. From
+mortal lips the promise of immortality seemed a mockery, and imagination
+herself had no wings that could carry beyond the grave.
+
+Nor was this disappointment the only feeling that occupied me;—the
+imprudence of the step, which I had taken, now appeared in its full extent
+before my eyes. I had thrown myself into the power of the most artful
+priesthood in the world, without a chance of being able to escape from
+their toils, or to resist any machinations with which they might beset me.
+It seemed evident, from the state of preparation in which I had found all
+that wonderful apparatus, by which the terrors and splendours of
+Initiation are produced, that my descent into the pyramid was not
+unexpected. Numerous, indeed, and active as were the spies of the Sacred
+College of Memphis, there could be but little doubt that all my movements,
+since my arrival, had been tracked; and the many hours I had passed in
+watching and wandering round the pyramid, betrayed a curiosity which might
+well inspire these wily priests with the hope of drawing an Epicurean into
+their superstitious toils.
+
+I well knew their hatred to the sect of which I was Chief;—that they
+considered the Epicureans as, next to the Christians, the most formidable
+enemies of their craft and power. “How thoughtless, then,” I exclaimed,
+“to have placed myself in a situation, where I am equally helpless against
+their fraud and violence, and must either seem to be the dupe of their
+impostures, or submit to become the victim of their vengeance.” Of these
+alternatives, bitter as they were, the latter appeared by far the more
+welcome. I blushed even to think of the mockeries to which I already had
+yielded; and the prospect of being put through still further ceremonials,
+and of being tutored and preached to by hypocrites I despised, appeared to
+me, in my present temper, a trial of patience, to which the flames and the
+whirlwinds I had already encountered were pastime.
+
+Often and impatiently did I look up, between those rocky walls, to the
+bright sky that appeared to rest upon their summits, as, round and round,
+through every part of the valley, I endeavoured to find an outlet from its
+gloomy precincts. But in vain I endeavoured;—that rocky barrier, which
+seemed to end but in heaven, interposed itself every where. Neither did
+the image of the young maiden, though constantly in my mind, now bring
+with it the least consolation or hope. Of what avail was it that she,
+perhaps, was an inhabitant of this region, if I could neither see her
+smile, nor catch the sound of her voice,—if, while among preaching priests
+I wasted away my hours, her presence diffused its enchantment elsewhere.
+
+At length exhausted, I lay down by the brink of the lake, and gave myself
+up to all the melancholy of my fancy. The pale semblance of daylight,
+which had hitherto shone around, grew, every moment, more dim and dismal.
+Even the rich gleam, at the summit of the cascade, had faded; and the
+sunshine, like the water, exhausted in its descent, had now dwindled into
+a ghostly glimmer, far worse than darkness. The birds upon the lake, as if
+about to die with the dying light, sunk down their heads; and, as I looked
+to the statue, the deepening shadows gave an expression to its mournful
+features that chilled my very soul.
+
+The thought of death, ever ready to present itself to my imagination, now
+came, with a disheartening weight, such as I had never before felt. I
+almost fancied myself already in the dark vestibule of the
+grave,—separated, for ever, from the world above, and with nothing but the
+blank of an eternal sleep before me. It had often, I knew, happened that
+the visitants of this mysterious realm were, after their descent from
+earth, never seen or heard of;—being condemned, for some failure in their
+initiatory trials, to pine away their lives in the dark dungeons, with
+which, as well as with altars, this region abounded. Such, I shuddered to
+think, might probably be my destiny; and so appalling was the thought,
+that even the spirit of defiance died within me, and I was already giving
+myself up to helplessness and despair.
+
+At length, after some hours of this gloomy musing, I heard a rustling in
+the sacred grove behind the statue; and, soon after, the sound of the
+Priest’s voice—more welcome than I had ever thought such voice could
+be—brought the assurance that I was not yet, at least, wholly abandoned.
+Finding his way to me through the gloom, he now led me to the same spot,
+on which we had parted so many hours before; and, in a voice that retained
+no trace of displeasure, bespoke my attention, while he should reveal to
+me some of those divine truths, by whose infusion, he said, into the soul
+of man, its purification can alone be effected.
+
+The valley had now become so wholly dark, that we could no longer discern
+each other’s faces, as we sat. There was a melancholy in the voice of my
+instructor that well accorded with the gloom around us; and, saddened and
+subdued, I now listened with resignation, if not with interest, to those
+sublime, but, alas, I thought, vain tenets, which, with the warmth of a
+believer, this Hierophant expounded to me.
+
+He spoke of the pre‐existence of the soul,—of its abode, from all
+eternity, in a place of bliss, of which all that we have most beautiful in
+our conceptions here is but a dim transcript, a clouded remembrance. In
+the blue depths of ether, he said, lay that “Country of the Soul,”—its
+boundary alone visible in the line of milky light, that separates it, as
+by a barrier of stars, from the dark earth. “Oh, realm of purity! Home of
+the yet unfallen Spirit!—where, in the days of her primal innocence, she
+wandered, ere her beauty was soiled by the touch of earth, or her
+resplendent wings had withered away. Methinks,” he cried, “I see, at this
+moment, those fields of radiance,—I look back, through the mists of life,
+into that luminous world, where the souls that have never lost their high,
+heavenly rank, still soar, without a stain, above the shadowless stars,
+and dwell together in infinite perfection and bliss!”
+
+As he spoke these words, a burst of pure, brilliant light, like a sudden
+opening of heaven, broke through the valley; and, as soon as my eyes were
+able to endure the splendour, such a vision of loveliness and glory opened
+upon them, as took even my sceptical spirit by surprise, and made it
+yield, at once, to the potency of the spell.
+
+Suspended, as I thought, in air, and occupying the whole of the opposite
+region of the valley, there appeared an immense orb of light, within
+which, through a haze of radiance, I could see distinctly groups of young
+female spirits, who, in silent, but harmonious movement, like that of the
+stars, wound slowly through a variety of fanciful evolutions; and, as they
+linked and unlinked each other’s arms, formed a living labyrinth of beauty
+and grace. Though their feet seemed to tread along a field of light, they
+had also wings, of the richest hue, which, like rainbows over waterfalls,
+when played with by the breeze, at every moment reflected a new variety of
+glory.
+
+As I stood, gazing with wonder, the orb, with all its ethereal inmates,
+gradually receded into the dark void, lessening, as it went, and growing
+more bright, as it lessened;—till, at length, distant, apparently, as a
+retiring comet, this little world of Spirits, in one small point of
+intense radiance, shone its last and vanished. “Go,” exclaimed the rapt
+Priest, “ye happy souls, of whose dwelling a glimpse is thus given to our
+eyes, go, wander, in your orb, through the boundless heaven, nor ever let
+a thought of this perishable world come to mingle its dross with your
+divine nature, or tempt you to that earthward fall, by which spirits, as
+bright, have been ruined!”
+
+A pause ensued, during which, still under the influence of wonder, I sent
+my fancy wandering after the inhabitants of that orb,—almost wishing
+myself credulous enough to believe in a heaven, of which creatures, so
+like all that I most loved on earth, were inmates.
+
+At length, the Priest, with a sigh at the contrast he was about to draw,
+between the happy spirits we had just seen and the fallen ones of earth,
+resumed his melancholy History of the Soul. Tracing it, from the first
+moment of earthward desire, to its final eclipse in the shadows of this
+world, he dwelt upon every stage of its darkening descent, with a pathos
+that sent sadness into the very depths of the heart. The first downward
+look of the Spirit towards earth—the tremble of her wings on the edge of
+Heaven—the giddy slide, at length, down that fatal descent, and the
+Lethæan cup, midway in the sky, of which when she has once tasted, Heaven
+is forgot,—through all these gradations he mournfully traced her fall, to
+the last stage of darkness, when, wholly immersed in this world, her
+celestial nature is changed, she can no longer rise above earth, nor
+remembers her home, but by glimpses so vague, that, mistaking for hope
+what is only memory, she believes them to be a light from the Future, not
+the Past.
+
+“To retrieve this ruin of the once blessed Soul—to clear away, from around
+her, the clouds of earth, and, restoring her lost wings(5), facilitate
+their return to Heaven—such,” said the reverend man, “is the great task of
+our religion, and such the triumph of those divine Mysteries, in which the
+life and essence of our religion lie. However sunk and changed and clouded
+may be the Spirit, as long as a single trace of her original light
+remains, there is yet hope that——”
+
+Here his voice was interrupted by a strain of mournful music, of which the
+low, distant breathings had been, for some minutes, heard, but which now
+gained upon the ear too thrillingly to let it listen to any more earthly
+sound. A faint light, too, at that instant broke through the valley,—and I
+could perceive, not far from the spot where we sat, a female figure,
+veiled, and crouching to earth, as if subdued by sorrow, or under the
+influence of shame.
+
+The light, by which I saw her, was from a pale, moon‐like meteor, which
+had formed itself in the air as the music approached, and shed over the
+rocks and the lake a glimmer as cold as that by which the Dead, in their
+own realm, gaze on each other. The music, too, which appeared to rise
+directly out of the lake, and to come full of the breath of its dark
+waters, spoke a despondency in every note which no language could
+express;—and, as I listened to its tones, and looked upon that fallen
+Spirit, (for such, the holy man whispered, was the form before us,) so
+entirely did the illusion of the scene take possession of me, that, with
+breathless anxiety, I waited the result.
+
+Nor had I gazed long before that form rose slowly from its drooping
+position;—the air around it grew bright, and the pale meteor overhead
+assumed a more cheerful and living light. The veil, which had before
+shrouded the face of the figure, became gradually transparent, and the
+features, one by one, disclosed themselves through it. Having tremblingly
+watched the progress of the apparition, I now started from my seat, and
+half exclaimed, “It is she!” In another minute, this veil had, like a thin
+mist, melted away, and the young Priestess of the Moon stood, for the
+third time, revealed before my eyes.
+
+To rush instantly towards her was my first impulse—but the arm of the
+Priest held me firmly back. The fresh light, which had begun to flow in
+from all sides, collected itself in a glory round the spot where she
+stood. Instead of melancholy music, strains of the most exalted rapture
+were heard; and the young maiden, buoyant as the inhabitants of the fairy
+orb, amid a blaze of light like that which fell upon her in the Temple,
+ascended into the air.
+
+“Stay, beautiful vision, stay!” I exclaimed, as, breaking from the hold of
+the Priest, I flung myself prostrate on the ground,—the only mode by which
+I could express the admiration, even to worship, with which I was filled.
+But the vanishing spirit heard me not:—receding into the darkness, like
+that orb, whose track she seemed to follow, her form lessened away, till
+she was seen no more. Gazing, till the last luminous speck had
+disappeared, I suffered myself unconsciously to be led away by my reverend
+guide, who, placing me once more on my bed of poppy‐leaves, left me to
+such repose as it was possible, after such a scene, to enjoy.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CHAP. X.
+
+
+The apparition with which I had been blessed in that Valley of Visions—as
+the place where I had witnessed these wonders was called—brought back to
+my heart all the hopes and fancies, in which I had indulged during my
+descent from earth. I had now seen once more that matchless creature, who
+had been my guiding star into this mysterious world; and that she was, in
+some way, connected with the further revelations that awaited me, I saw no
+reason to doubt. There was a sublimity, too, in the doctrines of my
+reverend teacher, and even a hope in the promises of immortality held out
+by him, which, in spite of reason, won insensibly both upon my fancy and
+my pride.
+
+The Future, however, was now but of secondary consideration;—the Present,
+and that deity of the Present, woman, were the objects that engrossed my
+whole soul. For the sake, indeed, of such beings alone did I think
+immortality desirable, nor, without them, would eternal life have appeared
+to me worth a prayer. To every further trial of my patience and faith, I
+now made up my mind to submit without a murmur. Some propitious chance, I
+fondly persuaded myself, might yet bring me nearer to the object of my
+adoration, and enable me to address, as mortal woman, her who had hitherto
+been to me but as a vision, a shade.
+
+The period of my probation, however, was nearly at an end. Both frame and
+spirit had now been tried; and, as the crowning test of the purification
+of the latter was that power of seeing into the world of spirits, with
+which, in the Valley of Visions, I had proved myself to be endowed, there
+remained now, to perfect my Initiation, but this one night more, when, in
+the Temple of Isis, and in the presence of her unveiled image, the last
+grand revelation of the Secret of Secrets was to open upon me.
+
+I passed the morning of this day in company with the same venerable
+personage, who had, from the first, presided over the ceremonies of my
+instruction; and who, to inspire me with due reverence for the power and
+magnificence of his religion, now conducted me through the long range of
+illuminated galleries and shrines, that extend under the site upon which
+Memphis and the Pyramids stand, and form a counterpart under ground to
+that mighty city of temples upon earth.
+
+He then descended with me, still lower, into those winding crypts, where
+lay the Seven Tables of stone, found by Hermes in the valley of Hebron.
+“On these tables,” said he, “is written all the knowledge of the
+antediluvian race,—the decrees of the stars from the beginning of time,
+the annals of a still earlier world, and all the marvellous secrets, both
+of heaven and earth, which would have been,
+
+          “_but_ for this key,
+  Lost in the Universal Sea.”
+
+Returning to the region, from which we had descended, we next visited, in
+succession, a series of small shrines, representing the various objects of
+adoration through Egypt, and thus furnishing to the Priest an occasion for
+explaining the mysterious nature of animal worship, and the refined
+doctrines of theology that lay veiled under its forms. Every shrine was
+consecrated to a particular faith, and contained a living image of the
+deity which it adored. Beside the goat of Mendes, with his refulgent star
+upon his breast, I saw the crocodile, as presented to the eyes of its
+idolaters at Arsinoë, with costly gems in its loathsome ears, and rich
+bracelets of gold encircling its feet. Here, floating through a tank in
+the centre of a temple, the sacred carp of Lepidotum exhibited its silvery
+scales; while, there, the Isiac serpents trailed languidly over the altar,
+with that movement which most inspires the hopes of their votaries. In one
+of the small chapels we found a beautiful child, feeding and watching over
+those golden beetles, which are adored for their brightness, as emblems of
+the sun; while, in another, stood a sacred ibis upon its pedestal, so
+like, in plumage and attitude, to the bird of the young Priestess, that I
+could gladly have knelt down and worshipped it for her sake.
+
+After visiting these various shrines, and listening to the reflections
+which they suggested, I was next led by my guide to the Great Hall of the
+Zodiac, on whose ceiling, in bright and undying colours, was delineated
+the map of the firmament, as it appeared at the first dawn of time. Here,
+in pointing out the track of the sun, among the spheres, he spoke
+eloquently of the analogy that exists between moral and physical
+darkness—of the sympathy with which all spiritual creatures regard the
+sun, so as to sadden and droop when he sinks into his wintry hemisphere,
+and to rejoice when he resumes his own empire of light. Hence, the
+festivals and hymns, with which most of the nations of the earth are wont
+to welcome the resurrection of his orb in spring, as an emblem and pledge
+of the re‐ascent of the soul to heaven. Hence, the songs of sorrow, the
+mournful ceremonies,—like those Mysteries of the Night, upon the Lake of
+Saïs,—in which they brood over his autumnal descent into the shades, as a
+type of the Spirit’s fall into this world of death.
+
+In discourses such as these the hours passed away; and though there was
+nothing in the light of this sunless region to mark to the eye the decline
+of day, my own feelings told me that the night drew near;—nor, in spite of
+my incredulity, could I refrain from a flutter of hope, as that promised
+moment of revelation approached, when the Mystery of Mysteries was to be
+made all my own. This consummation, however, was less near than I
+expected. My patience had still further trials to encounter. It was
+necessary, I now found, that I should keep watch, during the greater part
+of the night, in the Sanctuary of the Temple, alone and in darkness,—and
+thus prepare myself, by meditation, for the awful moment, when the
+irradiation from behind the sacred Veils was to burst upon me.
+
+At the appointed hour, we left the Hall of the Zodiac, and proceeded
+through a line of long marble galleries, where the lamps were more thinly
+scattered as we advanced, till, at length, we found ourselves in total
+darkness. Here the Priest, taking me by the hand, and leading me down a
+flight of steps, into a place where the same deep gloom prevailed, said,
+with a voice trembling, as if from excess of awe,—“Thou art now in the
+Sanctuary of our goddess, Isis, and the dark veils, that hang over her
+image, are before thee!”
+
+After exhorting me earnestly to that train of thought, which best accorded
+with the spirit of the place where I stood, and, above all, to that full
+and unhesitating faith, with which alone, he said, the manifestation of
+such mysteries should be approached, the holy man took leave of me, and
+re‐ascended the steps;—while, so spell‐bound did I feel by that deep
+darkness, that the last sound of his footsteps died upon my ear, before I
+ventured to stir a limb from the position in which he had left me.
+
+The prospect of the long watch, now before me, was dreadful. Even danger
+itself, in an active form, would have been preferable to this sort of
+safe, but dull, probation, by which patience was the only virtue put to
+the proof. Having ascertained how far the space around me was free from
+obstacles, I endeavoured to beguile the time by pacing up and down within
+those limits, till I became tired of the echoes of my own tread. Finding
+my way, then, to what I felt to be a massive pillar, and, leaning wearily
+against it, I surrendered myself to a train of thoughts and feelings, far
+different from those with which the Hierophant had hoped to inspire me.
+
+“Why,” I again asked, “if these priests possess the secret of life, why
+are they themselves the victims of death? why sink into the grave with the
+cup of immortality in their hands? But no, safe boasters, the eternity
+they so lavishly promise is reserved for _another_, a future world—that
+ready resource of all priestly promises—that depository of the airy
+pledges of all creeds. Another world!—alas, where does it lie? or, what
+spirit hath ever come to say that Life is there?”
+
+The conclusion, to which, half sadly, half passionately, I arrived, was
+that, life being but a dream of the moment, never to come again, every
+bliss that is promised for hereafter should be secured by the wise man
+here. And, as no heaven I had ever heard of from these visionary priests
+opened half such certainty of happiness as that smile which I beheld last
+night,—“Let me,” I exclaimed, impatiently, striking the massy pillar, till
+it rung, “let me but make that beautiful Priestess my own, and I here
+willingly exchange for her every chance of immortality, that the combined
+wisdom of Egypt’s Twelve Temples can offer me!”
+
+No sooner had I uttered these words, than a tremendous peal, like that of
+thunder, rolled over the Sanctuary, and seemed to shake its walls. On
+every side, too, a succession of blue, vivid flashes pierced, like so many
+lances of light, through the gloom, revealing to me, at intervals, the
+mighty dome in which I stood—its ceiling of azure, studded with stars, its
+colossal columns, towering aloft, and those dark, mysterious veils, which
+hung, in massy drapery, from the roof to the floor, and covered the rich
+glories of the Shrine under their folds.
+
+So weary had I grown of my tedious watch, that this stormy and fitful
+illumination, during which the Sanctuary seemed to rock to its base, was
+by no means an unwelcome interruption of the monotony under which my
+impatience suffered. After a short interval, however, the flashes
+ceased;—the sounds died away, like exhausted thunder, through the abyss,
+and darkness and silence, like that of the grave, succeeded.
+
+Resting my back once more against the pillar, and fixing my eyes upon that
+side of the Sanctuary, from which the promised irradiation was to burst, I
+now resolved to await the awful moment in patience. Resigned and
+immovable, I had remained thus, for nearly another hour, when, suddenly,
+along the edges of the mighty Veils, I perceived a thin rim of light, as
+if from some brilliant object under them;—like that border which encircles
+a cloud at sunset, when the radiance, from behind, is escaping at its
+edges.
+
+This indication of concealed glories grew every instant more strong; till,
+at last, vividly marked as it was upon the darkness, the narrow fringe of
+lustre almost pained the eye, giving promise of a splendour too bright to
+be endured. My expectations were now wound to the highest pitch, and all
+the scepticism, into which I had been cooling down my mind, was forgotten.
+The wonders that had been presented to me since my descent from earth—that
+glimpse into Elysium on the first night of my coming—those visitants from
+the Land of Spirits in the mysterious valley,—all led me to expect, in
+this last and brightest revelation, such visions of glory and knowledge as
+might transcend even fancy itself, nor leave a doubt that they belonged
+less to earth than heaven.
+
+While, with an imagination thus excited, I stood waiting the result, an
+increased gush of light still more awakened my attention; and I saw, with
+an intenseness of interest, which made my heart beat aloud, one of the
+corners of the mighty Veil slowly raised up. I now felt that the Great
+Secret—whatever it might be—was at hand. A vague hope even crossed my
+mind—so wholly had imagination resumed her empire—that the splendid
+promise of my dream was on the point of being realised!
+
+With surprise, however, and—for a moment—with disappointment, I perceived,
+that the massy corner of the Veil was but raised sufficiently to allow a
+female figure to emerge from under it,—and then fell again, over its
+mystic splendours, as dark as before. By the strong light, too, that
+issued when the drapery was lifted, and illuminated the profile of the
+emerging figure, I either saw, or fancied that I saw, the same bright
+features, that had already mocked me so often with their momentary charm,
+and seemed destined to haunt my heart as unavailingly as the fond, vain
+dream of Immortality itself.
+
+Dazzled as I had been by that short gush of splendour, and distrusting
+even my senses, when under the influence of a fancy so excited, I had
+hardly time to question myself as to the reality of my impression, when I
+heard the sounds of light footsteps approaching me through the gloom. In a
+second or two more, the figure stopped before me, and, placing the end of
+a riband gently in my hand, said, in a tremulous whisper, “Follow, and be
+silent.”
+
+So sudden and strange was the adventure, that, for a moment, I
+hesitated,—fearful lest my eyes should have been deceived as to the object
+they had seen. Casting a look towards the Veil, which seemed bursting with
+its luminous secret, I was almost doubting to which of the two chances I
+should commit myself, when I felt the riband in my hand pulled softly at
+the other extremity. This movement, at once, like a touch of magic,
+decided me. Without further deliberation, I yielded to the silent summons,
+and following my guide, who was already at some distance before me, found
+myself led up the same flight of marble steps, by which the Priest had
+conducted me into the Sanctuary. Arrived at their summit, I felt the pace
+of my conductress quicken, and, giving one more look to the Veiled Shrine,
+whose glories we left burning ineffectually behind us, hastened into the
+gloom, full of confidence in the belief, that she, who now held the other
+end of that clue, was one whom I could follow devotedly through the world.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XI.
+
+
+So rapidly was I hurried along by my unseen conductress, full of wonder at
+the speed with which she ventured through these labyrinths, that I had but
+little time to reflect upon the strangeness of the adventure to which I
+had committed myself. My knowledge of the character of the priests, as
+well as the fearful rumours that had reached me, of the fate that often
+attended unbelievers in their hands, waked a momentary suspicion of
+treachery in my mind. But, when I recalled the face of my guide, as I had
+seen it in the chapel, with that divine look, the very memory of which
+brought purity into the heart, this suspicion all vanished, and I felt
+shame at having harboured it but an instant.
+
+In the mean while, our course continued uninterrupted, through windings
+more capriciously intricate than any that I had yet passed, and whose
+darkness seemed never to have been disturbed by a single glimmer. My
+conductress still continued at some distance before me, and the clue, to
+which I clung as if it were the thread of Destiny herself, was still kept,
+by her speed, at full stretch between us. At length, suddenly stopping,
+she said, in a breathless whisper, “Seat thyself here,” and, at the same
+moment, led me by the hand to a sort of low car, in which I lost not a
+moment in placing myself, as desired, while the maiden, as promptly, took
+her seat by my side.
+
+A sudden click, like the touching of a spring, was then heard, and the
+car,—which, as I had felt in entering it, leaned half‐way over a steep
+descent,—on being loosed from its station, shot down, almost
+perpendicularly, into the darkness, with a rapidity which, at first,
+nearly deprived me of breath. The wheels slid smoothly and noiselessly in
+grooves, and the impetus, which the car acquired in descending, was
+sufficient, I perceived, to carry it up an eminence that succeeded,—from
+the summit of which it again rushed down another declivity, even still
+more long and precipitous than the former. In this manner we proceeded, by
+alternate falls and rises, till, at length, from the last and steepest
+elevation, the car descended upon a level of deep sand, where, after
+running for a few yards, it by degrees lost its motion and stopped.
+
+Here, the maiden alighting, again placed the riband in my hands,—and again
+I followed her, though with more slowness and difficulty than before, as
+our way led up a flight of damp and time‐worn steps, whose ascent seemed
+to the weary and insecure foot interminable. Perceiving with what languor
+my guide now advanced, I was on the point of making an effort to assist
+her progress, when the creak of an opening door above, and a faint gleam
+of light which, at the same moment, shone upon her figure, apprised me
+that we were arrived within reach of sunshine.
+
+Joyfully I followed through this opening, and, by the dim light, could
+discern, that we were now in the sanctuary of a vast, ruined
+temple,—having entered by a passage under the lofty pedestal, upon which
+an image of the idol of the place once stood. The first movement of the
+maiden, after replacing the portal under the pedestal, was, without even a
+look towards me, to cast herself down on her knees, with her hands clasped
+and uplifted, as if for the purpose of thanksgiving or prayer. But she was
+unable to sustain herself in this position;—her strength could hold out no
+longer. Overcome by agitation and fatigue, she sunk senseless upon the
+pavement.
+
+Bewildered as I was, myself, by the events of the night, I stood for some
+minutes looking upon her in a state of helplessness and alarm. But,
+reminded, by my own feverish sensations, of the reviving effects of the
+air, I raised her gently in my arms, and crossing the corridor that
+surrounded the sanctuary, found my way to the outer vestibule of the
+temple. Here, shading her eyes from the sun, I placed her, reclining, upon
+the steps, where the cool wind, then blowing freshly from the north, might
+play, with free draught, between the pillars over her brow.
+
+It was, indeed,—I now saw, with certainty,—the same beautiful and
+mysterious girl, who had been the cause of my descent into that
+subterranean world, and who now, under such strange and unaccountable
+circumstances, was my guide back again to the realms of day. I looked
+round, to discover where we were, and beheld such a scene of grandeur,
+as—could my eyes have wandered to any other object from the pale form
+reclining at my side—might well have won them to dwell on its splendid
+beauties.
+
+I was now standing, I found, on the small island in the centre of Lake
+Mœris; and that sanctuary, where we had emerged from darkness, formed part
+of the ruins of a temple, which (as I have since learned) was, in the
+grander days of Memphis, a place of pilgrimage for worshippers from all
+parts of Egypt. The fair Lake, itself, out of whose waters once rose
+pavilions, palaces, and even lofty pyramids, was still, though divested of
+many of these wonders, a scene of interest and splendour such as the whole
+world could not equal. While the shores still sparkled with mansions and
+temples, that bore testimony to the luxury of a living race, the voice of
+the Past, speaking out of unnumbered ruins, whose summits, here and there,
+rose blackly above the wave, told of times long fled and generations long
+swept away, before whose giant remains all the glory of the present stood
+humbled. Over the southern bank of the Lake hung the dark relics of the
+Labyrinth;—its twelve Royal Palaces, like the mansions of the Zodiac,—its
+thundering portals and constellated halls, having left nothing behind but
+a few frowning ruins, which, contrasted with the soft groves of olive and
+acacia around them, seemed to rebuke the luxuriant smiles of nature, and
+threw a melancholy grandeur over the whole scene.
+
+The effects of the air, in re‐animating the young Priestess, were less
+speedy than I had expected;—her eyes were still closed, and she remained
+pale and insensible. Alarmed, I now rested her head (which had been, for
+some time, supported by my arm,) against the base of a column, with my
+cloak for its pillow, while I hastened to procure some water from the
+Lake. The temple stood high, and the descent to the shore was precipitous.
+But, my Epicurean habits having but little impaired my activity, I soon
+descended, with the lightness of a desert deer, to the bottom. Here,
+plucking from a lofty bean‐tree, whose flowers stood, shining like gold,
+above the water, one of those large hollowed leaves that serve as cups for
+the Hebes of the Nile, I filled it from the Lake, and hurried back with
+the cool draught to the temple. It was not without some difficulty and
+delay that I succeeded, in bearing my rustic chalice steadily up the
+steep; more than once did an unlucky slip waste its contents, and as often
+did I impatiently return to refill it.
+
+During this time, the young maiden was fast recovering her animation and
+consciousness; and, at the moment when I appeared above the edge of the
+steep, was just rising from the steps, with her hand pressed to her
+forehead, as if confusedly recalling the recollection of what had
+occurred. No sooner did she observe me, than a short cry of alarm broke
+from her lips. Looking anxiously round, as though she sought for
+protection, and half audibly uttering the words, “Where is he?” she made
+an effort, as I approached, to retreat into the temple.
+
+Already, however, I was by her side, and taking her hand gently, as she
+turned away, “Whom dost thou seek, fair Priestess?” I asked,—for the first
+time breaking through the silence she had enjoined, and in a tone that
+might have re‐assured the most timid spirit. But my words had no effect in
+calming her apprehension. Trembling, and with her eyes still averted
+towards the Temple, she continued in a voice of suppressed alarm,—“Where
+_can_ he be?—that venerable Athenian, that philosopher, who——”
+
+“Here, here,” I exclaimed, anxiously interrupting her,—“behold him still
+by thy side—the same, the very same who saw thee steal from under the
+lighted Veils of the Sanctuary, whom thou hast guided by a clue through
+those labyrinths below, and who now but waits his command from those lips,
+to devote himself through life and death to thy service.” As I spoke these
+words, she turned slowly round, and looking timidly in my face, while her
+own burned with blushes, said, in a tone of doubt and wonder, “Thou!” and
+hid her eyes in her hands.
+
+I knew not how to interpret a reception so unexpected. That some mistake
+or disappointment had occurred was evident; but so inexplicable did the
+whole adventure appear, that it was in vain to think of unravelling any
+part of it. Weak and agitated, she now tottered to the steps of the
+temple, and there seating herself, with her forehead against the cold
+marble, seemed for some moments absorbed in the most anxious
+thought,—while silent and watchful I waited her decision, with a prophetic
+feeling, however, that my destiny would be henceforth linked with hers.
+
+The inward struggle by which she was agitated, though violent, was not of
+long continuance. Starting suddenly from her seat, with a look of terror
+towards the temple, as if the fear of immediate pursuit had alone decided
+her, she pointed eagerly towards the East, and exclaimed, “To the Nile,
+without delay!”—clasping her hands, when she had spoken, with the most
+suppliant fervour, as if to soften the abruptness of the mandate she had
+given, and appealing to me with a look that would have taught Stoics
+tenderness.
+
+I lost no time in obeying the welcome command. While a thousand wild hopes
+and wishes crowded upon my fancy, at the prospect which a voyage, under
+such auspices, presented, I descended rapidly to the shore, and hailing
+one of the numerous boats that ply upon the Lake for hire, arranged
+speedily for a passage down the canal to the Nile. Having learned, too,
+from the boatmen, a more easy path up the rock, I hastened back to the
+Temple for my fair charge; and without a word, a look, that could alarm,
+even by its kindness, or disturb that innocent confidence which she now
+placed in me, led her down by the winding path to the boat.
+
+Every thing looked smiling around us as we embarked. The morning was now
+in its first freshness, and the path of the breeze might be traced over
+the Lake, wakening up its waters from their sleep of the night. The gay,
+golden‐winged birds that haunt these shores, were, in every direction,
+skimming along the lake; while, with a graver consciousness of beauty, the
+swan and the pelican were seen dressing their white plumage in the mirror
+of its wave. To add to the animation of the scene, a sweet tinkling of
+musical instruments came, at intervals, on the breeze, from boats at a
+distance, employed thus early in pursuing the fish of these waters, that
+suffer themselves to be decoyed into the nets by music.
+
+The vessel which I selected for our voyage was one of those small
+pleasure‐boats or yachts,—so much in use among the luxurious navigators of
+the Nile,—in the centre of which rises a pavilion of cedar or cypress
+wood, gilded gorgeously, without, with religious emblems, and fitted up,
+within, for all the purposes of feasting and repose. To the door of this
+pavilion I now led my companion, and, after a few words of
+kindness—tempered with as much respectful reserve as the deep tenderness
+which I felt would admit of—left her in solitude to court that restoring
+rest, which the agitation of her spirits but too much required.
+
+For myself, though repose was hardly less necessary to me, the ferment in
+which my thoughts had been kept seemed to render it hopeless. Throwing
+myself upon the deck, under an awning which the sailors had raised for me,
+I continued, for some hours, in a sort of vague day‐dream,—sometimes
+passing in review the scenes of that subterranean drama, and sometimes,
+with my eyes fixed in drowsy vacancy, receiving passively the impressions
+of the bright scenery through which we passed.
+
+The banks of the canal were then luxuriantly wooded. Under the tufts of
+the light and towering palm were seen the orange and the citron,
+interlacing their boughs; while, here and there, huge tamarisks thickened
+the shade, and, at the very edge of the bank, the willow of Babylon stood
+bending its graceful branches into the water. Occasionally, out of the
+depth of these groves, there shone a small temple or pleasure‐
+house;—while, now and then, an opening in their line of foliage allowed
+the eye to wander over extensive fields, all covered with beds of those
+pale, sweet roses, for which this district of Egypt is so celebrated.
+
+The activity of the morning hour was visible every where. Flights of doves
+and lapwings were fluttering among the leaves, and the white heron, which
+had roosted all night in some date‐tree, now stood sunning its wings upon
+the green bank, or floated, like living silver, over the flood. The
+flowers, too, both of land and water, looked freshly awakened;—and, most
+of all, the superb lotus, which had risen with the sun from the wave, and
+was now holding up her chalice for a full draught of his light.
+
+Such were the scenes that now passed before my eyes, and mingled with the
+reveries that floated through my mind, as our boat, with its high,
+capacious sail, swept over the flood. Though the occurrences of the last
+few days appeared to me one series of wonders, yet by far the most
+miraculous wonder of all was, that she, whose first look had sent wild‐
+fire into my heart,—whom I had thought of ever since with a restlessness
+of passion, that would have dared any thing on earth to obtain its
+object,—was now sleeping sacredly in that small pavilion, while guarding
+her, even from myself, I lay calmly at its threshold.
+
+Meanwhile, the sun had reached his meridian. The busy hum of the morning
+had died gradually away, and all around was sleeping in the hot stillness
+of noon. The Nile‐goose, folding her splendid wings, was lying motionless
+on the shadow of the sycamores in the water. Even the nimble lizards upon
+the bank seemed to move more languidly, as the light fell upon their gold
+and azure hues. Overcome as I was with watching, and weary with thought,
+it was not long before I yielded to the becalming influence of the hour.
+Looking fixedly at the pavilion,—as if once more to assure my senses, that
+I was not already in a dream, but that the young Egyptian was really
+there,—I felt my eyes close as I looked, and in a few minutes sunk into a
+profound sleep.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XII.
+
+
+It was by the canal through which we now sailed, that, in the more
+prosperous days of Memphis, the commerce of Upper Egypt and Nubia was
+transported to her magnificent Lake, and from thence, having paid tribute
+to the queen of cities, was poured out again, through the Nile, into the
+ocean. The course of this canal to the river was not direct, but ascending
+in a south‐easterly direction towards the Saïd; and in calms, or with
+adverse winds, the passage was tedious. But as the breeze was now blowing
+freshly from the north, there was every prospect of our reaching the river
+before night‐fall. Rapidly, too, as our galley swept along the flood, its
+motion was so smooth as to be hardly felt; and the quiet gurgle of the
+waters underneath, and the drowsy song of the boatman at the prow, alone
+disturbed the deep silence that prevailed.
+
+The sun, indeed, had nearly sunk behind the Libyan hills, before the
+sleep, in which these sounds lulled me, was broken; and the first object,
+on which my eyes rested, in waking, was that fair young Priestess,—seated
+under a porch by which the door of the pavilion was shaded, and bending
+intently over a small volume that lay unrolled on her lap.
+
+Her face was but half turned towards me, and as, once or twice, she raised
+her eyes to the warm sky, whose light fell, softened through the trellis,
+over her cheek, I found every feeling of reverence, with which she had
+inspired me in the chapel, return. There was even a purer and holier charm
+around her countenance, thus seen by the natural light of day, than in
+those dim and unhallowed regions below. She could now, too, look direct to
+the glorious sky, and that heaven and her eyes, so worthy of each other,
+met.
+
+After contemplating her for a few moments, with little less than
+adoration, I rose gently from my resting‐place, and approached the
+pavilion. But the mere movement had startled her from her devotion, and,
+blushing and confused, she covered the volume with the folds of her robe.
+
+In the art of winning upon female confidence, I had long been schooled;
+and, now that to the lessons of gallantry the inspiration of love was
+added, my ambition to please and to interest could hardly, it may be
+supposed, fail of success. I soon found, however, how much less fluent is
+the heart than the fancy, and how very distinct are the operations of
+making love and feeling it. In the few words of greeting now exchanged
+between us, it was evident that the gay, the enterprising Epicurean was
+little less embarrassed than the secluded Priestess;—and, after one or two
+ineffectual efforts to bring our voices acquainted with each other, the
+eyes of both turned bashfully away, and we relapsed into silence.
+
+From this situation—the result of timidity on one side, and of a feeling
+altogether new, on the other—we were, at length, after an interval of
+estrangement, relieved, by the boatmen announcing that the Nile was in
+sight. The countenance of the young Egyptian brightened at this
+intelligence; and the smile with which I congratulated her on the speed of
+our voyage was answered by another, so full of gratitude, that already an
+instinctive sympathy seemed established between us.
+
+We were now on the point of entering that sacred river, of whose sweet
+waters the exile drinks in his dreams,—for a draught of whose flood the
+daughters of the Ptolemies, when wedded to foreign kings, sighed in the
+midst of their splendour. As our boat, with slackened sail, glided into
+the current, an enquiry from the boatmen, whether they should anchor for
+the night in the Nile, first reminded me of the ignorance, in which I
+still remained, with respect to either the motive or destination of our
+voyage. Embarrassed by their question I directed my eyes towards the
+Priestess, whom I saw waiting for my answer with a look of anxiety, which
+this silent reference to her wishes at once dispelled. Eagerly unfolding
+the volume with which I had seen her occupied, she took from its folds a
+small leaf of papyrus, on which there appeared to be some faint lines of
+drawing, and after thoughtfully looking upon it, herself, for a moment,
+placed it, with an agitated hand, in mine.
+
+In the mean time, the boatmen had taken in their sail, and the yacht drove
+slowly down the river with the current, while, by a light which had been
+kindled at sunset on the deck, I stood examining the leaf that the
+Priestess had given me,—her dark eyes fixed anxiously on my countenance
+all the while. The lines traced upon the papyrus were so faint as to be
+almost invisible, and I was for some time at a loss to divine their
+import. At length, I could perceive that they were the outlines, or
+map—traced slightly and unsteadily with a Memphian reed—of a part of that
+mountainous ridge by which Upper Egypt is bounded to the east, together
+with the names, or rather emblems, of the chief towns in the
+neighbourhood.
+
+It was thither, I could not doubt, that the young Priestess wished to
+pursue her course. Without a moment’s delay, therefore, I gave orders to
+the boatmen to set our yacht before the wind and ascend the current. My
+command was promptly obeyed: the white sail again rose into the region of
+the breeze, and the satisfaction that beamed in every feature of the fair
+Egyptian showed that the quickness with which I had obeyed her wishes was
+not unfelt by her. The moon had now risen; and though the current was
+against us, the Etesian wind of the season blew strongly up the river, and
+we were soon floating before it, through the rich plains and groves of the
+Saïd.
+
+The love, with which this simple girl had inspired me, was—possibly from
+the mystic scenes and situations in which I had seen her—not unmingled
+with a tinge of superstitious awe, under the influence of which I felt the
+buoyancy of my spirit checked. The few words that had passed between us on
+the subject of our route had somewhat loosened this spell; and what I
+wanted of vivacity and confidence was more than made up by the tone of
+deep sensibility which love had awakened in their place.
+
+We had not proceeded far before the glittering of lights at a distance,
+and the shooting up of fireworks, at intervals, into the air, apprised us
+that we were approaching one of those night‐fairs, or marts, which it is
+the custom, at this season, to hold upon the Nile. To me the scene was
+familiar; but to my young companion it was evidently a new world; and the
+mixture of alarm and delight with which she gazed, from under her veil,
+upon the busy scene into which we now sailed, gave an air of innocence to
+her beauty, which still more heightened its every charm.
+
+It was one of the widest parts of the river; and the whole surface, from
+one bank to the other, was covered with boats. Along the banks of a green
+island, in the middle of the stream, lay anchored the galleys of the
+principal traders,—large floating bazaars, bearing each the name of its
+owner, emblazoned in letters of flame, upon the stern. Over their decks
+were spread out, in gay confusion, the products of the loom and needle of
+Egypt,—rich carpets of Memphis, and those variegated veils, for which the
+female embroiderers of the Nile are so celebrated, and to which the name
+of Cleopatra lends a traditional value. In each of the other galleys was
+exhibited some branch of Egyptian workmanship,—vases of the fragrant
+porcelain of On,—cups of that frail crystal, whose hues change like those
+of the pigeon’s plumage,—enamelled amulets graven with the head of Anubis,
+and necklaces and bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia.
+
+While Commerce thus displayed her luxuries in one quarter, in every other
+direction Pleasure, multiplied into her thousand shapes, swarmed over the
+waters. Nor was the festivity confined to the river only. All along the
+banks of the island and on the shores, lighted up mansions were seen
+through the trees, from which sounds of music and merriment came. In some
+of the boats were bands of minstrels, who, from time to time, answered
+each other, like echoes, across the wave; and the notes of the lyre, the
+flageolet, and the sweet lotus‐wood flute, were heard, in the pauses of
+revelry, dying along the waters.
+
+Meanwhile, from other boats stationed in the least lighted places, the
+workers of fire sent forth their wonders into the air. Bursting out from
+time to time, as if in the very exuberance of joy, these sallies of flame
+seemed to reach the sky, and there breaking into a shower of sparkles,
+shed such a splendour round, as brightened even the white Arabian
+hills,—making them shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at night, when the
+fire from his own bosom is playing around its snows.
+
+The opportunity which this luxurious mart afforded us, of providing
+ourselves with other and less remarkable habiliments than those in which
+we had escaped from that nether world, was too seasonable not to be gladly
+taken advantage of by both. For myself, the strange mystic garb that I
+wore was sufficiently concealed by my Grecian mantle, which I had luckily
+thrown round me on the night of my watch. But the thin veil of my
+companion was a far less efficient disguise. She had, indeed, flung away
+the golden beetles from her hair; but the sacred robe of her order was
+still too visible, and the stars of the bandelet shone brightly through
+her veil.
+
+Most gladly, therefore, did she avail herself of this opportunity of a
+change; and, as she took from a casket—which, with the volume I had seen
+her reading, appeared to be her only treasure—a small jewel, to exchange
+for the simple garments she had chosen, there fell out, at the same time,
+the very cross of silver, which I had seen her kiss, as may be remembered,
+in the monumental chapel, and which was afterwards pressed to my own lips.
+This link (for such it appeared to my imagination) between us, now revived
+in my heart all the burning feelings of that moment;—and, had I not
+abruptly turned away, my agitation would, but too plainly, have betrayed
+itself.
+
+The object, for which we had delayed in this gay scene, being
+accomplished, the sail was again spread, and we proceeded on our course up
+the river. The sounds and the lights we left behind died gradually away,
+and we now floated along in moonlight and silence once more. Sweet dews,
+worthy of being called “the tears of Isis,” fell through the air, and
+every plant and flower sent its fragrance to meet them. The wind, just
+strong enough to bear us smoothly against the current, scarcely stirred
+the shadow of the tamarisks on the water. As the inhabitants from all
+quarters were collected at the night‐fair, the Nile was more than usually
+still and solitary. Such a silence, indeed, prevailed, that, as we glided
+near the shore, we could hear the rustling of the acacias, as the
+chameleons ran up their stems. It was, altogether, a night such as only
+the clime of Egypt can boast, when every thing lies lulled in that sort of
+bright tranquillity, which, we may imagine, shines over the sleep of those
+happy spirits, who are supposed to rest in the Valley of the Moon, on
+their way to heaven.
+
+By such a light, and at such an hour, seated, side by side, on the deck of
+that bark, did we pursue our course up the lonely Nile—each a mystery to
+the other—our thoughts, our objects, our very names a secret;—separated,
+too, till now, by destinies so different, the one, a gay voluptuary of the
+Garden of Athens, the other, a secluded Priestess of the Temples of
+Memphis;—and the only relation yet established between us being that
+dangerous one of love, passionate love, on one side, and the most feminine
+and confiding dependence on the other.
+
+The passing adventure of the night‐fair had not only dispelled still more
+our mutual reserve, but had supplied us with a subject on which we could
+converse without embarrassment. From this topic I took care to lead on,
+without interruption, to others,—fearful lest our former silence should
+return, and the music of her voice again be lost to me. It was, indeed,
+only by thus indirectly unburdening my heart that I was enabled to refrain
+from the full utterance of all I thought and felt; and the restless
+rapidity with which I flew from subject to subject was but an effort to
+escape from the only one in which my heart was interested.
+
+“How bright and happy,” said I,—pointing up to Sothis, the fair Star of
+the Waters, which was just then sparkling brilliantly over our heads,—“How
+bright and happy this world ought to be, if—as your Egyptian sages
+assert—yon pure and beautiful luminary was its birth‐star!” Then, still
+leaning back, and letting my eyes wander over the firmament, as if seeking
+to disengage them from the fascination which they dreaded—“To the study (I
+said), for ages, of skies like this, may the pensive and mystic character
+of your nation be traced. That mixture of pride and melancholy which
+naturally arises, at the sight of those eternal lights shining out of
+darkness;—that sublime, but saddened, anticipation of a Future, which
+comes over the soul in the silence of such an hour, when, though Death
+seems to reign in the repose of earth, there are those beacons of
+Immortality burning in the sky—”
+
+Pausing, as I uttered the word “immortality,” with a sigh to think how
+little my heart echoed to my lips, I looked in the face of the maiden, and
+saw that it had lighted up, as I spoke, into a glow of holy animation,
+such as Faith alone gives—such as Hope herself wears, when she is dreaming
+of heaven. Touched by the contrast, and gazing upon her with mournful
+tenderness, I found my arms half opened, to clasp her to my heart, while
+the words died away inaudibly upon my lips,—“thou, too, beautiful maiden!
+must thou, too, die for ever?”
+
+My self‐command, I felt, had nearly deserted me. Rising abruptly from my
+seat, I walked to the middle of the deck, and stood, for some moments,
+unconsciously gazing upon one of those fires, which,—as is the custom of
+all who travel by night upon the Nile,—our boatmen had just kindled, to
+scare away the crocodiles from the vessel. But it was in vain that I
+endeavoured to compose my spirit. Every effort I made but more deeply
+convinced me, that, till the mystery which hung round that maiden should
+be solved—till the secret, with which my own bosom laboured, should be
+disclosed—it was fruitless to attempt even a semblance of tranquillity.
+
+My resolution was therefore taken;—to lay open, at least, my own heart, as
+far as such a revelation might be risked, without startling the timid
+innocence of my companion. Thus resolved, I returned, with more composure,
+to my seat by her side, and taking from my bosom the small mirror which
+she had dropped in the Temple, and which I had ever since worn suspended
+round my neck, with a trembling hand presented it to her view. The boatmen
+had just kindled one of their night‐fires near us, and its light, as she
+leaned forward towards the mirror, fell on her face.
+
+The quick blush of surprise with which she recognised it to be hers, and
+her look of bashful, yet eager, inquiry, in raising her eyes to mine, were
+appeals to which I was not, of course, slow in answering. Beginning with
+the first moment when I saw her in the Temple, and passing hastily, but
+with words that burned as they went, over the impression which she had
+then left upon my heart and fancy, I proceeded to describe the particulars
+of my descent into the pyramid—my surprise and adoration at the door of
+the chapel—my encounter with the Trials of Initiation, so mysteriously
+prepared for me, and all the various visionary wonders I had witnessed in
+that region, till the moment when I had seen her stealing from under the
+Veils to approach me.
+
+Though, in detailing these events, I had said but little of the feelings
+they had awakened in me,—though my lips had sent back many a sentence,
+unuttered, there was still enough that could neither be subdued or
+disguised, and which, like that light from under the veils of her own
+Isis, glowed through every word that I spoke. When I told of the scene in
+the chapel,—of the silent interview which I had witnessed between the dead
+and the living,—the maiden leaned down her head and wept, as from a heart
+full of tears. It seemed a pleasure to her, however, to listen; and, when
+she looked at me again, there was an earnest and affectionate cordiality
+in her eyes, as if the knowledge of my having been present at that
+mournful scene had opened a new source of sympathy and intelligence
+between us. So neighbouring are the fountains of Love and of Sorrow, and
+so imperceptibly do they often mingle their streams.
+
+Little, indeed, as I was guided by art or design, in my manner and conduct
+to this innocent girl, not all the most experienced gallantry of the
+Garden could have dictated a policy half so seductive as that which my new
+master, Love, now taught me. The ardour which, shown at once, and without
+reserve, might have startled a heart so little prepared for it, thus
+checked and softened by the timidity of real love, won its way without
+alarm, and, when most diffident of success, most triumphed. Like one whose
+sleep is gradually broken by music, the maiden’s heart was awakened
+without being disturbed. She followed the charm, unconscious whither it
+led, nor was aware of the flame she had lighted in another’s bosom, till
+she perceived the reflection of it glimmering in her own.
+
+Impatient as I was to appeal to her generosity and sympathy, for a similar
+proof of confidence to that which I had just given, the night was now too
+far advanced for me to impose such a task upon her. After exchanging a few
+words, in which, though little was said, there was a tone and manner that
+spoke far more than language, we took a lingering leave of each other for
+the night, with every prospect of still being together in our dreams.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XIII.
+
+
+It was so near the dawn of day when we parted, that we again found the sun
+sinking westward when we rejoined each other. The smile with which she met
+me,—so frankly cordial,—might have been taken for the greeting of a long
+mellowed friendship, did not the blush and the castdown eyelid, that
+followed, give symptoms of a feeling newer and less calm. For myself,
+lightened as I was, in some degree, by the confession which I had made, I
+was yet too conscious of the new aspect thus given to our intercourse, to
+feel altogether unembarrassed at the prospect of returning to the theme.
+It was, therefore, willingly we both suffered our attention to be
+diverted, by the variety of objects that presented themselves on the way,
+from a subject that both equally trembled to approach.
+
+The river was now full of life and motion. Every moment we met with boats
+descending the current, so independent of aid from sail or oar, that the
+sailors sat idly upon the deck as they shot along, singing or playing upon
+their double‐reeded pipes. Of these boats, the greater number came loaded
+with merchandise from Coptos,—some with those large emeralds, from the
+mine in the desert, whose colours, it is said, are brightest at the full
+of the moon, and some laden with frankincense from the acacia‐groves near
+the Red Sea. On the decks of others, that had been to the Golden Mountains
+beyond Syene, were heaped blocks and fragments of that sweet‐smelling
+wood, which the Green Nile of Nubia washes down in the season of the
+floods.
+
+Our companions up the stream were far less numerous. Occasionally a boat,
+returning lightened from the fair of last night, with those high sails
+that catch every breeze from over the hills, shot past us;—while, now and
+then, we overtook one of those barges full of bees, that at this season of
+the year, are sent to colonise the gardens of the south, and take
+advantage of the first flowers after the inundation has passed away.
+
+By these various objects we were, for a short time, enabled to divert the
+conversation from lighting and settling upon the one subject, round which
+it continually hovered. But the effort, as might be expected, was not long
+successful. As evening advanced, the whole scene became more solitary. We
+less frequently ventured to look upon each other, and our intervals of
+silence grew more long.
+
+It was near sunset, when, in passing a small temple on the shore, whose
+porticoes were now full of the evening light, we saw, issuing from a
+thicket of acanthus near it, a train of young maids linked together in the
+dance by lotus‐stems, held at arms’ length between them. Their tresses
+were also wreathed with this emblem of the season, and such a profusion of
+the white flowers were twisted round their waists and arms, that they
+might have been taken, as they gracefully bounded along the bank, for
+Nymphs of the Nile, risen freshly from their gardens under the wave.
+
+After looking for a few moments at this sacred dance, the maid turned away
+her eyes, with a look of pain, as if the remembrances it recalled were of
+no welcome nature. This momentary retrospect, this glimpse into the past,
+seemed to offer a sort of clue to the secret for which I panted;—and,
+gradually and delicately as my impatience would allow, I availed myself of
+it. Her frankness, however, saved me the embarrassment of much
+questioning. She even seemed to feel that the confidence I sought was due
+to me, and beyond the natural hesitation of maidenly modesty, not a shade
+of reserve or evasion appeared.
+
+To attempt to repeat, in her own touching words, the simple story which
+she now related to me, would be like endeavouring to note down some strain
+of unpremeditated music, with those fugitive graces, those felicities of
+the moment, which no art can restore, as they first met the ear. From a
+feeling, too, of humility, she had omitted in her narrative some
+particulars relating to herself, which I afterwards learned;—while others,
+not less important, she but slightly passed over, from a fear of wounding
+the prejudices of her heathen hearer.
+
+I shall, therefore, give her story, as the outline which she, herself,
+sketched was afterwards filled up by a pious and venerable hand,—far, far
+more worthy than mine of being associated with the memory of such purity.
+
+
+
+
+
+                             STORY OF ALĒTHE.
+
+
+“The mother of this maiden was the beautiful Theora of Alexandria, who,
+though a native of that city, was descended from Grecian parents. When
+very young, Theora was one of the seven maidens selected, to note down the
+discourses of the eloquent Origen, who, at that period, presided over the
+School of Alexandria, and was in all the fulness of his fame, both among
+Pagans and Christians. Endowed richly with the learning of both creeds, he
+brought the natural light of philosophy to elucidate the mysteries of
+faith, and was only proud of his knowledge of the wisdom of this world,
+inasmuch as it ministered to the triumph of divine truth.
+
+“Though he had courted in vain the crown of martyrdom, it was held,
+throughout his life, suspended over his head, and in more than one
+persecution, he had evinced his readiness to die for that faith which he
+lived but to testify and adorn. On one of these occasions, his tormentors,
+having habited him like an Egyptian priest, placed him upon the steps of
+the Temple of Serapis, and commanded that he should, in the manner of the
+Pagan ministers, present palm‐branches to the multitude who went up to the
+shrine. But the courageous Christian disappointed their views. Holding
+forth the branches with an unshrinking hand, he cried aloud, ‘Come hither
+and take the branch, not of an Idol Temple, but of Christ.’
+
+“So indefatigable was this learned Father in his studies, that, while
+composing his Commentary on the Scriptures, he was attended by seven
+scribes or notaries, who relieved each other in taking down the dictates
+of his eloquent tongue; while the same number of young females, selected
+for the beauty of their penmanship, were employed in arranging and
+transcribing the precious leaves.
+
+“Among the scribes so selected, was the fair young Theora, whose parents,
+though attached to the Pagan worship, were not unwilling to profit by the
+accomplishments of their daughter, thus devoted to a task which they
+considered purely mechanical. To the maid herself, however, her task
+brought far other feelings and consequences. She read anxiously as she
+wrote, and the divine truths, so eloquently illustrated, found their way,
+by degrees, from the page to her heart. Deeply, too, as the written words
+affected her, the discourses from the lips of the great teacher himself,
+which she had frequent opportunities of hearing, sunk still more deeply
+into her mind. There was, at once, a sublimity and gentleness in his views
+of religion, which, to the tender hearts and lively imaginations of women,
+never failed to appeal with convincing power. Accordingly, the list of his
+female pupils was numerous; and the names of Barbara, Juliana, Heraïs, and
+others, bear honourable testimony to his influence over that sex.
+
+“To Theora the feeling, with which his discourses inspired her, was like a
+new soul,—a consciousness of spiritual existence, unfelt before. By the
+eloquence of the comment she was awakened into admiration of the text; and
+when, by the kindness of a Catechumen of the school, who had been struck
+by her innocent zeal, she, for the first time, became possessor of a copy
+of the Scriptures, she could not sleep for thinking of her sacred
+treasure. With a mixture of pleasure and fear she hid it from all eyes,
+and was like one who had received a divine guest under her roof, and felt
+fearful of betraying its divinity to the world.
+
+“A heart so awake would have been easily secured to the faith, had her
+opportunities of hearing the sacred word continued. But circumstances
+arose to deprive her of this advantage. The mild Origen, long harassed and
+thwarted in his labours by the tyranny of the Bishop of Alexandria,
+Demetrius, was obliged to relinquish his school and fly from Egypt. The
+occupation of the fair scribe was, therefore, at an end: her intercourse
+with the followers of the new faith ceased; and the growing enthusiasm of
+her heart gave way to more worldly impressions.
+
+“Love, among the rest, had its share in alienating her thoughts from
+religion. While still very young, she became the wife of a Greek
+adventurer, who had come to Egypt as a purchaser of that rich tapestry, in
+which the needles of Persia are rivalled by the looms of the Nile. Having
+taken his young bride to Memphis, which was still the great mart of this
+merchandise, he there, in the midst of his speculations, died,—leaving his
+widow on the point of becoming a mother, while, as yet, but in her
+nineteenth year.
+
+“For single and unprotected females, it has been, at all times, a
+favourite resource, to seek admission into the service of some of those
+great temples, which absorb so much of the wealth and power of Egypt. In
+most of these institutions there exists an order of Priestesses, which,
+though not hereditary, like that of the Priests, is provided for by ample
+endowments, and confers that rank and station, with which, in a government
+so theocratic, Religion is sure to invest even her humblest handmaids.
+From the general policy of the Sacred College of Memphis, it may be
+concluded, that an accomplished female, like Theora, found but little
+difficulty in being chosen one of the Priestesses of Isis; and it was in
+the service of the subterranean shrines that her ministry chiefly lay.
+
+“Here, a month or two after her admission, she gave birth to Alethe, who
+first opened her eyes among the unholy pomps and specious miracles of this
+mysterious region. Though Theora, as we have seen, had been diverted by
+other feelings from her first enthusiasm for the Christian faith, she had
+never wholly forgot the impression then made upon her. The sacred volume,
+which the pious Catechumen had given her, was still treasured with care;
+and, though she seldom opened its pages, there was an idea of sanctity
+associated with it in her memory, and often would she sit to look upon it
+with reverential pleasure, recalling the happiness she felt when it was
+first made her own.
+
+“The leisure of her new retreat, and the lone melancholy of widowhood, led
+her still more frequently to indulge in such thoughts, and to recur to
+those consoling truths which she had heard in the school of Alexandria.
+She now began to peruse eagerly the sacred book, drinking deep of the
+fountain of which she before but tasted, and feeling—what thousands of
+mourners, since her, have felt—that Christianity is the true religion of
+the sorrowful.
+
+“This study of her secret hours became still more dear to her, from the
+peril with which, at that period, it was attended, and the necessity she
+was under of concealing from those around her the precious light that had
+been kindled in her heart. Too timid to encounter the fierce persecution,
+which awaited all who were suspected of a leaning to Christianity, she
+continued to officiate in the pomps and ceremonies of the Temple;—though,
+often, with such remorse of soul, that she would pause, in the midst of
+the rites, and pray inwardly to God, that he would forgive this
+profanation of his Spirit.
+
+“In the mean time her daughter, the young Alethe, grew up still lovelier
+than herself, and added, every hour, to her happiness and her fears. When
+arrived at a sufficient age, she was taught, like the other children of
+the priestesses, to take a share in the service and ceremonies of the
+shrines. The duty of some of these young servitors was to look after the
+flowers for the altar;—of others, to take care that the sacred vases were
+filled every day with fresh water from the Nile. The task of some was to
+preserve, in perfect polish, those silver images of the moon which the
+priests carried in processions; while others were, as we have seen,
+employed in feeding the consecrated animals, and in keeping their plumes
+and scales bright, for the admiring eyes of their worshippers.
+
+“The office allotted to Alethe—the most honourable of these minor
+ministries—was to wait upon the sacred birds of the Moon, to feed them
+with those eggs from the Nile which they loved, and provide for their use
+that purest water, which alone these delicate birds will touch. This
+employment was the delight of her childish hours; and that ibis, which
+Alciphron (the Epicurean) saw her dance round in the Temple, was her
+favourite, of all the sacred flock, and had been daily fondled and fed by
+her from infancy.
+
+“Music, as being one of the chief spells of this enchanted region, was an
+accomplishment required of all its ministrants; and the harp, the lyre,
+and the sacred flute, sounded nowhere so sweetly as that through these
+subterranean gardens. The chief object, indeed, in the education of the
+youth of the Temple, was to fit them, by every grace of art and nature, to
+give effect to the illusion of those shows and phantasms, in which the
+whole charm and secret of Initiation lay.
+
+“Among the means employed to support the old system of superstition,
+against the infidelity and, still more, the new Faith that menaced it, was
+an increased display of splendour and marvels in those Mysteries for which
+Egypt has so long been celebrated. Of these ceremonies so many imitations
+had, under various names, been multiplied through Europe, that the parent
+superstition ran a risk of being eclipsed by its progeny; and, in order
+still to retain their rank of the first Priesthood in the world, those of
+Egypt found it necessary to continue still the best impostors.
+
+“Accordingly, every contrivance that art could devise, or labour
+execute—every resource that the wonderful knowledge of the Priests, in
+pyrotechny, mechanics, and dioptrics, could command, was brought into
+action to heighten the effect of their Mysteries, and give an air of
+enchantment to every thing connected with them.
+
+“The final scene of beatification—the Elysium, into which the Initiate was
+received,—formed, of course, the leading attraction of these ceremonies;
+and to render it captivating alike to the senses of the man of pleasure,
+and the imagination of the spiritualist, was the object to which the whole
+skill and attention of the Sacred College were devoted. By the influence
+of the Priests of Memphis over those of the other Temples they had
+succeeded in extending their subterranean frontier, both to the north and
+south, so as to include, within their ever‐lighted Paradise, some of the
+gardens excavated for the use of the other Twelve Shrines.
+
+“The beauty of the young Alethe, the touching sweetness of her voice, and
+the sensibility that breathed throughout her every look and movement,
+rendered her a powerful auxiliary in such appeals to the imagination. She
+was, accordingly, from her childhood, selected from among her fair
+companions, as the most worthy representative of spiritual loveliness, in
+those pictures of Elysium—those scenes of another world—by which not only
+the fancy, but the reason, of the excited Aspirants was dazzled.
+
+“To the innocent child herself these shows were pastime. But to Theora,
+who knew too well the imposition to which they were subservient, this
+profanation of all that she loved was a perpetual source of horror and
+remorse. Often would she—when Alethe stood smiling before her, arrayed,
+perhaps, as a spirit of the Elysian world,—turn away, with a shudder, from
+the happy child, almost fancying that she already saw the shadows of sin
+descending over that innocent brow, as she gazed on it.
+
+“As the intellect of the young maid became more active and inquiring, the
+apprehensions and difficulties of the mother increased. Afraid to
+communicate her own precious secret, lest she should involve her child in
+the dangers that encompassed it, she yet felt it to be no less a cruelty
+than a crime to leave her wholly immersed in the darkness of Paganism. In
+this dilemma, the only resource that remained to her was to select, and
+disengage from the dross that surrounded them, those pure particles of
+truth which lie at the bottom of all religions;—those feelings, rather
+than doctrines, which God has never left his creatures without, and which,
+in all ages, have furnished, to those who sought it, some clue to his
+glory.
+
+“The unity and perfect goodness of the Creator; the fall of the human soul
+into corruption; its struggles with the darkness of this world, and its
+final redemption and re‐ascent to the source of all spirit;—these natural
+solutions of the problem of our existence, these elementary grounds of all
+religion and virtue, which Theora had heard illustrated by her Christian
+teacher, lay also, she knew, veiled under the theology of Egypt; and to
+impress them, in all their abstract purity, upon the mind of her
+susceptible pupil, was, in default of more heavenly lights, her sole
+ambition and care.
+
+“It was their habit, after devoting their mornings to the service of the
+Temple, to pass their evenings and nights in one of those small mansions
+above ground, allotted to some of the most favoured Priestesses, in the
+precincts of the Sacred College. Here, out of the reach of those gross
+superstitions, which pursued them, at every step, below, she endeavoured
+to inform, as far as she might, the mind of her beloved girl; and found it
+lean as naturally and instinctively to truth, as plants that have been
+long shut up in darkness will, when light is let in, incline themselves to
+its ray.
+
+“Frequently, as they sat together on the terrace at night, contemplating
+that assembly of glorious stars, whose beauty first misled mankind into
+idolatry, she would explain to the young listener by what gradations it
+was that the worship, thus transferred from the Creator to the creature,
+sunk lower and lower in the scale of being, till man, at length, presumed
+to deify man, and by the most monstrous of inversions, heaven was made the
+mirror of earth, reflecting all its most earthly features.
+
+“Even in the Temple itself, the anxious mother would endeavour to
+interpose her purer lessons among the idolatrous ceremonies in which they
+were engaged. When the favourite ibis of Alethe took its station on the
+shrine, and the young maiden was seen approaching, with all the gravity of
+worship, the very bird which she had played with but an hour before,—when
+the acacia‐bough, which she herself had plucked, seemed to acquire a
+sudden sacredness in her eyes, as soon as the priest had breathed on
+it,—on all such occasions Theora, though with fear and trembling, would
+venture to suggest to the youthful worshipper the distinction that should
+be drawn between the sensible object of adoration, and that spiritual,
+unseen Deity, of which it was but the remembrancer or type.
+
+“With sorrow, however, she soon discovered that, in thus but partially
+enlightening a mind too ardent to be satisfied with such glimmerings, she
+only bewildered the heart that she meant to guide, and cut down the hope
+round which its faith twined, without substituting any other support in
+its place. As the beauty, too, of Alethe began to attract all eyes, new
+fears crowded upon the mother’s heart;—fears, in which she was but too
+much justified by the characters of some of those around her.
+
+“In this sacred abode, as may easily be conceived, morality did not always
+go hand in hand with religion. The hypocritical and ambitious Orcus, who
+was, at this period, High Priest of Memphis, was a man, in every respect,
+qualified to preside over a system of such splendid fraud. He had reached
+that effective time of life, when enough of the warmth of youth remains to
+give animation to the counsels of age. But, in his instance, youth had
+only the baser passions to bequeath, while age but contributed a more
+refined maturity of mischief. The advantages of a faith appealing so
+wholly to the senses, were well understood by him; nor was he ignorant
+that the only way of making religion subservient to his own interests was
+by shaping it adroitly to the passions of others.
+
+“The state of misery and remorse in which the mind of Theora was kept by
+the scenes, however veiled by hypocrisy, which she witnessed around her,
+became at length intolerable. No perils that the cause of truth could
+bring with it would be half so dreadful as this endurance of sinfulness
+and deceit. Her child was, as yet, pure and innocent;—but, without that
+sentinel of the soul, Religion, how long might she continue so?
+
+“This thought at once decided her;—all other fears vanished before it. She
+resolved instantly to lay open to Alethe the whole secret of her soul; to
+make her, who was her only hope on earth, the sharer of all her hopes in
+heaven, and then fly with her, as soon as possible, from this unhallowed
+place, to the desert—to the mountains—to any place, however desolate,
+where God and the consciousness of innocence might be with them.
+
+“The promptitude with which her young pupil caught from her the divine
+truths, was even beyond what she expected. It was like the lighting of one
+torch at another,—so prepared was Alethe’s mind for the illumination.
+Amply was the mother now repaid for all her misery, by this perfect
+communion of love and faith, and by the delight with which she saw her
+beloved child—like the young antelope, when first led by her dam to the
+well,—drink thirstily by her side, at the source of all life and truth.
+
+“But such happiness was not long to last. The anxieties that Theora had
+suffered preyed upon her health. She felt her strength daily decline; and
+the thoughts of leaving, alone and unguarded in the world, that treasure
+which she had just devoted to heaven, gave her a feeling of despair which
+but hastened the ebb of life. Had she put in practice her resolution of
+flying from this place, her child might have been now beyond the reach of
+all she dreaded, and in the solitude of the wilderness would have found at
+least safety from wrong. But the very happiness she had felt in her new
+task diverted her from this project;—and it was now too late, for she was
+already dying.
+
+“She concealed, however, her state from the tender and sanguine girl, who,
+though she saw the traces of disease on her mother’s cheek, little knew
+that they were the hastening footsteps of death, nor thought even of the
+possibility of losing what was so dear to her. Too soon, however, the
+moment of separation arrived; and while the anguish and dismay of Alethe
+were in proportion to the security in which she had indulged, Theora, too,
+felt, with bitter regret, that she had sacrificed to her fond
+consideration much precious time, and that there now remained but a few
+brief and painful moments, for the communication of all those wishes and
+instructions, on which the future destiny of the young orphan depended.
+
+“She had, indeed, time for little more than to place the sacred volume
+solemnly in her hands, to implore that she would, at all risks, fly from
+this unholy place, and, pointing in the direction of the mountains of the
+Saïd, to name, with her last breath, the holy man, to whom, under heaven,
+she trusted for the protection and salvation of her child.
+
+“The first violence of feeling to which Alethe gave way was succeeded by a
+fixed and tearless grief, which rendered her insensible, for some time, to
+the dangers of her situation. Her only comfort was in visiting that
+monumental chapel, where the beautiful remains of Theora lay. There, night
+after night, in contemplation of those placid features, and in prayers for
+the peace of the departed spirit, did she pass her lonely, and—sad as they
+were—happiest hours. Though the mystic emblems that decorated that chapel
+were but ill suited to the slumber of a Christian saint, there was one
+among them, the Cross, which, by a remarkable coincidence, is an emblem
+common alike to the Gentile and the Christian,—being, to the former, a
+shadowy type of that immortality, of which, to the latter, it is a
+substantial and assuring pledge.
+
+“Nightly, upon this cross, which she had often seen her lost mother kiss,
+did she breathe forth a solemn and heartfelt vow, never to abandon the
+faith which that departed spirit had bequeathed to her. To such
+enthusiasm, indeed, did her heart at such moments rise, that, but for the
+last injunctions from those pallid lips, she would, at once, have avowed
+her perilous secret, and spoken out the words, ‘I am a Christian,’ among
+those benighted shrines!
+
+“But the will of her, to whom she owed more than life, was to be obeyed.
+To escape from this haunt of superstition must now, she felt, be her first
+object; and, in devising the means of effecting it, her mind, day and
+night, was employed. It was with a loathing not to be concealed she now
+found herself compelled to resume her idolatrous services at the shrine.
+To some of the offices of Theora she succeeded, as is the custom, by
+inheritance; and in the performance of these—sanctified as they were in
+her eyes by the pure spirit she had seen engaged in them—there was a sort
+of melancholy pleasure in which her sorrow found relief. But the part she
+was again forced to take, in the scenic shows of the Mysteries, brought
+with it a sense of wrong and degradation which she could no longer bear.
+
+“She had already formed, in her own mind, a plan of escape, in which her
+knowledge of all the windings of this subterranean realm gave her
+confidence, when the reception of Alciphron, as an Initiate, took place.
+
+“From the first moment of the landing of that philosopher at Alexandria,
+he had become an object of suspicion and watchfulness to the inquisitorial
+Orcus, whom philosophy, in any shape, naturally alarmed, but to whom the
+sect over which the young Athenian presided was particularly obnoxious.
+The accomplishments of Alciphron, his popularity, wherever he went, and
+the freedom with which he indulged his wit at the expense of religion, was
+all faithfully reported to the High Priest by his spies, and stirred up
+within him no kindly feelings towards the stranger. In dealing with an
+infidel, such a personage as Orcus could know no alternative but that of
+either converting or destroying him; and though his spite, as a man, would
+have been more gratified by the latter proceeding, his pride, as a priest,
+led him to prefer the triumph of the former.
+
+“The first descent of the Epicurean into the pyramid was speedily known,
+and the alarm immediately given to the Priests below. As soon as it was
+discovered that the young philosopher of Athens was the intruder, and that
+he still continued to linger round the pyramid, looking often and
+wistfully towards the portal, it was concluded that his curiosity would
+impel him to try a second descent; and Orcus, blessing the good chance
+which had thus brought the wild bird to his net, determined not to allow
+an opportunity so precious to be wasted.
+
+“Instantly, the whole of that wonderful machinery, by which the phantasms
+and illusions of Initiation are produced, were put in active preparation
+throughout that subterranean realm; and the increased stir and
+watchfulness excited among its inmates, by this more than ordinary display
+of all the resources of priestcraft, rendered the accomplishment of
+Alethe’s design, at such a moment, peculiarly difficult. Wholly ignorant
+of the share which had fallen to herself in attracting the young
+philosopher down to this region, she but heard of him vaguely, as the
+Chief of a great Grecian sect, who had been led, by either curiosity or
+accident, to expose himself to the first trials of Initiation, and whom
+the priests, she saw, were endeavouring to ensnare in their toils, by
+every art and skill with which their science of darkness had gifted them.
+
+“To her mind, the image of a philosopher, such as Alciphron had been
+represented to her, came associated with ideas of age and reverence; and,
+more than once, the possibility of his being made instrumental to her
+deliverance flashed a hope across her heart in which she could not help
+indulging. Often had she been told by Theora of the many Gentile sages,
+who had laid their wisdom down humbly at the foot of the Cross; and though
+this Initiate, she feared, could hardly be among the number, yet the
+rumours which she had gathered from the servants of the Temple, of his
+undisguised contempt for the errors of heathenism, led her to hope she
+might find tolerance, if not sympathy, in her appeal to him.
+
+“Nor was it solely with a view to her own chance of deliverance that she
+thus connected him in her thoughts with the plan which she meditated. The
+look of proud and self‐gratulating malice, with which the High Priest had
+mentioned this ‘infidel,’ as he styled him, when instructing her in the
+scene she was to enact before the philosopher in the valley, but too
+plainly informed her of the destiny that hung over him. She knew how many
+were the hapless candidates for Initiation, who had been doomed to a
+durance worse than that of the grave, for but a word, a whisper breathed
+against the sacred absurdities which they witnessed; and it was evident to
+her that the venerable Greek (for such her fancy represented Alciphron)
+was no less interested in escaping from this region than herself.
+
+“Her own resolution was, at all events, fixed. That visionary scene, in
+which she had appeared before Alciphron,—little knowing how ardent were
+the heart and imagination, over which her beauty, at that moment, shed its
+whole influence,—was, she solemnly resolved, the very last unholy service,
+that superstition or imposture should ever command of her.
+
+“On the following night the Aspirant was to watch in the Great Temple of
+Isis. Such an opportunity of approaching and addressing him might never
+come again. Should he, from compassion for her situation, or a sense of
+the danger of his own, consent to lend his aid to her flight, most gladly
+would she accept it,—assured that no danger or treachery she might risk
+could be half so dreadful as those she left behind. Should he, on the
+contrary, refuse, her determination was equally fixed—to trust to that
+God, who watches over the innocent, and go forth alone.
+
+“To reach the island in Lake Mœris was her first object, and there
+occurred luckily, at this time, a mode of accomplishing it, by which the
+difficulty and dangers of the attempt would be, in a great degree,
+diminished. The day of the annual visitation of the High Priest to the
+Place of Weeping—as that island in the centre of the lake is called—was
+now fast approaching; and Alethe well knew that the self‐moving car, by
+which the High Priest and one of the Hierophants are conveyed to the
+chambers under the lake, stood waiting in readiness. By availing herself
+of this expedient, she would gain the double advantage both of
+facilitating her own flight and retarding the speed of her pursuers.
+
+“Having paid a last visit to the tomb of her beloved mother, and wept
+there, long and passionately, till her heart almost failed in the
+struggle,—having paused, too, to give a kiss to her favourite ibis, which,
+though too much a Christian to worship, she was still child enough to
+love,—with a trembling step she went early to the Sanctuary, and hid
+herself in one of the recesses of the Shrine. Her intention was to steal
+out from thence to Alciphron, while it was yet dark, and before the
+illumination of the great Statue behind the Veils had begun. But her fears
+delayed her till it was almost too late;—already was the image lighted up,
+and still she remained trembling in her hiding place.
+
+“In a few minutes more the mighty Veils would have been withdrawn, and the
+glories of that scene of enchantment laid open,—when, at length, summoning
+up courage, and taking advantage of a momentary absence of those employed
+in the preparations of this splendid mockery, she stole from under the
+Veil and found her way, through the gloom, to the Epicurean. There was
+then no time for explanation;—she had but to trust to the simple words,
+‘Follow, and be silent;’ and the implicit readiness with which she found
+them obeyed filled her with no less surprise than the philosopher himself
+felt in hearing them.
+
+“In a second or two they were on their way through the subterranean
+windings, leaving the ministers of Isis to waste their splendours on
+vacancy, through a long series of miracles and visions which they now
+exhibited,—unconscious that he, whom they took such pains to dazzle, was
+already, under the guidance of the young Christian, removed beyond the
+reach of their spells.”
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XIV.
+
+
+Such was the story, of which this innocent girl gave me, in her own
+touching language, the outline.
+
+The sun was just rising as she finished her narrative. Fearful of
+encountering the expression of those feelings with which, she could not
+but observe, I was affected by her recital, scarcely had she concluded the
+last sentence, when, rising abruptly from her seat, she hurried into the
+pavilion, leaving me with the words already crowding for utterance to my
+lips.
+
+Oppressed by the various emotions, thus sent back upon my heart, I lay
+down on the deck in a state of agitation, that defied even the most
+distant approaches of sleep. While every word she had uttered, every
+feeling she expressed, but ministered new fuel to that flame within me, to
+describe which, passion is too weak a word, there was also much of her
+recital that disheartened, that alarmed me. To find a Christian thus under
+the garb of a Memphian Priestess, was a discovery that, had my heart been
+less deeply interested, would but have more powerfully stimulated my
+imagination and pride. But, when I recollected the austerity of the faith
+she had embraced,—the tender and sacred tie, associated with it in her
+memory, and the devotion of woman’s heart to objects thus consecrated,—her
+very perfections but widened the distance between us, and all that most
+kindled my passion at the same time chilled my hopes.
+
+Were we left to each other, as on this silent river, in this undisturbed
+communion of thoughts and feelings, I knew too well, I thought, both her
+sex’s nature and my own, to feel a doubt that love would ultimately
+triumph. But the severity of the guardianship to which I must resign
+her,—some monk of the desert, some stern Solitary,—the influence such a
+monitor would gain over her mind, and the horror with which, ere long, she
+would be taught to regard the reprobate infidel on whom she now smiled,—in
+all this prospect I saw nothing but despair. After a few short hours, my
+happiness would be at an end, and such a dark chasm open between our
+fates, as must sever them, far as earth is from heaven, asunder.
+
+It was true, she was now wholly in my power. I feared no witnesses but
+those of earth, and the solitude of the desert was at hand. But though I
+acknowledged not a heaven, I worshipped her who was, to me, its type and
+substitute. If, at any moment, a single thought of wrong or deceit,
+towards a creature so sacred, arose in my mind, one look from her innocent
+eyes averted the sacrilege. Even passion itself felt a holy fear in her
+presence,—like the flame trembling in the breeze of the sanctuary,—and
+Love, pure Love, stood in place of Religion.
+
+As long as I knew not her story, I might indulge, at least, in dreams of
+the future. But, now—what hope, what prospect remained? My sole chance of
+happiness lay in the feeble hope of beguiling away her thoughts from the
+plan which she meditated; of weaning her, by persuasion, from that austere
+faith, which I had before hated and now feared, and of—attaching her,
+perhaps, alone and unlinked as she was in the world, to my own fortunes
+for ever!
+
+In the agitation of these thoughts, I had started from my resting‐place,
+and continued to pace up and down, under a burning sun, till, exhausted
+both by thought and feeling, I sunk down, amid its blaze, into a sleep,
+which, to my fevered brain, seemed a sleep of fire.
+
+On awaking, I found the veil of Alethe laid carefully over my brow, while
+she, herself, sat near me, under the shadow of the sail, looking anxiously
+at that leaf, which her mother had given her, and apparently employed in
+comparing its outlines with the course of the river and the forms of the
+rocky hills by which we passed. She looked pale and troubled, and rose
+eagerly to meet me, as if she had long and impatiently waited for my
+waking.
+
+Her heart, it was plain, had been disturbed from its security, and was
+beginning to take alarm at its own feelings. But, though vaguely conscious
+of the peril to which she was exposed, her reliance, as is usually the
+case, increased with her danger, and on me, far more than on herself, did
+she depend for saving her from it. To reach, as soon as possible, her
+asylum in the desert, was now the urgent object of her entreaties and
+wishes; and the self‐reproach she expressed at having permitted her
+thoughts to be diverted, for a single moment, from this sacred purpose,
+not only revealed the truth, that she had forgotten it, but betrayed even
+a glimmering consciousness of the cause.
+
+Her sleep, she said, had been broken by ill‐omened dreams. Every moment
+the shade of her mother had stood before her, rebuking her, with mournful
+looks, for her delay, and pointing, as she had done in death, to the
+eastern hills. Bursting into tears at this accusing recollection, she
+hastily placed the leaf, which she had been examining, in my hands, and
+implored that I would ascertain, without a moment’s delay, what portion of
+our voyage was still unperformed, and in what space of time we might hope
+to accomplish it.
+
+I had, still less than herself, taken note of either place or distance;
+and, had we been left to glide on in this dream of happiness, should never
+have thought of pausing to ask where it would end. But such confidence, I
+felt, was too sacred to be deceived. Reluctant as I was, naturally, to
+enter on an inquiry, which might so soon dissipate even my last hope, her
+wish was sufficient to supersede even the selfishness of love, and on the
+instant I proceeded to obey her will.
+
+There is, on the eastern bank of the Nile, to the north of Antinöe, a high
+and steep rock, impending over the flood, which for ages, from a prodigy
+connected with it, has borne the name of the Mountain of the Birds.
+Yearly, it is said, at a certain season and hour, large flocks of birds
+assemble in the ravine, of which this rocky mountain forms one of the
+sides, and are there observed to go through the mysterious ceremony of
+inserting each its beak into a particular cleft of the rock, till the
+cleft closes upon one of their number, when the rest, taking wing, leave
+the selected victim to die.
+
+Through the ravine where this charm—for such the multitude consider it—is
+worked, there ran, in ancient times, a canal from the Nile, to some great
+and forgotten city that now lies buried in the desert. To a short distance
+from the river this canal still exists, but, soon after having passed
+through the defile, its scanty waters disappear altogether, and are lost
+under the sands.
+
+It was in the neighbourhood of this place, as I could collect from the
+delineations on the leaf,—where a flight of birds represented the name of
+the mountain,—that the dwelling of the Solitary, to whom Alethe was
+bequeathed, lay. Imperfect as was my knowledge of the geography of Egypt,
+it at once struck me, that we had long since left this mountain behind;
+and, on inquiring of our boatmen, I found my conjecture confirmed. We had,
+indeed, passed it, as appeared, on the preceding night; and, as the wind
+had, ever since, blown strongly from the north, and the sun was already
+declining towards the horizon, we must now be, at least, an ordinary day’s
+sail to the southward of the spot.
+
+At this discovery, I own, my heart felt a joy which I could with
+difficulty conceal. It seemed to me as if fortune was conspiring with
+love, and, by thus delaying the moment of our separation, afforded me at
+least a chance of happiness. Her look, too, and manner, when informed of
+our mistake, rather encouraged than chilled this secret hope. In the first
+moment of astonishment, her eyes opened upon me with a suddenness of
+splendour, under which I felt my own wink, as if lightning had crossed
+them. But she again, as suddenly, let their lids fall, and, after a quiver
+of her lip, which showed the conflict of feeling within, crossed her arms
+upon her bosom, and looked silently down upon the deck;—her whole
+countenance sinking into an expression, sad, but resigned, as if she felt,
+with me, that fate was on the side of wrong, and saw Love already stealing
+between her soul and heaven.
+
+I was not slow in availing myself of what I fancied to be the irresolution
+of her mind. But, fearful of exciting alarm by any appeal to tenderer
+feelings, I but addressed myself to her imagination, and to that love of
+novelty, which is for ever fresh in the youthful breast. We were now
+approaching that region of wonders, Thebes. “In a day or two,” said I, “we
+shall see, towering above the waters, the colossal Avenue of Sphinxes, and
+the bright Obelisks of the Sun. We shall visit the plain of Memnon, and
+those mighty statues, that fling their shadows at sunrise over the Libyan
+hills. We shall hear the image of the Son of the Morning answering to the
+first touch of light. From thence, in a few hours, a breeze like this will
+transport us to those sunny islands near the cataracts; there, to wander,
+among the sacred palm‐groves of Philæ, or sit, at noon‐tide hour, in those
+cool alcoves, which the waterfall of Syene shadows under its arch. Oh,
+who, with such scenes of loveliness within reach, would turn coldly away
+to the bleak desert, and leave this fair world, with all its enchantments,
+shining behind them, unseen and unenjoyed? At least,”—I added, tenderly
+taking her by the hand,—“at least, let a few more days be stolen from the
+dreary fate to which thou hast devoted thyself, and then——”
+
+She had heard but the last few words;—the rest had been lost upon her.
+Startled by the tone of tenderness, into which, in spite of all my
+resolves, my voice had softened, she looked for an instant in my face,
+with passionate earnestness;—then, dropping upon her knees with her
+clasped hands upraised, exclaimed—“Tempt me not, in the name of God I
+implore thee, tempt me not to swerve from my sacred duty. Oh, take me
+instantly to that desert mountain, and I will bless thee for ever.”
+
+This appeal, I felt, _could not_ be resisted,—though my heart were to
+break for it. Having silently expressed my assent to her prayer, by a
+pressure of her hand as I raised her from the deck, I hastened, as we were
+still in full career for the south, to give orders that our sail should be
+instantly lowered, and not a moment lost in retracing our course.
+
+In proceeding, however, to give these directions, it, for the first time,
+occurred to me, that, as I had hired this yacht in the neighbourhood of
+Memphis, where it was probable that the flight of the young fugitive would
+be most vigilantly tracked, we should act imprudently in betraying to the
+boatmen the place of her retreat;—and the present seemed the most
+favourable opportunity of evading such a danger. Desiring, therefore, that
+we should be landed at a small village on the shore, under pretence of
+paying a visit to some shrine in the neighbourhood, I there dismissed our
+barge, and was relieved from fear of further observation, by seeing it
+again set sail, and resume its course fleetly up the current.
+
+From the boats of all descriptions that lay idle beside the bank, I now
+selected one, which, in every respect, suited my purpose,—being, in its
+shape and accommodations, a miniature of our former vessel, but so small
+and light as to be manageable by myself alone, and, with the advantage of
+the current, requiring little more than a hand to steer it. This boat I
+succeeded, without much difficulty, in purchasing, and, after a short
+delay, we were again afloat down the current;—the sun just then sinking,
+in conscious glory, over his own golden shrines in the Libyan waste.
+
+The evening was more calm and lovely than any that yet had smiled upon our
+voyage; and, as we left the bank, there came soothingly over our ears a
+strain of sweet, rustic melody from the shore. It was the voice of a young
+Nubian girl, whom we saw kneeling on the bank before an acacia, and
+singing, while her companions stood round, the wild song of invocation,
+which, in her country, they address to that enchanted tree:—
+
+    “Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      We pray, we pray, to thee;
+  By the glow of thy golden fruit,
+    And the violet hue of thy flower,
+      And the greeting mute
+      Of thy bough’s salute
+    To the stranger who seeks thy bower.(6)
+
+                II.
+
+    “Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      How the traveller blesses thee,
+  When the night no moon allows,
+    And the sun‐set hour is near,
+      And thou bend’st thy boughs
+      To kiss his brows,
+    Saying, ‘Come rest thee here.’
+      Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      Thus bow thy head to me!”
+
+In the burden of this song the companions of the young Nubian joined; and
+we heard the words, “Oh! Abyssinian tree,” dying away on the breeze, long
+after the whole group had been lost to our eyes.
+
+Whether, in this new arrangement which I had made for our voyage, any
+motive, besides those which I professed, had a share, I can scarcely, even
+myself, so bewildered were my feelings, determine. But no sooner had the
+current borne us away from all human dwellings, and we were alone on the
+waters, with not a soul near, than I felt how closely such solitude draws
+hearts together, and how much more we seemed to belong to each other, than
+when there were eyes around.
+
+The same feeling, but without the same sense of its danger, was manifest
+in every look and word of Alethe. The consciousness of the one great
+effort she had made appeared to have satisfied her heart on the score of
+duty,—while the devotedness with which she saw I attended to her every
+wish, was felt with all that gratitude which, in woman, is the day‐spring
+of love. She was, therefore, happy, innocently happy; and the confiding,
+and even affectionate, unreserve of her manner, while it rendered my trust
+more sacred, made it also far more difficult.
+
+It was only, however, on subjects unconnected with our situation or fate,
+that she yielded to such interchange of thought, or that her voice
+ventured to answer mine. The moment I alluded to the destiny that awaited
+us, all her cheerfulness fled, and she became saddened and silent. When I
+described to her the beauty of my own native land—its founts of
+inspiration and fields of glory—her eyes sparkled with sympathy, and
+sometimes even softened into fondness. But when I ventured to whisper,
+that, in that glorious country, a life full of love and liberty awaited
+her; when I proceeded to contrast the adoration and bliss she might
+command, with the gloomy austerities of the life to which she was
+hastening,—it was like the coming of a sudden cloud over a summer sky. Her
+head sunk, as she listened;—I waited in vain for an answer; and when, half
+playfully reproaching her for this silence, I stooped to take her hand, I
+could feel the warm tears fast falling over it.
+
+But even this—little hope as it held out—was happiness. Though it
+foreboded that I should lose her, it also whispered that I was loved. Like
+that lake, in the Land of Roses(7), whose waters are half sweet, half
+bitter, I felt my fate to be a compound of bliss and pain,—but the very
+pain well worth all ordinary bliss.
+
+And thus did the hours of that night pass along; while every moment
+shortened our happy dream, and the current seemed to flow with a swifter
+pace than any that ever yet hurried to the sea. Not a feature of the whole
+scene but is, at this moment, freshly in my memory;—the broken star‐light
+on the water;—the rippling sound of the boat, as, without oar or sail, it
+went, like a thing of enchantment, down the stream;—the scented fire,
+burning beside us on the deck, and, oh, that face, on which its light
+fell, still revealing, as it turned, some new charm, some blush or look,
+more beautiful than the last.
+
+Often, while I sat gazing, forgetful of all else in this world, our boat,
+left wholly to itself, would drive from its course, and, bearing us to the
+bank, get entangled in the water‐flowers, or be caught in some eddy, ere I
+perceived where we were. Once, too, when the rustling of my oar among the
+flowers had startled away from the bank some wild antelopes, that had
+stolen, at that still hour, to drink of the Nile, what an emblem I thought
+it of the young heart beside me,—tasting, for the first time, of hope and
+love, and so soon, alas, to be scared from their sweetness for ever!
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XV.
+
+
+The night was now far advanced;—the bend of our course towards the left,
+and the closing in of the eastern hills upon the river, gave warning of
+our approach to the hermit’s dwelling. Every minute now seemed like the
+last of existence; and I felt a sinking of despair at my heart, which
+would have been intolerable, had not a resolution that suddenly, and as if
+by inspiration, occurred to me, presented a glimpse of hope which, in some
+degree, calmed my feelings.
+
+Much as I had, all my life, despised hypocrisy,—the very sect I had
+embraced being chiefly recommended to me by the war which they waged on
+the cant of all others,—it was, nevertheless, in hypocrisy that I now
+scrupled not to take refuge from, what I dreaded more than shame or death,
+my separation from Alethe. In my despair, I adopted the humiliating
+plan—deeply humiliating as I felt it to be, even amid the joy with which I
+welcomed it—of offering myself to this hermit, as a convert to his faith,
+and thus becoming the fellow‐disciple of Alethe under his care!
+
+From the moment I resolved upon this plan, my spirit felt lightened.
+Though having fully before my eyes the labyrinth of imposture into which
+it would lead me, I thought of nothing but the chance of our being still
+together;—in this hope, all pride, all philosophy was forgotten, and every
+thing seemed tolerable, but the prospect of losing her.
+
+Thus resolved, it was with somewhat less reluctant feelings, that I now
+undertook, at the anxious desire of Alethe, to ascertain the site of that
+well‐known mountain, in the neighbourhood of which the dwelling of the
+anchoret lay. We had already passed one or two stupendous rocks, which
+stood, detached, like fortresses, over the river’s brink, and which, in
+some degree, corresponded with the description on the leaf. So little was
+there of life now stirring along the shores, that I had begun almost to
+despair of any assistance from inquiry, when, on looking to the western
+bank, I saw a boatman among the sedges, towing his small boat, with some
+difficulty, up the current. Hailing him, as we passed, I asked, “Where
+stands the Mountain of the Birds?”—and he had hardly time to answer,
+pointing above our heads, “There,” when we perceived that we were just
+then entering into the shadow, which this mighty rock flings across the
+whole of the flood.
+
+In a few moments we had reached the mouth of the ravine, of which the
+Mountain of the Birds forms one of the sides, and through which the scanty
+canal from the Nile flows. At the sight of this chasm, in some of whose
+gloomy recesses—if we had rightly interpreted the leaf—the dwelling of the
+Solitary lay, our voices, at once, sunk into a low whisper, while Alethe
+looked round upon me with a superstitious fearfulness, as if doubtful
+whether I had not already disappeared from her side. A quick movement,
+however, of her hand towards the ravine, told too plainly that her purpose
+was still unchanged. With my oars, therefore, checking the career of our
+boat, I succeeded, after no small exertion, in turning it out of the
+current of the river, and steering into this bleak and stagnant canal.
+
+Our transition from life and bloom to the very depth of desolation, was
+immediate. While the water and one side of the ravine lay buried in
+shadow, the white, skeleton‐like crags of the other stood aloft in the
+pale glare of moonlight. The sluggish stream through which we moved,
+yielded sullenly to the oar, and the shriek of a few water‐birds, which we
+had roused from their fastnesses, was succeeded by a silence, so dead and
+awful, that our lips seemed afraid to disturb it by a breath; and half‐
+whispered exclamations, “How dreary!”—“How dismal!”—were almost the only
+words exchanged between us.
+
+We had proceeded for some time through this gloomy defile, when, at a
+distance before us, among the rocks on which the moonlight fell, we
+perceived, upon a ledge but little elevated above the canal, a small hut
+or cave, which, from a tree or two planted around it, had some appearance
+of being the abode of a human being. “This, then,” thought I, “is the home
+to which Alethe is destined!”—A chill of despair came again over my heart,
+and the oars, as I gazed, lay motionless in my hands.
+
+I found Alethe, too, whose eyes had caught the same object, drawing closer
+to my side than she had yet ventured. Laying her hand agitatedly upon
+mine, “We must here,” she said, “part for ever.” I turned to her, as she
+spoke: there was a tenderness, a despondency in her countenance, that at
+once saddened and inflamed my soul. “Part!” I exclaimed
+passionately,—“No!—the same God shall receive us both. Thy faith, Alethe,
+shall, from this hour, be mine, and I will live and die in this desert
+with thee!”
+
+Her surprise, her delight, at these words, was like a momentary delirium.
+The wild, anxious smile, with which she looked into my face, as if to
+ascertain whether she had, indeed, heard my words aright, bespoke a
+happiness too much for reason to bear. At length the fulness of her heart
+found relief in tears; and, murmuring forth an incoherent blessing on my
+name, she let her head fall languidly and powerlessly on my arm. The light
+from our boat‐fire shone upon her face. I saw her eyes, which she had
+closed for a moment, again opening upon me with the same tenderness,
+and—merciful Providence, how I remember that moment!—was on the point of
+bending down my lips towards hers, when, suddenly, in the air above our
+heads, as if it came from heaven, there burst forth a strain from a choir
+of voices, that with its solemn sweetness filled the whole valley.
+
+Breaking away from my caress at these supernatural sounds, the maiden
+threw herself trembling upon her knees, and, not daring to look up,
+exclaimed wildly, “My mother, oh my mother!”
+
+It was the Christian’s morning hymn that we heard;—the same, as I learned
+afterwards, that, on their high terrace at Memphis, Alethe had been often
+taught by her mother to sing to the rising sun.
+
+Scarcely less startled than my companion, I looked up, and, at the very
+summit of the rock above us, saw a light, appearing to come from a small
+opening or window, through which also the sounds, that had appeared so
+supernatural, issued. There could be no doubt, that we had now found—if
+not the dwelling of the anchoret—at least, the haunt of some of the
+Christian brotherhood of these rocks, by whose assistance we could not
+fail to find the place of his retreat.
+
+The agitation, into which Alethe had been thrown by the first burst of
+that psalmody, soon yielded to the softening recollections which it
+brought back; and a calm came over her brow, such as it had never before
+worn, since our meeting. She seemed to feel that she had now reached her
+destined haven, and to hail, as the voice of heaven itself, those sounds
+by which she was welcomed to it.
+
+In her tranquillity, however, I could not now sympathize. Impatient to
+know all that awaited her and myself, I pushed our boat close to the base
+of the rock,—directly under that lighted window on the summit, to find my
+way up to which was my first object. Having hastily received my
+instructions from Alethe, and made her repeat again the name of the
+Christian whom we sought, I sprang upon the bank, and was not long in
+discovering a sort of rude stair‐way, cut out of the rock, but leading, I
+found, by easy windings, up the steep.
+
+After ascending for some time, I arrived at a level space or ledge, which
+the hand of labour had succeeded in converting into a garden, and which
+was planted, here and there, with fig‐trees and palms. Around it, too, I
+could perceive, through the glimmering light, a number of small caves or
+grottos, into some of which, human beings might find entrance, while
+others appeared no larger than the tombs of the Sacred Birds round Lake
+Mœris.
+
+I was still, I found, but half‐way up the ascent to the summit, nor could
+perceive any further means of continuing my course, as the mountain from
+hence rose, almost perpendicularly, like a wall. At length, however, on
+exploring around, I discovered behind the shade of a sycamore a large
+ladder of wood, resting firmly against the rock, and affording an easy and
+secure ascent up the steep.
+
+Having ascertained thus far, I again descended to the boat for
+Alethe,—whom I found trembling already at her short solitude,—and having
+led her up the steps to this quiet garden, left her safely lodged, amid
+its holy silence, while I pursued my way upward to the light on the rock.
+
+At the top of the long ladder I found myself on another ledge or platform,
+somewhat smaller than the first, but planted in the same manner, with
+trees, and, as I could perceive by the mingled light of morning and the
+moon, embellished with flowers. I was now near the summit;—there remained
+but another short ascent, and, as a ladder against the rock, as before,
+supplied the means of scaling it, I was in a few minutes at the opening
+from which the light issued.
+
+I had ascended gently, as well from a feeling of awe at the whole scene,
+as from an unwillingness to disturb too rudely the rites on which I
+intruded. My approach was, therefore, unheard, and an opportunity, during
+some moments, afforded me of observing the group within, before my
+appearance at the window was discovered.
+
+In the middle of the apartment, which seemed once to have been a Pagan
+oratory, there was an assembly of seven or eight persons, some male, some
+female, kneeling in silence round a small altar;—while, among them, as if
+presiding over their ceremony, stood an aged man, who, at the moment of my
+arrival, was presenting to one of the female worshippers an alabaster cup,
+which she applied, with much reverence, to her lips. On the countenance of
+the venerable minister, as he pronounced a short prayer over her head,
+there was an expression of profound feeling that showed how wholly he was
+absorbed in that rite; and when she had drank of the cup,—which I saw had
+engraven on its side the image of a head, with a glory round it,—the holy
+man bent down and kissed her forehead.
+
+After this parting salutation, the whole group rose silently from their
+knees; and it was then, for the first time, that, by a cry of terror from
+one of the women, the appearance of a stranger at the window was
+discovered. The whole assembly seemed startled and alarmed, except him,
+that superior person, who, advancing from the altar, with an unmoved look,
+raised the latch of the door, which was adjoining to the window, and
+admitted me.
+
+There was, in this old man’s features, a mixture of elevation and
+sweetness, of simplicity and energy, which commanded at once attachment
+and homage; and half hoping, half fearing to find in him the destined
+guardian of Alethe, I looked anxiously in his face, as I entered, and
+pronounced the name “Melanius!” “Melanius is my name, young stranger,” he
+answered; “and whether in friendship or in enmity thou comest, Melanius
+blesses thee.” Thus saying, he made a sign with his right hand above my
+head, while, with involuntary respect, I bowed beneath the benediction.
+
+“Let this volume,” I replied, “answer for the peacefulness of my
+mission,”—at the same time, placing in his hands the copy of the
+Scriptures, which had been his own gift to the mother of Alethe, and which
+her child now brought as the credential of her claims on his protection.
+At the sight of this sacred pledge, which he recognized instantly, the
+solemnity that had marked his first reception of me softened into
+tenderness. Thoughts of other times seemed to pass through his mind, and
+as, with a sigh of recollection, he took the book from my hands, some
+words on the outer leaf caught his eye. They were few,—but contained,
+perhaps, the last wishes of the dying Theora, for as he eagerly read them
+over, I saw the tears in his aged eyes. “The trust,” he said, with a
+faltering voice, “is sacred, and God will, I hope, enable his servant to
+guard it faithfully.”
+
+During this short dialogue, the other persons of the assembly had
+departed—being, as I afterwards learned, brethren from the neighbouring
+bank of the Nile, who came thus secretly before day‐break, to join in
+worshipping God. Fearful lest their descent down the rock might alarm
+Alethe, I hurried briefly over the few words of explanation that remained,
+and, leaving the venerable Christian to follow at his leisure, hastened
+anxiously down to rejoin the maiden.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XVI.
+
+
+Melanius was among the first of those Christians of Egypt, who, after the
+recent example of the hermit, Paul, renouncing all the comforts of social
+existence, betook themselves to a life of contemplation in the desert.
+Less selfish, however, in his piety, than most of these ascetics, Melanius
+forgot not the world, in leaving it. He knew that man was not born to live
+wholly for himself; that his relation to human kind was that of the link
+to the chain, and that even his solitude should be turned to the advantage
+of others. In flying, therefore, from the din and disturbance of life, he
+sought not to place himself beyond the reach of its sympathies, but
+selected a retreat, where he could combine the advantage of solitude with
+those opportunities of serving his fellow‐men, which a neighbourhood to
+their haunts would afford.
+
+That taste for the gloom of subterranean recesses, which the race of
+Misraim inherit from their Ethiopian ancestors, had, by hollowing out all
+Egypt into caverns and crypts, furnished these Christian anchorets with a
+choice of retreats. Accordingly, some found a shelter in the grottos of
+Elethya;—others, among the royal tombs of the Thebaïd. In the middle of
+the Seven Valleys, where the sun rarely shines, a few have fixed their dim
+and melancholy retreat, while others have sought the neighbourhood of the
+red Lakes of Nitria, and there,—like those Pagan solitaries of old, who
+dwelt among the palm‐trees near the Dead Sea,—muse amid the sterility of
+nature, and seem to find, in her desolation, peace.
+
+It was on one of the mountains of the Saïd, to the east of the river, that
+Melanius, as we have seen, chose his place of seclusion,—between the life
+and fertility of the Nile on the one side, and the lone, dismal barrenness
+of the desert on the other. Half‐way down this mountain, where it impends
+over the ravine, he found a series of caves or grottos dug out of the
+rock, which had, in other times, ministered to some purpose of mystery,
+but whose use had been long forgotten, and their recesses abandoned.
+
+To this place, after the banishment of his great master, Origen, Melanius,
+with a few faithful followers, retired, and, by the example of his
+innocent life, no less than by his fervid eloquence, succeeded in winning
+crowds of converts to his faith. Placed, as he was, in the neighbourhood
+of the rich city, Antinoë, though he mingled not with its multitude, his
+name and his fame were among them, and, to all who sought instruction or
+consolation, the cell of the hermit was ever open.
+
+Notwithstanding the rigid abstinence of his own habits, he was yet careful
+to provide for the comforts of others. Contented with a rude bed of straw,
+himself, for the stranger he had always a less homely resting‐place. From
+his grotto, the wayfaring and the indigent never went unrefreshed; and,
+with the assistance of some of his brethren, he had formed gardens along
+the ledges of the mountain, which gave an air of cheerfulness to his rocky
+dwelling, and supplied him with the chief necessaries of such a climate,
+fruit and shade.
+
+Though the acquaintance which he had formed with the mother of Alethe,
+during the short period of her attendance at the school of Origen, was
+soon interrupted, and never afterwards renewed, the interest which he had
+then taken in her fate was too lively to be forgotten. He had seen the
+zeal with which her young heart welcomed instruction; and the thought that
+such a candidate for heaven should have relapsed into idolatry, came
+often, with disquieting apprehension, over his mind.
+
+It was, therefore, with true pleasure, that, but a year or two before her
+death, he had learned, by a private communication from Theora, transmitted
+through a Christian embalmer of Memphis, that “not only her own heart had
+taken root in the faith, but that a new bud had flowered with the same
+divine hope, and that, ere long, he might see them both transplanted to
+the desert.”
+
+The coming, therefore, of Alethe was far less a surprise to him, than her
+coming thus alone was a shock and a sorrow; and the silence of their
+meeting showed how deeply each remembered that the tie which had brought
+them together was no longer of this world,—that the hand, which should
+have been joined with theirs, was in the tomb. I now saw that not even
+religion was proof against the sadness of mortality. For, as the old man
+put the ringlets aside from her forehead, and contemplated in that clear
+countenance the reflection of what her mother had been, there was a
+mournfulness mingled with his piety, as he said, “Heaven rest her soul!”
+which showed how little even the certainty of a heaven for those we love
+can subdue our regret for having lost them on earth.
+
+The full light of day had now risen upon the desert, and our host,
+reminded, by the faint looks of Alethe, of the many anxious hours we had
+passed without sleep, proposed that we should seek, in the chambers of the
+rock, such rest as the dwelling of a hermit could offer. Pointing to one
+of the largest openings, as he addressed me,—“Thou wilt find,” he said,
+“in that grotto a bed of fresh doum leaves, and may the consciousness of
+having protected the orphan sweeten thy sleep!”
+
+I felt how dearly this praise had been earned, and already almost repented
+of having deserved it. There was a sadness in the countenance of Alethe,
+as I took leave of her, to which the forebodings of my own heart but too
+faithfully responded; nor could I help fearing, as her hand parted
+lingeringly from mine, that I had, by this sacrifice, placed her beyond my
+reach for ever.
+
+Having lighted me a lamp, which, in these recesses, even at noon, is
+necessary, the holy man led me to the entrance of the grotto;—and here, I
+blush to say, my career of hypocrisy began. With the sole view of
+obtaining another glance at Alethe, I turned humbly to solicit the
+benediction of the Christian, and, having conveyed to her, as I bent
+reverently down, as much of the deep feeling of my soul as looks could
+express, with a desponding spirit I hurried into the cavern.
+
+A short passage led me to the chamber within,—the walls of which I found
+covered, like those of the grottos of Lycopolis, with paintings, which,
+though executed long ages ago, looked fresh as if their colours were but
+laid on yesterday. They were, all of them, representations of rural and
+domestic scenes; and, in the greater number, the melancholy imagination of
+the artist had called Death in, as usual, to throw his shadow over the
+picture.
+
+My attention was particularly drawn to one series of subjects, throughout
+the whole of which the same group—a youth, a maiden, and two aged persons,
+who appeared to be the father and mother of the girl,—were represented in
+all the details of their daily life. The looks and attitudes of the young
+people denoted that they were lovers; and, sometimes, they were seen
+sitting under a canopy of flowers, with their eyes fixed on each other’s
+faces, as though they could never look away; sometimes, they appeared
+walking along the banks of the Nile,
+
+      ——on one of those sweet nights
+  When Isis, the pure star of lovers, lights
+  Her bridal crescent o’er the holy stream,—
+  When wandering youths and maidens watch her beam,
+  And number o’er the nights she hath to run,
+  Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun.
+
+Through all these scenes of endearment the two elder persons stood
+by;—their calm countenances touched with a share of that bliss, in whose
+perfect light the young lovers were basking. Thus far, all was
+happiness,—but the sad lesson of mortality was to come. In the last
+picture of the series, one of the figures was missing. It was that of the
+young maiden, who had disappeared from among them. On the brink of a dark
+lake stood the three who remained; while a boat, just departing for the
+City of the Dead, told too plainly the end of their dream of happiness.
+
+This memorial of a sorrow of other times—of a sorrow, ancient as death
+itself,—was not wanting to deepen the melancholy of my mind, or to add to
+the weight of the many bodings that pressed on it.
+
+After a night, as it seemed, of anxious and unsleeping thought, I rose
+from my bed and returned to the garden. I found the Christian
+alone,—seated, under the shade of one of his trees, at a small table, with
+a volume unrolled before him, while a beautiful antelope lay sleeping at
+his feet. Struck forcibly by the contrast which he presented to those
+haughty priests, whom I had seen surrounded by the pomp and gorgeousness
+of temples, “Is this, then,” thought I, “the faith, before which the world
+trembles—its temple the desert, its treasury a book, and its High Priest
+the solitary dweller of the rock!”
+
+He had prepared for me a simple, but hospitable, repast, of which fruits
+from his own garden, the white bread of Olyra, and the juice of the honey‐
+cane were the most costly luxuries. His manner to me was even more cordial
+than before; but the absence of Alethe, and, still more, the ominous
+reserve, with which he not only, himself, refrained from all mention of
+her name, but eluded the few inquiries, by which I sought to lead to it,
+seemed to confirm all the fears I had felt in parting from her.
+
+She had acquainted him, it was evident, with the whole history of our
+flight. My reputation as a philosopher—my desire to become a Christian—all
+was already known to the zealous Anchoret, and the subject of my
+conversion was the very first on which he entered. O pride of philosophy,
+how wert thou then humbled, and with what shame did I stand, casting down
+my eyes, before that venerable man, as, with ingenuous trust in the
+sincerity of my intention, he welcomed me to a participation of his holy
+hope, and imprinted the Kiss of Charity on my infidel brow!
+
+Embarrassed as I felt by the consciousness of hypocrisy, I was even still
+more perplexed by my total ignorance of the real tenets of the faith to
+which I professed myself a convert. Abashed and confused, and with a heart
+sick at its own deceit, I heard the animated and eloquent gratulations of
+the Christian, as though they were words in a dream, without link or
+meaning; nor could disguise but by the mockery of a reverential bow, at
+every pause, the entire want of self‐possession, and even of speech, under
+which I laboured.
+
+A few minutes more of such trial, and I must have avowed my imposture. But
+the holy man saw my embarrassment;—and, whether mistaking it for awe, or
+knowing it to be ignorance, relieved me from my perplexity by, at once,
+changing the theme. Having gently awakened his antelope from its sleep,
+“You have heard,” he said, “I doubt not, of my brother‐anchoret, Paul,
+who, from his cave in the marble mountains, near the Red Sea, sends hourly
+‘the sacrifice of thanksgiving’ to heaven. Of _his_ walks, they tell me, a
+lion is the companion; but, for me,” he added, with a playful and
+significant smile, “who try my powers of taming but on the gentler
+animals, this feeble child of the desert is a far fitter play‐mate.” Then,
+taking his staff, and putting the time‐worn volume which he had been
+reading into a large goat‐skin pouch, that hung by his side, “I will now,”
+said he, “lead thee over my rocky kingdom,—that thou mayst see in what
+drear and barren places, that ‘fruit of the spirit,’ Peace, may be
+gathered.”
+
+To speak of peace to a heart like mine, at that moment, was like talking
+of some distant harbour to the mariner sinking at sea. In vain did I look
+round for some sign of Alethe;—in vain make an effort even to utter her
+name. Consciousness of my own deceit, as well as a fear of awakening in
+Melanius any suspicion that might frustrate my only hope, threw a fetter
+over my spirit and checked my tongue. In silence, therefore, I followed,
+while the cheerful old man, with slow, but firm, step, ascended the rock,
+by the same ladders which I had mounted on the preceding night.
+
+During the time when the Decian Persecution was raging, many Christians of
+this neighbourhood, he informed me, had taken refuge under his protection,
+in these grottos; and the chapel on the summit, where I had found them at
+prayer, was, in those times of danger, their place of retreat, where, by
+drawing up these ladders, they were enabled to secure themselves from
+pursuit.
+
+From the top of the rock, the view, on either side, embraced the two
+extremes of fertility and desolation; nor could the Epicurean and the
+Anchoret, who now gazed from that height, be at any loss to indulge their
+respective tastes, between the living luxuriance of the world on one side,
+and the dead repose of the desert on the other. When we turned to the
+river, what a picture of animation presented itself! Near us, to the
+south, were the graceful colonnades of Antinoë, its proud, populous
+streets, and triumphal monuments. On the opposite shore, rich plains,
+teeming with cultivation to the water’s edge, offered up, as from verdant
+altars, their fruits to the sun; while, beneath us, the Nile,
+
+            ——the glorious stream,
+  That late between its banks was seen to glide,—
+  With shrines and marble cities, on each side,
+  Glittering, like jewels strung along a chain,—
+  Had now sent forth its waters, and o’er plain
+  And valley, like a giant from his bed
+  Rising with outstretch’d limbs, superbly spread.
+
+From this scene, on one side of the mountain, we had but to turn round our
+eyes, and it was as if nature herself had become suddenly extinct;—a wide
+waste of sands, bleak and interminable, wearying out the sun with its
+sameness of desolation;—black, burnt‐up rocks, that stood as barriers, at
+which life stopped;—while the only signs of animation, past or present,
+were the foot‐prints, here and there, of an antelope or ostrich, or the
+bones of dead camels, as they lay whitening at a distance, marking out the
+track of the caravans over the waste.
+
+After listening, while he contrasted, in a few eloquent words, the two
+regions of life and death on whose confines we stood, I again descended
+with my guide to the garden we had left. From thence, turning into a path
+along the mountain‐side, he conducted me to another row of grottos, facing
+the desert, which had once, he said, been the abode of those brethren in
+Christ, who had fled with him to this solitude from the crowded world,—but
+which death had, within a few months, rendered tenantless. A cross of red
+stone, and a few faded trees, were the only traces these solitaries had
+left behind.
+
+A silence of some minutes succeeded, while we descended to the edge of the
+canal; and I saw opposite, among the rocks, that solitary cave, which had
+so chilled me with its aspect on the preceding night. By the bank we found
+one of those rustic boats, which the Egyptians construct of planks of wild
+thorn, bound rudely together with bands of papyrus. Placing ourselves in
+this boat, and rather impelling than rowing it across, we made our way
+through the foul and shallow flood, and landed directly under the site of
+the cave.
+
+This dwelling, as I have already mentioned, was situated upon a ledge of
+the rock; and, being provided with a sort of window or aperture to admit
+the light of heaven, was accounted, I found, more cheerful than the
+grottos on the other side of the ravine. But there was a dreariness in the
+whole region around, to which light only lent more horror. The dead
+whiteness of the rocks, as they stood, like ghosts, in the sunshine;—that
+melancholy pool, half lost in the sands;—all gave me the idea of a wasting
+world. To dwell in such a place seemed to me like a living death; and when
+the Christian, as we entered the cave, said, “Here is to be thy home,”
+prepared as I was for the worst, my resolution gave way;—every feeling of
+disappointed passion and humbled pride, which had been gathering round my
+heart for the last few hours, found a vent at once, and I burst into
+tears!
+
+Well accustomed to human weakness, and perhaps guessing at some of the
+sources of mine, the good Hermit, without appearing to notice this
+emotion, expatiated, with a cheerful air, on, what he called, the many
+comforts of my dwelling. Sheltered, he said, from the dry, burning wind of
+the south, my porch would inhale the fresh breeze of the Dog‐star. Fruits
+from his own mountain‐garden should furnish my repast. The well of the
+neighbouring rock would supply my beverage; and, “here,” he
+continued,—lowering his voice into a more solemn tone, as he placed upon
+the table the volume which he had brought,—“here, my son, is that ‘well of
+living waters,’ in which alone thou wilt find lasting refreshment or
+peace!” Thus saying, he descended the rock to his boat, and after a few
+plashes of his oar had died upon my ear, the solitude and silence around
+me was complete.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XVII.
+
+
+What a fate was mine!—but a few weeks since, presiding over that splendid
+Festival of the Garden, with all the luxuries of existence tributary in my
+train; and now,—self‐humbled into a solitary outcast,—the hypocritical
+pupil of a Christian anchoret,—without even the excuse of fanaticism, or
+of any other madness, but that of love, wild love, to extenuate my fall!
+Were there a hope that, by this humiliating waste of existence, I might
+purchase but a glimpse, now and then, of Alethe, even the depths of the
+desert, with such a chance, would be welcome. But to live—and live
+thus—_without_ her, was a misery which I neither foresaw nor could endure.
+
+Hating even to look upon the den to which I was doomed, I hurried out into
+the air, and found my way, along the rocks, to the desert. The sun was
+going down, with that blood‐red hue, which he so frequently wears, in this
+clime, at his setting. I saw the sands, stretching out, like a sea, to the
+horizon, as if their waste extended to the very verge of the world,—and,
+in the bitterness of my feelings, rejoiced to see so much of creation
+rescued, even by this barren liberty, from the grasp of man. The thought
+seemed to relieve my wounded pride, and, as I wandered over the dim and
+boundless solitude, to be thus free, even amid blight and desolation,
+appeared a blessing.
+
+The only living thing I saw was a restless swallow, whose wings were of
+the hue of the grey sands over which he fluttered. “Why may not the mind,
+like this bird, take the colour of the desert, and sympathise in its
+austerity, its freedom, and its calm?”—thus, between despondence and
+defiance, did I ask myself, endeavouring to face with fortitude what yet
+my heart sickened to contemplate. But the effort was unavailing. Overcome
+by that vast solitude, whose repose was not the slumber of peace, but the
+sullen and burning silence of hate, I felt my spirit give way, and even
+love itself yield to despair.
+
+Seating myself on a fragment of a rock, and covering my eyes with my
+hands, I made an effort to shut out the overwhelming prospect. But in
+vain—it was still before me, deepened by all that fancy could add; and
+when, again looking up, I saw the last red ray of the sun, shooting across
+that melancholy and lifeless waste, it seemed to me like the light of the
+comet that once desolated this world, shining out luridly over the ruin
+that it had made!
+
+Appalled by my own gloomy imaginations, I turned towards the ravine; and,
+notwithstanding the disgust with which I had left my dwelling, was not ill
+pleased to find my way, over the rocks, to it again. On approaching the
+cave, to my astonishment, I saw a light within. At such a moment, any
+vestige of life was welcome, and I hailed the unexpected appearance with
+pleasure. On entering, however, I found the chamber as lonely as I had
+left it. The light came from a lamp that burned brightly on the table;
+beside it was unfolded the volume which Melanius had brought, and upon the
+leaves—oh, joy and surprise—lay the well‐known cross of Alethe!
+
+What hand, but her own, could have prepared this reception for me?—The
+very thought sent a hope into my heart, before which all despondency fled.
+Even the gloom of the desert was forgotten, and my cave at once brightened
+into a bower. She had here reminded me, herself, by this sacred memorial,
+of the vow which I had pledged to her under the Hermit’s rock; and I now
+scrupled not to reiterate the same daring promise, though conscious that
+through hypocrisy alone I could fulfil it.
+
+Eager to prepare myself for my task of imposture, I sat down to the
+volume, which I now found to be the Hebrew Scriptures; and the first
+sentence, on which my eyes fell, was—“The Lord hath commanded the
+blessing, even Life for evermore!” Startled by these words, in which the
+Spirit of my dream seemed again to pronounce his assuring prediction, I
+raised my eyes from the page, and repeated the sentence over and over, as
+if to try whether the sounds had any charm or spell, to reawaken that
+faded illusion in my soul. But, no—the rank frauds of the Memphian
+priesthood had dispelled all my trust in the promises of religion. My
+heart had again relapsed into its gloom of scepticism, and, to the word of
+“Life,” the only answer it sent back was, “Death!”
+
+Impatient, however, to possess myself of the elements of a faith, on
+which,—whatever it might promise for hereafter,—I felt that my happiness
+here depended, I turned over the pages with an earnestness and avidity,
+such as never even the most favourite of my studies had awakened in me.
+Though, like all, who seek but the surface of learning, I flew desultorily
+over the leaves, lighting only on the more prominent and shining points, I
+yet found myself, even in this undisciplined career, arrested, at every
+page, by the awful, the supernatural sublimity, the alternate melancholy
+and grandeur of the images that crowded upon me.
+
+I had, till now, known the Hebrew theology but through the platonising
+refinements of Philo;—as, in like manner, for my knowledge of the
+Christian doctrine I was indebted to my brother Epicureans, Lucian and
+Celsus. Little, therefore, was I prepared for the simple majesty, the high
+tone of inspiration,—the poetry, in short, of heaven that breathed
+throughout these oracles. Could admiration have kindled faith, I should,
+that night, have been a believer; so elevated, so awed was my imagination
+by that wonderful book,—its warnings of woe, its announcements of glory,
+and its unrivalled strains of adoration and sorrow.
+
+Hour after hour, with the same eager and desultory curiosity, did I turn
+over the leaves;—and when, at length, I lay down to rest, my fancy was
+still haunted by the impressions it had received. I went again through the
+various scenes of which I had read; again called up, in sleep, the bright
+images that had charmed me, and, when wakened at day‐break by the Hymn
+from the chapel, fancied myself still listening to the sound of the winds,
+sighing mournfully through the harps of Israel on the willows.
+
+Starting from my bed, I hurried out upon the rock, with a hope that, among
+the tones of that morning choir, I might be able to distinguish the sweet
+voice of Alethe. But the strain had ceased;—I caught only the last notes
+of the Hymn, as, echoing up that lonely valley, they died away into the
+silence of the desert.
+
+With the first glimpse of light I was again at my study, and,
+notwithstanding the distraction both of my thoughts and looks towards the
+half‐seen grottos of the Anchoret, pursued it perseveringly through the
+day. Still alive, however, but to the eloquence, the poetry of what I
+read, of its connection or authenticity, as a history, I never paused to
+consider. My fancy being alone interested by it, to fancy I referred all
+it contained; and, passing rapidly from annals to prophecy, from narration
+to song, regarded the whole but as a tissue of splendid allegories, in
+which the melancholy of Egyptian associations was interwoven with the rich
+imagery of the East.
+
+Towards sunset I saw the boat of Melanius on its way, across the canal, to
+my cave. Though he had no other companion than his graceful antelope, that
+stood snuffing the wild air of the desert, as if scenting its home, I felt
+his visit, even thus, to be a most welcome relief. It was the hour, he
+said, of his evening ramble up the mountain,—of his accustomed visit to
+those cisterns of the rock, from which he nightly drew his most precious
+beverage. While he spoke, I observed in his hand one of those earthen
+cups, in which the inhabitants of the wilderness are accustomed to collect
+the fresh dew among the rocks. Having proposed that I should accompany him
+in his walk, he led me, in the direction of the desert, up the side of the
+mountain that rose above my dwelling, and which formed the southern wall
+or screen of the defile.
+
+Near the summit we found a seat, where the old man paused to rest. It
+commanded a full view over the desert, and was by the side of one of those
+hollows in the rock, those natural reservoirs, in which the dews of night
+are treasured up for the refreshment of the dwellers in the wilderness.
+Having learned from me how far I had proceeded in my study, “In that
+light,” said he, pointing to a small cloud in the east, which had been
+formed on the horizon by the haze of the desert, and was now faintly
+reflecting the splendours of sunset,—“in that light stands Mount Sinai, of
+whose glory thou hast read; on whose summit was the scene of one of those
+awful revelations, in which the Almighty has, from time to time, renewed
+his communication with Man, and kept alive the remembrance of his own
+Providence in this world.”
+
+After a pause, as if absorbed in the immensity of the subject, the holy
+man continued his sublime theme. Looking back to the earliest annals of
+time, he showed how constantly every relapse of the human race into
+idolatry has been followed by some manifestation of divine power,
+chastening the proud by punishment, and winning back the humble by love.
+It was to preserve, he said, unextinguished upon earth, that vital
+truth,—the Creation of the world by one Supreme Being,—that God chose,
+from among the nations, an humble and enslaved race;—that he brought them
+out of their captivity “on eagles’ wings,” and, surrounding every step of
+their course with miracles, placed them before the eyes of all succeeding
+generations, as the depositaries of his will, and the ever‐during
+memorials of his power.
+
+Passing, then, in review the long train of inspired interpreters, whose
+pens and whose tongues were made the echoes of the Divine voice, he
+traced(8), through the events of successive ages, the gradual unfolding of
+the dark scheme of Providence—darkness without, but all light and glory
+within. The glimpses of a coming redemption, visible even through the
+wrath of heaven;—the long series of prophecy, through which this hope
+runs, burning and alive, like a spark through a chain;—the merciful
+preparation of the hearts of mankind for the great trial of their faith
+and obedience that was at hand, not only by miracles that appealed to the
+living, but by predictions launched into futurity to carry conviction to
+the yet unborn;—“through all these glorious and beneficent gradations we
+may track,” said he, “the manifest footsteps of a Creator, advancing to
+his grand, ultimate end, the salvation of his creatures.”
+
+After some hours devoted to these holy instructions, we returned to the
+ravine, and Melanius left me at my cave; praying, as he parted from
+me,—with a benevolence I but ill, alas! deserved,—that my soul, under
+these lessons, might be “as a watered garden,” and, ere long, bear “fruit
+unto life eternal.”
+
+Next morning, I was again at my study, and even more eager in the task
+than before. With the commentary of the Hermit freshly in my memory, I
+again read through, with attention, the Book of the Law. But in vain did I
+seek the promise of immortality in its pages. “It tells me,” said I, “of a
+God coming down to earth, but of the ascent of Man to heaven it speaks
+not. The rewards, the punishments it announces, lie all on this side of
+the grave; nor did even the Omnipotent offer to his own chosen servants a
+hope beyond the impassable limits of this world. Where, then, is the
+salvation of which the Christian spoke? or, if Death be at the root of the
+faith, can Life spring out of it!”
+
+Again, in the bitterness of disappointment, did I mock at my own willing
+self‐delusion,—again rail at the arts of that traitress, Fancy, ever
+ready, like the Delilah of this book, to steal upon the slumbers of
+Reason, and deliver him up, shorn and powerless, to his foes. If
+deception—thought I, with a sigh—be necessary, at least let me not
+practise it on myself;—in the desperate alternative before me, let me
+rather be even hypocrite than dupe.
+
+These self‐accusing reflections, cheerless as they rendered my task, did
+not abate, for a single moment, my industry in pursuing it. I read on and
+on, with a sort of sullen apathy, neither charmed by style, nor
+transported by imagery,—that fatal blight in my heart having communicated
+itself to my fancy and taste. The curses and the blessings, the glory and
+the ruin, which the historian recorded and the prophet predicted, seemed
+all of this world,—all, temporal and earthly. That mortality, of which the
+fountain‐head had tasted, tinged the whole stream; and when I read the
+words, “all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again,” a feeling, like
+the wind of the desert, came witheringly over me. Love, Beauty, Glory,
+every thing most bright upon earth, appeared sinking before my eyes, under
+this dreadful doom, into one general mass of corruption and silence.
+
+Possessed by the image of desolation I had called up, I laid my head on
+the book, in a paroxysm of despair. Death, in all his most ghastly
+varieties, passed before me; and I had continued thus for some time, as
+under the influence of a fearful vision, when the touch of a hand upon my
+shoulder roused me. Looking up, I saw the Anchoret standing by my
+side;—his countenance beaming with that sublime tranquillity, which a
+hope, beyond this earth, alone can bestow. How I envied him!
+
+We again took our way to the seat upon the mountain,—the gloom in my own
+mind making every thing around me more gloomy. Forgetting my hypocrisy in
+my feelings, I, at once, avowed to him all the doubts and fears which my
+study of the morning had awakened.
+
+“Thou art yet, my son,” he answered, “but on the threshold of our faith.
+Thou hast seen but the first rudiments of the Divine plan;—its full and
+consummate perfection hath not yet opened upon thee. However glorious that
+manifestation of Divinity on Mount Sinai, it was but the forerunner of
+another, still more glorious, that, in the fulness of time, was to burst
+upon the world; when all, that had seemed dim and incomplete, was to be
+perfected, and the promises, shadowed out by the ‘spirit of prophecy,’
+realized;—when the silence, that lay, as a seal, on the future, was to be
+broken, and the glad tidings of life and immortality proclaimed to the
+world!”
+
+Observing my features brighten at these words, the pious man continued.
+Anticipating some of the holy knowledge that was in store for me, he
+traced, through all its wonders and mercies, the great work of Redemption,
+dwelling on every miraculous circumstance connected with it;—the exalted
+nature of the Being, by whose ministry it was accomplished, the noblest
+and first created of the Sons of God, inferior only to the one, self‐
+existent Father;—the mysterious incarnation of this heavenly
+messenger;—the miracles that authenticated his divine mission;—the example
+of obedience to God and love to man, which he set, as a shining light,
+before the world for ever;—and, lastly and chiefly, his death and
+resurrection, by which the covenant of mercy was sealed, and “life and
+immortality brought to light.”
+
+“Such,” continued the Hermit, “was the Mediator, promised through all
+time, to ‘make reconciliation for iniquity,’ to change death into life,
+and bring ‘healing on his wings’ to a darkened world. Such was the last
+crowning dispensation of that God of benevolence, in whose hands sin and
+death are but instruments of everlasting good, and who, through apparent
+evil and temporary retribution, bringing all things ‘out of darkness into
+his marvellous light,’ proceeds watchfully and unchangingly to the great,
+final object of his providence,—the restoration of the whole human race to
+purity and happiness!”
+
+With a mind astonished, if not touched, by these discourses, I returned to
+my cave; and found the lamp, as before, ready lighted to receive me. The
+volume which I had been reading was replaced by another, which lay open
+upon the table, with a branch of fresh palm between its leaves. Though I
+could not have a doubt to whose gentle hand I was indebted for this
+invisible superintendence over my studies, there was yet a something in
+it, so like spiritual interposition, that it awed me;—and never more than
+at this moment, when, on approaching the volume, I saw, as the light
+glistened over its silver letters, that it was the very Book of Life of
+which the Hermit had spoken!
+
+The orison of the Christians had sounded through the valley, before I
+raised my eyes from that sacred volume; and the second hour of the sun
+found me again over its pages.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XVIII.
+
+
+In this mode of existence did I pass some days;—my mornings devoted to
+reading, my nights to listening, under the canopy of heaven, to the holy
+eloquence of Melanius. The perseverance with which I enquired, and the
+quickness with which I learned, soon succeeded in deceiving my benevolent
+instructor, who mistook curiosity for zeal and knowledge for belief. Alas!
+cold, and barren, and earthly was that knowledge,—the word, without the
+spirit, the shape, without the life. Even when, as a relief from
+hypocrisy, I persuaded myself that I believed, it was but a brief
+delusion, a faith, whose hope crumbled at the touch,—like the fruit of the
+desert‐shrub, shining and empty!
+
+But, though my soul was still dark, the good Hermit saw not into its
+depths. The very facility of my belief, which might have suggested some
+doubt of its sincerity, was but regarded by his innocent zeal, as a more
+signal triumph of the truth. His own ingenuousness led him to a ready
+trust in others; and the examples of such conversion as that of the
+philosopher, Justin, who received the light into his soul during a walk by
+the sea‐shore, had prepared him for illuminations of the spirit, even more
+rapid than mine.
+
+During this time, I neither saw nor heard of Alethe;—nor could my patience
+have endured so long a privation, had not those mute vestiges of her
+presence, that welcomed me every night on my return, made me feel that I
+was still living under her gentle influence, and that her sympathy hung
+round every step of my progress. Once, too, when I ventured to speak her
+name to Melanius, though he answered not my enquiry, there was a smile, I
+thought, of promise upon his countenance, which love, more alive than
+faith, interpreted as it wished.
+
+At length,—it was on the sixth or seventh evening of my solitude, when I
+lay resting at the door of my cave, alter the study of the day,—I was
+startled by hearing my name called loudly from the opposite rocks, and
+looking up, saw, on the cliff near the deserted grottos, Melanius and—oh,
+I could not doubt—my Alethe by his side!
+
+Though I had never ceased, since the first night of my return from the
+desert, to flatter myself with the fancy that I was still living in her
+presence, the actual sight of her again made me feel what an age we had
+been separated. She was clothed all in white, and, as she stood in the
+last remains of the sunshine, appeared to my too prophetic fancy like a
+parting spirit, whose last footsteps on earth that glory encircled.
+
+With a delight only to be imagined, I saw them descend the rocks, and
+placing themselves in the boat, proceed towards my cave. To disguise from
+Melanius the feelings with which we met was impossible;—nor did Alethe
+even attempt to make a secret of her innocent joy. Though blushing at her
+own happiness, she could as little conceal it, as the clear waters of
+Ethiopia can hide their gold. Every look, too, every word, spoke a fulness
+of affection, to which, doubtful as I was of our tenure of happiness, I
+knew not how to answer.
+
+I was not long, however, left ignorant of the bright fate that awaited me;
+but, as we wandered or rested among the rocks, learned every thing that
+had been arranged since our parting. She had made the Hermit, I found,
+acquainted with all that had passed between us; had told him, without
+reserve, every incident of our voyage,—the avowals, the demonstrations of
+affection on one side, and the deep sentiment that gratitude had awakened
+on the other. Too wise to regard feelings, so natural, with
+severity,—knowing that they were of heaven, and but made evil by man,—the
+good Hermit had heard of our attachment with pleasure; and, proved as he
+thought the purity of my views had been, by the fidelity with which I had
+delivered up my trust into his hands, saw, in my affection for the young
+orphan, but a providential resource against that friendless solitude in
+which his death must soon leave her.
+
+As I collected these particulars from their discourse, I could hardly
+trust my ears. It seemed too much happiness to be real; nor can words give
+an idea of the joy—the shame—the wonder with which I listened, while the
+holy man himself declared, that he awaited but the moment, when he should
+find me worthy of becoming a member of the Christian Church, to give me
+also the hand of Alethe in that sacred union, which alone sanctifies love,
+and makes the faith, which it pledges, heavenly. It was but yesterday, he
+added, that his young charge, herself, after a preparation of prayer and
+repentance, such as even her pure spirit required, had been admitted, by
+the sacred ordinance of baptism, into the bosom of the faith;—and the
+white garment she wore, and the ring of gold on her finger, “were
+symbols,” he said, “of that New Life into which she had been initiated.”
+
+I raised my eyes to her as he spoke, but withdrew them again, dazzled and
+confused. Even her beauty, to my imagination, seemed to have undergone
+some brightening change; and the contrast between that open and happy
+countenance, and the unblest brow of the infidel that stood before her,
+abashed me into a sense of unworthiness, and almost checked my rapture.
+
+To that night, however, I look back, as an epoch in my existence. It
+proved that sorrow is not the only awakener of devotion, but that joy may
+sometimes call the holy spark into life. Returning to my cave, with a
+heart full, even to oppression, of its happiness, I knew no other relief
+to my overcharged feelings than that of throwing myself on my knees, and,
+for the first time in my life, uttering a prayer, that if, indeed, there
+were a Being who watched over mankind, he would send down one ray of his
+truth into my soul, and make it worthy of the blessings, both here and
+hereafter, proffered to me!
+
+My days now rolled on in a perfect dream of happiness. Every hour of the
+morning was welcomed as bringing nearer and nearer the blest time of
+sunset, when the Hermit and Alethe never failed to pay their visit to my
+now charmed cave, where her smile left a light, at each parting, that
+lasted till her return. Then, our rambles, by star‐light, over the
+mountain;—our pauses, on the way, to contemplate the bright wonders of
+that heaven above us;—our repose by the cistern of the rock, and our
+silent listening, through hours that seemed minutes, to the holy eloquence
+of our teacher;—all, all was happiness of the most heartfelt kind, and
+such as even the doubts, the cold, lingering doubts, that still hung, like
+a mist, around my heart, could neither cloud nor chill.
+
+When the moonlight nights returned, we used to venture into the desert;
+and those sands, which but lately had appeared to me so desolate, now wore
+even a cheerful and smiling aspect. To the light, innocent heart of Alethe
+every thing was a source of enjoyment. For her, even the desert had its
+jewels and flowers; and, sometimes, her delight was to search among the
+sands for those beautiful pebbles of jasper that abound in
+them;—sometimes, her eyes sparkled on finding, perhaps, a stunted
+marigold, or one of those bitter, scarlet flowers, that lend their mockery
+of ornament to the desert. In all these pursuits and pleasures the good
+Hermit took a share,—mingling with them occasionally the reflections of a
+benevolent piety, that lent its own cheerful hue to all the works of
+creation, and saw the consoling truth “God is Love,” written legibly every
+where.
+
+Such was, for a few weeks, my blissful life. Oh mornings of hope, oh
+nights of happiness, with what mournful pleasure do I retrace your flight,
+and how reluctantly pass to the sad events that followed!
+
+During this time, in compliance with the wishes of Melanius, who seemed
+unwilling that I should become wholly estranged from the world, I
+occasionally paid a visit to the neighbouring city, Antinoë, which, as the
+capital of the Thebaid, is the centre of all the luxury of Upper Egypt.
+Here,—so changed was my every feeling by the all‐transforming passion that
+possessed me,—I wandered, unamused and uninterested by either the scenes
+or the people that surrounded me, and, sighing for that rocky solitude
+where Alethe breathed, felt _this_ to be the wilderness, and _that_, the
+world.
+
+Even the thoughts of my own native Athens, that were called up, at every
+step, by the light, Grecian architecture of this imperial city, did not
+awaken one single regret in my heart—one wish to exchange even an hour of
+my desert for the best luxuries and honours that awaited me in the Garden.
+I saw the arches of triumph;—I walked under the superb portico, which
+encircles the whole city with its marble shade;—I stood in the Circus of
+the Sun, by whose rose‐coloured pillars the mysterious movements of the
+Nile are measured;—all these bright ornaments of glory and art, as well as
+the gay multitude that enlivened them, I saw with an unheeding eye. If
+they awakened in me any thought, it was the mournful idea, that, one day,
+like Thebes and Heliopolis, this pageant would pass away, leaving nothing
+behind but a few mouldering ruins,—like the sea‐shells found where the
+ocean has been,—to tell that the great tide of Life was once there!
+
+But, though indifferent thus to all that had formerly attracted me, there
+were subjects, once alien to my heart, on which it was now most
+tremblingly alive; and some rumours which had reached me, in one of my
+visits to the city, of an expected change in the policy of the Emperor
+towards the Christians, filled me with apprehensions as new as they were
+dreadful to me.
+
+The peace and even favour which the Christians enjoyed, during the first
+four years of the reign of Valerian, had removed from them all fear of a
+renewal of those horrors, which they had experienced under the rule of his
+predecessor, Decius. Of late, however, some less friendly dispositions had
+manifested themselves. The bigots of the court, taking alarm at the spread
+of the new faith, had succeeded in filling the mind of the monarch with
+that religious jealousy, which is the ever‐ready parent of cruelty and
+injustice. Among these counsellors of evil was Macrianus, the Prætorian
+Prefect, who was, by birth, an Egyptian, and—so akin is superstition to
+intolerance—had long made himself notorious by his addiction to the dark
+practices of demon‐worship and magic.
+
+From this minister, who was now high in the favour of Valerian, the
+expected measures of severity against the Christians, it was supposed,
+would emanate. All tongues, in all quarters, were busy with the news. In
+the streets, in the public gardens, on the steps of the temples, I saw,
+every where, groups of enquirers collected, and heard the name of
+Macrianus upon every tongue. It was dreadful, too, to observe, in the
+countenances of those who spoke, the variety of feeling with which the
+rumour was discussed, according as they desired or dreaded its
+truth,—according as they were likely to be among the torturers or the
+victims.
+
+Alarmed, though still ignorant of the whole extent of the danger, I
+hurried back to the ravine, and, going at once to the grotto of Melanius,
+detailed to him every particular of the intelligence I had collected. He
+heard me with a composure, which I mistook, alas, for confidence in his
+security; and, naming the hour for our evening walk, retired into his
+grotto.
+
+At the accustomed time Alethe and he were at my cave. It was evident that
+he had not communicated to her the intelligence which I had brought, for
+never did brow wear such a happiness as that which now played round
+hers;—it was, alas, _not_ of this earth! Melanius, himself, though
+composed, was thoughtful; and the solemnity, almost approaching to
+melancholy, with which he placed the hand of Alethe in mine—in the
+performance, too, of a ceremony that _ought_ to have filled my heart with
+joy—saddened and alarmed me. This ceremony was our betrothment,—the
+plighting of our faith to each other,—which we now solemnized on the rock
+before the door of my cave, in the face of that sunset heaven, with its
+one star standing as witness. After a blessing from the Hermit on our
+spousal pledge, I placed the ring,—the earnest of our future union—on her
+finger, and, in the blush, with which she surrendered her whole heart to
+me at that instant, forgot every thing but my happiness, and felt secure,
+even against fate!
+
+We took our accustomed walk over the rocks and on the desert. The moon was
+so bright,—like the daylight, indeed, of other climes—that we could see
+plainly the tracks of the wild antelopes in the sand; and it was not
+without a slight tremble of feeling in his voice, as if some melancholy
+analogy occurred to him as he spoke, that the good Hermit said, “I have
+observed in my walks, that where‐ever the track of that gentle animal is
+seen, there is, almost always, the foot‐print of a beast of prey near it.”
+He regained, however, his usual cheerfulness before we parted, and fixed
+the following evening for an excursion, on the other side of the ravine,
+to a point, looking, he said, “towards that northern region of the desert,
+where the hosts of the Lord encamped in their departure out of bondage.”
+
+Though, in the presence of Alethe, my fears, even for herself, were
+forgotten in that perpetual element of happiness, which encircled her like
+the air that she breathed, no sooner was I alone than vague terrors and
+bodings crowded upon me. In vain did I try to reason myself out of my
+fears by dwelling on the most cheering circumstances,—the reverence with
+which Melanius was regarded, even by the Pagans, and the inviolate
+security with which he had lived through the most perilous periods, not
+only safe himself, but affording sanctuary in his grottos to others. When,
+somewhat calmed by these considerations, I sunk off to sleep, dark,
+horrible dreams took possession of my mind. Scenes of death and of torment
+passed confusedly before me, and, when I awoke, it was with the fearful
+impression that all these horrors were real.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XIX.
+
+
+At length, the day dawned,—that dreadful day. Impatient to be relieved
+from my suspense, I threw myself into my boat,—the same in which we had
+performed our happy voyage,—and, as fast as oars could speed me, hurried
+away to the city. I found the suburbs silent and solitary, but, as I
+approached the Forum, loud yells, like those of barbarians in combat,
+struck on my ear, and, when I entered it,—great God, what a spectacle
+presented itself! The imperial edict against the Christians had arrived
+during the night, and already the wild fury of bigotry was let loose.
+
+Under a canopy, in the middle of the Forum, was the tribunal of the
+Governor. Two statues, one of Apollo, the other of Osiris, stood at the
+bottom of the steps that led up to his judgment‐seat. Before these idols
+were shrines, to which the devoted Christians were dragged from all
+quarters by the soldiers and mob, and there compelled to recant, by
+throwing incense into the flame, or, on their refusal, hurried away to
+torture and death. It was an appalling scene;—the consternation, the cries
+of some of the victims,—the pale, silent resolution of others;—the fierce
+shouts of laughter that broke from the multitude, when the frankincense,
+dropped on the altar, proclaimed some denier of Christ; and the fiend‐like
+triumph with which the courageous Confessors, who avowed their faith, were
+led away to the flames;—never could I have conceived such an assemblage of
+horrors!
+
+Though I gazed but for a few minutes, in those minutes I felt enough for
+years. Already did the form of Alethe flit before me through that
+tumult;—I heard them shout her name;—her shriek fell on my ear; and the
+very thought so palsied me with terror, that I stood fixed and statue‐like
+on the spot.
+
+Recollecting, however, the fearful preciousness of every moment, and
+that—perhaps, at this very instant—some emissaries of blood might be on
+their way to the grottos, I rushed wildly out of the Forum, and made my
+way to the quay.
+
+The streets were now crowded; but I ran headlong through the multitude,
+and was already under the portico leading down to the river,—already saw
+the boat that was to bear me to Alethe,—when a Centurion stood sternly in
+my path, and I was surrounded and arrested by soldiers! It was in vain
+that I implored, that I struggled with them as for life, assuring them
+that I was a stranger,—that I was an Athenian,—that I was—_not_ a
+Christian. The precipitation of my flight was sufficient evidence against
+me, and unrelentingly, and by force, they bore me away to the quarters of
+their Chief.
+
+It was enough to drive me to madness! Two hours, two frightful hours, was
+I kept waiting the arrival of the Tribune of their Legion(9),—my brain
+burning with a thousand fears and imaginations, which every passing minute
+made more likely to be realised. Every thing, too, that I could collect
+from the conversations around me but added to the agonising apprehensions
+with which I was racked. Troops, it was said, had been sent in all
+directions through the neighbourhood, to bring in the rebellious
+Christians, and make them bow before the Gods of the Empire. With horror,
+too, I heard of Orcus,—Orcus, the High Priest of Memphis,—as one of the
+principal instigators of this sanguinary edict, and as here present in
+Antinoë, animating and directing its execution.
+
+In this state of torture I remained till the arrival of the Tribune.
+Absorbed in my own thoughts, I had not perceived his entrance;—till,
+hearing a voice, in a tone of friendly surprise, exclaim, “Alciphron!” I
+looked up, and in this legionary Chief recognised a young Roman of rank,
+who had held a military command, the year before, at Athens, and was one
+of the most distinguished visitors of the Garden. It was no time, however,
+for courtesies;—he was proceeding with cordiality to greet me, but, having
+heard him order my instant release, I could wait for no more.
+Acknowledging his kindness but by a grasp of the hand, I flew off, like
+one frantic, through the streets, and, in a few minutes, was on the river.
+
+My sole hope had been to reach the grottos before any of the detached
+parties should arrive, and, by a timely flight across the desert, rescue,
+at least, Alethe from their fury. The ill‐fated delay that had occurred
+rendered this hope almost desperate; but the tranquillity I found every
+where as I proceeded down the river, and the fond confidence I still
+cherished in the sacredness of the Hermit’s retreat, kept my heart from
+giving way altogether under its terrors.
+
+Between the current and my oars, the boat flew, like wind, along the
+waters; and I was already near the rocks of the ravine, when I saw,
+turning out of the canal into the river, a barge crowded with people, and
+glittering with arms! How did I ever survive the shock of that sight? The
+oars dropped, as if struck out of my hands, into the water, and I sat,
+helplessly gazing, as that terrific vision approached. In a few minutes,
+the current brought us together;—and I saw, on the deck of the barge,
+Alethe and the Hermit surrounded by soldiers!
+
+We were already passing each other when, with a desperate effort, I sprang
+from my boat and lighted upon the edge of their vessel. I knew not what I
+did, for despair was my only prompter. Snatching at the sword of one of
+the soldiers, as I stood tottering on the edge, I had succeeded in
+wresting it out of his hands, when, at the same moment, I received a
+thrust of a lance from one of his comrades, and fell backward into the
+river. I can just remember rising again and making a grasp at the side of
+the vessel;—but the shock, the faintness from my wound, deprived me of all
+consciousness, and a shriek from Alethe, as I sunk, is all I can recollect
+of what followed.
+
+Would I had then died!—Yet, no, Almighty Being,—I should have died in
+darkness, and I have lived to know Thee!
+
+On returning to my senses, I found myself reclined on a couch, in a
+splendid apartment, the whole appearance of which being Grecian, I, for a
+moment, forgot all that had passed, and imagined myself in my own home at
+Athens. But too soon the whole dreadful certainty flashed upon me; and,
+starting wildly—disabled as I was—from my couch, I called loudly, and with
+the shriek of a maniac, on Alethe.
+
+I was in the house, I found, of my friend and disciple, the young Tribune,
+who had made the Governor acquainted with my name and condition, and had
+received me under his roof, when brought, bleeding and insensible, to
+Antinoë. From him I now learned at once,—for I could not wait for
+details,—the sum of all that had happened in that dreadful interval.
+Melanius was no more,—Alethe, still alive, but in prison!
+
+“Take me to her”—I had but time to say—“take me to her instantly, and let
+me die by her side,”—when, nature again failing under such shocks, I
+relapsed into insensibility. In this state I continued for near an hour,
+and, on recovering, found the Tribune by my side. The horrors, he said, of
+the Forum were, for that day, over,—but what the morrow might bring, he
+shuddered to contemplate. His nature, it was plain, revolted from the
+inhuman duties in which he was engaged. Touched by the agonies he saw me
+suffer, he, in some degree, relieved them, by promising that I should, at
+night‐fall, be conveyed to the prison, and, if possible, through his
+influence, gain access to Alethe. She might yet, he added, be saved, could
+I succeed in persuading her to comply with the terms of the edict, and
+make sacrifice to the Gods.—“Otherwise,” said he, “there is no hope;—the
+vindictive Orcus, who has resisted even this short respite of mercy, will,
+to‐morrow, inexorably demand his prey.”
+
+He then related to me, at my own request,—though every word was
+torture,—all the harrowing details of the proceeding before the Tribunal.
+“I have seen courage,” said he, “in its noblest forms, in the field; but
+the calm intrepidity with which that aged Hermit endured torments—which it
+was hardly less torment to witness—surpassed all that I could have
+conceived of human fortitude!”
+
+My poor Alethe, too,—in describing to me her conduct, the brave man wept
+like a child. Overwhelmed, he said, at first by her apprehensions for my
+safety, she had given way to a full burst of womanly weakness. But no
+sooner was she brought before the Tribunal, and the declaration of her
+faith was demanded of her, than a spirit almost supernatural seemed to
+animate her whole form. “She raised her eyes,” said he, “calmly, but with
+fervour, to heaven, while a blush was the only sign of mortal feeling on
+her features;—and the clear, sweet, and untrembling voice, with which she
+pronounced her dooming words, ‘I am a Christian!’ sent a thrill of
+admiration and pity throughout the multitude. Her youth, her loveliness,
+affected all hearts, and a cry of ‘Save the young maiden!’ was heard in
+all directions.”
+
+The implacable Orcus, however, would not hear of mercy. Resenting, as it
+appeared, with all his deadliest rancour, not only her own escape from his
+toils, but the aid with which, so fatally to his views, she had assisted
+mine, he demanded loudly, and in the name of the insulted sanctuary of
+Isis, her instant death. It was but by the firm intervention of the
+Governor, who shared the general sympathy in her fate, that the delay of
+another day was accorded, to give a chance to the young maiden of yet
+recalling her confession, and thus affording some pretext for saving her.
+
+Even in yielding reluctantly to this brief respite, the inhuman Priest
+would accompany it with some mark of his vengeance. Whether for the
+pleasure (observed the Tribune) of mingling mockery with his cruelty, or
+as a warning to her of the doom she must ultimately expect, he gave orders
+that there should be tied round her brow one of those chaplets of
+coral(10), with which it is the custom of young Christian maidens to array
+themselves on the day of their martyrdom;—“and, thus fearfully adorned,”
+said he, “she was led away, amid the gaze of the pitying multitude, to
+prison.”
+
+With these details the short interval till night‐fall,—every minute of
+which seemed an age,—was occupied. As soon as it grew dark, I was placed
+upon a litter,—my wound, though not dangerous, requiring such a
+conveyance,—and conducted, under the guidance of my friend, to the prison.
+Through his interest with the guard, we were without difficulty admitted,
+and I was borne into the chamber where the maiden lay immured. Even the
+veteran guardian of the place seemed touched with compassion for his
+prisoner, and supposing her to be asleep, had the litter placed gently
+near her.
+
+She was half reclining, with her face hid in her hands, upon a couch,—at
+the foot of which stood an idol, over whose hideous features a lamp of
+naptha, hanging from the ceiling, shed a wild and ghastly glare. On a
+table before the image stood a censer, with a small vessel of incense
+beside it,—one grain of which, thrown voluntarily into the flame, would,
+even now, save that precious life. So strange, so fearful was the whole
+scene, that I almost doubted its reality. Alethe! my own, happy Alethe!
+_can_ it, I thought, be thou that I look upon?
+
+She now, slowly and with difficulty, raised her head from the couch; on
+observing which, the kind Tribune withdrew, and we were left alone. There
+was a paleness, as of death, over her features; and those eyes, which when
+last I saw them, were but too bright, too happy for this world, looked dim
+and sunken. In raising herself up, she put her hand, as if from pain, to
+her forehead, whose marble hue but appeared more death‐like from those red
+bands that lay so awfully across it.
+
+After wandering vaguely for a minute, her eyes rested upon me,—and, with a
+shriek, half terror, half joy, she sprung from the couch, and sunk upon
+her knees by my side. She had believed me dead; and, even now, scarcely
+trusted her senses. “My husband! my love!” she exclaimed; “oh, if thou
+comest to call me from this world, behold I am ready!” In saying thus, she
+pointed wildly to that ominous wreath, and then dropped her head down upon
+my knee, as if an arrow had pierced it.
+
+“Alethe!”—I cried, terrified to the very soul by that mysterious pang,—and
+the sound of my voice seemed to reanimate her;—she looked up, with a faint
+smile, in my face. Her thoughts, which had evidently been wandering,
+became collected; and in her joy at my safety, her sorrow at my suffering,
+she forgot wholly the fate that impended over herself. Love, innocent
+love, alone occupied all her thoughts; and the tenderness with which she
+spoke,—oh, at any other moment, how I would have listened, have lingered
+upon, have blessed every word!
+
+But the time flew fast—the dreadful morrow was approaching. Already I saw
+her writhing in the hands of the torturer,—the flames, the racks, the
+wheels were before my eyes! Half frantic with the fear that her resolution
+was fixed, I flung myself from the litter, in an agony of weeping, and
+supplicated her, by the love she bore me, by the happiness that awaited
+us, by her own merciful God, who was too good to require such a
+sacrifice,—by all that the most passionate anxiety could dictate, I
+implored that she would avert from us the doom that was coming, and—but
+for once—comply with the vain ceremony demanded of her.
+
+Shrinking from me, as I spoke,—but with a look more of sorrow than
+reproach,—“What, thou, too!” she said mournfully,—“thou, into whose spirit
+I had fondly hoped the same heavenly truth had descended as into my own!
+Oh, be not thou leagued with those who would tempt me to ‘make shipwreck
+of my faith!’ Thou, who couldst alone bind me to life, use not thy power;
+but let me die, as He I serve hath commanded,—die for the Truth. Remember
+the holy lessons we heard on those nights, those happy nights, when both
+the Present and Future smiled upon us,—when even the gift of eternal life
+came more welcome to my soul, from the blessed conviction that thou wert
+to be a sharer in it;—shall I forfeit now that divine privilege? shall I
+deny the true God, whom we then learned to love?
+
+“No, my own betrothed,” she continued,—pointing to the two rings on her
+finger,—“behold these pledges,—they are both sacred. I should have been as
+true to thee as I am now to heaven,—nor in that life to which I am
+hastening shall our love be forgotten. Should the baptism of fire, through
+which I shall pass to‐morrow, make me worthy to be heard before the Throne
+of Grace, I will intercede for thy soul—I will pray that it may yet share
+with mine that ‘inheritance, immortal and undefiled,’ which Mercy offers,
+and that thou,—my dear mother,—and I—”
+
+She here dropped her voice; the momentary animation, with which devotion
+and affection had inspired her, vanished;—and a darkness overspread all
+her features, a livid darkness,—like the coming of death—that made me
+shudder through every limb. Seizing my hand convulsively, and looking at
+me with a fearful eagerness, as if anxious to hear some consoling
+assurance from my own lips,—“Believe me,” she continued, “not all the
+torments they are preparing for me,—not even this deep, burning pain in my
+brow, which they will hardly equal,—could be half so dreadful to me, as
+the thought that I leave thee—”
+
+Here, her voice again failed; her head sunk upon my arm, and—merciful God,
+let me forget what I then felt,—I saw that she was dying! Whether I
+uttered any cry, I know not;—but the Tribune came rushing into the
+chamber, and, looking on the maiden, said, with a face full of horror, “It
+is but too true!”
+
+He then told me in a low voice, what he had just learned from the guardian
+of the prison, that the band round the young Christian’s brow was—oh
+horrible cruelty!—a compound of the most deadly poison,—the hellish
+invention of Orcus, to satiate his vengeance, and make the fate of his
+poor victim secure. My first movement was to untie that fatal wreath,—but
+it would not come away—it would not come away!
+
+Roused by the pain, she again looked in my face; but, unable to speak,
+took hastily from her bosom the small silver cross which she had brought
+with her from my cave. Having prest it to her own lips, she held it
+anxiously to mine, and seeing me kiss the holy symbol with fervour, looked
+happy, and smiled. The agony of death seemed to have passed away;—there
+came suddenly over her features a heavenly light, some share of which I
+felt descending into my own soul, and, in a few minutes more, she expired
+in my arms.
+
+                  ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
+
+_Here ends the Manuscript; but, on the outer cover there is, in the hand‐
+writing of a much later period, the following Notice, extracted, as it
+appears, from some Egyptian martyrology:—_
+
+“Alciphron,—an Epicurean philosopher, converted to Christianity A. D. 257,
+by a young Egyptian maiden, who suffered martyrdom in that year.
+Immediately upon her death he betook himself to the desert, and lived a
+life, it is said, of much holiness and penitence. During the persecution
+under Dioclesian, his sufferings for the faith were most exemplary; and,
+being at length, at an advanced age, condemned to hard labour, for
+refusing to comply with an Imperial edict, he died at the brass mines of
+Palestine, A. D. 297.—
+
+“As Alciphron held the opinions maintained since by Arius, his memory has
+not been spared by Athanasian writers, who, among other charges, accuse
+him of having been addicted to the superstitions of Egypt. For this
+calumny, however, there appears to be no better foundation than a
+circumstance, recorded by one of his brother monks, that there was found,
+after his death, a small metal mirror, like those used in the ceremonies
+of Isis, suspended round his neck.”
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  NOTES.
+
+
+Page 17.—For the importance attached to dreams by the ancients, see
+_Jortin_, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, vol. 1. p. 90.
+
+
+Page 22.—“_The Pillar of Pillars_”—more properly, perhaps, “the column of
+the pillars.” v. _Abdallatif_, Relation de l’Egypte, and the notes of _M.
+de Sacy_. The great portico round this column (formerly designated
+Pompey’s, but now known to have been erected in honour of Dioclesian) was
+still standing, M. de Sacy says, in the time of Saladin. v. _Lord
+Valentia’s Travels_.
+
+
+Page 23.—Ammianus thus speaks of the state of Alexandria in his time,
+which was, I believe, as late as the end of the fourth century:—“Ne nunc
+quidem in eadem urbe Doctrinæ variæ silent, non apud nos exaruit Musica
+nec Harmonia conticuit.” Lib. 22.
+
+
+Page 25.—From the character of the features of the Sphinx, and a passage
+in Herodotus, describing the Egyptians as _μελαγχροες και ουλοτρικες_,
+Volney, Bruce, and a few others, have concluded that the ancient
+inhabitants of Egypt were negroes. But this opinion is contradicted by a
+host of authorities. See _Castera_’s notes upon _Browne’s Travels_, for
+the result of Blumenbach’s dissection of a variety of mummies. Denon,
+speaking of the character of the heads represented in the ancient
+sculpture and painting of Egypt, says, “Celle des femmes ressemble encore
+à la figure des jolies femmes d’aujourd’hui: de la rondeur, de la volupté,
+le nez petit, les yeux longs, peu ouverts,” &c. &c. He could judge, too,
+he says, from the female mummies, “que leurs cheveux étoient longs et
+lisses, que le caractère de tête de la plupart tenoit du beau style”—“Je
+raportai,” he adds, “une tête de vieille femme qui étoit aussi belle que
+celles de Michel Ange, et leur ressembloit beaucoup.”
+
+In a “_Description générale de Thèbes_” by _Messrs. Jollois et
+Desvilliers_, they say, “Toutes les sculptures Egyptiennes, depuis les
+plus grands colosses de Thèbes jusqu’aux plus petites idoles, ne
+rappellent en aucune manière les traits de la figure des nègres; outre que
+les têtes des momies des catacombs de Thèbes presentent des profils
+droits.” See also _M. Jomard_’s “Description of Syene and the Cataracts,”
+_Baron Larrey_, on the “conformation physique” of the Egyptians, &c.
+
+De Pauw, the great depreciator of every thing Egyptian, has, on the
+authority of a passage in Ælian, presumed to affix to the countrywomen of
+Cleopatra the stigma of complete and unredeemed ugliness. The following
+line of Euripides, however, is an answer to such charges:—
+
+  _Νειλου μεν αἱδε καλλιπαρθενοι ροαι._
+
+In addition to the celebrated instances of Cleopatra, Rhodope, &c. we are
+told, on the authority of Manetho (as given by Zoega from Georgius
+Syncellus), of a beautiful queen of Memphis, Nitocris, of the sixth
+dynasty, who, in addition to other charms and perfections, was (rather
+inconsistently with the negro hypothesis) _ξανθη την χροιαν_.
+
+See, for a tribute to the beauty of the Egyptian women, Montesquieu’s
+Temple de Gnide.
+
+
+Page 35.—“_Among beds of lotus flowers._”—v. _Strabo_.
+
+
+Page 36.—“_Isle of the golden Venus._”—“On trouve une île appelée Venus‐
+Dorée, ou le champ d’or, avant de remonter jusqu’à Memphis.” _Voyages de
+Pythagore._
+
+
+Page 39.—For an account of the Table of Emerald, v. _Lettres sur l’Origine
+des Dieux d’Egypte_. _De Pauw_ supposes it to be a modern fiction of the
+Arabs. Many writers have fancied that the art of making gold was the great
+secret that lay hid under the forms of Egyptian theology. “La science
+Hermétique,” says the Benedictine, Pernetz, “l’art sacerdotal étoit la
+source de toutes les richesses des Rois d’Egypte, et l’objet de ces
+mystères si cachés sous le voile du leur pretendu Religion.” _Fables
+Egyptiennes._ The hieroglyphs, that formerly covered the Pyramids, are
+supposed by some of these writers to relate to the same art. See _Mutus
+liber, Rupellæ_.
+
+
+Page 40.—“By reflecting the sun’s rays,” says _Clarke_, speaking of the
+Pyramids, “they appeared white as snow.”
+
+
+Page 41.—For Bubastis, the Diana of the Egyptians, v. _Jablonski_, lib. 3.
+c. 4.
+
+
+Page 43.—“_The light coracle_,” _&c._—v. _Amuilhon_, “_Histoire de la
+Navigation et du Commerce des Egyptiens sous les Ptolemées_.” See also,
+for a description of the various kinds of boats used on the Nile,
+_Maillet_, tom. i. p. 98.
+
+
+Page 44.—v. _Maurice_, Appendix to “Ruins of Babylon.” Another reason, he
+says, for their worship of the Ibis, “founded on their love of geometry,
+was (according to Plutarch) that the space between its legs, when parted
+asunder, as it walks, together with its beak, forms a complete equilateral
+triangle.” From the examination of the embalmed birds, found in the
+Catacombs of Saccara, there seems to be no doubt that the Ibis was the
+same kind of bird as that described by Bruce, under the Arabian name of
+Abou Hannes.
+
+
+Ib.—“_The sistrum_,” _&c._—“Isis est genius,” says _Servius_, “Ægypti, qui
+per sistri motum, quod gerit in dextra, Nili accessus recessusque
+significat.”
+
+
+Page 48.—“_The ivy encircled it_,” _&c._—The ivy was consecrated to
+Osiris. v. _Diodor. Sic._ 1. 10.
+
+
+Ib.—“_The small mirror._”—“Quelques unes,” says _Dupuis_, describing the
+processions of Isis, “portoient des miroirs attachés à leurs épaules, afin
+de multiplier et de porter dans tous les sens les images de la Déesse.”
+_Origine des Cultes_, tom. 8. p. 847. A mirror, it appears, was also one
+of the emblems in the mysteries of Bacchus.
+
+
+Page 49.—“_There__ is, to the north of Memphis_,” _&c._—“Tout prouve que
+la territoire de Sakkarah étoit la Necropolis au sud de Memphis, et le
+faubourg opposé à celui‐ci, où sont les pyramides de Gizeh, une autre
+Ville des Morts, qui terminoit Memphis au nord.” _Denon._
+
+There is nothing known with certainty as to the site of Memphis, but it
+will be perceived that the description of its position given by the
+Epicurean corresponds, in almost every particular, with that which M.
+Maillet (the French consul, for many years, at Cairo) has left us. It must
+be always borne in mind, too, that of the distances between the respective
+places here mentioned, we have no longer any accurate means of judging.
+
+
+Page 49.—“_Pyramid beyond pyramid._”—“Multas olim pyramidas fuisse e
+ruinis arguitur.” _Zoega._—_Vansleb_, who visited more than ten of the
+small pyramids, is of opinion that there must have originally been a
+hundred in this place.
+
+See, for the lake to the northward of Memphis, _Shaw’s Travels_, p. 302.
+
+
+Page 57.—“_The Theban beetle._”—“On voit en Egypte, après la retraite du
+Nil et la fécondation des terres, le limon couvert d’une multitude de
+scarabées. Un pareil phénomène a dû sembler aux Egyptiens le plus propre à
+peindre une nouvelle existence.” _M. Jomard._—Partly for the same reason,
+and partly for another, still more fanciful, the early Christians used to
+apply this emblem to Christ. “Bonus ille scarabæus meus,” says St.
+Augustine “non eâ tantum de causâ quod unigenitus, quod ipsemet sui auctor
+mortalium speciem induerit, sed quod in hac nostrâ fæce sese volutaverit
+et ex hac ipsa nasci voluerit.”
+
+
+Ib.—“_Enshrined within a case of crystal._”—“Les Egyptiens ont fait aussi,
+pour conserver leurs morts, des caisses de verre.” _De Pauw._—He mentions,
+in another place, a sort of transparent substance, which the Ethiopians
+used for the same purpose, and which was frequently mistaken by the Greeks
+for glass.
+
+
+Page 58.—“_Among the emblems of death._”—“Un prêtre, qui brise la tige
+d’une fleur, des oiseaux qui s’envolent sont les emblemes de la morte et
+de l’âme qui se sépare du corps.” _Denon._
+
+Theseus employs the same image in the Phædra:—
+
+  _Ορνις γαρ ὡς τις εκ χερων αφαντος ει_
+  _Πηδημ’ ες ἁδου πικρον ὁρμησασα μοι._
+
+
+Page 59.—“The singular appearance of a Cross so frequently recurring among
+the hieroglyphics of Egypt, had excited the curiosity of the Christians at
+a very early period of ecclesiastical history; and as some of the Priests,
+who were acquainted with the meaning of the hieroglyphics, became
+converted to Christianity the secret transpired. ‘The converted heathens,’
+says Socrates Scholasticus, ‘explained the symbol, and declared that it
+signified Life to Come.’” _Clarke._
+
+Lipsius, therefore, erroneously supposes the Cross to have been an emblem
+peculiar to the Christians. See, on this subject, _L’Histoire des Juifs_,
+liv. 9. c. 16.
+
+It is singular enough that while the Cross was held sacred among the
+Egyptians, not only the custom of marking the forehead with the sign of
+the Cross, but Baptism and the consecration of the bread in the Eucharist
+were imitated in the mysterious ceremonies of Mithra. _Tertull. de
+Proscriptione Hereticorum._
+
+Zoega is of opinion that the Cross found (for the first time, it is said)
+on the destruction of the temple of Serapis, by the Christians, could have
+not been the crux ansata; as nothing is more common than this emblem on
+all the Egyptian monuments.
+
+
+Page 62.—“_Stood shadowless._”—It was an idea entertained among the
+ancients that the Pyramids were so constructed (“mecanicâ constructione,”
+says _Ammianus Marcellinus_) as never to cast any shadow.
+
+
+Page 64.—“_Rhodope._”—From the story of Rhodope, Zoega thinks, “videntur
+Arabes ansam arripuisse ut in una ex pyramidibus, genii loco, habitare
+dicerent mulierem nudam insignis pulchritudinis quæ aspectu suo homines
+insanire faciat.” _De Usu Obeliscorum._ See also _L’Egypte de Murtadi par
+Vattier_.
+
+
+Page 66.—“_The Gates of Oblivion._”—“Apud Memphim æneas quasdam portas,
+quæ Lethes et Cocyti (hoc est oblivionis et lamentationis) appellenter
+aperiri, gravem asperumque edentes sonum.” _Zoega._
+
+
+Page 69.—“_A pile of lifeless bodies._”—See, for the custom of burying the
+dead upright (“post funus stantia busto corpora,” as Statius describes
+it), Dr. Clarke’s preface to the 2d section of his fifth volume. They used
+to insert precious stones in the place of the eyes. “Les yeux étoient
+formés d’émeraudes, de turquoises,” &c.—v. _Masoudy_, quoted by
+_Quatremere_.
+
+
+Page 72.—“_It seemed as if every echo._”—See, for the echoes in the
+pyramids, _Plutarch, de Placitis Philosoph._
+
+
+Page 74.—“_Pale phantom‐like shapes._”—“Ce moment heureux (de l’Autopsie)
+étoit preparé par des scènes effrayantes, par des alternatives de crainte
+et de joie, de lumière et des ténèbres, par la lueur des éclairs, par le
+bruit terrible de la foudre, qu’on imitoit, et par des apparitions de
+spectres, des illusions magiques, qui frappoient les yeux et les oreilles
+tout ensemble.” _Dupuis._
+
+
+Page 77.—“_Serpents of fire._”—“Ces considérations me portent à penser
+que, dans les mystères, ces phénomènes étoient beaucoup mieux exécutées et
+sans comparison plus terribles à l’aide de quelque composition pyrique,
+qui est restée cachée, comme celle du feu Grégeois.” _De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 78.—“_The burning of the reed‐beds of Ethiopia._”—“Il n’y a point
+d’autre moyen que de porter le feu dans ces forêts de roseaux, qui
+répandent alors dans tout le païs une lumière aussi considérable que celle
+du jour même.” _Maillet_, tom. 1. p. 63.
+
+
+Page 79.—“_The sound of torrents._”—The Nile, _Pliny_ tells us, was
+admitted into the Pyramid.
+
+
+Page 81.—“_I had almost given myself up._”—“On exerçoit,” says _Dupuis_,
+“les recipiendaires, pendant plusieurs jours, à traverser, à la nage, une
+grande étendue d’eau. On les y jettoit et ce n’étoit que avec peine qu’
+ils s’en retiroient. On appliquoit le fer et le feu sur leurs membres. On
+les faisoit passer à travers les flammes.”
+
+The aspirants were often in considerable danger, and Pythagoras, we are
+told, nearly lost his life in the trials. v. _Recherches sur les
+Initiations, par Robin_.
+
+
+Page 90.—For the two cups used in the mysteries, see _L’Histoire des
+Juifs_, liv. 9. c. 16.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Osiris._”—Osiris, under the name of Serapis, was supposed to rule
+over the subterranean world; and performed the office of Pluto, in the
+mythology of the Egyptians. “They believed,” says Dr. Pritchard, “that
+Serapis presided over the region of departed souls, during the period of
+their absence, when languishing without bodies, and that the dead were
+deposited in his palace.” _Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology._
+
+
+Ib.—“_To cool the lips of the dead._”—“Frigidam illam aquam post mortem,
+tanquam Hebes poculum, expetitam.” _Zoega._—The Lethe of the Egyptians was
+called Ameles. See _Dupuis_, tom. 8. p. 651.
+
+
+Page 90.—“_A draught divine._”—_Diodor. Sicul._
+
+
+Page 93.—“_Grasshopper, symbol of initiation._”—_Hor. Apoll._—The
+grasshopper was also consecrated to the sun as being musical.
+
+
+Page 94.—“_Isle of gardens._”—The isle Antirrhodus near Alexandria.
+_Maillet._
+
+
+Ib.—“_Vineyard at Anthylla._”—See _Athen. Deipnos._
+
+
+Page 97.—“_We can see those stars._”—“On voyoit en plein jour par ces
+ouvertures les étoiles, et même quelques planètes en leur plus grande
+latitude septentrionale; et les prêtres avoient bientôt profité de ce
+phénomène pour observer à diverses heures la passage des étoiles.”
+_Séthos._—_Strabo_ mentions certain caves or pits, constructed for the
+purpose of astronomical observations, which lay in the Zelopolitan
+prefecture, beyond Heliopolis.
+
+
+Page 98.—“_A plantain._”—This tree was dedicated to the Genii of the
+Shades, from its being an emblem of repose and cooling airs. “Cui imminet
+musæ folium, quod ab Iside infera geniisque ei addictis manu geri solitum,
+umbram requiemque et auras frigidas subindigitare videtur.” _Zoega._
+
+
+Page 107.—“_He spoke of the preexistence of the soul_,” _&c._—For a full
+account of the doctrines which are here represented as having been taught
+to the initiated in the Egyptian mysteries, the reader may consult
+_Dupuis_, _Pritchard’s Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology_, &c. &c. “L’on
+découvroit l’origine de l’ame, sa chute sur la terre, à travers les
+sphères et les élémens, et son retour au lieu de sa origine ... c’étoit
+ici la partie la plus métaphysique, et que ne pourroit guère entendre le
+commun des Initiés, mais dont on lui donnoit le spectacle par des figures
+et des spectres allégoriques.” _Dupuis._
+
+
+Page 108.—“_Those fields of radiance._”—See _Beausobre_, liv. 3. c. 4. for
+the “terre bienheureuse et lumineuse” which the Manicheans supposed God to
+inhabit. Plato, too, speaks (in Phæd.) of a “pure land lying in the pure
+sky (_την γην καθαραν εν καθαρω κεισθαι ουρανω_), the abode of divinity,
+of innocence, and of life.”
+
+
+Page 110.—“_Tracing it from the first moment of earthward desire._”—In the
+original construction of this work, there was an episode introduced here,
+(which I have since published in another form,) illustrating the doctrine
+of the fall of the soul by the Oriental fable of the Loves of the Angels.
+
+
+Page 111.—“_Restoring her lost wings._”—_Damascius_ in his Life of
+Isidorus, says, “Ex antiquissimis Philosophis Pythagoram et Platonem
+Isidorus ut Deos coluit, et _eorum animas alatas esse_ dixit quas in locum
+supercœlestem inque campum veritatis et pratum elevatas, divinis putavit
+ideis pasci.” _Apud Phot. Bibliothec._
+
+
+Page 112.—“_A pale, moonlike meteor._”—_Apuleius_, in describing the
+miraculous appearances exhibited in the mysteries, says, “Nocte mediâ vidi
+solem candido coruscantem lumine.” _Metamorphos._ lib. 11.
+
+
+Page 113.—“_So entirely did the illusion of the scene_,” _&c._—In tracing
+the early connection of spectacles with the ceremonies of religion,
+Voltaire says, “Il y a bien plus; les véritables grandes tragédies, les
+representations imposantes et terribles, étoient les mystères sacrés,
+qu’on célébroit dans les plus vastes temples du monde, en présence des
+seuls Initiés; c’étoit là que les habits, les décorations, les machines
+étoient propres au sujet; et le sujet étoit la vie présente et la vie
+future.” _Des divers changemens arrivés à l’art tragique._
+
+To these scenic representations in the Egyptian mysteries, there is
+evidently an allusion in the vision of Ezekiel, where the spirit shows him
+the abominations which the Israelites learned in Egypt:—“Then said he unto
+me, ‘Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel
+do in the dark, every man in _the chambers of his imagery_.’” Chap. 8.
+
+
+Page 118.—“_The seven tables of stone._”—“Bernard, Comte de la Marche
+Trévisane, instruit par la lecture des livres anciens, dit qu’ Hermes
+trouva sept tables dans la vallée d’Hebron, sur lesquelles étoient gravés
+les principes des arts liberaux.” _Fables Egyptiennes._ See _Jablonski de
+stelis Herm._
+
+
+Page 119.—“_Beside the goat of Mendes._”—For an account of the animal
+worship of the Egyptians, see _De Pauw_, tom. 2.
+
+
+Ib.—“_The Isiac serpents._”—“On auguroit bien des serpens Isiaques,
+lorsqu’ils goutoient l’offrande et se trainoient lentement autour de
+l’autel.” _De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 121.—“_Hence the festivals and hymns_,” _&c._—For an account of the
+various festivals at the different periods of the sun’s progress, in the
+spring, and in the autumn, see _Dupuis_ and _Pritchard_.
+
+
+Ib.—“_The mysteries of the night._”—v. _Athenag. Leg. pro Christ._ p. 133.
+
+
+Page 125.—“_A peal like that of thunder._”—See, for some curious remarks
+on the mode of imitating thunder and lightning in the ancient mysteries,
+_De Pauw_, tom. 1. p. 323. The machine with which these effects were
+produced on the stage was called a ceraunoscope.
+
+
+Page 131.—“_Windings, capriciously intricate._”—In addition to the
+accounts which the ancients have left us of the prodigious excavations in
+all parts of Egypt,—the fifteen hundred chambers under the Labyrinth—the
+subterranean stables of the Thebaïd, containing a thousand horses—the
+crypts of Upper Egypt passing under the bed of the Nile, &c. &c.—the
+stories and traditions current among the Arabs still preserve the memory
+of those wonderful substructions. “Un Arabe,” says Paul Lucas, “qui étoit
+avec nous, m’assura qu’étant entré autrefois dans le Labyrinthe, il avoit
+marché dans les chambres souterraines jusqu’en un lieu où il y avoit une
+grande place environnée de plusieurs niches qui ressembloit à de petites
+boutiques, d’où l’on entroit dans d’autres allées et dans des chambres,
+sans pouvoir en trouver la fin.” In speaking, too, of the arcades along
+the Nile, near Cosseir, “Ils me dirent même que ces souterrains étoient si
+profondes qu’il y en avoient qui alloient à trois journées de là, et
+qu’ils conduisoient dans un pays où l’on voyoit de beaux jardins, qu’on y
+trouvoit de belles maisons,” &c. &c.
+
+See also in _M. Quatremere’s Memoires sur l’Egypte_, tom. 1. p. 142., an
+account of a subterranean reservoir, said to have been discovered at Kaïs,
+and of the expedition undertaken by a party of persons, in a long narrow
+boat, for the purpose of exploring it. “Leur voyage avoit été de six
+jours, dont les quatre premiers furent employés à pénétrer les bords; les
+deux autres à revenir au lieu d’où ils étoient partis: Pendant tout cet
+intervalle ils ne purent atteindre l’extrémité du bassin. L’émir Ala‐
+eddin‐Tamboga, gouverneur de Behnesa, écrivit ces détails au sultan, qui
+en fut extrêmement surpris.”
+
+
+Page 136.—“_A small island in the centre of Lake Mœris._”—The position
+here given to Lake Mœris, in making it the immediate boundary of the city
+of Memphis to the south, corresponds exactly with the site assigned to it
+by Maillet:—“Memphis avoit encore à son midi un vaste reservoir, par où
+tout ce qui peut servir à la commodité et à l’agrément de la vie lui étoit
+voituré abondamment de toutes les parties de l’Egypte. Ce lac qui la
+terminoit de ce côté‐là,” &c. &c. Tom. 2. p. 7.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Ruins rising blackly above the wave._”—“On voit sur la rive
+orientale des antiquités qui sont presque entièrement sous les eaux.”
+_Belzoni._
+
+
+Page 137.—“_Its thundering portals._”—“Quorundam autem domorum (in
+Labyrintho) talis est situs, ut adaperientibus foris tonitru intus
+terribile existat.” _Pliny._
+
+
+Page 138.—“_Leaves that serve as cups._”—_Strabo._ According to the French
+translator of Strabo, it was the fruit of the _faba Ægyptiaca_, not the
+leaf, that was used for this purpose. “Le _κιβωριον_,” he says, “devoit
+s’entendre de la capsule ou fruit de cette plante, dont les Egyptiens se
+servoient comme d’un vase, imaginant que l’eau du Nil y devenoit
+delicieuse.”
+
+
+Page 142.—“_The fish of these waters_,” _&c._—_Ælian_, lib. 6. 32.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Pleasure boats or yachts._”—Called Thalamages, from the pavilion on
+the deck. v. _Strabo_.
+
+
+Page 144.—“_Covered with beds of those pale, sweet roses._”—As April is
+the season for gathering these roses (See _Malte‐brun’s Economical
+Calendar_), the Epicurean could not, of course, mean to say that he saw
+them actually in flower.
+
+
+Page 146.—“_The lizards upon the bank._”—“L’or et l’azur brillent en
+bandes longitudinales sur leur corps entier, et leur queue est du plus
+beau bleu celeste.” _Sonnini._
+
+
+Page 147.—“_The canal through which we now sailed._”—“Un canal,” says
+_Maillet_, “très profond et très large y voituroit les eaux du Nil.”
+
+
+Page 150.—“_For a draught of whose flood_,” _&c._—“Anciennement on portoit
+les eaux du Nil jusqu’au des contrées fort éloignées, et surtout chez les
+princesses du sang des Ptolomées, mariées dans des families étrangères.”
+_De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 154.—“_Bearing each the name of its owner._”—“Le nom du maître y
+étoit écrit, pendant la nuit en lettres de feu.” _Maillet._
+
+
+Page 155.—“_Cups of that frail crystal_”—called Alassontes. For their
+brittleness _Martial_ is an authority:—
+
+  Tolle, puer, calices, tepidique toreumata Nili,
+  Et mihi securâ pocula trade manu.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia._”—The bean of the
+Glycyne, which is so beautiful as to be strung into necklaces and
+bracelets, is generally known by the name of the black bean of Abyssinia.
+_Niebhur._
+
+
+Ib.—“_Sweet lotus‐wood flute._”—See _M. Villoteau on the musical
+instruments of the Egyptians_.
+
+
+Page 156.—“_Shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at night._”—_Solinus_
+speaks of the snowy summit of Mount Atlas glittering with flames at night.
+In the account of the Periplus of Hanno, as well as in that of Eudoxus, we
+read that as those navigators were coasting this part of Africa, torrents
+of light were seen to fall on the sea.
+
+
+Page 158.—“_The tears of Isis._”—“Per lacrymas, vero, Isidis intelligo
+effluvia quædam Lunæ, quibus tantam vim videntur tribuisse Ægypti.”
+_Jablonski._—He is of opinion that the superstition of the _Nucta_, or
+miraculous drop, is of a relic of the veneration paid to the dews, as the
+tears of Isis.
+
+
+Page 158.—“_The rustling of the acacias_,” _&c._—_Travels of Captain
+Mangles._
+
+
+Ib.—“_Supposed to rest in the valley of the moon._”—_Plutarch._ _Dupuis_,
+tom. 10. The Manicheans held the same belief. See _Beausobre_, p. 565.
+
+
+Page 160.—“_Sothis, the fair star of the waters._”—_ὑδραγωγον_ is the
+epithet applied to this star by _Plutarch_, _de Isid._
+
+
+Ib.—“_Was its birth‐star._”—_Ἡ Σωθεως ανατολη γενεσεως καταρχουσα της εις
+τον κοσμον_. _Porphyr. de Antro Nymph._
+
+
+Page 168.—“_Golden Mountains._”—v. _Wilford on Egypt and the Nile_,
+Asiatic Researches.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Sweet‐smelling wood._”—“’A l’époque de la crue le Nil Vert charie
+les planches d’un bois qui a une odeur semblable à celle de l’encens.”
+_Quatremere._
+
+
+Page 169.—“_Barges full of bees._”—_Maillet._
+
+
+Page 170.—“_Such a profusion of the white flowers_,” _&c._—“On les voit
+comme jadis cueillir dans les champs des tiges du lotus, signes du
+débordement et présages de l’abondance; ils s’enveloppent les bras et le
+corps avec les longues tiges fleuries, et parcourent les rues,” &c.
+_Description des Tombeaux des Rois, par M. Costaz._
+
+
+Page 173.—“_While composing his commentary on the scriptures._”—It was
+during the composition of his great critical work, the Hexapla, that
+Origen employed these female scribes.
+
+
+Page 176.—“_That rich tapestry_,” _&c._
+
+  Non ego prætulerim Babylonica picta superbè
+  Texta, Semiramiâ quæ variantur acu.
+
+                                                                _Martial._
+
+
+Page 200.—“_The Place of Weeping._”—v. _Wilford_, _Asiatic Researches_,
+vol. 3. p. 340.
+
+
+Page 210.—“_We had long since left this mountain behind._”—The voyages on
+the Nile are, under favourable circumstances, performed with considerable
+rapidity. “En cinq ou six jours,” says _Maillet_, “on pourroit aisément
+remonter de l’embouchure du Nil à ses cataractes, ou descendre des
+cataractes jusqu’à la mer.” The great uncertainty of the navigation is
+proved by what _Belzoni_ tells us:—“Nous ne mîmes cette fois que deux
+jours et demi pour faire le trajet du Caire à Melawi, auquel, dans notre
+second voyage, nous avions employés dix‐huit jours.”
+
+
+Page 212.—“_Those mighty statues, that fling their shadows._”—“Elles out
+près de vingt mètres (61 pieds) d’élévation; et au lever du soleil, leurs
+ombres immenses s’étendent au loin sur la chaine Libyen.” _Description
+générale de Thèbes, par Messrs. Jollois et Desvilliers._
+
+
+Ib.—“_Those cool alcoves._”—_Paul Lucas._
+
+
+Page 219.—“_Whose waters are half sweet, half bitter._”—_Paul Lucas._
+
+
+Page 224.—“_The Mountain of the Birds._”—There has been much controversy
+among the Arabian writers, with respect to the site of this mountain, for
+which see _Quatremere_, tom. 1. art. _Amoun_.
+
+
+Page 230.—“_The hand of labour had succeeded_,” _&c._—The monks of Mount
+Sinai (_Shaw_ says) have covered over near four acres of the naked rocks
+with fruitful gardens and orchards.
+
+
+Page 233.—“_The image of a head._”—There was usually, Tertullian tells us,
+the image of Christ on the communion‐cups.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Kissed her forehead._”—“We are rather disposed to infer,” says the
+present Bishop of Lincoln, in his very sensible work on Tertullian, “that,
+at the conclusion of all their meetings for the purpose of devotion, the
+early Christians were accustomed to give the kiss of peace, in token of
+the brotherly love subsisting between them.”
+
+
+Page 237.—“_In the middle of the seven valleys._”—See Macrizy’s account of
+these valleys, given by Quatremere, tom. 1. p. 450.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Red lakes of Nitria._”—For a striking description of this region,
+see “_Rameses_,”—a work which, though, in general, too technical and
+elaborate, shows, in many passages, to what picturesque effects the
+scenery and mythology of Egypt may be made subservient.
+
+
+Page 238.—“_In the neighbourhood of Antinoë._”—From the position assigned
+to Antinoë in this work, we should conclude that it extended much farther
+to the north, than these few ruins of it that remain would seem to
+indicate; so as to render the distance between the city and the Mountain
+of the Birds considerably less than what it appears to be at present.
+
+
+Page 243.—“_When Isis, the pure star of lovers._”—v. _Plutarch de Isid._
+
+
+Ib.—“_Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun._”—“Conjunctio solis cum
+luna, quod est veluti utriusque connubium.” _Jablonski._
+
+
+Page 247.—“_Of his walks a lion is the companion._”—M. Chateaubriand has
+introduced Paul and his lion into the “_Martyrs_,” liv. 11.
+
+
+Page 235.—“_Come thus secretly before day‐break._”—It was among the
+accusations of Celsus against the Christians, that they held their
+assemblies privately and contrary to law; and one of the speakers in the
+curious work of Minucius Felix calls the Christians “latebrosa et
+lucifugax natio.”
+
+
+Page 256.—“_A swallow_,” _&c._—“Je vis dans le desert des hirondelles d’un
+gris clair comme le sable sur lequel elles volent.”—_Denon._
+
+
+Page 257.—“_The comet that once desolated this world._”—In alluding to
+Whiston’s idea of a comet having caused the deluge, _M. Girard_, having
+remarked that the word Typhon means a deluge, adds, “On ne peut entendre
+par le tems du règne de Typhon que celui pendant lequel le déluge inonda
+la terre, tems pendant lequel on dût observer la comète qui l’occasionna,
+et dont l’apparition fut, non seulement pour les peuples de l’Egypte, et
+de l’Ethiopie, mais encore pour tous les peuples le présage funeste de
+leur destruction presque totale.” _Description de la Vallée de
+l’E’garement._
+
+
+Page 259.—“_In which the spirit of my dream_,” _&c._—“Many people,” said
+_Origen_, “have been brought over to Christianity by the Spirit of God
+giving a sudden turn to their minds, and offering visions to them either
+by day or night.” On this _Jortin_ remarks:—“Why should it be thought
+improbable that Pagans of good dispositions, but not free from prejudices,
+should have been called by divine admonitions, by dreams or visions, which
+might be a support to Christianity in those days of distress.”
+
+
+Page 263.—“_One of those earthen cups._”—_Palladius_, who lived some time
+in Egypt, describes the monk Ptolemæus, who inhabited the desert of Scete,
+as collecting in earthen cups the abundant dew from the
+rocks.—_Bibliothec. Pat._ tom. 13.
+
+
+Page 264.—“_It was to preserve, he said_,” _&c._—The brief sketch here
+given of the Jewish dispensation agrees very much with the view taken of
+it by Dr. Sumner, the present Bishop of Llandaff, in the first chapters of
+his eloquent and luminous work, the “Records of the Creation.”
+
+
+Page 266.—“_In vain did I seek the promise of immortality._”—“It is
+impossible to deny,” says the Bishop of Llandaff, “that the sanctions of
+the Mosaic Law are altogether temporal.... It is, indeed, one of the facts
+that can only be explained by acknowledging that he really acted under a
+divine commission, promulgating a temporary law for a peculiar purpose,”—a
+much more candid and sensible way of treating this very difficult point,
+than by either endeavouring, like Warburton, to escape from it into a
+paradox, or still worse, contriving, like Dr. Graves, to increase its
+difficulty by explanation. v. “_On the Pentateuch_.” See also _Horne’s
+Introduction_, _&c._ vol. I. p. 226.
+
+
+Page 268.—“_All are of the dust_,” _&c._—While Voltaire, Volney, &c. refer
+to the Ecclesiastes, as abounding with tenets of materialism and
+Epicurism, Mr. Des Voeux and others find in it strong proofs of belief in
+a future state. The chief difficulty lies in the chapter from which this
+text is quoted; and the mode of construction by which some writers attempt
+to get rid of it,—namely, by putting these texts into the mouth of a
+foolish reasoner,—appears forced and gratuitous. v. _Dr. Hales’s
+Analysis_.
+
+
+Page 270.—“_The noblest and first‐created_,” _&c._—This opinion of the
+Hermit may be supposed to have been derived from his master, Origen; but
+it is not easy to ascertain the exact doctrine of Origen on this subject.
+In the Treatise on Prayer attributed to him, he asserts that God the
+Father alone should be invoked,—which, says Bayle, is “encherir sur les
+Hérésies des Sociniens.” Notwithstanding this, however, and some other
+indications of, what was afterwards called, Arianism, (such as the opinion
+of the divinity being received by _communication_, which _Milner_ asserts
+to have been held by this Father,) Origen was one of the authorities
+quoted by Athanasius in support of his high doctrines of co‐eternity and
+co‐essentiality. What Priestley says is, perhaps, the best solution of
+these inconsistencies;—“Origen, as well as Clemens Alexandrinus, has been
+thought to favour the Arian principle; but he did it only in words and not
+in ideas.” _Early Opinions_, _&c._ Whatever uncertainty, however, there
+may exist with respect to the opinion of Origen himself on this subject,
+there is no doubt that the doctrines of his immediate followers were, at
+least, Anti‐Athanasian. “So many Bishops of Africa,” says Priestley,
+“were, at this period (between the years 255 and 258), Unitarians, that
+Athanasius says, ‘The Son of God,’—meaning his divinity,—‘was scarcely any
+longer preached in the churches.’”
+
+
+Page 271.—“_The restoration of the whole human race to purity and
+happiness._”—This benevolent doctrine,—which not only goes far to solve
+the great problem of moral and physical evil, but which would, if received
+more generally, tend to soften the spirit of uncharitableness, so fatally
+prevalent among Christian sects,—was maintained by that great light of the
+early Church, Origen, and has not wanted supporters among more modern
+Theologians. That Tillotson was inclined to the opinion appears from his
+sermon preached before the queen. Paley is supposed to have held the same
+amiable doctrine; and Newton (the author of the work on the Prophecies) is
+also among the supporters of it. For a full account of the arguments in
+favour of this opinion, derived both from reason and the express language
+of Scripture, see Dr. Southwood Smith’s very interesting work, “On the
+Divine Government.” See also _Magee on the Atonement_, where the doctrine
+of the advocates of Universal Restoration is thus briefly and fairly
+explained:—“Beginning with the existence of an infinitely powerful, wise,
+and good Being, as the first and fundamental principle of rational
+religion, they pronounce the essence of this Being to be _love_, and from
+this infer, as a demonstrable consequence, that none of the creatures
+formed by such a Being will ever be made eternally miserable.... Since God
+(they say) would act unjustly in inflicting eternal misery for temporary
+crimes, the sufferings of the wicked can be but remedial, and will
+terminate in a complete purification from moral disorder, and in their
+ultimate restoration to virtue and happiness.”
+
+
+Page 273.—“_Fruit of the desert shrub._”—v. _Hamilton’s Ægyptiaca_.
+
+
+Page 278.—“_The white garment she wore, and the ring of gold on her
+finger._”—See, for the custom among the early Christians of wearing white
+for a few days after baptism, _Ambros. de Myst._—With respect to the ring,
+the Bishop of Lincoln says, in his work on Tertullian, “The natural
+inference from these words (_Tertull. de Pudicitiâ_) appears to be that a
+ring used to be given in baptism; but I have found no other trace of such
+a custom.”
+
+
+Page 280.—“_Pebbles of jasper._”—v. _Clarke_.
+
+
+Ib.—“_Stunted marigold_,” _&c._—“Les _Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum_ et
+_Zygophyllum coccineum_, plantes grasses des déserts, rejetées à cause de
+leur âcreté par les chameaux, les chèvres, et les gazelles.” _M. Delile
+upon the plants of Egypt._
+
+
+Page 281.—“_Antinoë._”—v. _Savary_ and _Quatremere_.
+
+
+Page 286.—“_I have observed in my walks._”—“Je remarquai avec une
+réflexion triste, qu’un animal de proie accompagne presque toujours les
+pas de ce joli et frêle individu.”
+
+
+Page 272.—“_Glistened over its silver letters._”—The Codex Cottonianus of
+the New Testament is written in silver letters on a purple ground. The
+Codex Cottonianus of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament is
+supposed to be the identical copy that belonged to Origen.
+
+
+Page 289.—“_Some denier of Christ._”—Those Christians who sacrificed to
+idols to save themselves were called by various names, _Thurificati_,
+_Sacrificati_, _Mittentes_, _Negatores_, &c. Baronius mentions a bishop of
+this period (253), Marcellinus, who, yielding to the threats of the
+Gentiles, threw incense upon the altar. v. _Arnob. contra Gent._ lib. 7.
+
+
+Page 297.—“_The clear voice with which_,” _&c._—The merit of the
+confession “Christianus sum,” or “Christiana sum,” was considerably
+enhanced by the clearness and distinctness with which it was pronounced.
+_Eusebius_ mentions the martyr Vetius as making it _λαμπροτατη φωνη_.
+
+
+Page 304.—“_The band round the young Christian’s brow._”—We find poisonous
+crowns mentioned by _Pliny_, under the designation of “coronæ ferales.”
+_Paschalius_, too, gives the following account of these “deadly garlands,”
+as he calls them:—“Sed mirum est tam salutare inventum humanam nequitiam
+reperisse, quomodo ad nefarios usus traducent. Nempe, repertæ sunt nefandæ
+coronæ harum, quas dixi, tam salubrium per nomen quidem et speciem
+imitatrices, at re et effectu ferales, atque adeo capitis, cui imponuntur,
+interfectrices.” _De Coronis._
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 THE END.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                    Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
+                            New‐Street‐Square.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                FOOTNOTES
+
+
+    1 The description, here alluded to, may also be found, copied
+      _verbatim_ from Sethos, in the “Voyages d’Anténor.”—“In that
+      philosophical romance, called ‘La Vie de Séthos,’” says Warburton,
+      “we find a much juster account of old Egyptian wisdom, than in all
+      the pretended ‘Histoire du Ciel.’” _Div. Leg._ book 4. sect. 14.
+
+    2 A cross was, among the Egyptians, the emblem of a future life.
+
+    3 “On s’étoit même avisé, depuis la première construction de ces
+      demeures, de percer en plusieurs endroits jusq’au haut les terres
+      qui les couvroient; non pas, à la vérité, pour tirer un jour qui
+      n’auroit jamais été suffisant, mais pour recevoir un air salutaire,
+      &c.”—_Sethos._
+
+    4 Osiris.
+
+    5 In the language of Plato, Hierocles, &c. to “restore to the soul its
+      wings,” is the main object both of religion and philosophy.
+
+    6 See an account of this sensitive tree, which bends down its branches
+      to those who approach it, in M. Jomard’s Description of Syene and
+      the Cataracts.
+
+    7 The province of Arsinoë, now Fioum.
+
+    8 In the original the discourses of the Hermit are given much more at
+      length.
+
+    9 A rank, resembling that of Colonel.
+
+   10 “Une de ces couronnes de grain de corail, dont les vierges martyres
+      ornoient leurs cheveaux en allant à la mort.” _Les Martyrs._
+
+
+
+
+
+                            TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
+
+
+Variations in hyphenation (e.g. “daybreak”, “day‐break”, “overhead”,
+“over‐head”) have not been changed.
+
+In the notes, some references are to the wrong pages or out of sequence.
+
+Other changes, which have been made to the text:
+
+      page 32, “alrea d” changed to “already”
+      page 81, “stirke” changed to “strike”
+      page 93, “grashopper” changed to “grasshopper”
+      page 188, quote mark added before “The state of misery”
+      page 194, “decome” changed to “become”
+      page 312, quote mark added before “There is, to the north of
+      Memphis”
+
+
+
+
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+                                   THE
+
+                               EPICUREAN,
+
+                                A TALE.
+
+                                   BY
+
+                              THOMAS MOORE.
+
+
+*Second Edition.*
+
+LONDON:
+PRINTED FOR
+LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,
+PATERNOSTER-ROW.
+1827.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Publishers beg to inform the Composers of Music, and Music Sellers,
+that MR. JAMES POWER, of the Strand, Music Seller, is the only person
+authorized by them to publish the SONGS or VERSES in this Work connected
+with Music.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                   TO
+                            LORD JOHN RUSSELL
+                              _THIS VOLUME_
+                              IS INSCRIBED
+                    BY ONE WHO ADMIRES HIS CHARACTER
+                              AND TALENTS,
+                     AND IS PROUD OF HIS FRIENDSHIP.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    A
+                        LETTER TO THE TRANSLATOR,
+
+
+                                  FROM
+                                 ----, ESQ.
+_Cairo, June 19. 1800._
+My dear Sir,
+
+In a visit I lately paid to the monastery of St. Macarius,--which is
+situated, as you know, in the Valley of the Lakes of Natron,--I was lucky
+enough to obtain possession of a curious Greek manuscript, which, in the
+hope that you may be induced to translate it, I herewith send you.
+Observing one of the monks very busily occupied in tearing up, into a
+variety of fantastic shapes, some papers which had the appearance of being
+the leaves of old books, I enquired of him the meaning of his task, and
+received the following explanation:--
+
+The Arabs, it seems, who are as fond of pigeons as the ancient Egyptians,
+have a superstitious notion that, if they place in their pigeon-houses
+small scraps of paper, written over with learned characters, the birds are
+always sure to thrive the better for the charm; and the monks, who are
+never slow in profiting by superstition, have, at all times, a supply of
+such amulets for purchasers.
+
+In general, the holy fathers have been in the habit of scribbling these
+mystic fragments, themselves; but a discovery, which they have lately
+made, saves them this trouble. Having dug up (as my informant stated) a
+chest of old manuscripts, which, being chiefly on the subject of alchemy,
+must have been buried in the time of Dioclesian, "we thought we could
+not," added the monk, "employ such rubbish more properly, than in tearing
+it up, as you see, for the pigeon-houses of the Arabs."
+
+On my expressing a wish to rescue some part of these treasures from the
+fate to which his indolent fraternity had consigned them, he produced the
+manuscript which I have now the pleasure of sending you,--the only one, he
+said, remaining entire,--and I very readily paid him the price he demanded
+for it.
+
+You will find the story, I think, not altogether uninteresting; and the
+coincidence, in many respects, of the curious details in Chap. VI. with
+the description of the same ceremonies in the Romance of _Sethos_(1),
+will, I have no doubt, strike you. Hoping that you may be tempted to give
+a translation of this Tale to the world,
+
+                                                       I am, my dear Sir,
+                                                        Very truly yours,
+                                                                        ----
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                              THE EPICUREAN.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER I.
+
+
+It was in the fourth year of the reign of the late Emperor Valerian, that
+the followers of Epicurus, who were at that time numerous in Athens,
+proceeded to the election of a person to fill the vacant chair of their
+sect;--and, by the unanimous voice of the School, I was the individual
+chosen for their Chief. I was just then entering on my twenty-fourth year,
+and no instance had ever before occurred, of a person so young being
+selected for that office. Youth, however, and the personal advantages that
+adorn it, were not, it may be supposed, among the least valid
+recommendations, to a sect that included within its circle all the beauty
+as well as wit of Athens, and which, though dignifying its pursuits with
+the name of philosophy, was little else than a pretext for the more
+refined cultivation of pleasure.
+
+The character of the sect had, indeed, much changed, since the time of its
+wise and virtuous founder, who, while he asserted that Pleasure is the
+only Good, inculcated also that Good is the only source of Pleasure. The
+purer part of this doctrine had long evaporated, and the temperate
+Epicurus would have as little recognised his own sect in the assemblage of
+refined voluptuaries who now usurped its name, as he would have known his
+own quiet Garden in the luxurious groves and bowers among which the
+meetings of the School were now held.
+
+Many causes, besides the attractiveness of its doctrines, concurred, at
+this period, to render our school the most popular of any that still
+survived the glory of Greece. It may generally be observed, that the
+prevalence, in one half of a community, of very rigid notions on the
+subject of religion, produces the opposite extreme of laxity and
+infidelity in the other; and this kind of re-action it was that now mainly
+contributed to render the doctrines of the Garden the most fashionable
+philosophy of the day. The rapid progress of the Christian faith had
+alarmed all those, who, either from piety or worldliness, were interested
+in the continuance of the old established creed--all who believed in the
+Deities of Olympus, and all who lived by them. The consequence was, a
+considerable increase of zeal and activity, throughout the constituted
+authorities and priesthood of the whole Heathen world. What was wanting in
+sincerity of belief was made up in rigour;--the weakest parts of the
+Mythology were those, of course, most angrily defended, and any
+reflections, tending to bring Saturn, or his wife Ops, into contempt, were
+punished with the utmost severity of the law.
+
+In this state of affairs, between the alarmed bigotry of the declining
+Faith, and the simple, sublime austerity of her rival, it was not
+wonderful that those lovers of ease and pleasure, who had no interest,
+reversionary or otherwise, in the old religion, and were too indolent to
+enquire into the sanctions of the new, should take refuge from the
+severities of both under the shelter of a luxurious philosophy, which,
+leaving to others the task of disputing about the future, centered all its
+wisdom in the full enjoyment of the present.
+
+The sectaries of the Garden had, ever since the death of their founder,
+been accustomed to dedicate to his memory the twentieth day of every
+month. To these monthly rites had, for some time, been added a grand
+annual Festival, in commemoration of his birth. The feasts, given on this
+occasion by my predecessors in the Chair, had been invariably
+distinguished for their taste and splendour; and it was my ambition, not
+merely to imitate this example, but even to render the anniversary, now
+celebrated under my auspices, so brilliant, as to efface the recollection
+of all that went before it.
+
+Seldom, indeed, had Athens witnessed such a scene. The grounds that formed
+the original site of the Garden had, from time to time, received
+considerable additions; and the whole extent was laid out with that
+perfect taste, which knows how to wed Nature to Art, without sacrificing
+her simplicity to the alliance. Walks, leading through wildernesses of
+shade and fragrance--glades, opening, as if to afford a play-ground for the
+sunshine--temples, rising on the very spots where imagination herself would
+have called them up, and fountains and lakes, in alternate motion and
+repose, either wantonly courting the verdure, or calmly sleeping in its
+embrace,--such was the variety of feature that diversified these fair
+gardens; and, animated as they were on this occasion, by all the living
+wit and loveliness of Athens, it afforded a scene such as my own youthful
+fancy, rich as it was then in images of luxury and beauty, could hardly
+have anticipated.
+
+The ceremonies of the day began with the very dawn, when, according to the
+form of simpler and better times, those among the disciples who had
+apartments within the Garden, bore the image of our Founder in procession
+from chamber to chamber, chanting verses in praise of--what had long ceased
+to be objects of our imitation--his frugality and temperance.
+
+Round a beautiful lake, in the centre of the garden, stood four white
+Doric temples, in one of which was collected a library containing all the
+flowers of Grecian literature; while, in the remaining three,
+Conversation, the Song, and the Dance, held, uninterrupted by each other,
+their respective rites. In the Library stood busts of all the most
+illustrious Epicureans, both of Rome and Greece--Horace, Atticus, Pliny the
+elder, the poet Lucretius, Lucian, and the biographer of the Philosophers,
+lately lost to us, Diogenes Laertius. There were also the portraits, in
+marble, of all the eminent female votaries of the school--Leontium and her
+fair daughter Danae, Themista, Phil�nis, and others.
+
+It was here that, in my capacity of Heresiarch, on the morning of the
+Festival, I received the felicitations of the day from some of the fairest
+lips of Athens; and, in pronouncing the customary oration to the memory of
+our Master (in which it was usual to dwell on the doctrines he inculcated)
+endeavoured to attain that art, so useful before such an audience, of
+diffusing over the gravest subjects a charm, which secures them listeners
+even among the simplest and most volatile.
+
+Though study, as may easily be supposed, engrossed but little of the
+mornings of the Garden, yet the lighter part of learning,--that portion of
+its attic honey, for which the bee is not obliged to go very deep into the
+flower--was zealously cultivated. Even here, however, the student had to
+encounter distractions, which are, of all others, least favourable to
+composure of thought; and, with more than one of my fair disciples, there
+used to occur such scenes as the following, which a poet of the Garden,
+taking his picture from the life, described:--
+
+  "As o'er the lake, in evening's glow,
+    That temple threw its lengthening shade,
+  Upon the marble steps below,
+    There sate a fair Corinthian maid,
+  Gracefully o'er some volume bending;
+    While, by her side, the youthful Sage
+  Held back her ringlets, lest, descending,
+    They should o'er-shadow all the page."
+
+But it was for the evening of that day, that the richest of our luxuries
+were reserved. Every part of the Garden was illuminated, with the most
+skilful variety of lustre; while over the Lake of the Temples were
+scattered wreaths of flowers, through which boats, filled with beautiful
+children, floated, as through a liquid parterre.
+
+Between two of these boats a perpetual combat was maintained;--their
+respective commanders, two blooming youths, being habited to represent
+Eros and Anteros; the former, the Celestial Love of the Platonists, and
+the latter, that more earthly spirit, which usurps the name of Love among
+the Epicureans. Throughout the evening their conflict was carried on with
+various success; the timid distance at which Eros kept from his more
+lively antagonist being his only safeguard against those darts of fire,
+with showers of which the other continually assailed him, but which,
+luckily falling short of their mark upon the lake, only scorched the
+flowers upon which they fell, and were extinguished.
+
+In another part of the gardens, on a wide verdant glade, lighted only by
+the moon, an imitation of the torch-race of the Panathen�a was performed,
+by young boys chosen for their fleetness, and arrayed with wings, like
+Cupids; while, not far off, a group of seven nymphs, with each a star on
+her forehead, represented the movements of the planetary choir, and
+embodied the dream of Pythagoras into real motion and song.
+
+At every turning some new enchantment broke upon the ear or eye.
+Sometimes, from the depth of a grove, from which a fountain at the same
+time issued, there came a strain of music, which, mingling with the murmur
+of the water, seemed like the voice of the spirit that presided over its
+flow;--while sometimes the strain rose breathing from among flowers; and,
+again, would appear to come suddenly from under ground, as if the foot had
+just touched some spring that set it in motion.
+
+It seems strange that I should now dwell upon these minute descriptions;
+but every thing connected with that memorable night--even its long-repented
+follies--must for ever live sacredly in my memory. The festival concluded
+with a banquet, at which I, of course, presided; and, feeling myself to be
+the ascendant spirit of the whole scene, gave life to all around me, and
+saw my own happiness reflected in that of others.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. II.
+
+
+The festival was over;--the sounds of the song and dance had ceased, and I
+was now left in those luxurious gardens, alone. Though so ardent and
+active a votary of pleasure, I had, by nature, a disposition full of
+melancholy;--an imagination that presented sad thoughts, even in the midst
+of mirth and happiness, and threw the shadow of the future over the gayest
+illusions of the present. Melancholy was, indeed, twin-born in my soul
+with Passion; and, not even in the fullest fervour of the latter, were
+they separated. From the first moment that I was conscious of thought and
+feeling, the same dark thread had run across the web; and images of death
+and annihilation mingled themselves with the most smiling scenes through
+which my career of enjoyment led me. My very passion for pleasure but
+deepened these gloomy fancies. For, shut out, as I was by my creed, from a
+future life, and having no hope beyond the narrow horizon of this, every
+minute of delight assumed a mournful preciousness in my eyes, and
+pleasure, like the flower of the cemetery, grew but more luxuriant from
+the neighbourhood of death.
+
+This very night my triumph, my happiness had seemed complete. I had been
+the presiding genius of that voluptuous scene. Both my ambition and my
+love of pleasure had drunk deep of the cup for which they thirsted. Looked
+up to by the learned, and loved by the beautiful and the young, I had
+seen, in every eye that met mine, either the acknowledgment of triumphs
+already won, or the promise of others, still brighter, that awaited me.
+Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented
+themselves;--the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant
+recurred to my mind. Those hands I had prest--those eyes, in which I had
+seen sparkling, a spirit of light and life that should never die--those
+voices, that had talked of eternal love--all, all, I felt, were but a
+mockery of the moment, and would leave nothing eternal but the silence of
+their dust!
+
+  Oh, were it not for this sad voice,
+    Stealing amid our mirth to say,
+  That all, in which we most rejoice,
+    Ere night may be the earth-worm's prey;--
+  _But_ for this bitter--only this--
+  Full as the world is brimm'd with bliss,
+  And capable as feels my soul
+  Of draining to its depth the whole,
+  I should turn earth to heaven, and be,
+  If bliss made gods, a deity!
+
+Such was the description I gave of my own feelings, in one of those wild,
+passionate songs, to which this ferment of my spirits, between mirth and
+melancholy, gave birth.
+
+Seldom had my heart more fully abandoned itself to such vague sadness than
+at the present moment, when, as I paced thoughtfully among the fading
+lights and flowers of the banquet, the echo of my own step was all that
+sounded, where so many gay forms had lately been revelling. The moon was
+still up, the morning had not yet glimmered, and the calm glories of night
+still rested on all around. Unconscious whither my pathway led, I wandered
+along, till I, at length, found myself before that fair statue of Venus,
+with which the chisel of Alcamenes had embellished our Garden;--that image
+of deified woman, the only idol to which I had ever bent the knee. Leaning
+against the pedestal, I raised my eyes to heaven, and fixing them sadly
+and intently on the ever-burning stars, as if I sought to read the
+mournful secret in their light, asked, wherefore was it that Man alone
+must perish, while they, less wonderful, less glorious than he, lived on
+in light unchangeable and for ever!--"Oh, that there were some spell, some
+talisman," I exclaimed, "to make the spirit within us deathless as those
+stars, and open to its desires a career like theirs, burning and boundless
+throughout all time!"
+
+While I gave myself up to this train of thought, that lassitude which
+earthly pleasure, however sweet, leaves behind,--as if to show how earthly
+it is,--came drowsily over me, and I sunk at the base of the statue to
+sleep.
+
+Even in sleep, however, my fancy was still busy; and a dream, so vivid as
+to leave behind it the impression of reality, thus passed through my mind.
+I thought myself transported to a wide desert plain, where nothing seemed
+to breathe, or move, or live. The very sky above it looked pale and
+extinct, giving the idea, not of darkness, but of light that had died;
+and, had that region been the remains of some older world, left broken up
+and sunless, it could not have looked more dead and desolate. The only
+thing that bespoke life, in this melancholy waste, was a small moving
+spark, that at first glimmered in the distance, but, at length, slowly
+approached the spot where I stood. As it drew nearer, I could perceive
+that its feeble gleam was from a taper in the hand of a pale venerable
+man, who now stood, like a messenger from the grave, before me. After a
+few moments of awful silence, during which he looked at me with a sadness
+that thrilled my very soul, he said,--"Thou, who seekest eternal life, go
+unto the shores of the dark Nile--go unto the shores of the dark Nile, and
+thou wilt find the eternal life thou seekest!"
+
+No sooner had he said these words than the death-like hue of his cheek
+brightened into a smile of more than human promise. The small torch that
+he held sent forth a radiance, by which suddenly the whole surface of the
+desert was illuminated, even to the far horizon's edge, along whose line
+were now seen gardens, palaces, and spires, all bright and golden, like
+the architecture of the clouds at sunset. Sweet music, too, was heard
+every where, floating around, and, from all sides, such varieties of
+splendour poured, that, with the excess both of harmony and of light, I
+woke.
+
+That infidels should be superstitious is an anomaly neither unusual nor
+strange. A belief in superhuman agency seems natural and necessary to the
+mind; and, if not suffered to flow in the obvious channels, it will find a
+vent in some other. Hence, many who have doubted the existence of a God,
+have yet implicitly placed themselves under the patronage of Fate or the
+stars. Much the same inconsistency I was conscious of in my own feelings.
+Though rejecting all belief in a Divine Providence, I had yet a faith in
+dreams, that all my philosophy could not conquer. Nor was experience
+wanting to confirm me in my delusion; for, by some of those accidental
+coincidences, which make the fortune of soothsayers and prophets, dreams,
+more than once, had been to me
+
+  Oracles, truer far than oak,
+  Or dove, or tripod, ever spoke.
+
+It was not wonderful, therefore, that the vision of that night, touching,
+as it did, a chord so ready to vibrate, should have affected me with more
+than ordinary power, and sunk deeper into my memory with every effort I
+made to forget it. In vain did I mock at my own weakness;--such self-
+derision is seldom sincere. In vain did I pursue my accustomed pleasures.
+Their zest was, as usual, for ever new; but still came the saddening
+consciousness of mortality, and, with it, the recollection of this
+visionary promise, to which my fancy, in defiance of my reason, still
+clung.
+
+Sometimes indulging in reveries, that were little else than a continuation
+of my dream, I even contemplated the possible existence of some secret, by
+which youth might be, if not perpetuated, at least prolonged, and that
+dreadful vicinity of death, within whose circle love pines and pleasure
+sickens, might be for a while averted. "Who knows," I would ask, "but that
+in Egypt, that land of wonders, where Mystery hath yet unfolded but half
+her treasures,--where so many dark secrets of the antediluvian world still
+remain, undeciphered, upon the pillars of Seth--who knows but some charm,
+some amulet, may lie hid, whose discovery, as this phantom hath promised,
+but waits my coming--some compound of the same pure atoms, that scintillate
+in the eternal stars, and whose infusion into the frame of man might make
+him, too, fadeless and immortal!"
+
+Thus did I fondly speculate, in those rambling moods, when the life of
+excitement which I led, acting upon a warm heart and vivid fancy, produced
+an intoxication of spirit, during which I was not wholly myself. This
+bewilderment, too, was not a little increased by the constant struggle
+between my own natural feelings, and the cold, mortal creed of my sect, in
+endeavouring to escape from whose deadening bondage I but broke loose into
+the realms of romance and fantasy.
+
+Even, however, in my calmest and soberest moments, that strange vision
+perpetually haunted me. In vain were all my efforts to chase it from my
+mind; and the deliberate conclusion to which I came at last, was, that
+without, at least, a visit to Egypt, I could not rest, nor, till convinced
+of my folly by disappointment, be reasonable. I, therefore, announced
+without delay to my associates of the Garden, the intention which I had
+formed to pay a visit to the land of Pyramids. To none of them did I dare
+to confess the vague, visionary impulse that actuated me. Knowledge was
+the object that I alleged, while Pleasure was that for which they gave me
+credit. The interests of the School, it was apprehended, would suffer by
+my absence; and there were some tenderer ties, which had still more to
+fear from separation. But for the former inconvenience a temporary remedy
+was provided; while the latter a skilful distribution of vows and sighs
+alleviated. Being furnished with recommendatory letters to all parts of
+Egypt, in the summer of the year 257, A.D. I set sail for Alexandria.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. III.
+
+
+To one, who extracted such sweets from every moment on land, a sea-voyage,
+however smooth and favourable, appeared the least agreeable mode of losing
+time that could be devised. Often did my imagination, in passing some isle
+of those seas, people it with fair forms and kind hearts, to whom most
+willingly, if I might, would I have paused to pay homage. But the wind
+blew direct towards the land of Mystery; and, still more, I heard a voice
+within me, whispering for ever "On."
+
+As we approached the coast of Egypt, our course became less prosperous;
+and we had a specimen of the benevolence of the divinities of the Nile, in
+the shape of a storm, or rather whirlwind, which had nearly sunk our
+vessel, and which, the Egyptians on board said, was the work of their God,
+Typhon. After a day and night of danger, during which we were driven out
+of our course to the eastward, some benigner influence prevailed above;
+and, at length, as the morning freshly broke, we saw the beautiful city of
+Alexandria rising from the sea, with its Palace of Kings, its portico of
+four hundred columns, and the fair Pillar of Pillars, towering up to
+heaven in the midst.
+
+After passing in review this splendid vision, we shot rapidly round the
+Rock of Pharos, and, in a few minutes, found ourselves in the harbour of
+Eunostus. The sun had risen, but the light on the Great Tower of the Rock
+was still burning; and there was a languor in the first waking movements
+of that voluptuous city--whose houses and temples lay shining in silence
+round the harbour--that sufficiently attested the festivities of the
+preceding night.
+
+We were soon landed on the quay; and, as I walked, through a line of
+palaces and shrines, up the street which leads from the sea to the Gate of
+Canopus, fresh as I was from the contemplation of my own lovely Athens, I
+felt a glow of admiration at the scene around me, which its novelty, even
+more than its magnificence, inspired. Nor were the luxuries and delights,
+which such a city promised, among the least of the considerations on which
+my fancy, at that moment, dwelt. On the contrary, every thing around
+seemed prophetic of future pleasure. The very forms of the architecture,
+to my Epicurean imagination, appeared to call up images of living grace;
+and even the dim seclusion of the temples and groves spoke only of tender
+mysteries to my mind. As the whole bright scene grew animated around me, I
+felt that though Egypt might not enable me to lengthen life, she could
+teach the next best art,--that of multiplying its enjoyments.
+
+The population of Alexandria, at this period, consisted of the most motley
+miscellany of nations, religions, and sects, that had ever been brought
+together in one city. Beside the school of the Grecian Platonist was seen
+the oratory of the cabalistic Jew; while the church of the Christian
+stood, undisturbed, over the crypts of the Egyptian Hierophant. Here, the
+adorer of Fire, from the east, laughed at the superstition of the
+worshipper of cats, from the west. Here Christianity, too, unluckily, had
+learned to emulate the vagaries of Paganism; and while, on one side, her
+Ophite professor was seen kneeling down gravely before his serpent, on the
+other, a Nicosian was, as gravely, contending that there was no chance of
+salvation out of the pale of the Greek alphabet. Still worse, the
+uncharitableness of Christian schism was already distinguishing itself
+with equal vigour; and I heard of nothing, on my arrival, but the rancour
+and hate, with which the Greek and Latin churchmen persecuted each other,
+because, forsooth, the one fasted on the seventh day of the week, and the
+others fasted upon the fourth and sixth!
+
+To none of those religions or sects, however, except for purposes of
+ridicule, did I pay much attention. I was now in the most luxurious city
+of the universe, and gave way, without reserve, to the seductions that
+surrounded me. My reputation, as a philosopher and a man of pleasure, had
+preceded me; and Alexandria, the second Athens of the world, welcomed me
+as her own. My celebrity, indeed, was as a talisman, that opened hearts
+and doors at my approach. The usual noviciate of acquaintance was
+dispensed with in my favour, and not only intimacies, but loves and
+friendships, ripened in my path, as rapidly as vegetation springs up where
+the Nile has flowed. The dark beauty of the Egyptian women had a novelty
+in my eyes that enhanced its other charms; and that hue of the sun on
+their rounded cheeks was but an earnest of the ardour he had kindled in
+their hearts--
+
+  Th' imbrowning of the fruit, that tells
+  How rich within the soul of sweetness dwells.
+
+Some weeks rolled on in such perpetual and ever-changing pleasures, that
+even the melancholy voice in my heart, though it still spoke, was but
+seldom listened to, and soon died away in the sound of the siren songs
+that surrounded me. At length, however, as the novelty of these scenes
+wore off, the same gloomy bodings began to mingle with all my joys; and an
+incident that occurred, during one of my gayest revels, conduced still
+more to deepen their gloom.
+
+The celebration of the annual festival of Serapis took place during my
+stay, and I was, more than once, induced to mingle with the gay
+multitudes, that crowded to his shrine at Canopus on the occasion. Day and
+night, while this festival lasted, the canal, which led from Alexandria to
+Canopus, was covered with boats full of pilgrims of both sexes, all
+hastening to avail themselves of this pious licence, which lent the zest
+of a religious sanction to pleasure, and gave a holiday to the passions of
+earth, in honour of heaven.
+
+I was returning, one lovely night, to Alexandria. The north wind, that
+welcome visitor, freshened the air, while the banks, on either side, sent
+forth, from groves of orange and henna, the most delicious odours. As I
+had left all the crowd behind me at Canopus, there was not a boat to be
+seen on the canal but my own; and I was just yielding to the thoughts
+which solitude at such an hour inspires, when my reveries were broken by
+the sound of some female voices, coming, mingled with laughter and
+screams, from the garden of a pavilion, that stood, brilliantly
+illuminated, upon the bank of the canal.
+
+On rowing nearer, I perceived that both the mirth and the alarm had been
+caused by the efforts of some playful girls to reach a hedge of jasmin
+which grew near the water, and in bending towards which they had nearly
+fallen into the stream. Hastening to proffer my assistance, I soon
+recognised the voice of one of my fair Alexandrian friends, and, springing
+on the bank, was surrounded by the whole group, who insisted on my joining
+their party in the pavilion, and flinging the tendrils of jasmin, which
+they had just plucked, around me, led me, no unwilling captive, to the
+banquet-room.
+
+I found here an assemblage of the very flower of Alexandrian society. The
+unexpectedness of the meeting gave it an additional zest on both sides;
+and seldom had I felt more enlivened myself, or contributed more
+successfully to circulate life among others.
+
+Among the company were some Greek women, who, according to the fashion of
+their country, wore veils; but, as usual, rather to set off than conceal
+their beauty, some gleams of which were continually escaping from under
+the cloud. There was, however, one female, who particularly attracted my
+attention, on whose head was a chaplet of dark-coloured flowers, and who
+sat veiled and silent during the whole of the banquet. She took no share,
+I observed, in what was passing around: the viands and the wine went by
+her untouched, nor did a word that was spoken seem addressed to her ear.
+This abstraction from a scene so sparkling with gaiety, though apparently
+unnoticed by any one but myself, struck me as mysterious and strange. I
+inquired of my fair neighbour the cause of it, but she looked grave and
+was silent.
+
+In the mean time, the lyre and the cup went round; and a young maid from
+Athens, as if inspired by the presence of her countryman, took her lute,
+and sung to it some of the songs of Greece, with a feeling that bore me
+back to the banks of the Ilissus, and, even in the bosom of present
+pleasure, drew a sigh from my heart for that which had passed away. It was
+daybreak ere our delighted party rose, and unwillingly re-embarked to
+return to the city.
+
+Scarcely were we afloat, when it was discovered that the lute of the young
+Athenian had been left behind; and, with my heart still full of its sweet
+sounds, I most readily sprung on shore to seek it. I hastened to the
+banquet-room, which was now dim and solitary, except that--there, to my
+astonishment, still sat that silent figure, which had awakened my
+curiosity so strongly during the night. A vague feeling of awe came over
+me, as I now slowly approached it. There was no motion, no sound of
+breathing in that form;--not a leaf of the dark chaplet on its brow
+stirred. By the light of a dying lamp which stood before the figure, I
+raised, with a hesitating hand, the veil, and saw--what my fancy had
+already anticipated--that the shape underneath was lifeless, was a
+skeleton! Startled and shocked, I hurried back with the lute to the boat,
+and was almost as silent as that shape for the remainder of the voyage.
+
+This custom among the Egyptians of placing a mummy, or skeleton, at the
+banquet-table, had been for some time disused, except at particular
+ceremonies; and, even on such occasions, it had been the practice of the
+luxurious Alexandrians to disguise this memorial of mortality in the
+manner just described. But to me, who was wholly unprepared for such a
+spectacle, it gave a shock from which my imagination did not speedily
+recover. This silent and ghastly witness of mirth seemed to embody, as it
+were, the shadow in my own heart. The features of the grave were now
+stamped on the idea that haunted me, and this picture of what I _was to
+be_ mingled itself with the sunniest aspect of what I _was_.
+
+The memory of the dream now recurred to me more livelily than ever. The
+bright assuring smile of that venerable Spirit, and his words, "Go to the
+shores of the dark Nile, and thou wilt find the eternal life thou
+seekest," were for ever before my mind. But as yet, alas, I had done
+nothing towards realising this splendid promise. Alexandria was not
+Egypt;--the very soil on which it stood was not in existence, when Thebes
+and Memphis already counted ages of glory.
+
+"It is beneath the Pyramids of Memphis," I exclaimed, "or in the mystic
+Halls of the Labyrinth, that I must seek those holy arcana of science, of
+which the antediluvian world has made Egypt its heir, and among
+which--blest thought!--the key to eternal life may lie."
+
+Having formed my determination, I took leave of my many Alexandrian
+friends, and departed for Memphis.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. IV.
+
+
+Egypt was the country, of all others, from that mixture of the melancholy
+and the voluptuous, which marked the character of her people, her
+religion, and her scenery, to affect deeply a temperament and fancy like
+mine, and keep tremblingly alive the sensibilities of both. Wherever I
+turned, I saw the desert and the garden, mingling their bloom and
+desolation together. I saw the love-bower and the tomb standing side by
+side, and pleasure and death keeping hourly watch upon each other. In the
+very luxury of the climate there was the same saddening influence. The
+monotonous splendour of the days, the solemn radiance of the nights--all
+tended to cherish that ardent melancholy, the offspring of passion and of
+thought, which had so long been the inmate of my soul.
+
+When I sailed from Alexandria, the inundation of the Nile was at its full.
+The whole valley of Egypt lay covered by its flood; and, as I saw around
+me, in the light of the setting sun, shrines, palaces, and monuments,
+encircled by the waters, I could almost fancy that I beheld the sinking
+island of Atalantis, on the last evening its temples were visible above
+the wave. Such varieties, too, of animation as presented themselves on
+every side!--
+
+  While, far as sight can reach, beneath as clear
+  And blue a heaven as ever bless'd this sphere,
+  Gardens, and pillar'd streets, and porphyry domes,
+  And high-built temples, fit to be the homes
+  Of mighty gods, and pyramids, whose hour
+  Outlasts all time, above the waters tower!
+
+  Then, too, the scenes of pomp and joy, that make
+  One theatre of this vast, peopled lake,
+  Where all that Love, Religion, Commerce gives
+  Of life and motion, ever moves and lives.
+  Here, up the steps of temples, from the wave
+  Ascending, in procession slow and grave,
+  Priests, in white garments, go, with sacred wands
+  And silver cymbals gleaming in their hands:
+  While, there, rich barks--fresh from those sunny tracts
+  Far off, beyond the sounding cataracts--
+  Glide with their precious lading to the sea,
+  Plumes of bright birds, rhinoceros' ivory,
+  Gems from the isle of Mer�e, and those grains
+  Of gold, wash'd down by Abyssinian rains.
+
+  Here, where the waters wind into a bay
+  Shadowy and cool, some pilgrims, on their way
+  To Sa�s or Bubastus, among beds
+  Of lotus-flowers, that close above their heads,
+  Push their light barks, and hid, as in a bower,
+  Sing, talk, or sleep away the sultry hour;
+  While haply, not far off, beneath a bank
+  Of blossoming acacias, many a prank
+  Is play'd in the cool current by a train
+  Of laughing nymphs, lovely as she, whose chain
+  Around two conquerors of the world was cast,
+  But, for a third too feeble, broke at last!
+
+Enchanted with the whole scene, I lingered on my voyage, visiting all
+those luxurious and venerable places, whose names have been consecrated by
+the wonder of ages. At Sa�s I was present during her Festival of Lamps,
+and read, by the blaze of innumerable lights, those sublime words on the
+temple of Neitha: "I am all that has been, that is, and that will be, and
+no man hath ever lifted my veil." I wandered among the prostrate obelisks
+of Heliopolis, and saw, not without a sigh, the sun smiling over her
+ruins, as if in mockery of the mass of perishable grandeur, that had once
+called itself, in its pride, "The City of the Sun." But to the Isle of the
+Golden Venus was my fondest pilgrimage;--and as I explored its shades,
+where bowers are the only temples, I felt how far more fit to form the
+shrine of a Deity are the ever-living stems of the garden and the grove,
+than the most precious columns that the inanimate quarry can supply.
+
+Every where new pleasures, new interests awaited me; and though
+Melancholy, as usual, stood always near, her shadow fell but half-way over
+my vagrant path, and left the rest more welcomely brilliant from the
+contrast. To relate my various adventures, during this short voyage, would
+only detain me from events, far, far more worthy of record. Amidst such
+endless variety of attractions, the great object of my journey was
+forgotten;--the mysteries of this land of the sun were, to me, as much
+mysteries as ever, and I had as yet been initiated in nothing but its
+pleasures.
+
+It was not till that evening, when I first stood before the Pyramids of
+Memphis, and saw them towering aloft, like the watch-towers of Time, from
+whose summit, when he expires, he will look his last,--it was not till this
+moment that the great secret, of which I had dreamed, again rose, in all
+its inscrutable darkness, upon my thoughts. There was a solemnity in the
+sunshine that rested upon those monuments--a stillness, as of reverence, in
+the air around them, that stole, like the music of past times, into my
+heart. I thought what myriads of the wise, the beautiful, and the brave,
+had sunk into dust since earth first beheld those wonders; and, in the
+sadness of my soul, I exclaimed,--"Must man alone, then, perish? must minds
+and hearts be annihilated, while pyramids endure? Death, Death, even on
+these everlasting tablets,--the only approach to immortality that kings
+themselves could purchase,--thou hast written our doom, saying, awfully and
+intelligibly, 'There is, for man, no eternal mansion, but the tomb!'"
+
+My heart sunk at the thought; and, for the moment, I yielded to that
+desolate feeling, which overspreads the soul that hath no light from the
+future. But again the buoyancy of my nature prevailed, and again, the
+willing dupe of vain dreams, I deluded myself into the belief of all that
+I most wished, with that happy facility which makes imagination stand in
+place of happiness. "Yes," I cried, "immortality _must_ be within man's
+reach; and, as wisdom alone is worthy of such a blessing, to the wise
+alone must the secret have been revealed. Deep, it is said, under yonder
+pyramid, has for ages lain concealed the Table of Emerald, on which the
+Thrice-Great Hermes engraved, before the flood, the secret of Alchemy,
+that gives gold at will. Why may not the mightier, the more god-like
+secret, that gives life at will, be recorded there also? It was by the
+power of gold, of endless gold, that the kings, who repose in those massy
+structures, scooped earth to the centre, and raised quarries into the air,
+to provide themselves with tombs that might outstand the world. Who can
+tell but that the gift of immortality was also theirs? who knows but that
+they themselves, triumphant over decay, still live--those mansions, which
+we call tombs, being rich and everlasting palaces, within whose depths,
+concealed from this withering world, they still wander, with the few who
+are sharers of their gift, through a sunless, but illuminated, elysium of
+their own? Else, wherefore those structures? wherefore that subterraneous
+realm, by which the whole valley of Egypt is undermined? Why, else, those
+labyrinths, which none of earth hath ever beheld--which none of heaven,
+except that God, with the finger on his hushed lip, hath trodden!"
+
+While I indulged in these dreams, the sun, half sunk beneath the horizon,
+was taking, calmly and gloriously, his leave of the Pyramids,--as he had
+done, evening after evening, for ages, till they had become familiar to
+him as the earth itself. On the side turned to his ray they now presented
+a front of dazzling whiteness, while, on the other, their great shadows,
+lengthening to the eastward, looked like the first steps of Night,
+hastening to envelope the hills of Araby in her shade.
+
+No sooner had the last gleam of the sun disappeared, than, on every house-
+top in Memphis, gay, gilded banners were seen waving aloft, to proclaim
+his setting,--while a full burst of harmony pealed from all the temples
+along the shores.
+
+Startled from my musing by these sounds, I at once recollected, that, on
+that very evening, the great festival of the Moon was to be celebrated. On
+a little island, half-way over between the gardens of Memphis and the
+eastern shore, stood the temple of that goddess,
+
+                 Whose beams
+  Bring the sweet time of night-flowers and dreams.
+  _Not_ the cold Dian of the North, who chains
+  In vestal ice the current of young veins;
+  But she, who haunts the gay, Bubastian grove,
+  And owns she sees, from her bright heav'n above,
+  Nothing on earth, to match that heav'n, but love!
+
+Thus did I exclaim, in the words of one of their own Egyptian poets, as,
+anticipating the various delights of the festival, I cast away from my
+mind all gloomy thoughts, and, hastening to my little bark, in which I now
+lived, like a Nile-bird, on the waters, steered my course to the island-
+temple of the Moon.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CHAP. V.
+
+
+The rising of the Moon, slow and majestic, as if conscious of the honours
+that awaited her upon earth, was welcomed with a loud acclaim from every
+eminence, where multitudes stood watching for her first light. And seldom
+had she risen upon a scene more beautiful. Memphis,--still grand, though no
+longer the unrivalled Memphis, that had borne away from Thebes the crown
+of supremacy, and worn it undisputed through so many centuries,--now,
+softened by the moonlight that harmonised with her decline, shone forth
+among her lakes, her pyramids, and her shrines, like a dream of glory that
+was soon to pass away. Ruin, even now, was but too visible around her. The
+sands of the Libyan desert gained upon her like a sea; and, among solitary
+columns and sphinxes, already half sunk from sight, Time seemed to stand
+waiting, till all, that now flourished around, should fall beneath his
+desolating hand, like the rest.
+
+On the waters all was life and gaiety. As far as eye could reach, the
+lights of innumerable boats were seen, studding, like rubies, the surface
+of the stream. Vessels of all kinds,--from the light coracle, built for
+shooting down the cataracts, to the large yacht that glides to the sound
+of flutes,--all were afloat for this sacred festival, filled with crowds of
+the young and the gay, not only from Memphis and Babylon, but from cities
+still farther removed from the scene.
+
+As I approached the island, I could see, glittering through the trees on
+the bank, the lamps of the pilgrims hastening to the ceremony. Landing in
+the direction which those lights pointed out, I soon joined the crowd;
+and, passing through a long alley of sphinxes, whose spangling marble
+shone out from the dark sycamores around them, in a short time reached the
+grand vestibule of the temple, where I found the ceremonies of the evening
+already commenced.
+
+In this vast hall, which was surrounded by a double range of columns, and
+lay open over-head to the stars of heaven, I saw a group of young maidens,
+moving in a sort of measured step, between walk and dance, round a small
+shrine, upon which stood one of those sacred birds, that, on account of
+the variegated colour of their wings, are dedicated to the moon. The
+vestibule was dimly lighted,--there being but one lamp of naptha on each of
+the great pillars that encircled it. But, having taken my station beside
+one of those pillars, I had a distinct view of the young dancers, as in
+succession they passed me.
+
+Their long, graceful drapery was as white as snow; and each wore loosely,
+beneath the rounded bosom, a dark-blue zone, or bandelet, studded, like
+the skies at midnight, with little silver stars. Through their dark locks
+was wreathed the white lily of the Nile,--that flower being accounted as
+welcome to the moon, as the golden blossoms of the bean-flower are to the
+sun. As they passed under the lamp, a gleam of light flashed from their
+bosoms, which, I could perceive, was the reflection of a small mirror,
+that, in the manner of the women of the East, each wore beneath her left
+shoulder.
+
+There was no music to regulate their steps; but, as they gracefully went
+round the bird on the shrine, some, by the beat of the castanet, some, by
+the shrill ring of the sistrum,--which they held uplifted in the attitude
+of their own divine Isis,--harmoniously timed the cadence of their feet;
+while others, at every step, shook a small chain of silver, whose sound,
+mingling with those of the castanets and sistrums, produced a wild, but
+not an unpleasing harmony.
+
+They seemed all lovely; but there was one--whose face the light had not yet
+reached, so downcast she held it,--who attracted, and, at length, riveted
+all my attention. I knew not why, but there was a something in those half-
+seen features,--a charm in the very shadow, that hung over their imagined
+beauty,--which took me more than all the out-shining loveliness of her
+companions. So enchained was my fancy by this coy mystery, that her alone,
+of all the group, could I either see or think of--her alone I watched, as,
+with the same downcast brow, she glided round the altar, gently and
+a�rially, as if her presence, like that of a spirit, was something to be
+felt, not seen.
+
+Suddenly, while I gazed, the loud crash of a thousand cymbals was
+heard;--the massy gates of the Temple flew open, as if by magic, and a
+flood of radiance from the illuminated aisle filled the whole vestibule;
+while, at the same instant, as if the light and the sounds were born
+together, a peal of rich harmony came mingling with the radiance.
+
+It was then,--by that light, which shone full upon the young maiden's
+features, as, starting at the blaze, she raised her eyes to the portal,
+and, as suddenly, let fall their lids again,--it was then I beheld, what
+even my own ardent imagination, in its most vivid dreams of beauty, had
+never pictured. Not Psyche herself, when pausing on the threshold of
+heaven, while its first glories fell on her dazzled lids, could have
+looked more beautiful, or blushed with a more innocent shame. Often as I
+had felt the power of looks, none had ever entered into my soul so far. It
+was a new feeling--a new sense--coming as suddenly as that radiance into the
+vestibule, and, at once, filling my whole being;--and had that vision but
+lingered another moment before my eyes, I should have wholly forgotten who
+I was and where, and thrown myself, in prostrate adoration, at her feet.
+
+But scarcely had that gush of harmony been heard, when the sacred bird,
+which had, till now, stood motionless as an image, expanded his wings, and
+flew into the Temple; while his graceful young worshippers, with a
+fleetness like his own, followed,--and she, who had left a dream in my
+heart never to be forgotten, vanished with the rest. As she went rapidly
+past the pillar against which I leaned, the ivy that encircled it caught
+in her drapery, and disengaged some ornament which fell to the ground. It
+was the small mirror which I had seen shining on her bosom. Hastily and
+tremulously I picked it up, and hurried to restore it;--but she was already
+lost to my eyes in the crowd.
+
+In vain I tried to follow;--the aisles were already filled, and numbers of
+eager pilgrims pressed towards the portal. But the servants of the Temple
+prevented all further entrance, and still, as I presented myself, their
+white wands barred the way. Perplexed and irritated amid that crowd of
+faces, regarding all as enemies that impeded my progress, I stood on
+tiptoe, gazing into the busy aisles, and with a heart beating as I caught,
+from time to time, a glimpse of some spangled zone, or lotus wreath, which
+led me to fancy that I had discovered the object of my search. But it was
+all in vain;--in every direction, files of sacred nymphs were moving, but
+nowhere could I see her, whom alone I sought.
+
+In this state of breathless agitation did I stand for some
+time,--bewildered with the confusion of faces and lights, as well as with
+the clouds of incense that rolled around me,--till, fevered and impatient,
+I could endure it no longer. Forcing my way out of the vestibule into the
+cool air, I hurried back through the alley of sphinxes to the shore, and
+flung myself into my boat.
+
+There is, to the north of Memphis, a solitary lake (which, at this season
+of the year, mingles with the rest of the waters,) upon whose shores
+stands the Necropolis, or City of the Dead--a place of melancholy grandeur,
+covered over with shrines and pyramids, where many a kingly head, proud
+even in death, has for ages awaited the resurrection of its glories.
+Through a range of sepulchral grots underneath, the humbler denizens of
+the tomb are deposited,--looking out on each successive generation that
+visits them, with the same face and features they wore centuries ago.
+Every plant and tree, that is consecrated to death, from the asphodel-
+flower to the mystic plantain, lends its sweetness or shadow to this place
+of tombs; and the only noise that disturbs its eternal calm, is the low
+humming sound of the priests at prayer, when a new inhabitant is added to
+the silent city.
+
+It was towards this place of death that, in a mood of mind, as usual, half
+bright, half gloomy, I now, almost unconsciously, directed my bark. The
+form of the young Priestess was continually before me. That one bright
+look of hers, the very memory of which was worth all the actual smiles of
+others, never left my mind. Absorbed in such thoughts, I rowed on, scarce
+knowing whither I went, till, startled by finding myself within the shadow
+of the City of the Dead, I looked up, and saw, rising in succession before
+me, pyramid beyond pyramid, each towering more loftily than the
+other,--while all were out-topped in grandeur by one, upon whose summit the
+moon seemed to rest, as on a pedestal.
+
+Drawing near to the shore, which was sufficiently elevated to raise this
+city of monuments above the level of the inundation, I lifted my oar, and
+let the boat rock idly on the water, while my thoughts, left equally
+without direction, fluctuated as idly. How various and vague were the
+dreams that then passed through my mind--that bright vision of the temple
+mingling itself with all! Sometimes she stood before me, like an a�rial
+spirit, as pure as if that element of music and light, into which I had
+seen her vanish, was her only dwelling. Sometimes, animated with passion,
+and kindling into a creature of earth, she seemed to lean towards me with
+looks of tenderness, which it were worth worlds, but for one instant, to
+inspire; and again--as the dark fancies, that ever haunted me, recurred--I
+saw her cold, parched, and blackening, amid the gloom of those eternal
+sepulchres before me!
+
+Turning away, with a shudder, from the cemetery at this thought, I heard
+the sound of an oar plying swiftly through the water, and, in a few
+moments, saw, shooting past me towards the shore, a small boat in which
+sat two female figures, muffled up and veiled. Having landed them not far
+from the spot where I lay,--concealed by the shadow of a monument on the
+bank,--the boat again departed, with the same fleetness, over the flood.
+
+Never had the prospect of an adventure come more welcome than at this
+moment, when my fancy was weaving such chains for my heart, as threatened
+a bondage, of all others, the most difficult to break. To become enamoured
+thus of a creature of my own imagination, was the worst, because the most
+lasting, of follies. Reality alone gives a chance of dissolving such
+spells, and the idol I was now creating to myself must for ever remain
+ideal. Any pursuit, therefore, that seemed likely to divert me from such
+thoughts--to bring back my imagination to earth and reality, from the vague
+region in which it was wandering, was a relief too seasonable not to be
+welcomed with eagerness.
+
+I had watched the course which the two figures took, and, having hastily
+fastened my boat to the bank, stepped gently on shore, and, at a little
+distance, followed them. The windings through which they led were
+intricate; but, by the bright light of the moon, I was enabled to keep
+their forms in view, as, with rapid step, they glided among the monuments.
+At length, in the shade of a small pyramid, whose peak barely surmounted
+the plane-trees that grew nigh, they vanished from my sight. I hastened to
+the spot, but there was not a sign of life around; and had my creed
+extended to another world, I might have fancied that these forms were
+spirits, sent from thence to mock me,--so instantaneously they disappeared.
+I searched through the neighbouring grove, but all there was still as
+death. At length, in examining one of the sides of the pyramid, which, for
+a few feet from the ground, was furnished with steps, I found, midway
+between peak and base, a part of the surface, which, though presenting an
+appearance of smoothness to the eye, gave to the touch, I thought,
+indications of a concealed opening.
+
+After a variety of efforts and experiments, I, at last, more by accident
+than skill, pressed the spring that commanded this mysterious aperture. In
+an instant the portal slid aside, and disclosed a narrow stair-way within,
+the two or three first steps of which were discernible by the moonlight,
+while the rest were lost in utter darkness. Though it was difficult to
+conceive that the persons whom I had followed would have ventured to pass
+through this gloomy opening, yet to account for their disappearance
+otherwise was still more difficult. At all events, my curiosity was now
+too eager in the chase to relinquish it;--the spirit of adventure, once
+raised, could not be so easily laid. Accordingly, having sent up a gay
+prayer to that bliss-loving Queen whose eye alone was upon me, I passed
+through the portal and descended into the pyramid.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. VI.
+
+
+At the bottom of the stair-way I found myself in a low, narrow passage,
+through which, without stooping almost to earth, it was impossible to
+proceed. Though leading through a multiplicity of dark windings, this way
+seemed but little to advance my progress,--its course, I perceived, being
+chiefly circular, and gathering, at every turn, but a deeper intensity of
+darkness.
+
+"Can this," I thought, "be the sojourn of any thing human?"--and had
+scarcely asked myself the question, when the path opened into a long
+gallery, at the farthest end of which a gleam of light was visible. This
+welcome glimmer appeared to come from some cell or alcove, in which the
+right-hand wall of the gallery terminated, and, breathless with
+expectation, I stole gently towards it.
+
+Arrived at the end of the gallery, a scene presented itself to my eyes,
+for which my fondest expectations of adventure could not have prepared me.
+The place from which the light proceeded was a small chapel, of whose
+interior, from the dark recess in which I stood, I had, unseen myself, a
+full and distinct view. Over the walls of this oratory were painted some
+of those various symbols, by which the mystic wisdom of the Egyptians
+loves to shadow out the History of the Soul--the winged globe with a
+serpent,--the rays descending from above, like a glory, and the Theban
+beetle, as he comes forth, after the waters have passed away, and the
+first sunbeam falls on his regenerated wings.
+
+In the middle of the chapel stood a low altar of granite, on which lay a
+lifeless female form, enshrined within a case of crystal,--as they preserve
+their dead in Ethiopia,--and looking as freshly beautiful as if the soul
+had but a few hours departed. Among the emblems of death, on the front of
+the altar, were a slender lotus-branch, broken in two, and a bird, just
+winging its flight from the spray.
+
+To these memorials of the dead, however, I but little attended; for there
+was a living object there upon which my eyes were most intently fixed.
+
+The lamp, by which the whole of the chapel was illuminated, was placed at
+the head of the pale image in the shrine; and, between its light and me,
+stood a female form, bending over the monument, as if to gaze upon the
+silent features within. The position in which this figure was placed,
+intercepting a strong light, afforded me, at first, but an imperfect and
+shadowy view of it. Yet even at this mere outline my heart beat high,--and
+memory, as it proved, had as much share in this feeling as imagination.
+For, on the head changing its position, so as to let a gleam fall on the
+features, I saw with a transport, which had almost led me to betray my
+lurking-place, that it was she--the young worshipper of Isis--the same, the
+very same, whom I had seen, brightening the holy place where she stood,
+and looking like an inhabitant of some purer world.
+
+The movement, by which she had now given me an opportunity of recognising
+her, was made in raising from the shrine a small cross(2) of silver, which
+lay directly over the bosom of the lifeless figure. Bringing it close to
+her lips, she kissed it with a religious fervour; then, turning her eyes
+mournfully upwards, held them fixed with an inspired earnestness, as if,
+at that moment, in direct communion with heaven, they saw neither roof,
+nor any other earthly barrier between them and the skies.
+
+What a power hath innocence, whose very helplessness is its safeguard--in
+whose presence even Passion himself stands abashed, and turns worshipper
+at the altar which he came to despoil. She, who, but a short hour before,
+had presented herself to my imagination, as something I could have risked
+immortality to win--she, whom gladly, from the floor of her own lighted
+temple, in the very face of its proud ministers, I would have borne away
+in triumph, and defied all punishments, both human and sacred, to make her
+mine,--she was now before me, thrown, as if by fate itself, into my
+power--standing there, beautiful and alone, with nothing but her innocence
+for her guard! Yet, no--so touching was the purity of the whole scene, so
+calm and august that protection which the dead seemed to extend over the
+living, that every earthlier feeling was forgotten as I gazed, and love
+itself became exalted into reverence.
+
+Entranced, indeed, as I felt in witnessing such a scene, thus to enjoy it
+by stealth, seemed a wrong, a sacrilege--and, rather than let her eyes meet
+the flash of mine, or disturb, by a whisper, that sacred silence, in which
+Youth and Death held communion through Love, I would have let my heart
+break, without a murmur, where I stood. Gently, as if life depended upon
+every movement, I stole away from that tranquil and holy scene--leaving it
+still tranquil and holy as I found it--and, gliding back through the same
+passages and windings by which I had entered, regained the narrow stair-
+way, and again ascended into light.
+
+The sun had just risen, and, from the summit of the Arabian hills, was
+pouring down his beams into that vast valley of waters,--as if proud of the
+homage that had been paid to his own Isis, now fading away in the superior
+light of her Lord. My first impulse was to fly from this dangerous spot,
+and in new loves and pleasures seek forgetfulness of the scene which I had
+witnessed. "Once out of the circle of this enchantment," I exclaimed, "I
+know my own susceptibility to new impressions too well, to doubt that I
+shall soon break the spell that is around me."
+
+But vain were my efforts and resolves. Even while I swore to fly, my steps
+were still lingering round the pyramid--my eyes still turned towards the
+secret portal, which severed this enchantress from the world of the
+living. Hour after hour did I wander through that City of Silence,--till,
+already, it was noon, and, under the sun's meridian eye, the mighty
+pyramid of pyramids stood, like a great spirit, shadowless.
+
+Again did those wild and passionate feelings, which had, for a moment,
+been subdued into reverence by her presence, return to kindle up my
+imagination and senses. I even reproached myself for the awe, that had
+held me spell-bound before her. "What would my companions of the Garden
+say, did they know that their chief,--he, whose path Love had strewed with
+trophies--was now pining for a simple Egyptian girl, in whose presence he
+had not dared to give utterance to a sigh, and who had vanquished the
+victor, without even knowing her triumph!"
+
+A blush came over my cheek at the humiliating thought, and my
+determination was fixed to await her coming. That she should be an inmate
+of those gloomy caverns seemed inconceivable; nor did there appear to be
+any issue from their depths but by the pyramid. Again, therefore, like a
+sentinel of the dead, did I pace up and down among these tombs,
+contrasting, in many a mournful reflection, the burning fever within my
+own veins with the cold quiet of those who slept around.
+
+At length the fierce glow of the sun over my head, and, still more, that
+ever restless agitation in my heart, were too much for even strength like
+mine to bear. Exhausted, I lay down at the base of the pyramid--placing
+myself directly under the portal, where, even should slumber surprise me,
+my heart, if not my ear, might still be on the watch, and her footstep,
+light as it was, could not fail to awake me.
+
+After many an ineffectual struggle against drowsiness, I at length sunk
+into sleep--but not into forgetfulness. The same image still haunted me, in
+every variety of shape, with which imagination, assisted by memory, could
+invest it. Now, like Ne�tha, upon her throne at Sa�s, she seemed to sit,
+with the veil just raised from that brow, which mortal had never, till
+then, beheld,--and now, like the beautiful enchantress Rhodope, I saw her
+rise out of the pyramid in which she had dwelt for ages,--
+
+  "Fair Rhodope, as story tells,
+  The bright, unearthly nymph, who dwells
+  Mid sunless gold and jewels hid,
+  The Lady of the Pyramid!"
+
+So long, amid that unbroken silence, did my sleep continue, that I found
+the moon again shining above the horizon, when I awoke. All around was
+silent and lifeless as before, nor did a print upon the herbage betray
+that any foot had passed it since my own. Refreshed by rest, and with a
+fancy still more excited by the mystic wonders of which I had been
+dreaming, I now resolved to revisit the chapel in the pyramid, and put an
+end, if possible, to this illusion that haunted me.
+
+Having learned from the experience of the preceding night, the
+inconvenience of encountering those labyrinths without a light, I now
+hastened to provide myself with a lamp from my boat. Tracking my way back
+with some difficulty to the shore, I there found, not only my lamp, but
+some dates and dried fruits, with a store of which, for my roving life
+upon the waters, I was always supplied,--and which now, after so many hours
+of abstinence, were a welcome and necessary relief.
+
+Thus prepared, I again ascended the pyramid, and was proceeding to search
+out the secret spring, when a loud, dismal noise was heard at a distance,
+to which all the echoes of the cemetery answered. It came, I knew, from
+the Great Temple on the shore of the Lake, and was the shriek which its
+gates--the Gates of Oblivion, as they were called--sent forth from their
+hinges, in opening at night, to receive within their precincts the newly-
+landed dead.
+
+I had heard that sound before, and always with sadness; but, at this
+moment, it thrilled through me, like a voice of ill omen, and I almost
+doubted whether I should not abandon my enterprise. The hesitation,
+however, was but momentary;--even while it passed through my mind, I had
+touched the spring of the portal. In a few seconds more, I was again in
+the passage beneath the pyramid, and being enabled by my lamp to follow
+the windings of the way more rapidly, soon found myself at the door of the
+small chapel in the gallery.
+
+I entered, still awed, though there was now nothing living within. The
+young Priestess had fled--had vanished, like a spirit, into the darkness.
+All the rest was as I had left it on the preceding night. The lamp still
+stood burning upon the crystal shrine--the cross lay where the hands of the
+young mourner had placed it, and the cold image beneath wore the same
+tranquil look, as if resigned to the solitude of death--of all lone things
+the loneliest. Remembering the lips that I had seen kiss that cross, and
+kindling with the recollection, I raised it passionately to my own;--but,
+at the same moment, I fancied the dead eyes met mine, and, saddened in the
+midst of my ardour, I replaced the cross upon the shrine.
+
+I had now lost all clue to the object of my pursuit, and was preparing
+slowly to retrace my steps to earth, with that gloomy satisfaction which
+certainty, even when unwelcome, brings,--when, as I held forth my lamp, on
+leaving the chapel, I could perceive that the gallery, instead of
+terminating here, took a sudden bend to the left, which had before eluded
+my eye, and which gave a promise of leading still further into those
+recesses. Re-animated by this discovery, which opened a new source of hope
+to my heart, I cast but one hesitating look at my lamp, as if to ask
+whether it would be faithful through the gloom I was about to encounter,
+and, without further thought, rushed eagerly forward.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. VII.
+
+
+The path led, for some time, through the same sort of narrow windings as
+those which I had encountered in descending the stair-way; and at length
+opened, in a similar manner, into a straight and steep gallery, along each
+side of which stood, closely ranged and upright, a file of lifeless
+bodies, whose glassy eyes threw a preternatural glare upon me as I passed.
+
+Arrived at the end of this gallery, I found my hopes a second time vanish.
+The path, I perceived, extended no further. The only object that I could
+discern, by the glimmering of my lamp, which now, every minute, burned
+fainter and fainter, was the mouth of a huge well, that lay gaping before
+me--a reservoir of darkness, black and unfathomable. It now crossed my
+memory that I had heard of such wells, as being used occasionally for
+passages by the Priests. Leaning down, therefore, over the edge, I looked
+anxiously within, to discover whether it was possible to descend into the
+chasm; but the sides were hard and smooth as glass, being varnished all
+over with that dark pitch, which the Dead Sea throws out on its slimy
+shore.
+
+After a more attentive scrutiny, however, I observed, at the depth of a
+few feet, a sort of iron step, projecting dimly from the side, and, below
+it, another, which, though hardly perceptible, was just sufficient to
+encourage an adventurous foot to the trial. Though all hope of tracing the
+young Priestess was at an end,--it being impossible that female foot should
+have dared this descent,--yet, as I had so far engaged in the adventure,
+and there was, at least, a mystery to be unravelled, I determined, at all
+hazards, to explore the chasm. Placing my lamp (which was hollowed at the
+bottom, so as to fit like a helmet) firmly on my head, and having thus
+both hands at liberty for exertion, I set my foot cautiously on the iron
+step, and descended into the well.
+
+I found the same footing, at regular intervals, to a considerable depth;
+and had already counted near a hundred of these steps, when the ladder
+altogether ceased, and I could descend no farther. In vain did I stretch
+down my foot in search of support--the hard, slippery sides were all that
+it encountered. At length, stooping my head, so as to let the light fall
+below, I observed an opening or window directly above the step on which I
+stood, and, taking for granted that the way must lie in that direction,
+with some little difficulty clambered through the aperture.
+
+I now found myself on a rude and narrow stair-way, the steps of which were
+cut out of the living rock, and wound spirally downward in the same
+direction as the well. Almost dizzy with the descent, which seemed as if
+it would never end, I, at last, reached the bottom, where a pair of massy
+iron gates closed directly across my path, as if to forbid any further
+progress. Massy, however, and gigantic as they were, I found, to my
+surprise, that the hand of an infant might have opened them with ease--so
+readily did their great folds give way to my touch,
+
+  "Light as a lime-bush, that receives
+  Some wandering bird among its leaves."
+
+No sooner, however, had I passed through, than the din, with which the
+gates clashed together again, was such as might have awakened death
+itself. It seemed as if every echo, throughout that vast, subterranean
+world, from the Catacombs of Alexandria to Thebes's Valley of Kings, had
+caught up and repeated the thundering sound.
+
+Startled, however, as I was, not even this supernatural clangour could
+divert my attention from the light that now broke upon me--soft, warm, and
+welcome as are the stars of his own South to the mariner who has been
+wandering through the seas of the north. Looking for the source of this
+splendour, I saw, through an archway opposite, a long illuminated alley,
+stretching away as far as the eye could reach, and fenced, on one side,
+with thickets of odoriferous shrubs, while, along the other, extended a
+line of lofty arcades, from which the light, that filled the whole area,
+issued. As soon, too, as the din of the deep echoes had subsided, there
+stole gradually on my ear a strain of choral music, which appeared to
+come, mellowed and sweetened in its passage, through many a spacious hall
+within those shining arcades. Among the voices I could distinguish some
+female tones, towering high and clear over all the rest, and forming the
+spire, as it were, into which the harmony tapered, as it rose.
+
+So excited was my fancy by this sudden enchantment, that--though never had
+I caught a sound from the young Egyptian's lips,--I yet persuaded myself
+that the voice I now heard was hers, sounding highest and most heavenly of
+all that choir, and calling to me, like a distant spirit out of its
+sphere. Animated by this thought, I flew forward to the archway, but
+found, to my mortification, that it was guarded by a trellis-work, whose
+bars, though invisible at a distance, resisted all my efforts to force
+them.
+
+While occupied in these ineffectual struggles, I perceived, to the left of
+the archway, a dark, cavernous opening, which seemed to lead in a
+direction parallel to the lighted arcades. Notwithstanding my impatience,
+however, the aspect of this passage, as I looked shudderingly into it,
+chilled my very blood. It was not so much darkness, as a sort of livid and
+ghastly twilight, from which a damp, like that of death-vaults, exhaled,
+and through which, if my eyes did not deceive me, pale, phantom-like
+shapes were, at that very moment, hovering.
+
+Looking anxiously round, to discover some less formidable outlet, I saw,
+over the vast folding-gates through which I had just passed, a blue,
+tremulous flame, which, after playing for a few seconds over the dark
+ground of the pediment, settled gradually into characters of light, and
+formed the following words:--
+
+  You, who would try
+    Yon terrible track,
+  To live, or to die,
+    But ne'er to look back--
+
+  You, who aspire
+    To be purified there,
+  By the terrors of Fire,
+    Of Water, and Air,--
+
+  If danger, and pain,
+    And death you despise,
+  On--for again
+    Into light you shall rise;
+
+  Rise into light
+    With that Secret Divine,
+  Now shrouded from sight
+    By the Veils of the Shrine!
+
+  But if----
+
+Here the letters faded away into a dead blank, more awfully intelligible
+than the most eloquent words.
+
+A new hope now flashed across me. The dream of the Garden, which had been
+for some time almost forgotten, returned to my mind. "Am I then," I
+exclaimed, "in the path to the promised mystery? and shall the great
+secret of Eternal Life _indeed_ be mine?"
+
+"Yes!" seemed to answer, out of the air, that spirit-voice, which still
+was heard crowning the choir with its single sweetness. I hailed the omen
+with transport. Love and Immortality, both beckoning me onward--who could
+give a thought to fear, with two such bright hopes in view? Having invoked
+and blessed that unknown enchantress, whose steps had led me to this abode
+of mystery and knowledge, I plunged into the chasm.
+
+Instead of that vague, spectral twilight which had at first met my eye, I
+now found, as I entered, a thick darkness, which, though far less
+horrible, was, at this moment, still more disconcerting, as my lamp, which
+had been, for some time, almost useless, was fast expiring. Resolved,
+however, to make the most of its last gleam, I hastened, with rapid step,
+through this gloomy region, which seemed wider and more open to the air
+than any that I had yet passed. Nor was it long before the appearance of a
+bright blaze in the distance announced to me that my first great Trial was
+at hand. As I drew nearer, the flames burst high and wide on all
+sides;--and the spectacle that now presented itself was such as might have
+appalled even hearts more habituated to dangers than mine.
+
+There lay before me, extending completely across my path, a thicket, or
+grove of the most combustible trees of Egypt--tamarind, pine, and Arabian
+balm. Around their stems and branches were coiled serpents of fire, which,
+twisting themselves rapidly from bough to bough, spread their own wild-
+fire as they went, and involved tree after tree in one general blaze. It
+was, indeed, rapid as the burning of those reed-beds of Ethiopia, whose
+light brightens, at night, the distant cataracts of the Nile.
+
+Through the middle of this blazing grove, I perceived, my only pathway
+lay. There was not a moment to be lost--the conflagration gained rapidly on
+either side, and already the narrowing path between was strewed with fire.
+Casting away my now useless lamp, and holding my robe as some protection
+over my head, with a tremor, I own, in every limb, I ventured through the
+blaze.
+
+Instantly, as if my presence had given new life to the flames, a fresh
+outbreak of combustion arose on all sides. The trees clustered into a
+bower of fire above my head, while the serpents, that hung hissing from
+the red branches, shot showers of sparkles down upon me, as I passed.
+Never were decision and activity more serviceable;--one minute later, and I
+must have perished. The narrow opening, of which I had so promptly availed
+myself, closed instantly behind me; and, as I looked back, to contemplate
+the ordeal which I had passed, I saw that the whole grove was already one
+mass of fire.
+
+Happy at having escaped this first trial, I plucked from one of the pine-
+trees a bough that was but just kindled, and, with this for my only guide,
+hastened breathlessly forward. I had gone but a few paces, when the path
+turned suddenly off,--leading downwards, as I could see by the glimmer of
+my brand, into a more confined space, through which a chilling air, as if
+from some neighbouring waters, blew over my brow. Nor had I proceeded very
+far, when the sound of torrents fell on my ear,--mingled, as I thought,
+from time to time, with shrill wailings, like the cries of persons in
+danger or distress. At every step the noise of the dashing waters
+increased, and I now perceived that I had entered an immense rocky cavern,
+through the middle of which, headlong as a winter-torrent, the flood, to
+whose roar I had been listening, rushed. Upon its surface, too, there
+floated strange, spectre-like shapes, which, as they went by, sent forth
+those dismal shrieks, as if in fear of some precipice to whose brink they
+were hurrying.
+
+I saw too plainly that my course must be across that torrent. It was
+fearful; but in courage lay my only hope. What awaited me on the opposite
+shore, I knew not; for all there was wrapped in impenetrable gloom, nor
+could the weak light I held reach half so far. Dismissing, however, all
+thoughts but that of pressing onward, I sprung from the rock on which I
+stood into the flood,--trusting that, with my right hand, I should be able
+to buffet the current, while, with the other, I might contrive to hold my
+brand aloft, as long as a glimmer of it remained, to guide me to the
+shore.
+
+Long and formidable was the struggle I had to maintain. More than once,
+overpowered by the rush of the waters, I had almost given myself up, as
+destined to follow those apparitions, that still passed me, hurrying, with
+mournful cries, to their doom in some invisible gulf before them.
+
+At length, just as my strength was nearly exhausted, and the last remains
+of the pine-branch were falling from my hand, I saw, outstretching towards
+me into the water, a light double balustrade, with a flight of steps
+between, ascending, almost perpendicularly, from the wave, till they
+seemed lost in a dense mass of clouds above. This glimpse--for it was no
+more, as my light expired in giving it--lent new spring to my courage.
+Having now both hands at liberty, so desperate were my efforts, that after
+a few minutes' struggle, I felt my brow strike against the stairway, and,
+in an instant more, my feet were on the steps.
+
+Rejoiced at my rescue from that perilous flood, though I knew not whither
+the stairway led, I promptly ascended it. But this feeling of confidence
+was of short duration. I had not mounted far, when, to my horror, I
+perceived, that each successive step, as my foot left it, broke away from
+beneath me,--leaving me in midair, with no other alternative than that of
+mounting still by the same momentary footing, and with the dreadful doubt
+whether it would even endure my tread.
+
+And thus did I, for a few seconds, continue to ascend, with nothing
+beneath me but that awful river, in which--so tranquil it had become--I
+could hear the plash of the falling fragments, as every step in succession
+gave way under my feet. It was a trying moment, but still worse remained.
+I now found the balustrade, by which I had held during my ascent, and
+which had hitherto seemed firm, grow tremulous in my hand,--while the step
+to which I was about to trust myself, tottered under my foot. Just then, a
+momentary flash, as if of lightning, broke around, and I saw, hanging out
+of the clouds, within my reach, a huge brazen ring. Instinctively I
+stretched forth my arm to seize it, and, at the same instant, both
+balustrade and steps gave way beneath me, and I was left swinging by my
+hands in the dark void. As if, too, this massy ring, which I grasped, was
+by some magic power linked with all the winds in heaven, no sooner had I
+seized it than, like the touching of a spring, it seemed to give loose to
+every variety of gusts and tempests, that ever strewed the sea-shore with
+wrecks or dead; and, as I swung about, the sport of this elemental strife,
+each new burst of its fury threatened to shiver me, like a storm-sail, to
+atoms!
+
+Nor was even this the worst;--still holding, I know not how, by the ring, I
+felt myself caught up, as if by a thousand whirlwinds, and round and
+round, like a stone-shot in a sling, whirled in the midst of all this
+deafening chaos, till my brain grew dizzy, and my recollection confused,
+and I almost fancied myself on that wheel of the infernal world, whose
+rotations, it is said, Eternity alone can number!
+
+Human strength could no longer sustain such a trial. I was on the point,
+at last, of loosing my hold, when suddenly the violence of the storm
+moderated;--my whirl through the air gradually ceased, and I felt the ring
+slowly descend with me, till--happy as a shipwrecked mariner at the first
+touch of land--I found my feet once more upon firm ground.
+
+At the same moment, a light of the most delicious softness filled the
+whole air. Music, such as is heard in dreams, came floating at a distance;
+and, as my eyes gradually recovered their powers of vision, a scene of
+glory was revealed to them, almost too bright for imagination, and yet
+living and real. As far as the sight could reach, enchanting gardens were
+seen, opening away through long tracts of light and verdure, and sparkling
+every where with fountains, that circulated, like streams of life, among
+the flowers. Not a charm was here wanting, that the imagination of poet or
+prophet, in their pictures of Elysium, ever yet dreamed or promised.
+Vistas, opening into scenes of indistinct grandeur,--streams, shining out
+at intervals, in their shadowy course,--and labyrinths of flowers, leading,
+by mysterious windings, to green, spacious glades, full of splendour and
+repose. Over all this, too, there fell a light, from some unseen source,
+resembling nothing that illumines our upper world--a sort of golden
+moonlight, mingling the warm radiance of day with the calm and melancholy
+lustre of night.
+
+Nor were there wanting inhabitants for this sunless Paradise. Through all
+the bright gardens were wandering, with the serene air and step of happy
+spirits, groups both of young and old, of venerable and of lovely forms,
+bearing, most of them, the Nile's white flowers on their heads, and
+branches of the eternal palm in their hands; while, over the verdant turf,
+fair children and maidens went dancing to a�rial music, whose source was,
+like that of the light, invisible, but which filled the whole air with its
+mystic sweetness.
+
+Exhausted as I was by the trials I had undergone, no sooner did I perceive
+those fair groups in the distance, than my weariness, both of frame and
+spirit, was forgotten. A thought crossed me that she, whom I sought, might
+be among them; and, notwithstanding the awe, with which that unearthly
+scene inspired me, I was about to fly, on the instant, to ascertain my
+hope. But in the act of making the effort, I felt my robe gently pulled,
+and turning, beheld an aged man before me, whom, by the sacred hue of his
+garb, I knew to be a Hierophant. Placing a branch of the consecrated palm
+in my hand, he said, in a solemn voice, "Aspirant of the Mysteries,
+welcome!"--then, regarding me for a few seconds with grave attention,
+added, in a tone of courteousness and interest, "The victory over the body
+hath been gained!--Follow me, young Greek, to thy resting place."
+
+I obeyed in silence,--and the Priest, turning away from this scene of
+splendour, into a secluded path, where the light faded away, as we
+advanced, conducted me to a small pavilion, by the side of a whispering
+stream, where the very spirit of slumber seemed to preside, and, pointing
+to a bed of dried poppy-leaves within it, left me to repose.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. VIII.
+
+
+Though the sight of that splendid scene which opened upon me, like a
+momentary glimpse into another world, had, for an instant, re-animated my
+strength and spirit, so completely had fatigue overmastered my whole
+frame, that, even had the form of the young Priestess stood before me, my
+limbs would have sunk in the effort to reach her. No sooner had I fallen
+on my leafy couch, than sleep, like a sudden death, came over me; and I
+lay, for hours, in the deep, and motionless rest, which not even a shadow
+of life disturbs.
+
+On awaking I saw, beside me, the same venerable personage, who had
+welcomed me to this subterranean world on the preceding night. At the foot
+of my couch stood a statue, of Grecian workmanship, representing a boy,
+with wings, seated gracefully on a lotus-flower, and having the forefinger
+of his right hand pressed to his lips. This action, together with the
+glory round his brows, denoted, as I already knew, the God of Silence and
+Light.
+
+Impatient to know what further trials awaited me, I was about to speak,
+when the Priest exclaimed, anxiously, "Hush!"--and pointing to this statue
+at the foot of the couch, said--"Let the spell of that Spirit be on thy
+lips, young stranger, till the wisdom of thy instructors shall think fit
+to remove it. Not unaptly doth the same god preside over Silence and
+Light; since it is only out of the depth of contemplative silence, that
+the great light of the soul, Truth, arises!"
+
+Little used to the language of dictation or instruction, I was now
+preparing to rise, when the priest again restrained me; and, at the same
+moment, two boys, beautiful as the young Genii of the stars, entered the
+pavilion. They were habited in long garments of the purest white, and bore
+each a small golden chalice in his hand. Advancing towards me, they
+stopped on opposite sides of the couch, and one of them, presenting to me
+his chalice of gold, said, in a tone between singing and speaking,--
+
+  "Drink of this cup--Osiris sips
+    The same in his halls below;
+  And the same he gives, to cool the lips
+    Of the Dead, who downward go.
+
+  "Drink of this cup--the water within
+    Is fresh from Lethe's stream;
+  'Twill make the past with all its sin,
+    And all its pain and sorrows, seem
+    Like a long-forgotten dream!
+
+  "The pleasure, whose charms
+    Are steep'd in woe;
+  The knowledge, that harms
+    The soul to know;
+
+  "The hope, that, bright
+    As the lake of the waste,
+  Allures the sight,
+    But mocks the taste;
+
+  "The love, that binds
+    Its innocent wreath,
+  Where the serpent winds,
+    In venom, beneath;--
+
+  "All that, of evil or false, by thee
+    Hath ever been known or seen,
+  Shall melt away in this cup, and be
+    Forgot, as it never had been!"
+
+Unwilling to throw a slight on this strange ceremony, I leaned forward,
+with all due gravity, and tasted the cup; which I had no sooner done than
+the young cup-bearer, on the other side, invited my attention, and, in his
+turn, presenting the chalice which he held, sung, with a voice still
+sweeter than that of his companion, the following strain:--
+
+  "Drink of this cup--when Isis led
+    Her boy, of old, to the beaming sky,
+  She mingled a draught divine, and said--
+    'Drink of this cup, thou'lt never die!'
+
+  "Thus do I say and sing to thee,
+    Heir of that boundless heav'n on high,
+  Though frail, and fall'n, and lost thou be,
+    Drink of this cup, thou'lt never die!"
+
+Much as I had endeavoured to keep my philosophy on its guard, against the
+illusions with which, I knew, this region abounded, the young cup-bearer
+had here touched a spring of imagination, over which, as has been seen, my
+philosophy had but little controul. No sooner had the words, "thou shalt
+never die," struck on my ear, than the dream of the Garden came fully to
+my mind, and, starting half-way from the couch, I stretched forth my hands
+to the cup. Recollecting myself, however, and fearful of having betrayed
+to others a weakness only fit for my own secret indulgence, with an
+affected smile of indifference I sunk back again on my couch,--while the
+young minstrel, but little interrupted by my movement, still continued his
+strain, of which I heard but the concluding words:--
+
+  "And Memory, too, with her dreams shall come,
+    Dreams of a former, happier day,
+  When Heaven was still the Spirit's home,
+    And her wings had not yet fallen away;
+
+  "Glimpses of glory, ne'er forgot,
+    That tell, like gleams on a sunset sea,
+  What once hath been, what now is not,
+    But, oh, what again shall brightly be!"
+
+Though the assurances of immortality, contained in these verses, would, at
+any other moment,--vain and visionary as I thought them,--have sent my fancy
+wandering into reveries of the future, the effort of self-control I had
+just made enabled me to hear them with indifference.
+
+Having gone through the form of tasting this second cup, I again looked
+anxiously to the Hierophant, to ascertain whether I might be permitted to
+rise. His assent having been given, the young pages brought to my couch a
+robe and tunic, which, like their own, were of linen of the purest white;
+and having assisted to clothe me in this sacred garb, they then placed
+upon my head a chaplet of myrtle, in which the symbol of Initiation, a
+golden grasshopper, was seen shining out from among the dark leaves.
+
+Though sleep had done much to refresh my frame, something more was still
+wanting to restore its strength; and it was not without a smile at my own
+reveries I reflected, how much more welcome than the young page's cup of
+immortality was the unpretending, but real, repast now set before
+me,--fresh fruits from the Isle of Gardens in the Nile, the delicate flesh
+of the desert antelope, and wine from the Vineyard of the Queens at
+Anthylla, fanned by one of the pages with a palm-leaf, to keep it cool.
+
+Having done justice to these dainties, it was with pleasure I heard the
+proposal of the Priest, that we should now walk forth together, and
+meditate among the scenes without. I had not forgotten the elysium that
+welcomed me last night,--those enchanted gardens, that mysterious music,
+and light, and the fair forms I saw wandering about,--as if, in the very
+midst of happiness, still seeking it. The hope, which had then occurred to
+me, that, perhaps, among those sparkling groups, might be the maiden I
+sought, now returned with increased strength. I had little doubt that my
+guide was about to lead to the same Elysian scene, and that the form, so
+fit to inhabit it, would again appear before my eyes.
+
+But far different was the region to which he conducted me; nor could the
+whole world produce a scene more gloomy, or more strange. It had the
+appearance of a small, solitary valley, inclosed, on every side, by rocks,
+which seemed to rise, almost perpendicularly, to the very sky;--for it was,
+indeed, the blue sky that I saw shining between their summits, and whose
+light, dimmed and half lost, in its descent thus far, formed the
+melancholy daylight of this nether world.(3) Down the side of these rocky
+walls fell a cataract, whose source was upon earth, and on whose waters,
+as they rolled glassily over the edge above, a gleam of radiance rested,
+that showed how brilliant was the sunshine they left. From thence,
+gradually darkening, and broken, in its long descent, by alternate chasms
+and projections, the stream fell, at last, in a pale and thin mist--the
+phantom of what it had been on earth--into a small lake that lay at the
+base of the rock to receive it.
+
+Nothing could be more bleak and saddening than the appearance of this
+lake. The usual ornaments of the waters of Egypt were not wanting: the
+lotus here uplifted her silvery flowers, and the crimson flamingo floated
+over the tide. But they were, neither of them, the same as in the upper
+world;--the flower had exchanged its whiteness for a livid hue, and the
+wings of the bird hung heavy and colourless. Every thing wore the same
+half-living aspect; and the only sounds that disturbed the mournful
+stillness were the wailing cry of a heron among the sedges, and that din
+of the waters, in their midway struggle, above.
+
+There was an unearthly sadness in the whole scene, of which no heart,
+however light, could resist the influence. Perceiving how I was affected
+by it, "Such scenes," said the Priest, "are best suited to that solemn
+complexion of mind, which becomes him who approaches the Great Secret of
+futurity. Behold,"--and, in saying thus, he pointed to the opening over our
+heads, through which I could perceive a star or two twinkling in the
+heavens, though the sun had but a short time passed his meridian,--"as from
+this gloomy depth we can see those stars, which are now invisible to the
+dwellers upon the bright earth, even so, to the sad and self-humbled
+spirit, doth many a mystery of heaven reveal itself, of which they, who
+walk in the light of the proud world, know not!"
+
+He now led me towards a rustic seat or alcove, beside which stood an image
+of that dark Deity, that God without a smile, who presides over the
+kingdom of the Dead.(4) The same livid and lifeless hue was upon his
+features, that hung over every thing in this dim valley; and, with his
+right hand, he pointed directly downwards, to denote that his melancholy
+kingdom lay there. A plantain--that favourite tree of the genii of
+Death--stood behind the statue, and spread its branches over the alcove, in
+which the Priest now, seating himself, signified that I should take my
+place by his side.
+
+After a long pause, as if of thought and preparation,--"Nobly," said he,
+"young Greek, hast thou sustained the first trials of Initiation. What
+remains, though of vital import to the soul, brings with it neither pain
+nor peril to the body. Having now proved and chastened thy mortal frame,
+by the three ordeals of Fire, of Water, and of Air, the next task to which
+we are called is the purification of thy spirit,--the cleansing of that
+inward and immortal part, so as to render it fit for the reception of the
+last luminous revealment, when the Veils of the Sanctuary shall be thrown
+aside, and the Great Secret of Secrets unfolded to thee!--Towards this
+object, the primary and most essential step is, instruction. What the
+three purifying elements, through which thou hast passed, have done for
+thy body, instruction will effect for----"
+
+"But that lovely maiden!" I exclaimed, bursting from my silence, having
+fallen, during his speech, into a deep revery, in which I had forgotten
+him, myself, the Great Secret, every thing--but her.
+
+Startled by this profane interruption, he cast a look of alarm towards the
+statue, as if fearful lest the God should have heard my words. Then,
+turning to me, in a tone of mild solemnity, "It is but too plain," said
+he, "that thoughts of the upper world, and of its vain delights, still
+engross thee too much, to let the lessons of Truth sink profitably into
+thy heart. A few hours of meditation amid this solemn scenery--of that
+wholesome meditation, which purifies, by saddening--may haply dispose thee
+to receive, with reverence, the holy and immortal knowledge that is in
+store for thee. With this hope, I now leave thee to thy own thoughts, and
+to that God, before whose calm and mournful eye the vanities of the world,
+from which thou comest, wither!"
+
+Thus saying, he turned slowly away, and passing behind the statue, towards
+which he had pointed during the last sentence, suddenly, and as if by
+enchantment, disappeared from my sight.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. IX.
+
+
+Being left to my own solitary thoughts, I had now leisure to reflect, with
+coolness, on the inconveniences, if not dangers, of the situation into
+which my love of adventure had hurried me. However ready my imagination
+was to kindle, in its own ideal sphere, I have ever found that, when
+brought into contact with reality, it as suddenly cooled;--like those
+meteors, that seem stars in the air, but, the moment they touch earth, are
+extinguished. Such was the disenchantment that now succeeded to the dreams
+in which I had been indulging. As long as Fancy had the field of the
+future to herself, even immortality did not seem too distant a race for
+her. But when human instruments interposed, the illusion vanished. From
+mortal lips the promise of immortality seemed a mockery, and imagination
+herself had no wings that could carry beyond the grave.
+
+Nor was this disappointment the only feeling that occupied me;--the
+imprudence of the step, which I had taken, now appeared in its full extent
+before my eyes. I had thrown myself into the power of the most artful
+priesthood in the world, without a chance of being able to escape from
+their toils, or to resist any machinations with which they might beset me.
+It seemed evident, from the state of preparation in which I had found all
+that wonderful apparatus, by which the terrors and splendours of
+Initiation are produced, that my descent into the pyramid was not
+unexpected. Numerous, indeed, and active as were the spies of the Sacred
+College of Memphis, there could be but little doubt that all my movements,
+since my arrival, had been tracked; and the many hours I had passed in
+watching and wandering round the pyramid, betrayed a curiosity which might
+well inspire these wily priests with the hope of drawing an Epicurean into
+their superstitious toils.
+
+I well knew their hatred to the sect of which I was Chief;--that they
+considered the Epicureans as, next to the Christians, the most formidable
+enemies of their craft and power. "How thoughtless, then," I exclaimed,
+"to have placed myself in a situation, where I am equally helpless against
+their fraud and violence, and must either seem to be the dupe of their
+impostures, or submit to become the victim of their vengeance." Of these
+alternatives, bitter as they were, the latter appeared by far the more
+welcome. I blushed even to think of the mockeries to which I already had
+yielded; and the prospect of being put through still further ceremonials,
+and of being tutored and preached to by hypocrites I despised, appeared to
+me, in my present temper, a trial of patience, to which the flames and the
+whirlwinds I had already encountered were pastime.
+
+Often and impatiently did I look up, between those rocky walls, to the
+bright sky that appeared to rest upon their summits, as, round and round,
+through every part of the valley, I endeavoured to find an outlet from its
+gloomy precincts. But in vain I endeavoured;--that rocky barrier, which
+seemed to end but in heaven, interposed itself every where. Neither did
+the image of the young maiden, though constantly in my mind, now bring
+with it the least consolation or hope. Of what avail was it that she,
+perhaps, was an inhabitant of this region, if I could neither see her
+smile, nor catch the sound of her voice,--if, while among preaching priests
+I wasted away my hours, her presence diffused its enchantment elsewhere.
+
+At length exhausted, I lay down by the brink of the lake, and gave myself
+up to all the melancholy of my fancy. The pale semblance of daylight,
+which had hitherto shone around, grew, every moment, more dim and dismal.
+Even the rich gleam, at the summit of the cascade, had faded; and the
+sunshine, like the water, exhausted in its descent, had now dwindled into
+a ghostly glimmer, far worse than darkness. The birds upon the lake, as if
+about to die with the dying light, sunk down their heads; and, as I looked
+to the statue, the deepening shadows gave an expression to its mournful
+features that chilled my very soul.
+
+The thought of death, ever ready to present itself to my imagination, now
+came, with a disheartening weight, such as I had never before felt. I
+almost fancied myself already in the dark vestibule of the
+grave,--separated, for ever, from the world above, and with nothing but the
+blank of an eternal sleep before me. It had often, I knew, happened that
+the visitants of this mysterious realm were, after their descent from
+earth, never seen or heard of;--being condemned, for some failure in their
+initiatory trials, to pine away their lives in the dark dungeons, with
+which, as well as with altars, this region abounded. Such, I shuddered to
+think, might probably be my destiny; and so appalling was the thought,
+that even the spirit of defiance died within me, and I was already giving
+myself up to helplessness and despair.
+
+At length, after some hours of this gloomy musing, I heard a rustling in
+the sacred grove behind the statue; and, soon after, the sound of the
+Priest's voice--more welcome than I had ever thought such voice could
+be--brought the assurance that I was not yet, at least, wholly abandoned.
+Finding his way to me through the gloom, he now led me to the same spot,
+on which we had parted so many hours before; and, in a voice that retained
+no trace of displeasure, bespoke my attention, while he should reveal to
+me some of those divine truths, by whose infusion, he said, into the soul
+of man, its purification can alone be effected.
+
+The valley had now become so wholly dark, that we could no longer discern
+each other's faces, as we sat. There was a melancholy in the voice of my
+instructor that well accorded with the gloom around us; and, saddened and
+subdued, I now listened with resignation, if not with interest, to those
+sublime, but, alas, I thought, vain tenets, which, with the warmth of a
+believer, this Hierophant expounded to me.
+
+He spoke of the pre-existence of the soul,--of its abode, from all
+eternity, in a place of bliss, of which all that we have most beautiful in
+our conceptions here is but a dim transcript, a clouded remembrance. In
+the blue depths of ether, he said, lay that "Country of the Soul,"--its
+boundary alone visible in the line of milky light, that separates it, as
+by a barrier of stars, from the dark earth. "Oh, realm of purity! Home of
+the yet unfallen Spirit!--where, in the days of her primal innocence, she
+wandered, ere her beauty was soiled by the touch of earth, or her
+resplendent wings had withered away. Methinks," he cried, "I see, at this
+moment, those fields of radiance,--I look back, through the mists of life,
+into that luminous world, where the souls that have never lost their high,
+heavenly rank, still soar, without a stain, above the shadowless stars,
+and dwell together in infinite perfection and bliss!"
+
+As he spoke these words, a burst of pure, brilliant light, like a sudden
+opening of heaven, broke through the valley; and, as soon as my eyes were
+able to endure the splendour, such a vision of loveliness and glory opened
+upon them, as took even my sceptical spirit by surprise, and made it
+yield, at once, to the potency of the spell.
+
+Suspended, as I thought, in air, and occupying the whole of the opposite
+region of the valley, there appeared an immense orb of light, within
+which, through a haze of radiance, I could see distinctly groups of young
+female spirits, who, in silent, but harmonious movement, like that of the
+stars, wound slowly through a variety of fanciful evolutions; and, as they
+linked and unlinked each other's arms, formed a living labyrinth of beauty
+and grace. Though their feet seemed to tread along a field of light, they
+had also wings, of the richest hue, which, like rainbows over waterfalls,
+when played with by the breeze, at every moment reflected a new variety of
+glory.
+
+As I stood, gazing with wonder, the orb, with all its ethereal inmates,
+gradually receded into the dark void, lessening, as it went, and growing
+more bright, as it lessened;--till, at length, distant, apparently, as a
+retiring comet, this little world of Spirits, in one small point of
+intense radiance, shone its last and vanished. "Go," exclaimed the rapt
+Priest, "ye happy souls, of whose dwelling a glimpse is thus given to our
+eyes, go, wander, in your orb, through the boundless heaven, nor ever let
+a thought of this perishable world come to mingle its dross with your
+divine nature, or tempt you to that earthward fall, by which spirits, as
+bright, have been ruined!"
+
+A pause ensued, during which, still under the influence of wonder, I sent
+my fancy wandering after the inhabitants of that orb,--almost wishing
+myself credulous enough to believe in a heaven, of which creatures, so
+like all that I most loved on earth, were inmates.
+
+At length, the Priest, with a sigh at the contrast he was about to draw,
+between the happy spirits we had just seen and the fallen ones of earth,
+resumed his melancholy History of the Soul. Tracing it, from the first
+moment of earthward desire, to its final eclipse in the shadows of this
+world, he dwelt upon every stage of its darkening descent, with a pathos
+that sent sadness into the very depths of the heart. The first downward
+look of the Spirit towards earth--the tremble of her wings on the edge of
+Heaven--the giddy slide, at length, down that fatal descent, and the
+Leth�an cup, midway in the sky, of which when she has once tasted, Heaven
+is forgot,--through all these gradations he mournfully traced her fall, to
+the last stage of darkness, when, wholly immersed in this world, her
+celestial nature is changed, she can no longer rise above earth, nor
+remembers her home, but by glimpses so vague, that, mistaking for hope
+what is only memory, she believes them to be a light from the Future, not
+the Past.
+
+"To retrieve this ruin of the once blessed Soul--to clear away, from around
+her, the clouds of earth, and, restoring her lost wings(5), facilitate
+their return to Heaven--such," said the reverend man, "is the great task of
+our religion, and such the triumph of those divine Mysteries, in which the
+life and essence of our religion lie. However sunk and changed and clouded
+may be the Spirit, as long as a single trace of her original light
+remains, there is yet hope that----"
+
+Here his voice was interrupted by a strain of mournful music, of which the
+low, distant breathings had been, for some minutes, heard, but which now
+gained upon the ear too thrillingly to let it listen to any more earthly
+sound. A faint light, too, at that instant broke through the valley,--and I
+could perceive, not far from the spot where we sat, a female figure,
+veiled, and crouching to earth, as if subdued by sorrow, or under the
+influence of shame.
+
+The light, by which I saw her, was from a pale, moon-like meteor, which
+had formed itself in the air as the music approached, and shed over the
+rocks and the lake a glimmer as cold as that by which the Dead, in their
+own realm, gaze on each other. The music, too, which appeared to rise
+directly out of the lake, and to come full of the breath of its dark
+waters, spoke a despondency in every note which no language could
+express;--and, as I listened to its tones, and looked upon that fallen
+Spirit, (for such, the holy man whispered, was the form before us,) so
+entirely did the illusion of the scene take possession of me, that, with
+breathless anxiety, I waited the result.
+
+Nor had I gazed long before that form rose slowly from its drooping
+position;--the air around it grew bright, and the pale meteor overhead
+assumed a more cheerful and living light. The veil, which had before
+shrouded the face of the figure, became gradually transparent, and the
+features, one by one, disclosed themselves through it. Having tremblingly
+watched the progress of the apparition, I now started from my seat, and
+half exclaimed, "It is she!" In another minute, this veil had, like a thin
+mist, melted away, and the young Priestess of the Moon stood, for the
+third time, revealed before my eyes.
+
+To rush instantly towards her was my first impulse--but the arm of the
+Priest held me firmly back. The fresh light, which had begun to flow in
+from all sides, collected itself in a glory round the spot where she
+stood. Instead of melancholy music, strains of the most exalted rapture
+were heard; and the young maiden, buoyant as the inhabitants of the fairy
+orb, amid a blaze of light like that which fell upon her in the Temple,
+ascended into the air.
+
+"Stay, beautiful vision, stay!" I exclaimed, as, breaking from the hold of
+the Priest, I flung myself prostrate on the ground,--the only mode by which
+I could express the admiration, even to worship, with which I was filled.
+But the vanishing spirit heard me not:--receding into the darkness, like
+that orb, whose track she seemed to follow, her form lessened away, till
+she was seen no more. Gazing, till the last luminous speck had
+disappeared, I suffered myself unconsciously to be led away by my reverend
+guide, who, placing me once more on my bed of poppy-leaves, left me to
+such repose as it was possible, after such a scene, to enjoy.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CHAP. X.
+
+
+The apparition with which I had been blessed in that Valley of Visions--as
+the place where I had witnessed these wonders was called--brought back to
+my heart all the hopes and fancies, in which I had indulged during my
+descent from earth. I had now seen once more that matchless creature, who
+had been my guiding star into this mysterious world; and that she was, in
+some way, connected with the further revelations that awaited me, I saw no
+reason to doubt. There was a sublimity, too, in the doctrines of my
+reverend teacher, and even a hope in the promises of immortality held out
+by him, which, in spite of reason, won insensibly both upon my fancy and
+my pride.
+
+The Future, however, was now but of secondary consideration;--the Present,
+and that deity of the Present, woman, were the objects that engrossed my
+whole soul. For the sake, indeed, of such beings alone did I think
+immortality desirable, nor, without them, would eternal life have appeared
+to me worth a prayer. To every further trial of my patience and faith, I
+now made up my mind to submit without a murmur. Some propitious chance, I
+fondly persuaded myself, might yet bring me nearer to the object of my
+adoration, and enable me to address, as mortal woman, her who had hitherto
+been to me but as a vision, a shade.
+
+The period of my probation, however, was nearly at an end. Both frame and
+spirit had now been tried; and, as the crowning test of the purification
+of the latter was that power of seeing into the world of spirits, with
+which, in the Valley of Visions, I had proved myself to be endowed, there
+remained now, to perfect my Initiation, but this one night more, when, in
+the Temple of Isis, and in the presence of her unveiled image, the last
+grand revelation of the Secret of Secrets was to open upon me.
+
+I passed the morning of this day in company with the same venerable
+personage, who had, from the first, presided over the ceremonies of my
+instruction; and who, to inspire me with due reverence for the power and
+magnificence of his religion, now conducted me through the long range of
+illuminated galleries and shrines, that extend under the site upon which
+Memphis and the Pyramids stand, and form a counterpart under ground to
+that mighty city of temples upon earth.
+
+He then descended with me, still lower, into those winding crypts, where
+lay the Seven Tables of stone, found by Hermes in the valley of Hebron.
+"On these tables," said he, "is written all the knowledge of the
+antediluvian race,--the decrees of the stars from the beginning of time,
+the annals of a still earlier world, and all the marvellous secrets, both
+of heaven and earth, which would have been,
+
+          "_but_ for this key,
+  Lost in the Universal Sea."
+
+Returning to the region, from which we had descended, we next visited, in
+succession, a series of small shrines, representing the various objects of
+adoration through Egypt, and thus furnishing to the Priest an occasion for
+explaining the mysterious nature of animal worship, and the refined
+doctrines of theology that lay veiled under its forms. Every shrine was
+consecrated to a particular faith, and contained a living image of the
+deity which it adored. Beside the goat of Mendes, with his refulgent star
+upon his breast, I saw the crocodile, as presented to the eyes of its
+idolaters at Arsino�, with costly gems in its loathsome ears, and rich
+bracelets of gold encircling its feet. Here, floating through a tank in
+the centre of a temple, the sacred carp of Lepidotum exhibited its silvery
+scales; while, there, the Isiac serpents trailed languidly over the altar,
+with that movement which most inspires the hopes of their votaries. In one
+of the small chapels we found a beautiful child, feeding and watching over
+those golden beetles, which are adored for their brightness, as emblems of
+the sun; while, in another, stood a sacred ibis upon its pedestal, so
+like, in plumage and attitude, to the bird of the young Priestess, that I
+could gladly have knelt down and worshipped it for her sake.
+
+After visiting these various shrines, and listening to the reflections
+which they suggested, I was next led by my guide to the Great Hall of the
+Zodiac, on whose ceiling, in bright and undying colours, was delineated
+the map of the firmament, as it appeared at the first dawn of time. Here,
+in pointing out the track of the sun, among the spheres, he spoke
+eloquently of the analogy that exists between moral and physical
+darkness--of the sympathy with which all spiritual creatures regard the
+sun, so as to sadden and droop when he sinks into his wintry hemisphere,
+and to rejoice when he resumes his own empire of light. Hence, the
+festivals and hymns, with which most of the nations of the earth are wont
+to welcome the resurrection of his orb in spring, as an emblem and pledge
+of the re-ascent of the soul to heaven. Hence, the songs of sorrow, the
+mournful ceremonies,--like those Mysteries of the Night, upon the Lake of
+Sa�s,--in which they brood over his autumnal descent into the shades, as a
+type of the Spirit's fall into this world of death.
+
+In discourses such as these the hours passed away; and though there was
+nothing in the light of this sunless region to mark to the eye the decline
+of day, my own feelings told me that the night drew near;--nor, in spite of
+my incredulity, could I refrain from a flutter of hope, as that promised
+moment of revelation approached, when the Mystery of Mysteries was to be
+made all my own. This consummation, however, was less near than I
+expected. My patience had still further trials to encounter. It was
+necessary, I now found, that I should keep watch, during the greater part
+of the night, in the Sanctuary of the Temple, alone and in darkness,--and
+thus prepare myself, by meditation, for the awful moment, when the
+irradiation from behind the sacred Veils was to burst upon me.
+
+At the appointed hour, we left the Hall of the Zodiac, and proceeded
+through a line of long marble galleries, where the lamps were more thinly
+scattered as we advanced, till, at length, we found ourselves in total
+darkness. Here the Priest, taking me by the hand, and leading me down a
+flight of steps, into a place where the same deep gloom prevailed, said,
+with a voice trembling, as if from excess of awe,--"Thou art now in the
+Sanctuary of our goddess, Isis, and the dark veils, that hang over her
+image, are before thee!"
+
+After exhorting me earnestly to that train of thought, which best accorded
+with the spirit of the place where I stood, and, above all, to that full
+and unhesitating faith, with which alone, he said, the manifestation of
+such mysteries should be approached, the holy man took leave of me, and
+re-ascended the steps;--while, so spell-bound did I feel by that deep
+darkness, that the last sound of his footsteps died upon my ear, before I
+ventured to stir a limb from the position in which he had left me.
+
+The prospect of the long watch, now before me, was dreadful. Even danger
+itself, in an active form, would have been preferable to this sort of
+safe, but dull, probation, by which patience was the only virtue put to
+the proof. Having ascertained how far the space around me was free from
+obstacles, I endeavoured to beguile the time by pacing up and down within
+those limits, till I became tired of the echoes of my own tread. Finding
+my way, then, to what I felt to be a massive pillar, and, leaning wearily
+against it, I surrendered myself to a train of thoughts and feelings, far
+different from those with which the Hierophant had hoped to inspire me.
+
+"Why," I again asked, "if these priests possess the secret of life, why
+are they themselves the victims of death? why sink into the grave with the
+cup of immortality in their hands? But no, safe boasters, the eternity
+they so lavishly promise is reserved for _another_, a future world--that
+ready resource of all priestly promises--that depository of the airy
+pledges of all creeds. Another world!--alas, where does it lie? or, what
+spirit hath ever come to say that Life is there?"
+
+The conclusion, to which, half sadly, half passionately, I arrived, was
+that, life being but a dream of the moment, never to come again, every
+bliss that is promised for hereafter should be secured by the wise man
+here. And, as no heaven I had ever heard of from these visionary priests
+opened half such certainty of happiness as that smile which I beheld last
+night,--"Let me," I exclaimed, impatiently, striking the massy pillar, till
+it rung, "let me but make that beautiful Priestess my own, and I here
+willingly exchange for her every chance of immortality, that the combined
+wisdom of Egypt's Twelve Temples can offer me!"
+
+No sooner had I uttered these words, than a tremendous peal, like that of
+thunder, rolled over the Sanctuary, and seemed to shake its walls. On
+every side, too, a succession of blue, vivid flashes pierced, like so many
+lances of light, through the gloom, revealing to me, at intervals, the
+mighty dome in which I stood--its ceiling of azure, studded with stars, its
+colossal columns, towering aloft, and those dark, mysterious veils, which
+hung, in massy drapery, from the roof to the floor, and covered the rich
+glories of the Shrine under their folds.
+
+So weary had I grown of my tedious watch, that this stormy and fitful
+illumination, during which the Sanctuary seemed to rock to its base, was
+by no means an unwelcome interruption of the monotony under which my
+impatience suffered. After a short interval, however, the flashes
+ceased;--the sounds died away, like exhausted thunder, through the abyss,
+and darkness and silence, like that of the grave, succeeded.
+
+Resting my back once more against the pillar, and fixing my eyes upon that
+side of the Sanctuary, from which the promised irradiation was to burst, I
+now resolved to await the awful moment in patience. Resigned and
+immovable, I had remained thus, for nearly another hour, when, suddenly,
+along the edges of the mighty Veils, I perceived a thin rim of light, as
+if from some brilliant object under them;--like that border which encircles
+a cloud at sunset, when the radiance, from behind, is escaping at its
+edges.
+
+This indication of concealed glories grew every instant more strong; till,
+at last, vividly marked as it was upon the darkness, the narrow fringe of
+lustre almost pained the eye, giving promise of a splendour too bright to
+be endured. My expectations were now wound to the highest pitch, and all
+the scepticism, into which I had been cooling down my mind, was forgotten.
+The wonders that had been presented to me since my descent from earth--that
+glimpse into Elysium on the first night of my coming--those visitants from
+the Land of Spirits in the mysterious valley,--all led me to expect, in
+this last and brightest revelation, such visions of glory and knowledge as
+might transcend even fancy itself, nor leave a doubt that they belonged
+less to earth than heaven.
+
+While, with an imagination thus excited, I stood waiting the result, an
+increased gush of light still more awakened my attention; and I saw, with
+an intenseness of interest, which made my heart beat aloud, one of the
+corners of the mighty Veil slowly raised up. I now felt that the Great
+Secret--whatever it might be--was at hand. A vague hope even crossed my
+mind--so wholly had imagination resumed her empire--that the splendid
+promise of my dream was on the point of being realised!
+
+With surprise, however, and--for a moment--with disappointment, I perceived,
+that the massy corner of the Veil was but raised sufficiently to allow a
+female figure to emerge from under it,--and then fell again, over its
+mystic splendours, as dark as before. By the strong light, too, that
+issued when the drapery was lifted, and illuminated the profile of the
+emerging figure, I either saw, or fancied that I saw, the same bright
+features, that had already mocked me so often with their momentary charm,
+and seemed destined to haunt my heart as unavailingly as the fond, vain
+dream of Immortality itself.
+
+Dazzled as I had been by that short gush of splendour, and distrusting
+even my senses, when under the influence of a fancy so excited, I had
+hardly time to question myself as to the reality of my impression, when I
+heard the sounds of light footsteps approaching me through the gloom. In a
+second or two more, the figure stopped before me, and, placing the end of
+a riband gently in my hand, said, in a tremulous whisper, "Follow, and be
+silent."
+
+So sudden and strange was the adventure, that, for a moment, I
+hesitated,--fearful lest my eyes should have been deceived as to the object
+they had seen. Casting a look towards the Veil, which seemed bursting with
+its luminous secret, I was almost doubting to which of the two chances I
+should commit myself, when I felt the riband in my hand pulled softly at
+the other extremity. This movement, at once, like a touch of magic,
+decided me. Without further deliberation, I yielded to the silent summons,
+and following my guide, who was already at some distance before me, found
+myself led up the same flight of marble steps, by which the Priest had
+conducted me into the Sanctuary. Arrived at their summit, I felt the pace
+of my conductress quicken, and, giving one more look to the Veiled Shrine,
+whose glories we left burning ineffectually behind us, hastened into the
+gloom, full of confidence in the belief, that she, who now held the other
+end of that clue, was one whom I could follow devotedly through the world.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XI.
+
+
+So rapidly was I hurried along by my unseen conductress, full of wonder at
+the speed with which she ventured through these labyrinths, that I had but
+little time to reflect upon the strangeness of the adventure to which I
+had committed myself. My knowledge of the character of the priests, as
+well as the fearful rumours that had reached me, of the fate that often
+attended unbelievers in their hands, waked a momentary suspicion of
+treachery in my mind. But, when I recalled the face of my guide, as I had
+seen it in the chapel, with that divine look, the very memory of which
+brought purity into the heart, this suspicion all vanished, and I felt
+shame at having harboured it but an instant.
+
+In the mean while, our course continued uninterrupted, through windings
+more capriciously intricate than any that I had yet passed, and whose
+darkness seemed never to have been disturbed by a single glimmer. My
+conductress still continued at some distance before me, and the clue, to
+which I clung as if it were the thread of Destiny herself, was still kept,
+by her speed, at full stretch between us. At length, suddenly stopping,
+she said, in a breathless whisper, "Seat thyself here," and, at the same
+moment, led me by the hand to a sort of low car, in which I lost not a
+moment in placing myself, as desired, while the maiden, as promptly, took
+her seat by my side.
+
+A sudden click, like the touching of a spring, was then heard, and the
+car,--which, as I had felt in entering it, leaned half-way over a steep
+descent,--on being loosed from its station, shot down, almost
+perpendicularly, into the darkness, with a rapidity which, at first,
+nearly deprived me of breath. The wheels slid smoothly and noiselessly in
+grooves, and the impetus, which the car acquired in descending, was
+sufficient, I perceived, to carry it up an eminence that succeeded,--from
+the summit of which it again rushed down another declivity, even still
+more long and precipitous than the former. In this manner we proceeded, by
+alternate falls and rises, till, at length, from the last and steepest
+elevation, the car descended upon a level of deep sand, where, after
+running for a few yards, it by degrees lost its motion and stopped.
+
+Here, the maiden alighting, again placed the riband in my hands,--and again
+I followed her, though with more slowness and difficulty than before, as
+our way led up a flight of damp and time-worn steps, whose ascent seemed
+to the weary and insecure foot interminable. Perceiving with what languor
+my guide now advanced, I was on the point of making an effort to assist
+her progress, when the creak of an opening door above, and a faint gleam
+of light which, at the same moment, shone upon her figure, apprised me
+that we were arrived within reach of sunshine.
+
+Joyfully I followed through this opening, and, by the dim light, could
+discern, that we were now in the sanctuary of a vast, ruined
+temple,--having entered by a passage under the lofty pedestal, upon which
+an image of the idol of the place once stood. The first movement of the
+maiden, after replacing the portal under the pedestal, was, without even a
+look towards me, to cast herself down on her knees, with her hands clasped
+and uplifted, as if for the purpose of thanksgiving or prayer. But she was
+unable to sustain herself in this position;--her strength could hold out no
+longer. Overcome by agitation and fatigue, she sunk senseless upon the
+pavement.
+
+Bewildered as I was, myself, by the events of the night, I stood for some
+minutes looking upon her in a state of helplessness and alarm. But,
+reminded, by my own feverish sensations, of the reviving effects of the
+air, I raised her gently in my arms, and crossing the corridor that
+surrounded the sanctuary, found my way to the outer vestibule of the
+temple. Here, shading her eyes from the sun, I placed her, reclining, upon
+the steps, where the cool wind, then blowing freshly from the north, might
+play, with free draught, between the pillars over her brow.
+
+It was, indeed,--I now saw, with certainty,--the same beautiful and
+mysterious girl, who had been the cause of my descent into that
+subterranean world, and who now, under such strange and unaccountable
+circumstances, was my guide back again to the realms of day. I looked
+round, to discover where we were, and beheld such a scene of grandeur,
+as--could my eyes have wandered to any other object from the pale form
+reclining at my side--might well have won them to dwell on its splendid
+beauties.
+
+I was now standing, I found, on the small island in the centre of Lake
+Moeris; and that sanctuary, where we had emerged from darkness, formed part
+of the ruins of a temple, which (as I have since learned) was, in the
+grander days of Memphis, a place of pilgrimage for worshippers from all
+parts of Egypt. The fair Lake, itself, out of whose waters once rose
+pavilions, palaces, and even lofty pyramids, was still, though divested of
+many of these wonders, a scene of interest and splendour such as the whole
+world could not equal. While the shores still sparkled with mansions and
+temples, that bore testimony to the luxury of a living race, the voice of
+the Past, speaking out of unnumbered ruins, whose summits, here and there,
+rose blackly above the wave, told of times long fled and generations long
+swept away, before whose giant remains all the glory of the present stood
+humbled. Over the southern bank of the Lake hung the dark relics of the
+Labyrinth;--its twelve Royal Palaces, like the mansions of the Zodiac,--its
+thundering portals and constellated halls, having left nothing behind but
+a few frowning ruins, which, contrasted with the soft groves of olive and
+acacia around them, seemed to rebuke the luxuriant smiles of nature, and
+threw a melancholy grandeur over the whole scene.
+
+The effects of the air, in re-animating the young Priestess, were less
+speedy than I had expected;--her eyes were still closed, and she remained
+pale and insensible. Alarmed, I now rested her head (which had been, for
+some time, supported by my arm,) against the base of a column, with my
+cloak for its pillow, while I hastened to procure some water from the
+Lake. The temple stood high, and the descent to the shore was precipitous.
+But, my Epicurean habits having but little impaired my activity, I soon
+descended, with the lightness of a desert deer, to the bottom. Here,
+plucking from a lofty bean-tree, whose flowers stood, shining like gold,
+above the water, one of those large hollowed leaves that serve as cups for
+the Hebes of the Nile, I filled it from the Lake, and hurried back with
+the cool draught to the temple. It was not without some difficulty and
+delay that I succeeded, in bearing my rustic chalice steadily up the
+steep; more than once did an unlucky slip waste its contents, and as often
+did I impatiently return to refill it.
+
+During this time, the young maiden was fast recovering her animation and
+consciousness; and, at the moment when I appeared above the edge of the
+steep, was just rising from the steps, with her hand pressed to her
+forehead, as if confusedly recalling the recollection of what had
+occurred. No sooner did she observe me, than a short cry of alarm broke
+from her lips. Looking anxiously round, as though she sought for
+protection, and half audibly uttering the words, "Where is he?" she made
+an effort, as I approached, to retreat into the temple.
+
+Already, however, I was by her side, and taking her hand gently, as she
+turned away, "Whom dost thou seek, fair Priestess?" I asked,--for the first
+time breaking through the silence she had enjoined, and in a tone that
+might have re-assured the most timid spirit. But my words had no effect in
+calming her apprehension. Trembling, and with her eyes still averted
+towards the Temple, she continued in a voice of suppressed alarm,--"Where
+_can_ he be?--that venerable Athenian, that philosopher, who----"
+
+"Here, here," I exclaimed, anxiously interrupting her,--"behold him still
+by thy side--the same, the very same who saw thee steal from under the
+lighted Veils of the Sanctuary, whom thou hast guided by a clue through
+those labyrinths below, and who now but waits his command from those lips,
+to devote himself through life and death to thy service." As I spoke these
+words, she turned slowly round, and looking timidly in my face, while her
+own burned with blushes, said, in a tone of doubt and wonder, "Thou!" and
+hid her eyes in her hands.
+
+I knew not how to interpret a reception so unexpected. That some mistake
+or disappointment had occurred was evident; but so inexplicable did the
+whole adventure appear, that it was in vain to think of unravelling any
+part of it. Weak and agitated, she now tottered to the steps of the
+temple, and there seating herself, with her forehead against the cold
+marble, seemed for some moments absorbed in the most anxious
+thought,--while silent and watchful I waited her decision, with a prophetic
+feeling, however, that my destiny would be henceforth linked with hers.
+
+The inward struggle by which she was agitated, though violent, was not of
+long continuance. Starting suddenly from her seat, with a look of terror
+towards the temple, as if the fear of immediate pursuit had alone decided
+her, she pointed eagerly towards the East, and exclaimed, "To the Nile,
+without delay!"--clasping her hands, when she had spoken, with the most
+suppliant fervour, as if to soften the abruptness of the mandate she had
+given, and appealing to me with a look that would have taught Stoics
+tenderness.
+
+I lost no time in obeying the welcome command. While a thousand wild hopes
+and wishes crowded upon my fancy, at the prospect which a voyage, under
+such auspices, presented, I descended rapidly to the shore, and hailing
+one of the numerous boats that ply upon the Lake for hire, arranged
+speedily for a passage down the canal to the Nile. Having learned, too,
+from the boatmen, a more easy path up the rock, I hastened back to the
+Temple for my fair charge; and without a word, a look, that could alarm,
+even by its kindness, or disturb that innocent confidence which she now
+placed in me, led her down by the winding path to the boat.
+
+Every thing looked smiling around us as we embarked. The morning was now
+in its first freshness, and the path of the breeze might be traced over
+the Lake, wakening up its waters from their sleep of the night. The gay,
+golden-winged birds that haunt these shores, were, in every direction,
+skimming along the lake; while, with a graver consciousness of beauty, the
+swan and the pelican were seen dressing their white plumage in the mirror
+of its wave. To add to the animation of the scene, a sweet tinkling of
+musical instruments came, at intervals, on the breeze, from boats at a
+distance, employed thus early in pursuing the fish of these waters, that
+suffer themselves to be decoyed into the nets by music.
+
+The vessel which I selected for our voyage was one of those small
+pleasure-boats or yachts,--so much in use among the luxurious navigators of
+the Nile,--in the centre of which rises a pavilion of cedar or cypress
+wood, gilded gorgeously, without, with religious emblems, and fitted up,
+within, for all the purposes of feasting and repose. To the door of this
+pavilion I now led my companion, and, after a few words of
+kindness--tempered with as much respectful reserve as the deep tenderness
+which I felt would admit of--left her in solitude to court that restoring
+rest, which the agitation of her spirits but too much required.
+
+For myself, though repose was hardly less necessary to me, the ferment in
+which my thoughts had been kept seemed to render it hopeless. Throwing
+myself upon the deck, under an awning which the sailors had raised for me,
+I continued, for some hours, in a sort of vague day-dream,--sometimes
+passing in review the scenes of that subterranean drama, and sometimes,
+with my eyes fixed in drowsy vacancy, receiving passively the impressions
+of the bright scenery through which we passed.
+
+The banks of the canal were then luxuriantly wooded. Under the tufts of
+the light and towering palm were seen the orange and the citron,
+interlacing their boughs; while, here and there, huge tamarisks thickened
+the shade, and, at the very edge of the bank, the willow of Babylon stood
+bending its graceful branches into the water. Occasionally, out of the
+depth of these groves, there shone a small temple or pleasure-
+house;--while, now and then, an opening in their line of foliage allowed
+the eye to wander over extensive fields, all covered with beds of those
+pale, sweet roses, for which this district of Egypt is so celebrated.
+
+The activity of the morning hour was visible every where. Flights of doves
+and lapwings were fluttering among the leaves, and the white heron, which
+had roosted all night in some date-tree, now stood sunning its wings upon
+the green bank, or floated, like living silver, over the flood. The
+flowers, too, both of land and water, looked freshly awakened;--and, most
+of all, the superb lotus, which had risen with the sun from the wave, and
+was now holding up her chalice for a full draught of his light.
+
+Such were the scenes that now passed before my eyes, and mingled with the
+reveries that floated through my mind, as our boat, with its high,
+capacious sail, swept over the flood. Though the occurrences of the last
+few days appeared to me one series of wonders, yet by far the most
+miraculous wonder of all was, that she, whose first look had sent wild-
+fire into my heart,--whom I had thought of ever since with a restlessness
+of passion, that would have dared any thing on earth to obtain its
+object,--was now sleeping sacredly in that small pavilion, while guarding
+her, even from myself, I lay calmly at its threshold.
+
+Meanwhile, the sun had reached his meridian. The busy hum of the morning
+had died gradually away, and all around was sleeping in the hot stillness
+of noon. The Nile-goose, folding her splendid wings, was lying motionless
+on the shadow of the sycamores in the water. Even the nimble lizards upon
+the bank seemed to move more languidly, as the light fell upon their gold
+and azure hues. Overcome as I was with watching, and weary with thought,
+it was not long before I yielded to the becalming influence of the hour.
+Looking fixedly at the pavilion,--as if once more to assure my senses, that
+I was not already in a dream, but that the young Egyptian was really
+there,--I felt my eyes close as I looked, and in a few minutes sunk into a
+profound sleep.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XII.
+
+
+It was by the canal through which we now sailed, that, in the more
+prosperous days of Memphis, the commerce of Upper Egypt and Nubia was
+transported to her magnificent Lake, and from thence, having paid tribute
+to the queen of cities, was poured out again, through the Nile, into the
+ocean. The course of this canal to the river was not direct, but ascending
+in a south-easterly direction towards the Sa�d; and in calms, or with
+adverse winds, the passage was tedious. But as the breeze was now blowing
+freshly from the north, there was every prospect of our reaching the river
+before night-fall. Rapidly, too, as our galley swept along the flood, its
+motion was so smooth as to be hardly felt; and the quiet gurgle of the
+waters underneath, and the drowsy song of the boatman at the prow, alone
+disturbed the deep silence that prevailed.
+
+The sun, indeed, had nearly sunk behind the Libyan hills, before the
+sleep, in which these sounds lulled me, was broken; and the first object,
+on which my eyes rested, in waking, was that fair young Priestess,--seated
+under a porch by which the door of the pavilion was shaded, and bending
+intently over a small volume that lay unrolled on her lap.
+
+Her face was but half turned towards me, and as, once or twice, she raised
+her eyes to the warm sky, whose light fell, softened through the trellis,
+over her cheek, I found every feeling of reverence, with which she had
+inspired me in the chapel, return. There was even a purer and holier charm
+around her countenance, thus seen by the natural light of day, than in
+those dim and unhallowed regions below. She could now, too, look direct to
+the glorious sky, and that heaven and her eyes, so worthy of each other,
+met.
+
+After contemplating her for a few moments, with little less than
+adoration, I rose gently from my resting-place, and approached the
+pavilion. But the mere movement had startled her from her devotion, and,
+blushing and confused, she covered the volume with the folds of her robe.
+
+In the art of winning upon female confidence, I had long been schooled;
+and, now that to the lessons of gallantry the inspiration of love was
+added, my ambition to please and to interest could hardly, it may be
+supposed, fail of success. I soon found, however, how much less fluent is
+the heart than the fancy, and how very distinct are the operations of
+making love and feeling it. In the few words of greeting now exchanged
+between us, it was evident that the gay, the enterprising Epicurean was
+little less embarrassed than the secluded Priestess;--and, after one or two
+ineffectual efforts to bring our voices acquainted with each other, the
+eyes of both turned bashfully away, and we relapsed into silence.
+
+From this situation--the result of timidity on one side, and of a feeling
+altogether new, on the other--we were, at length, after an interval of
+estrangement, relieved, by the boatmen announcing that the Nile was in
+sight. The countenance of the young Egyptian brightened at this
+intelligence; and the smile with which I congratulated her on the speed of
+our voyage was answered by another, so full of gratitude, that already an
+instinctive sympathy seemed established between us.
+
+We were now on the point of entering that sacred river, of whose sweet
+waters the exile drinks in his dreams,--for a draught of whose flood the
+daughters of the Ptolemies, when wedded to foreign kings, sighed in the
+midst of their splendour. As our boat, with slackened sail, glided into
+the current, an enquiry from the boatmen, whether they should anchor for
+the night in the Nile, first reminded me of the ignorance, in which I
+still remained, with respect to either the motive or destination of our
+voyage. Embarrassed by their question I directed my eyes towards the
+Priestess, whom I saw waiting for my answer with a look of anxiety, which
+this silent reference to her wishes at once dispelled. Eagerly unfolding
+the volume with which I had seen her occupied, she took from its folds a
+small leaf of papyrus, on which there appeared to be some faint lines of
+drawing, and after thoughtfully looking upon it, herself, for a moment,
+placed it, with an agitated hand, in mine.
+
+In the mean time, the boatmen had taken in their sail, and the yacht drove
+slowly down the river with the current, while, by a light which had been
+kindled at sunset on the deck, I stood examining the leaf that the
+Priestess had given me,--her dark eyes fixed anxiously on my countenance
+all the while. The lines traced upon the papyrus were so faint as to be
+almost invisible, and I was for some time at a loss to divine their
+import. At length, I could perceive that they were the outlines, or
+map--traced slightly and unsteadily with a Memphian reed--of a part of that
+mountainous ridge by which Upper Egypt is bounded to the east, together
+with the names, or rather emblems, of the chief towns in the
+neighbourhood.
+
+It was thither, I could not doubt, that the young Priestess wished to
+pursue her course. Without a moment's delay, therefore, I gave orders to
+the boatmen to set our yacht before the wind and ascend the current. My
+command was promptly obeyed: the white sail again rose into the region of
+the breeze, and the satisfaction that beamed in every feature of the fair
+Egyptian showed that the quickness with which I had obeyed her wishes was
+not unfelt by her. The moon had now risen; and though the current was
+against us, the Etesian wind of the season blew strongly up the river, and
+we were soon floating before it, through the rich plains and groves of the
+Sa�d.
+
+The love, with which this simple girl had inspired me, was--possibly from
+the mystic scenes and situations in which I had seen her--not unmingled
+with a tinge of superstitious awe, under the influence of which I felt the
+buoyancy of my spirit checked. The few words that had passed between us on
+the subject of our route had somewhat loosened this spell; and what I
+wanted of vivacity and confidence was more than made up by the tone of
+deep sensibility which love had awakened in their place.
+
+We had not proceeded far before the glittering of lights at a distance,
+and the shooting up of fireworks, at intervals, into the air, apprised us
+that we were approaching one of those night-fairs, or marts, which it is
+the custom, at this season, to hold upon the Nile. To me the scene was
+familiar; but to my young companion it was evidently a new world; and the
+mixture of alarm and delight with which she gazed, from under her veil,
+upon the busy scene into which we now sailed, gave an air of innocence to
+her beauty, which still more heightened its every charm.
+
+It was one of the widest parts of the river; and the whole surface, from
+one bank to the other, was covered with boats. Along the banks of a green
+island, in the middle of the stream, lay anchored the galleys of the
+principal traders,--large floating bazaars, bearing each the name of its
+owner, emblazoned in letters of flame, upon the stern. Over their decks
+were spread out, in gay confusion, the products of the loom and needle of
+Egypt,--rich carpets of Memphis, and those variegated veils, for which the
+female embroiderers of the Nile are so celebrated, and to which the name
+of Cleopatra lends a traditional value. In each of the other galleys was
+exhibited some branch of Egyptian workmanship,--vases of the fragrant
+porcelain of On,--cups of that frail crystal, whose hues change like those
+of the pigeon's plumage,--enamelled amulets graven with the head of Anubis,
+and necklaces and bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia.
+
+While Commerce thus displayed her luxuries in one quarter, in every other
+direction Pleasure, multiplied into her thousand shapes, swarmed over the
+waters. Nor was the festivity confined to the river only. All along the
+banks of the island and on the shores, lighted up mansions were seen
+through the trees, from which sounds of music and merriment came. In some
+of the boats were bands of minstrels, who, from time to time, answered
+each other, like echoes, across the wave; and the notes of the lyre, the
+flageolet, and the sweet lotus-wood flute, were heard, in the pauses of
+revelry, dying along the waters.
+
+Meanwhile, from other boats stationed in the least lighted places, the
+workers of fire sent forth their wonders into the air. Bursting out from
+time to time, as if in the very exuberance of joy, these sallies of flame
+seemed to reach the sky, and there breaking into a shower of sparkles,
+shed such a splendour round, as brightened even the white Arabian
+hills,--making them shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at night, when the
+fire from his own bosom is playing around its snows.
+
+The opportunity which this luxurious mart afforded us, of providing
+ourselves with other and less remarkable habiliments than those in which
+we had escaped from that nether world, was too seasonable not to be gladly
+taken advantage of by both. For myself, the strange mystic garb that I
+wore was sufficiently concealed by my Grecian mantle, which I had luckily
+thrown round me on the night of my watch. But the thin veil of my
+companion was a far less efficient disguise. She had, indeed, flung away
+the golden beetles from her hair; but the sacred robe of her order was
+still too visible, and the stars of the bandelet shone brightly through
+her veil.
+
+Most gladly, therefore, did she avail herself of this opportunity of a
+change; and, as she took from a casket--which, with the volume I had seen
+her reading, appeared to be her only treasure--a small jewel, to exchange
+for the simple garments she had chosen, there fell out, at the same time,
+the very cross of silver, which I had seen her kiss, as may be remembered,
+in the monumental chapel, and which was afterwards pressed to my own lips.
+This link (for such it appeared to my imagination) between us, now revived
+in my heart all the burning feelings of that moment;--and, had I not
+abruptly turned away, my agitation would, but too plainly, have betrayed
+itself.
+
+The object, for which we had delayed in this gay scene, being
+accomplished, the sail was again spread, and we proceeded on our course up
+the river. The sounds and the lights we left behind died gradually away,
+and we now floated along in moonlight and silence once more. Sweet dews,
+worthy of being called "the tears of Isis," fell through the air, and
+every plant and flower sent its fragrance to meet them. The wind, just
+strong enough to bear us smoothly against the current, scarcely stirred
+the shadow of the tamarisks on the water. As the inhabitants from all
+quarters were collected at the night-fair, the Nile was more than usually
+still and solitary. Such a silence, indeed, prevailed, that, as we glided
+near the shore, we could hear the rustling of the acacias, as the
+chameleons ran up their stems. It was, altogether, a night such as only
+the clime of Egypt can boast, when every thing lies lulled in that sort of
+bright tranquillity, which, we may imagine, shines over the sleep of those
+happy spirits, who are supposed to rest in the Valley of the Moon, on
+their way to heaven.
+
+By such a light, and at such an hour, seated, side by side, on the deck of
+that bark, did we pursue our course up the lonely Nile--each a mystery to
+the other--our thoughts, our objects, our very names a secret;--separated,
+too, till now, by destinies so different, the one, a gay voluptuary of the
+Garden of Athens, the other, a secluded Priestess of the Temples of
+Memphis;--and the only relation yet established between us being that
+dangerous one of love, passionate love, on one side, and the most feminine
+and confiding dependence on the other.
+
+The passing adventure of the night-fair had not only dispelled still more
+our mutual reserve, but had supplied us with a subject on which we could
+converse without embarrassment. From this topic I took care to lead on,
+without interruption, to others,--fearful lest our former silence should
+return, and the music of her voice again be lost to me. It was, indeed,
+only by thus indirectly unburdening my heart that I was enabled to refrain
+from the full utterance of all I thought and felt; and the restless
+rapidity with which I flew from subject to subject was but an effort to
+escape from the only one in which my heart was interested.
+
+"How bright and happy," said I,--pointing up to Sothis, the fair Star of
+the Waters, which was just then sparkling brilliantly over our heads,--"How
+bright and happy this world ought to be, if--as your Egyptian sages
+assert--yon pure and beautiful luminary was its birth-star!" Then, still
+leaning back, and letting my eyes wander over the firmament, as if seeking
+to disengage them from the fascination which they dreaded--"To the study (I
+said), for ages, of skies like this, may the pensive and mystic character
+of your nation be traced. That mixture of pride and melancholy which
+naturally arises, at the sight of those eternal lights shining out of
+darkness;--that sublime, but saddened, anticipation of a Future, which
+comes over the soul in the silence of such an hour, when, though Death
+seems to reign in the repose of earth, there are those beacons of
+Immortality burning in the sky--"
+
+Pausing, as I uttered the word "immortality," with a sigh to think how
+little my heart echoed to my lips, I looked in the face of the maiden, and
+saw that it had lighted up, as I spoke, into a glow of holy animation,
+such as Faith alone gives--such as Hope herself wears, when she is dreaming
+of heaven. Touched by the contrast, and gazing upon her with mournful
+tenderness, I found my arms half opened, to clasp her to my heart, while
+the words died away inaudibly upon my lips,--"thou, too, beautiful maiden!
+must thou, too, die for ever?"
+
+My self-command, I felt, had nearly deserted me. Rising abruptly from my
+seat, I walked to the middle of the deck, and stood, for some moments,
+unconsciously gazing upon one of those fires, which,--as is the custom of
+all who travel by night upon the Nile,--our boatmen had just kindled, to
+scare away the crocodiles from the vessel. But it was in vain that I
+endeavoured to compose my spirit. Every effort I made but more deeply
+convinced me, that, till the mystery which hung round that maiden should
+be solved--till the secret, with which my own bosom laboured, should be
+disclosed--it was fruitless to attempt even a semblance of tranquillity.
+
+My resolution was therefore taken;--to lay open, at least, my own heart, as
+far as such a revelation might be risked, without startling the timid
+innocence of my companion. Thus resolved, I returned, with more composure,
+to my seat by her side, and taking from my bosom the small mirror which
+she had dropped in the Temple, and which I had ever since worn suspended
+round my neck, with a trembling hand presented it to her view. The boatmen
+had just kindled one of their night-fires near us, and its light, as she
+leaned forward towards the mirror, fell on her face.
+
+The quick blush of surprise with which she recognised it to be hers, and
+her look of bashful, yet eager, inquiry, in raising her eyes to mine, were
+appeals to which I was not, of course, slow in answering. Beginning with
+the first moment when I saw her in the Temple, and passing hastily, but
+with words that burned as they went, over the impression which she had
+then left upon my heart and fancy, I proceeded to describe the particulars
+of my descent into the pyramid--my surprise and adoration at the door of
+the chapel--my encounter with the Trials of Initiation, so mysteriously
+prepared for me, and all the various visionary wonders I had witnessed in
+that region, till the moment when I had seen her stealing from under the
+Veils to approach me.
+
+Though, in detailing these events, I had said but little of the feelings
+they had awakened in me,--though my lips had sent back many a sentence,
+unuttered, there was still enough that could neither be subdued or
+disguised, and which, like that light from under the veils of her own
+Isis, glowed through every word that I spoke. When I told of the scene in
+the chapel,--of the silent interview which I had witnessed between the dead
+and the living,--the maiden leaned down her head and wept, as from a heart
+full of tears. It seemed a pleasure to her, however, to listen; and, when
+she looked at me again, there was an earnest and affectionate cordiality
+in her eyes, as if the knowledge of my having been present at that
+mournful scene had opened a new source of sympathy and intelligence
+between us. So neighbouring are the fountains of Love and of Sorrow, and
+so imperceptibly do they often mingle their streams.
+
+Little, indeed, as I was guided by art or design, in my manner and conduct
+to this innocent girl, not all the most experienced gallantry of the
+Garden could have dictated a policy half so seductive as that which my new
+master, Love, now taught me. The ardour which, shown at once, and without
+reserve, might have startled a heart so little prepared for it, thus
+checked and softened by the timidity of real love, won its way without
+alarm, and, when most diffident of success, most triumphed. Like one whose
+sleep is gradually broken by music, the maiden's heart was awakened
+without being disturbed. She followed the charm, unconscious whither it
+led, nor was aware of the flame she had lighted in another's bosom, till
+she perceived the reflection of it glimmering in her own.
+
+Impatient as I was to appeal to her generosity and sympathy, for a similar
+proof of confidence to that which I had just given, the night was now too
+far advanced for me to impose such a task upon her. After exchanging a few
+words, in which, though little was said, there was a tone and manner that
+spoke far more than language, we took a lingering leave of each other for
+the night, with every prospect of still being together in our dreams.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XIII.
+
+
+It was so near the dawn of day when we parted, that we again found the sun
+sinking westward when we rejoined each other. The smile with which she met
+me,--so frankly cordial,--might have been taken for the greeting of a long
+mellowed friendship, did not the blush and the castdown eyelid, that
+followed, give symptoms of a feeling newer and less calm. For myself,
+lightened as I was, in some degree, by the confession which I had made, I
+was yet too conscious of the new aspect thus given to our intercourse, to
+feel altogether unembarrassed at the prospect of returning to the theme.
+It was, therefore, willingly we both suffered our attention to be
+diverted, by the variety of objects that presented themselves on the way,
+from a subject that both equally trembled to approach.
+
+The river was now full of life and motion. Every moment we met with boats
+descending the current, so independent of aid from sail or oar, that the
+sailors sat idly upon the deck as they shot along, singing or playing upon
+their double-reeded pipes. Of these boats, the greater number came loaded
+with merchandise from Coptos,--some with those large emeralds, from the
+mine in the desert, whose colours, it is said, are brightest at the full
+of the moon, and some laden with frankincense from the acacia-groves near
+the Red Sea. On the decks of others, that had been to the Golden Mountains
+beyond Syene, were heaped blocks and fragments of that sweet-smelling
+wood, which the Green Nile of Nubia washes down in the season of the
+floods.
+
+Our companions up the stream were far less numerous. Occasionally a boat,
+returning lightened from the fair of last night, with those high sails
+that catch every breeze from over the hills, shot past us;--while, now and
+then, we overtook one of those barges full of bees, that at this season of
+the year, are sent to colonise the gardens of the south, and take
+advantage of the first flowers after the inundation has passed away.
+
+By these various objects we were, for a short time, enabled to divert the
+conversation from lighting and settling upon the one subject, round which
+it continually hovered. But the effort, as might be expected, was not long
+successful. As evening advanced, the whole scene became more solitary. We
+less frequently ventured to look upon each other, and our intervals of
+silence grew more long.
+
+It was near sunset, when, in passing a small temple on the shore, whose
+porticoes were now full of the evening light, we saw, issuing from a
+thicket of acanthus near it, a train of young maids linked together in the
+dance by lotus-stems, held at arms' length between them. Their tresses
+were also wreathed with this emblem of the season, and such a profusion of
+the white flowers were twisted round their waists and arms, that they
+might have been taken, as they gracefully bounded along the bank, for
+Nymphs of the Nile, risen freshly from their gardens under the wave.
+
+After looking for a few moments at this sacred dance, the maid turned away
+her eyes, with a look of pain, as if the remembrances it recalled were of
+no welcome nature. This momentary retrospect, this glimpse into the past,
+seemed to offer a sort of clue to the secret for which I panted;--and,
+gradually and delicately as my impatience would allow, I availed myself of
+it. Her frankness, however, saved me the embarrassment of much
+questioning. She even seemed to feel that the confidence I sought was due
+to me, and beyond the natural hesitation of maidenly modesty, not a shade
+of reserve or evasion appeared.
+
+To attempt to repeat, in her own touching words, the simple story which
+she now related to me, would be like endeavouring to note down some strain
+of unpremeditated music, with those fugitive graces, those felicities of
+the moment, which no art can restore, as they first met the ear. From a
+feeling, too, of humility, she had omitted in her narrative some
+particulars relating to herself, which I afterwards learned;--while others,
+not less important, she but slightly passed over, from a fear of wounding
+the prejudices of her heathen hearer.
+
+I shall, therefore, give her story, as the outline which she, herself,
+sketched was afterwards filled up by a pious and venerable hand,--far, far
+more worthy than mine of being associated with the memory of such purity.
+
+
+
+
+
+                             STORY OF ALETHE.
+
+
+"The mother of this maiden was the beautiful Theora of Alexandria, who,
+though a native of that city, was descended from Grecian parents. When
+very young, Theora was one of the seven maidens selected, to note down the
+discourses of the eloquent Origen, who, at that period, presided over the
+School of Alexandria, and was in all the fulness of his fame, both among
+Pagans and Christians. Endowed richly with the learning of both creeds, he
+brought the natural light of philosophy to elucidate the mysteries of
+faith, and was only proud of his knowledge of the wisdom of this world,
+inasmuch as it ministered to the triumph of divine truth.
+
+"Though he had courted in vain the crown of martyrdom, it was held,
+throughout his life, suspended over his head, and in more than one
+persecution, he had evinced his readiness to die for that faith which he
+lived but to testify and adorn. On one of these occasions, his tormentors,
+having habited him like an Egyptian priest, placed him upon the steps of
+the Temple of Serapis, and commanded that he should, in the manner of the
+Pagan ministers, present palm-branches to the multitude who went up to the
+shrine. But the courageous Christian disappointed their views. Holding
+forth the branches with an unshrinking hand, he cried aloud, 'Come hither
+and take the branch, not of an Idol Temple, but of Christ.'
+
+"So indefatigable was this learned Father in his studies, that, while
+composing his Commentary on the Scriptures, he was attended by seven
+scribes or notaries, who relieved each other in taking down the dictates
+of his eloquent tongue; while the same number of young females, selected
+for the beauty of their penmanship, were employed in arranging and
+transcribing the precious leaves.
+
+"Among the scribes so selected, was the fair young Theora, whose parents,
+though attached to the Pagan worship, were not unwilling to profit by the
+accomplishments of their daughter, thus devoted to a task which they
+considered purely mechanical. To the maid herself, however, her task
+brought far other feelings and consequences. She read anxiously as she
+wrote, and the divine truths, so eloquently illustrated, found their way,
+by degrees, from the page to her heart. Deeply, too, as the written words
+affected her, the discourses from the lips of the great teacher himself,
+which she had frequent opportunities of hearing, sunk still more deeply
+into her mind. There was, at once, a sublimity and gentleness in his views
+of religion, which, to the tender hearts and lively imaginations of women,
+never failed to appeal with convincing power. Accordingly, the list of his
+female pupils was numerous; and the names of Barbara, Juliana, Hera�s, and
+others, bear honourable testimony to his influence over that sex.
+
+"To Theora the feeling, with which his discourses inspired her, was like a
+new soul,--a consciousness of spiritual existence, unfelt before. By the
+eloquence of the comment she was awakened into admiration of the text; and
+when, by the kindness of a Catechumen of the school, who had been struck
+by her innocent zeal, she, for the first time, became possessor of a copy
+of the Scriptures, she could not sleep for thinking of her sacred
+treasure. With a mixture of pleasure and fear she hid it from all eyes,
+and was like one who had received a divine guest under her roof, and felt
+fearful of betraying its divinity to the world.
+
+"A heart so awake would have been easily secured to the faith, had her
+opportunities of hearing the sacred word continued. But circumstances
+arose to deprive her of this advantage. The mild Origen, long harassed and
+thwarted in his labours by the tyranny of the Bishop of Alexandria,
+Demetrius, was obliged to relinquish his school and fly from Egypt. The
+occupation of the fair scribe was, therefore, at an end: her intercourse
+with the followers of the new faith ceased; and the growing enthusiasm of
+her heart gave way to more worldly impressions.
+
+"Love, among the rest, had its share in alienating her thoughts from
+religion. While still very young, she became the wife of a Greek
+adventurer, who had come to Egypt as a purchaser of that rich tapestry, in
+which the needles of Persia are rivalled by the looms of the Nile. Having
+taken his young bride to Memphis, which was still the great mart of this
+merchandise, he there, in the midst of his speculations, died,--leaving his
+widow on the point of becoming a mother, while, as yet, but in her
+nineteenth year.
+
+"For single and unprotected females, it has been, at all times, a
+favourite resource, to seek admission into the service of some of those
+great temples, which absorb so much of the wealth and power of Egypt. In
+most of these institutions there exists an order of Priestesses, which,
+though not hereditary, like that of the Priests, is provided for by ample
+endowments, and confers that rank and station, with which, in a government
+so theocratic, Religion is sure to invest even her humblest handmaids.
+From the general policy of the Sacred College of Memphis, it may be
+concluded, that an accomplished female, like Theora, found but little
+difficulty in being chosen one of the Priestesses of Isis; and it was in
+the service of the subterranean shrines that her ministry chiefly lay.
+
+"Here, a month or two after her admission, she gave birth to Alethe, who
+first opened her eyes among the unholy pomps and specious miracles of this
+mysterious region. Though Theora, as we have seen, had been diverted by
+other feelings from her first enthusiasm for the Christian faith, she had
+never wholly forgot the impression then made upon her. The sacred volume,
+which the pious Catechumen had given her, was still treasured with care;
+and, though she seldom opened its pages, there was an idea of sanctity
+associated with it in her memory, and often would she sit to look upon it
+with reverential pleasure, recalling the happiness she felt when it was
+first made her own.
+
+"The leisure of her new retreat, and the lone melancholy of widowhood, led
+her still more frequently to indulge in such thoughts, and to recur to
+those consoling truths which she had heard in the school of Alexandria.
+She now began to peruse eagerly the sacred book, drinking deep of the
+fountain of which she before but tasted, and feeling--what thousands of
+mourners, since her, have felt--that Christianity is the true religion of
+the sorrowful.
+
+"This study of her secret hours became still more dear to her, from the
+peril with which, at that period, it was attended, and the necessity she
+was under of concealing from those around her the precious light that had
+been kindled in her heart. Too timid to encounter the fierce persecution,
+which awaited all who were suspected of a leaning to Christianity, she
+continued to officiate in the pomps and ceremonies of the Temple;--though,
+often, with such remorse of soul, that she would pause, in the midst of
+the rites, and pray inwardly to God, that he would forgive this
+profanation of his Spirit.
+
+"In the mean time her daughter, the young Alethe, grew up still lovelier
+than herself, and added, every hour, to her happiness and her fears. When
+arrived at a sufficient age, she was taught, like the other children of
+the priestesses, to take a share in the service and ceremonies of the
+shrines. The duty of some of these young servitors was to look after the
+flowers for the altar;--of others, to take care that the sacred vases were
+filled every day with fresh water from the Nile. The task of some was to
+preserve, in perfect polish, those silver images of the moon which the
+priests carried in processions; while others were, as we have seen,
+employed in feeding the consecrated animals, and in keeping their plumes
+and scales bright, for the admiring eyes of their worshippers.
+
+"The office allotted to Alethe--the most honourable of these minor
+ministries--was to wait upon the sacred birds of the Moon, to feed them
+with those eggs from the Nile which they loved, and provide for their use
+that purest water, which alone these delicate birds will touch. This
+employment was the delight of her childish hours; and that ibis, which
+Alciphron (the Epicurean) saw her dance round in the Temple, was her
+favourite, of all the sacred flock, and had been daily fondled and fed by
+her from infancy.
+
+"Music, as being one of the chief spells of this enchanted region, was an
+accomplishment required of all its ministrants; and the harp, the lyre,
+and the sacred flute, sounded nowhere so sweetly as that through these
+subterranean gardens. The chief object, indeed, in the education of the
+youth of the Temple, was to fit them, by every grace of art and nature, to
+give effect to the illusion of those shows and phantasms, in which the
+whole charm and secret of Initiation lay.
+
+"Among the means employed to support the old system of superstition,
+against the infidelity and, still more, the new Faith that menaced it, was
+an increased display of splendour and marvels in those Mysteries for which
+Egypt has so long been celebrated. Of these ceremonies so many imitations
+had, under various names, been multiplied through Europe, that the parent
+superstition ran a risk of being eclipsed by its progeny; and, in order
+still to retain their rank of the first Priesthood in the world, those of
+Egypt found it necessary to continue still the best impostors.
+
+"Accordingly, every contrivance that art could devise, or labour
+execute--every resource that the wonderful knowledge of the Priests, in
+pyrotechny, mechanics, and dioptrics, could command, was brought into
+action to heighten the effect of their Mysteries, and give an air of
+enchantment to every thing connected with them.
+
+"The final scene of beatification--the Elysium, into which the Initiate was
+received,--formed, of course, the leading attraction of these ceremonies;
+and to render it captivating alike to the senses of the man of pleasure,
+and the imagination of the spiritualist, was the object to which the whole
+skill and attention of the Sacred College were devoted. By the influence
+of the Priests of Memphis over those of the other Temples they had
+succeeded in extending their subterranean frontier, both to the north and
+south, so as to include, within their ever-lighted Paradise, some of the
+gardens excavated for the use of the other Twelve Shrines.
+
+"The beauty of the young Alethe, the touching sweetness of her voice, and
+the sensibility that breathed throughout her every look and movement,
+rendered her a powerful auxiliary in such appeals to the imagination. She
+was, accordingly, from her childhood, selected from among her fair
+companions, as the most worthy representative of spiritual loveliness, in
+those pictures of Elysium--those scenes of another world--by which not only
+the fancy, but the reason, of the excited Aspirants was dazzled.
+
+"To the innocent child herself these shows were pastime. But to Theora,
+who knew too well the imposition to which they were subservient, this
+profanation of all that she loved was a perpetual source of horror and
+remorse. Often would she--when Alethe stood smiling before her, arrayed,
+perhaps, as a spirit of the Elysian world,--turn away, with a shudder, from
+the happy child, almost fancying that she already saw the shadows of sin
+descending over that innocent brow, as she gazed on it.
+
+"As the intellect of the young maid became more active and inquiring, the
+apprehensions and difficulties of the mother increased. Afraid to
+communicate her own precious secret, lest she should involve her child in
+the dangers that encompassed it, she yet felt it to be no less a cruelty
+than a crime to leave her wholly immersed in the darkness of Paganism. In
+this dilemma, the only resource that remained to her was to select, and
+disengage from the dross that surrounded them, those pure particles of
+truth which lie at the bottom of all religions;--those feelings, rather
+than doctrines, which God has never left his creatures without, and which,
+in all ages, have furnished, to those who sought it, some clue to his
+glory.
+
+"The unity and perfect goodness of the Creator; the fall of the human soul
+into corruption; its struggles with the darkness of this world, and its
+final redemption and re-ascent to the source of all spirit;--these natural
+solutions of the problem of our existence, these elementary grounds of all
+religion and virtue, which Theora had heard illustrated by her Christian
+teacher, lay also, she knew, veiled under the theology of Egypt; and to
+impress them, in all their abstract purity, upon the mind of her
+susceptible pupil, was, in default of more heavenly lights, her sole
+ambition and care.
+
+"It was their habit, after devoting their mornings to the service of the
+Temple, to pass their evenings and nights in one of those small mansions
+above ground, allotted to some of the most favoured Priestesses, in the
+precincts of the Sacred College. Here, out of the reach of those gross
+superstitions, which pursued them, at every step, below, she endeavoured
+to inform, as far as she might, the mind of her beloved girl; and found it
+lean as naturally and instinctively to truth, as plants that have been
+long shut up in darkness will, when light is let in, incline themselves to
+its ray.
+
+"Frequently, as they sat together on the terrace at night, contemplating
+that assembly of glorious stars, whose beauty first misled mankind into
+idolatry, she would explain to the young listener by what gradations it
+was that the worship, thus transferred from the Creator to the creature,
+sunk lower and lower in the scale of being, till man, at length, presumed
+to deify man, and by the most monstrous of inversions, heaven was made the
+mirror of earth, reflecting all its most earthly features.
+
+"Even in the Temple itself, the anxious mother would endeavour to
+interpose her purer lessons among the idolatrous ceremonies in which they
+were engaged. When the favourite ibis of Alethe took its station on the
+shrine, and the young maiden was seen approaching, with all the gravity of
+worship, the very bird which she had played with but an hour before,--when
+the acacia-bough, which she herself had plucked, seemed to acquire a
+sudden sacredness in her eyes, as soon as the priest had breathed on
+it,--on all such occasions Theora, though with fear and trembling, would
+venture to suggest to the youthful worshipper the distinction that should
+be drawn between the sensible object of adoration, and that spiritual,
+unseen Deity, of which it was but the remembrancer or type.
+
+"With sorrow, however, she soon discovered that, in thus but partially
+enlightening a mind too ardent to be satisfied with such glimmerings, she
+only bewildered the heart that she meant to guide, and cut down the hope
+round which its faith twined, without substituting any other support in
+its place. As the beauty, too, of Alethe began to attract all eyes, new
+fears crowded upon the mother's heart;--fears, in which she was but too
+much justified by the characters of some of those around her.
+
+"In this sacred abode, as may easily be conceived, morality did not always
+go hand in hand with religion. The hypocritical and ambitious Orcus, who
+was, at this period, High Priest of Memphis, was a man, in every respect,
+qualified to preside over a system of such splendid fraud. He had reached
+that effective time of life, when enough of the warmth of youth remains to
+give animation to the counsels of age. But, in his instance, youth had
+only the baser passions to bequeath, while age but contributed a more
+refined maturity of mischief. The advantages of a faith appealing so
+wholly to the senses, were well understood by him; nor was he ignorant
+that the only way of making religion subservient to his own interests was
+by shaping it adroitly to the passions of others.
+
+"The state of misery and remorse in which the mind of Theora was kept by
+the scenes, however veiled by hypocrisy, which she witnessed around her,
+became at length intolerable. No perils that the cause of truth could
+bring with it would be half so dreadful as this endurance of sinfulness
+and deceit. Her child was, as yet, pure and innocent;--but, without that
+sentinel of the soul, Religion, how long might she continue so?
+
+"This thought at once decided her;--all other fears vanished before it. She
+resolved instantly to lay open to Alethe the whole secret of her soul; to
+make her, who was her only hope on earth, the sharer of all her hopes in
+heaven, and then fly with her, as soon as possible, from this unhallowed
+place, to the desert--to the mountains--to any place, however desolate,
+where God and the consciousness of innocence might be with them.
+
+"The promptitude with which her young pupil caught from her the divine
+truths, was even beyond what she expected. It was like the lighting of one
+torch at another,--so prepared was Alethe's mind for the illumination.
+Amply was the mother now repaid for all her misery, by this perfect
+communion of love and faith, and by the delight with which she saw her
+beloved child--like the young antelope, when first led by her dam to the
+well,--drink thirstily by her side, at the source of all life and truth.
+
+"But such happiness was not long to last. The anxieties that Theora had
+suffered preyed upon her health. She felt her strength daily decline; and
+the thoughts of leaving, alone and unguarded in the world, that treasure
+which she had just devoted to heaven, gave her a feeling of despair which
+but hastened the ebb of life. Had she put in practice her resolution of
+flying from this place, her child might have been now beyond the reach of
+all she dreaded, and in the solitude of the wilderness would have found at
+least safety from wrong. But the very happiness she had felt in her new
+task diverted her from this project;--and it was now too late, for she was
+already dying.
+
+"She concealed, however, her state from the tender and sanguine girl, who,
+though she saw the traces of disease on her mother's cheek, little knew
+that they were the hastening footsteps of death, nor thought even of the
+possibility of losing what was so dear to her. Too soon, however, the
+moment of separation arrived; and while the anguish and dismay of Alethe
+were in proportion to the security in which she had indulged, Theora, too,
+felt, with bitter regret, that she had sacrificed to her fond
+consideration much precious time, and that there now remained but a few
+brief and painful moments, for the communication of all those wishes and
+instructions, on which the future destiny of the young orphan depended.
+
+"She had, indeed, time for little more than to place the sacred volume
+solemnly in her hands, to implore that she would, at all risks, fly from
+this unholy place, and, pointing in the direction of the mountains of the
+Sa�d, to name, with her last breath, the holy man, to whom, under heaven,
+she trusted for the protection and salvation of her child.
+
+"The first violence of feeling to which Alethe gave way was succeeded by a
+fixed and tearless grief, which rendered her insensible, for some time, to
+the dangers of her situation. Her only comfort was in visiting that
+monumental chapel, where the beautiful remains of Theora lay. There, night
+after night, in contemplation of those placid features, and in prayers for
+the peace of the departed spirit, did she pass her lonely, and--sad as they
+were--happiest hours. Though the mystic emblems that decorated that chapel
+were but ill suited to the slumber of a Christian saint, there was one
+among them, the Cross, which, by a remarkable coincidence, is an emblem
+common alike to the Gentile and the Christian,--being, to the former, a
+shadowy type of that immortality, of which, to the latter, it is a
+substantial and assuring pledge.
+
+"Nightly, upon this cross, which she had often seen her lost mother kiss,
+did she breathe forth a solemn and heartfelt vow, never to abandon the
+faith which that departed spirit had bequeathed to her. To such
+enthusiasm, indeed, did her heart at such moments rise, that, but for the
+last injunctions from those pallid lips, she would, at once, have avowed
+her perilous secret, and spoken out the words, 'I am a Christian,' among
+those benighted shrines!
+
+"But the will of her, to whom she owed more than life, was to be obeyed.
+To escape from this haunt of superstition must now, she felt, be her first
+object; and, in devising the means of effecting it, her mind, day and
+night, was employed. It was with a loathing not to be concealed she now
+found herself compelled to resume her idolatrous services at the shrine.
+To some of the offices of Theora she succeeded, as is the custom, by
+inheritance; and in the performance of these--sanctified as they were in
+her eyes by the pure spirit she had seen engaged in them--there was a sort
+of melancholy pleasure in which her sorrow found relief. But the part she
+was again forced to take, in the scenic shows of the Mysteries, brought
+with it a sense of wrong and degradation which she could no longer bear.
+
+"She had already formed, in her own mind, a plan of escape, in which her
+knowledge of all the windings of this subterranean realm gave her
+confidence, when the reception of Alciphron, as an Initiate, took place.
+
+"From the first moment of the landing of that philosopher at Alexandria,
+he had become an object of suspicion and watchfulness to the inquisitorial
+Orcus, whom philosophy, in any shape, naturally alarmed, but to whom the
+sect over which the young Athenian presided was particularly obnoxious.
+The accomplishments of Alciphron, his popularity, wherever he went, and
+the freedom with which he indulged his wit at the expense of religion, was
+all faithfully reported to the High Priest by his spies, and stirred up
+within him no kindly feelings towards the stranger. In dealing with an
+infidel, such a personage as Orcus could know no alternative but that of
+either converting or destroying him; and though his spite, as a man, would
+have been more gratified by the latter proceeding, his pride, as a priest,
+led him to prefer the triumph of the former.
+
+"The first descent of the Epicurean into the pyramid was speedily known,
+and the alarm immediately given to the Priests below. As soon as it was
+discovered that the young philosopher of Athens was the intruder, and that
+he still continued to linger round the pyramid, looking often and
+wistfully towards the portal, it was concluded that his curiosity would
+impel him to try a second descent; and Orcus, blessing the good chance
+which had thus brought the wild bird to his net, determined not to allow
+an opportunity so precious to be wasted.
+
+"Instantly, the whole of that wonderful machinery, by which the phantasms
+and illusions of Initiation are produced, were put in active preparation
+throughout that subterranean realm; and the increased stir and
+watchfulness excited among its inmates, by this more than ordinary display
+of all the resources of priestcraft, rendered the accomplishment of
+Alethe's design, at such a moment, peculiarly difficult. Wholly ignorant
+of the share which had fallen to herself in attracting the young
+philosopher down to this region, she but heard of him vaguely, as the
+Chief of a great Grecian sect, who had been led, by either curiosity or
+accident, to expose himself to the first trials of Initiation, and whom
+the priests, she saw, were endeavouring to ensnare in their toils, by
+every art and skill with which their science of darkness had gifted them.
+
+"To her mind, the image of a philosopher, such as Alciphron had been
+represented to her, came associated with ideas of age and reverence; and,
+more than once, the possibility of his being made instrumental to her
+deliverance flashed a hope across her heart in which she could not help
+indulging. Often had she been told by Theora of the many Gentile sages,
+who had laid their wisdom down humbly at the foot of the Cross; and though
+this Initiate, she feared, could hardly be among the number, yet the
+rumours which she had gathered from the servants of the Temple, of his
+undisguised contempt for the errors of heathenism, led her to hope she
+might find tolerance, if not sympathy, in her appeal to him.
+
+"Nor was it solely with a view to her own chance of deliverance that she
+thus connected him in her thoughts with the plan which she meditated. The
+look of proud and self-gratulating malice, with which the High Priest had
+mentioned this 'infidel,' as he styled him, when instructing her in the
+scene she was to enact before the philosopher in the valley, but too
+plainly informed her of the destiny that hung over him. She knew how many
+were the hapless candidates for Initiation, who had been doomed to a
+durance worse than that of the grave, for but a word, a whisper breathed
+against the sacred absurdities which they witnessed; and it was evident to
+her that the venerable Greek (for such her fancy represented Alciphron)
+was no less interested in escaping from this region than herself.
+
+"Her own resolution was, at all events, fixed. That visionary scene, in
+which she had appeared before Alciphron,--little knowing how ardent were
+the heart and imagination, over which her beauty, at that moment, shed its
+whole influence,--was, she solemnly resolved, the very last unholy service,
+that superstition or imposture should ever command of her.
+
+"On the following night the Aspirant was to watch in the Great Temple of
+Isis. Such an opportunity of approaching and addressing him might never
+come again. Should he, from compassion for her situation, or a sense of
+the danger of his own, consent to lend his aid to her flight, most gladly
+would she accept it,--assured that no danger or treachery she might risk
+could be half so dreadful as those she left behind. Should he, on the
+contrary, refuse, her determination was equally fixed--to trust to that
+God, who watches over the innocent, and go forth alone.
+
+"To reach the island in Lake Moeris was her first object, and there
+occurred luckily, at this time, a mode of accomplishing it, by which the
+difficulty and dangers of the attempt would be, in a great degree,
+diminished. The day of the annual visitation of the High Priest to the
+Place of Weeping--as that island in the centre of the lake is called--was
+now fast approaching; and Alethe well knew that the self-moving car, by
+which the High Priest and one of the Hierophants are conveyed to the
+chambers under the lake, stood waiting in readiness. By availing herself
+of this expedient, she would gain the double advantage both of
+facilitating her own flight and retarding the speed of her pursuers.
+
+"Having paid a last visit to the tomb of her beloved mother, and wept
+there, long and passionately, till her heart almost failed in the
+struggle,--having paused, too, to give a kiss to her favourite ibis, which,
+though too much a Christian to worship, she was still child enough to
+love,--with a trembling step she went early to the Sanctuary, and hid
+herself in one of the recesses of the Shrine. Her intention was to steal
+out from thence to Alciphron, while it was yet dark, and before the
+illumination of the great Statue behind the Veils had begun. But her fears
+delayed her till it was almost too late;--already was the image lighted up,
+and still she remained trembling in her hiding place.
+
+"In a few minutes more the mighty Veils would have been withdrawn, and the
+glories of that scene of enchantment laid open,--when, at length, summoning
+up courage, and taking advantage of a momentary absence of those employed
+in the preparations of this splendid mockery, she stole from under the
+Veil and found her way, through the gloom, to the Epicurean. There was
+then no time for explanation;--she had but to trust to the simple words,
+'Follow, and be silent;' and the implicit readiness with which she found
+them obeyed filled her with no less surprise than the philosopher himself
+felt in hearing them.
+
+"In a second or two they were on their way through the subterranean
+windings, leaving the ministers of Isis to waste their splendours on
+vacancy, through a long series of miracles and visions which they now
+exhibited,--unconscious that he, whom they took such pains to dazzle, was
+already, under the guidance of the young Christian, removed beyond the
+reach of their spells."
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XIV.
+
+
+Such was the story, of which this innocent girl gave me, in her own
+touching language, the outline.
+
+The sun was just rising as she finished her narrative. Fearful of
+encountering the expression of those feelings with which, she could not
+but observe, I was affected by her recital, scarcely had she concluded the
+last sentence, when, rising abruptly from her seat, she hurried into the
+pavilion, leaving me with the words already crowding for utterance to my
+lips.
+
+Oppressed by the various emotions, thus sent back upon my heart, I lay
+down on the deck in a state of agitation, that defied even the most
+distant approaches of sleep. While every word she had uttered, every
+feeling she expressed, but ministered new fuel to that flame within me, to
+describe which, passion is too weak a word, there was also much of her
+recital that disheartened, that alarmed me. To find a Christian thus under
+the garb of a Memphian Priestess, was a discovery that, had my heart been
+less deeply interested, would but have more powerfully stimulated my
+imagination and pride. But, when I recollected the austerity of the faith
+she had embraced,--the tender and sacred tie, associated with it in her
+memory, and the devotion of woman's heart to objects thus consecrated,--her
+very perfections but widened the distance between us, and all that most
+kindled my passion at the same time chilled my hopes.
+
+Were we left to each other, as on this silent river, in this undisturbed
+communion of thoughts and feelings, I knew too well, I thought, both her
+sex's nature and my own, to feel a doubt that love would ultimately
+triumph. But the severity of the guardianship to which I must resign
+her,--some monk of the desert, some stern Solitary,--the influence such a
+monitor would gain over her mind, and the horror with which, ere long, she
+would be taught to regard the reprobate infidel on whom she now smiled,--in
+all this prospect I saw nothing but despair. After a few short hours, my
+happiness would be at an end, and such a dark chasm open between our
+fates, as must sever them, far as earth is from heaven, asunder.
+
+It was true, she was now wholly in my power. I feared no witnesses but
+those of earth, and the solitude of the desert was at hand. But though I
+acknowledged not a heaven, I worshipped her who was, to me, its type and
+substitute. If, at any moment, a single thought of wrong or deceit,
+towards a creature so sacred, arose in my mind, one look from her innocent
+eyes averted the sacrilege. Even passion itself felt a holy fear in her
+presence,--like the flame trembling in the breeze of the sanctuary,--and
+Love, pure Love, stood in place of Religion.
+
+As long as I knew not her story, I might indulge, at least, in dreams of
+the future. But, now--what hope, what prospect remained? My sole chance of
+happiness lay in the feeble hope of beguiling away her thoughts from the
+plan which she meditated; of weaning her, by persuasion, from that austere
+faith, which I had before hated and now feared, and of--attaching her,
+perhaps, alone and unlinked as she was in the world, to my own fortunes
+for ever!
+
+In the agitation of these thoughts, I had started from my resting-place,
+and continued to pace up and down, under a burning sun, till, exhausted
+both by thought and feeling, I sunk down, amid its blaze, into a sleep,
+which, to my fevered brain, seemed a sleep of fire.
+
+On awaking, I found the veil of Alethe laid carefully over my brow, while
+she, herself, sat near me, under the shadow of the sail, looking anxiously
+at that leaf, which her mother had given her, and apparently employed in
+comparing its outlines with the course of the river and the forms of the
+rocky hills by which we passed. She looked pale and troubled, and rose
+eagerly to meet me, as if she had long and impatiently waited for my
+waking.
+
+Her heart, it was plain, had been disturbed from its security, and was
+beginning to take alarm at its own feelings. But, though vaguely conscious
+of the peril to which she was exposed, her reliance, as is usually the
+case, increased with her danger, and on me, far more than on herself, did
+she depend for saving her from it. To reach, as soon as possible, her
+asylum in the desert, was now the urgent object of her entreaties and
+wishes; and the self-reproach she expressed at having permitted her
+thoughts to be diverted, for a single moment, from this sacred purpose,
+not only revealed the truth, that she had forgotten it, but betrayed even
+a glimmering consciousness of the cause.
+
+Her sleep, she said, had been broken by ill-omened dreams. Every moment
+the shade of her mother had stood before her, rebuking her, with mournful
+looks, for her delay, and pointing, as she had done in death, to the
+eastern hills. Bursting into tears at this accusing recollection, she
+hastily placed the leaf, which she had been examining, in my hands, and
+implored that I would ascertain, without a moment's delay, what portion of
+our voyage was still unperformed, and in what space of time we might hope
+to accomplish it.
+
+I had, still less than herself, taken note of either place or distance;
+and, had we been left to glide on in this dream of happiness, should never
+have thought of pausing to ask where it would end. But such confidence, I
+felt, was too sacred to be deceived. Reluctant as I was, naturally, to
+enter on an inquiry, which might so soon dissipate even my last hope, her
+wish was sufficient to supersede even the selfishness of love, and on the
+instant I proceeded to obey her will.
+
+There is, on the eastern bank of the Nile, to the north of Antin�e, a high
+and steep rock, impending over the flood, which for ages, from a prodigy
+connected with it, has borne the name of the Mountain of the Birds.
+Yearly, it is said, at a certain season and hour, large flocks of birds
+assemble in the ravine, of which this rocky mountain forms one of the
+sides, and are there observed to go through the mysterious ceremony of
+inserting each its beak into a particular cleft of the rock, till the
+cleft closes upon one of their number, when the rest, taking wing, leave
+the selected victim to die.
+
+Through the ravine where this charm--for such the multitude consider it--is
+worked, there ran, in ancient times, a canal from the Nile, to some great
+and forgotten city that now lies buried in the desert. To a short distance
+from the river this canal still exists, but, soon after having passed
+through the defile, its scanty waters disappear altogether, and are lost
+under the sands.
+
+It was in the neighbourhood of this place, as I could collect from the
+delineations on the leaf,--where a flight of birds represented the name of
+the mountain,--that the dwelling of the Solitary, to whom Alethe was
+bequeathed, lay. Imperfect as was my knowledge of the geography of Egypt,
+it at once struck me, that we had long since left this mountain behind;
+and, on inquiring of our boatmen, I found my conjecture confirmed. We had,
+indeed, passed it, as appeared, on the preceding night; and, as the wind
+had, ever since, blown strongly from the north, and the sun was already
+declining towards the horizon, we must now be, at least, an ordinary day's
+sail to the southward of the spot.
+
+At this discovery, I own, my heart felt a joy which I could with
+difficulty conceal. It seemed to me as if fortune was conspiring with
+love, and, by thus delaying the moment of our separation, afforded me at
+least a chance of happiness. Her look, too, and manner, when informed of
+our mistake, rather encouraged than chilled this secret hope. In the first
+moment of astonishment, her eyes opened upon me with a suddenness of
+splendour, under which I felt my own wink, as if lightning had crossed
+them. But she again, as suddenly, let their lids fall, and, after a quiver
+of her lip, which showed the conflict of feeling within, crossed her arms
+upon her bosom, and looked silently down upon the deck;--her whole
+countenance sinking into an expression, sad, but resigned, as if she felt,
+with me, that fate was on the side of wrong, and saw Love already stealing
+between her soul and heaven.
+
+I was not slow in availing myself of what I fancied to be the irresolution
+of her mind. But, fearful of exciting alarm by any appeal to tenderer
+feelings, I but addressed myself to her imagination, and to that love of
+novelty, which is for ever fresh in the youthful breast. We were now
+approaching that region of wonders, Thebes. "In a day or two," said I, "we
+shall see, towering above the waters, the colossal Avenue of Sphinxes, and
+the bright Obelisks of the Sun. We shall visit the plain of Memnon, and
+those mighty statues, that fling their shadows at sunrise over the Libyan
+hills. We shall hear the image of the Son of the Morning answering to the
+first touch of light. From thence, in a few hours, a breeze like this will
+transport us to those sunny islands near the cataracts; there, to wander,
+among the sacred palm-groves of Phil�, or sit, at noon-tide hour, in those
+cool alcoves, which the waterfall of Syene shadows under its arch. Oh,
+who, with such scenes of loveliness within reach, would turn coldly away
+to the bleak desert, and leave this fair world, with all its enchantments,
+shining behind them, unseen and unenjoyed? At least,"--I added, tenderly
+taking her by the hand,--"at least, let a few more days be stolen from the
+dreary fate to which thou hast devoted thyself, and then----"
+
+She had heard but the last few words;--the rest had been lost upon her.
+Startled by the tone of tenderness, into which, in spite of all my
+resolves, my voice had softened, she looked for an instant in my face,
+with passionate earnestness;--then, dropping upon her knees with her
+clasped hands upraised, exclaimed--"Tempt me not, in the name of God I
+implore thee, tempt me not to swerve from my sacred duty. Oh, take me
+instantly to that desert mountain, and I will bless thee for ever."
+
+This appeal, I felt, _could not_ be resisted,--though my heart were to
+break for it. Having silently expressed my assent to her prayer, by a
+pressure of her hand as I raised her from the deck, I hastened, as we were
+still in full career for the south, to give orders that our sail should be
+instantly lowered, and not a moment lost in retracing our course.
+
+In proceeding, however, to give these directions, it, for the first time,
+occurred to me, that, as I had hired this yacht in the neighbourhood of
+Memphis, where it was probable that the flight of the young fugitive would
+be most vigilantly tracked, we should act imprudently in betraying to the
+boatmen the place of her retreat;--and the present seemed the most
+favourable opportunity of evading such a danger. Desiring, therefore, that
+we should be landed at a small village on the shore, under pretence of
+paying a visit to some shrine in the neighbourhood, I there dismissed our
+barge, and was relieved from fear of further observation, by seeing it
+again set sail, and resume its course fleetly up the current.
+
+From the boats of all descriptions that lay idle beside the bank, I now
+selected one, which, in every respect, suited my purpose,--being, in its
+shape and accommodations, a miniature of our former vessel, but so small
+and light as to be manageable by myself alone, and, with the advantage of
+the current, requiring little more than a hand to steer it. This boat I
+succeeded, without much difficulty, in purchasing, and, after a short
+delay, we were again afloat down the current;--the sun just then sinking,
+in conscious glory, over his own golden shrines in the Libyan waste.
+
+The evening was more calm and lovely than any that yet had smiled upon our
+voyage; and, as we left the bank, there came soothingly over our ears a
+strain of sweet, rustic melody from the shore. It was the voice of a young
+Nubian girl, whom we saw kneeling on the bank before an acacia, and
+singing, while her companions stood round, the wild song of invocation,
+which, in her country, they address to that enchanted tree:--
+
+    "Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      We pray, we pray, to thee;
+  By the glow of thy golden fruit,
+    And the violet hue of thy flower,
+      And the greeting mute
+      Of thy bough's salute
+    To the stranger who seeks thy bower.(6)
+
+                II.
+
+    "Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      How the traveller blesses thee,
+  When the night no moon allows,
+    And the sun-set hour is near,
+      And thou bend'st thy boughs
+      To kiss his brows,
+    Saying, 'Come rest thee here.'
+      Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      Thus bow thy head to me!"
+
+In the burden of this song the companions of the young Nubian joined; and
+we heard the words, "Oh! Abyssinian tree," dying away on the breeze, long
+after the whole group had been lost to our eyes.
+
+Whether, in this new arrangement which I had made for our voyage, any
+motive, besides those which I professed, had a share, I can scarcely, even
+myself, so bewildered were my feelings, determine. But no sooner had the
+current borne us away from all human dwellings, and we were alone on the
+waters, with not a soul near, than I felt how closely such solitude draws
+hearts together, and how much more we seemed to belong to each other, than
+when there were eyes around.
+
+The same feeling, but without the same sense of its danger, was manifest
+in every look and word of Alethe. The consciousness of the one great
+effort she had made appeared to have satisfied her heart on the score of
+duty,--while the devotedness with which she saw I attended to her every
+wish, was felt with all that gratitude which, in woman, is the day-spring
+of love. She was, therefore, happy, innocently happy; and the confiding,
+and even affectionate, unreserve of her manner, while it rendered my trust
+more sacred, made it also far more difficult.
+
+It was only, however, on subjects unconnected with our situation or fate,
+that she yielded to such interchange of thought, or that her voice
+ventured to answer mine. The moment I alluded to the destiny that awaited
+us, all her cheerfulness fled, and she became saddened and silent. When I
+described to her the beauty of my own native land--its founts of
+inspiration and fields of glory--her eyes sparkled with sympathy, and
+sometimes even softened into fondness. But when I ventured to whisper,
+that, in that glorious country, a life full of love and liberty awaited
+her; when I proceeded to contrast the adoration and bliss she might
+command, with the gloomy austerities of the life to which she was
+hastening,--it was like the coming of a sudden cloud over a summer sky. Her
+head sunk, as she listened;--I waited in vain for an answer; and when, half
+playfully reproaching her for this silence, I stooped to take her hand, I
+could feel the warm tears fast falling over it.
+
+But even this--little hope as it held out--was happiness. Though it
+foreboded that I should lose her, it also whispered that I was loved. Like
+that lake, in the Land of Roses(7), whose waters are half sweet, half
+bitter, I felt my fate to be a compound of bliss and pain,--but the very
+pain well worth all ordinary bliss.
+
+And thus did the hours of that night pass along; while every moment
+shortened our happy dream, and the current seemed to flow with a swifter
+pace than any that ever yet hurried to the sea. Not a feature of the whole
+scene but is, at this moment, freshly in my memory;--the broken star-light
+on the water;--the rippling sound of the boat, as, without oar or sail, it
+went, like a thing of enchantment, down the stream;--the scented fire,
+burning beside us on the deck, and, oh, that face, on which its light
+fell, still revealing, as it turned, some new charm, some blush or look,
+more beautiful than the last.
+
+Often, while I sat gazing, forgetful of all else in this world, our boat,
+left wholly to itself, would drive from its course, and, bearing us to the
+bank, get entangled in the water-flowers, or be caught in some eddy, ere I
+perceived where we were. Once, too, when the rustling of my oar among the
+flowers had startled away from the bank some wild antelopes, that had
+stolen, at that still hour, to drink of the Nile, what an emblem I thought
+it of the young heart beside me,--tasting, for the first time, of hope and
+love, and so soon, alas, to be scared from their sweetness for ever!
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XV.
+
+
+The night was now far advanced;--the bend of our course towards the left,
+and the closing in of the eastern hills upon the river, gave warning of
+our approach to the hermit's dwelling. Every minute now seemed like the
+last of existence; and I felt a sinking of despair at my heart, which
+would have been intolerable, had not a resolution that suddenly, and as if
+by inspiration, occurred to me, presented a glimpse of hope which, in some
+degree, calmed my feelings.
+
+Much as I had, all my life, despised hypocrisy,--the very sect I had
+embraced being chiefly recommended to me by the war which they waged on
+the cant of all others,--it was, nevertheless, in hypocrisy that I now
+scrupled not to take refuge from, what I dreaded more than shame or death,
+my separation from Alethe. In my despair, I adopted the humiliating
+plan--deeply humiliating as I felt it to be, even amid the joy with which I
+welcomed it--of offering myself to this hermit, as a convert to his faith,
+and thus becoming the fellow-disciple of Alethe under his care!
+
+From the moment I resolved upon this plan, my spirit felt lightened.
+Though having fully before my eyes the labyrinth of imposture into which
+it would lead me, I thought of nothing but the chance of our being still
+together;--in this hope, all pride, all philosophy was forgotten, and every
+thing seemed tolerable, but the prospect of losing her.
+
+Thus resolved, it was with somewhat less reluctant feelings, that I now
+undertook, at the anxious desire of Alethe, to ascertain the site of that
+well-known mountain, in the neighbourhood of which the dwelling of the
+anchoret lay. We had already passed one or two stupendous rocks, which
+stood, detached, like fortresses, over the river's brink, and which, in
+some degree, corresponded with the description on the leaf. So little was
+there of life now stirring along the shores, that I had begun almost to
+despair of any assistance from inquiry, when, on looking to the western
+bank, I saw a boatman among the sedges, towing his small boat, with some
+difficulty, up the current. Hailing him, as we passed, I asked, "Where
+stands the Mountain of the Birds?"--and he had hardly time to answer,
+pointing above our heads, "There," when we perceived that we were just
+then entering into the shadow, which this mighty rock flings across the
+whole of the flood.
+
+In a few moments we had reached the mouth of the ravine, of which the
+Mountain of the Birds forms one of the sides, and through which the scanty
+canal from the Nile flows. At the sight of this chasm, in some of whose
+gloomy recesses--if we had rightly interpreted the leaf--the dwelling of the
+Solitary lay, our voices, at once, sunk into a low whisper, while Alethe
+looked round upon me with a superstitious fearfulness, as if doubtful
+whether I had not already disappeared from her side. A quick movement,
+however, of her hand towards the ravine, told too plainly that her purpose
+was still unchanged. With my oars, therefore, checking the career of our
+boat, I succeeded, after no small exertion, in turning it out of the
+current of the river, and steering into this bleak and stagnant canal.
+
+Our transition from life and bloom to the very depth of desolation, was
+immediate. While the water and one side of the ravine lay buried in
+shadow, the white, skeleton-like crags of the other stood aloft in the
+pale glare of moonlight. The sluggish stream through which we moved,
+yielded sullenly to the oar, and the shriek of a few water-birds, which we
+had roused from their fastnesses, was succeeded by a silence, so dead and
+awful, that our lips seemed afraid to disturb it by a breath; and half-
+whispered exclamations, "How dreary!"--"How dismal!"--were almost the only
+words exchanged between us.
+
+We had proceeded for some time through this gloomy defile, when, at a
+distance before us, among the rocks on which the moonlight fell, we
+perceived, upon a ledge but little elevated above the canal, a small hut
+or cave, which, from a tree or two planted around it, had some appearance
+of being the abode of a human being. "This, then," thought I, "is the home
+to which Alethe is destined!"--A chill of despair came again over my heart,
+and the oars, as I gazed, lay motionless in my hands.
+
+I found Alethe, too, whose eyes had caught the same object, drawing closer
+to my side than she had yet ventured. Laying her hand agitatedly upon
+mine, "We must here," she said, "part for ever." I turned to her, as she
+spoke: there was a tenderness, a despondency in her countenance, that at
+once saddened and inflamed my soul. "Part!" I exclaimed
+passionately,--"No!--the same God shall receive us both. Thy faith, Alethe,
+shall, from this hour, be mine, and I will live and die in this desert
+with thee!"
+
+Her surprise, her delight, at these words, was like a momentary delirium.
+The wild, anxious smile, with which she looked into my face, as if to
+ascertain whether she had, indeed, heard my words aright, bespoke a
+happiness too much for reason to bear. At length the fulness of her heart
+found relief in tears; and, murmuring forth an incoherent blessing on my
+name, she let her head fall languidly and powerlessly on my arm. The light
+from our boat-fire shone upon her face. I saw her eyes, which she had
+closed for a moment, again opening upon me with the same tenderness,
+and--merciful Providence, how I remember that moment!--was on the point of
+bending down my lips towards hers, when, suddenly, in the air above our
+heads, as if it came from heaven, there burst forth a strain from a choir
+of voices, that with its solemn sweetness filled the whole valley.
+
+Breaking away from my caress at these supernatural sounds, the maiden
+threw herself trembling upon her knees, and, not daring to look up,
+exclaimed wildly, "My mother, oh my mother!"
+
+It was the Christian's morning hymn that we heard;--the same, as I learned
+afterwards, that, on their high terrace at Memphis, Alethe had been often
+taught by her mother to sing to the rising sun.
+
+Scarcely less startled than my companion, I looked up, and, at the very
+summit of the rock above us, saw a light, appearing to come from a small
+opening or window, through which also the sounds, that had appeared so
+supernatural, issued. There could be no doubt, that we had now found--if
+not the dwelling of the anchoret--at least, the haunt of some of the
+Christian brotherhood of these rocks, by whose assistance we could not
+fail to find the place of his retreat.
+
+The agitation, into which Alethe had been thrown by the first burst of
+that psalmody, soon yielded to the softening recollections which it
+brought back; and a calm came over her brow, such as it had never before
+worn, since our meeting. She seemed to feel that she had now reached her
+destined haven, and to hail, as the voice of heaven itself, those sounds
+by which she was welcomed to it.
+
+In her tranquillity, however, I could not now sympathize. Impatient to
+know all that awaited her and myself, I pushed our boat close to the base
+of the rock,--directly under that lighted window on the summit, to find my
+way up to which was my first object. Having hastily received my
+instructions from Alethe, and made her repeat again the name of the
+Christian whom we sought, I sprang upon the bank, and was not long in
+discovering a sort of rude stair-way, cut out of the rock, but leading, I
+found, by easy windings, up the steep.
+
+After ascending for some time, I arrived at a level space or ledge, which
+the hand of labour had succeeded in converting into a garden, and which
+was planted, here and there, with fig-trees and palms. Around it, too, I
+could perceive, through the glimmering light, a number of small caves or
+grottos, into some of which, human beings might find entrance, while
+others appeared no larger than the tombs of the Sacred Birds round Lake
+Moeris.
+
+I was still, I found, but half-way up the ascent to the summit, nor could
+perceive any further means of continuing my course, as the mountain from
+hence rose, almost perpendicularly, like a wall. At length, however, on
+exploring around, I discovered behind the shade of a sycamore a large
+ladder of wood, resting firmly against the rock, and affording an easy and
+secure ascent up the steep.
+
+Having ascertained thus far, I again descended to the boat for
+Alethe,--whom I found trembling already at her short solitude,--and having
+led her up the steps to this quiet garden, left her safely lodged, amid
+its holy silence, while I pursued my way upward to the light on the rock.
+
+At the top of the long ladder I found myself on another ledge or platform,
+somewhat smaller than the first, but planted in the same manner, with
+trees, and, as I could perceive by the mingled light of morning and the
+moon, embellished with flowers. I was now near the summit;--there remained
+but another short ascent, and, as a ladder against the rock, as before,
+supplied the means of scaling it, I was in a few minutes at the opening
+from which the light issued.
+
+I had ascended gently, as well from a feeling of awe at the whole scene,
+as from an unwillingness to disturb too rudely the rites on which I
+intruded. My approach was, therefore, unheard, and an opportunity, during
+some moments, afforded me of observing the group within, before my
+appearance at the window was discovered.
+
+In the middle of the apartment, which seemed once to have been a Pagan
+oratory, there was an assembly of seven or eight persons, some male, some
+female, kneeling in silence round a small altar;--while, among them, as if
+presiding over their ceremony, stood an aged man, who, at the moment of my
+arrival, was presenting to one of the female worshippers an alabaster cup,
+which she applied, with much reverence, to her lips. On the countenance of
+the venerable minister, as he pronounced a short prayer over her head,
+there was an expression of profound feeling that showed how wholly he was
+absorbed in that rite; and when she had drank of the cup,--which I saw had
+engraven on its side the image of a head, with a glory round it,--the holy
+man bent down and kissed her forehead.
+
+After this parting salutation, the whole group rose silently from their
+knees; and it was then, for the first time, that, by a cry of terror from
+one of the women, the appearance of a stranger at the window was
+discovered. The whole assembly seemed startled and alarmed, except him,
+that superior person, who, advancing from the altar, with an unmoved look,
+raised the latch of the door, which was adjoining to the window, and
+admitted me.
+
+There was, in this old man's features, a mixture of elevation and
+sweetness, of simplicity and energy, which commanded at once attachment
+and homage; and half hoping, half fearing to find in him the destined
+guardian of Alethe, I looked anxiously in his face, as I entered, and
+pronounced the name "Melanius!" "Melanius is my name, young stranger," he
+answered; "and whether in friendship or in enmity thou comest, Melanius
+blesses thee." Thus saying, he made a sign with his right hand above my
+head, while, with involuntary respect, I bowed beneath the benediction.
+
+"Let this volume," I replied, "answer for the peacefulness of my
+mission,"--at the same time, placing in his hands the copy of the
+Scriptures, which had been his own gift to the mother of Alethe, and which
+her child now brought as the credential of her claims on his protection.
+At the sight of this sacred pledge, which he recognized instantly, the
+solemnity that had marked his first reception of me softened into
+tenderness. Thoughts of other times seemed to pass through his mind, and
+as, with a sigh of recollection, he took the book from my hands, some
+words on the outer leaf caught his eye. They were few,--but contained,
+perhaps, the last wishes of the dying Theora, for as he eagerly read them
+over, I saw the tears in his aged eyes. "The trust," he said, with a
+faltering voice, "is sacred, and God will, I hope, enable his servant to
+guard it faithfully."
+
+During this short dialogue, the other persons of the assembly had
+departed--being, as I afterwards learned, brethren from the neighbouring
+bank of the Nile, who came thus secretly before day-break, to join in
+worshipping God. Fearful lest their descent down the rock might alarm
+Alethe, I hurried briefly over the few words of explanation that remained,
+and, leaving the venerable Christian to follow at his leisure, hastened
+anxiously down to rejoin the maiden.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XVI.
+
+
+Melanius was among the first of those Christians of Egypt, who, after the
+recent example of the hermit, Paul, renouncing all the comforts of social
+existence, betook themselves to a life of contemplation in the desert.
+Less selfish, however, in his piety, than most of these ascetics, Melanius
+forgot not the world, in leaving it. He knew that man was not born to live
+wholly for himself; that his relation to human kind was that of the link
+to the chain, and that even his solitude should be turned to the advantage
+of others. In flying, therefore, from the din and disturbance of life, he
+sought not to place himself beyond the reach of its sympathies, but
+selected a retreat, where he could combine the advantage of solitude with
+those opportunities of serving his fellow-men, which a neighbourhood to
+their haunts would afford.
+
+That taste for the gloom of subterranean recesses, which the race of
+Misraim inherit from their Ethiopian ancestors, had, by hollowing out all
+Egypt into caverns and crypts, furnished these Christian anchorets with a
+choice of retreats. Accordingly, some found a shelter in the grottos of
+Elethya;--others, among the royal tombs of the Theba�d. In the middle of
+the Seven Valleys, where the sun rarely shines, a few have fixed their dim
+and melancholy retreat, while others have sought the neighbourhood of the
+red Lakes of Nitria, and there,--like those Pagan solitaries of old, who
+dwelt among the palm-trees near the Dead Sea,--muse amid the sterility of
+nature, and seem to find, in her desolation, peace.
+
+It was on one of the mountains of the Sa�d, to the east of the river, that
+Melanius, as we have seen, chose his place of seclusion,--between the life
+and fertility of the Nile on the one side, and the lone, dismal barrenness
+of the desert on the other. Half-way down this mountain, where it impends
+over the ravine, he found a series of caves or grottos dug out of the
+rock, which had, in other times, ministered to some purpose of mystery,
+but whose use had been long forgotten, and their recesses abandoned.
+
+To this place, after the banishment of his great master, Origen, Melanius,
+with a few faithful followers, retired, and, by the example of his
+innocent life, no less than by his fervid eloquence, succeeded in winning
+crowds of converts to his faith. Placed, as he was, in the neighbourhood
+of the rich city, Antino�, though he mingled not with its multitude, his
+name and his fame were among them, and, to all who sought instruction or
+consolation, the cell of the hermit was ever open.
+
+Notwithstanding the rigid abstinence of his own habits, he was yet careful
+to provide for the comforts of others. Contented with a rude bed of straw,
+himself, for the stranger he had always a less homely resting-place. From
+his grotto, the wayfaring and the indigent never went unrefreshed; and,
+with the assistance of some of his brethren, he had formed gardens along
+the ledges of the mountain, which gave an air of cheerfulness to his rocky
+dwelling, and supplied him with the chief necessaries of such a climate,
+fruit and shade.
+
+Though the acquaintance which he had formed with the mother of Alethe,
+during the short period of her attendance at the school of Origen, was
+soon interrupted, and never afterwards renewed, the interest which he had
+then taken in her fate was too lively to be forgotten. He had seen the
+zeal with which her young heart welcomed instruction; and the thought that
+such a candidate for heaven should have relapsed into idolatry, came
+often, with disquieting apprehension, over his mind.
+
+It was, therefore, with true pleasure, that, but a year or two before her
+death, he had learned, by a private communication from Theora, transmitted
+through a Christian embalmer of Memphis, that "not only her own heart had
+taken root in the faith, but that a new bud had flowered with the same
+divine hope, and that, ere long, he might see them both transplanted to
+the desert."
+
+The coming, therefore, of Alethe was far less a surprise to him, than her
+coming thus alone was a shock and a sorrow; and the silence of their
+meeting showed how deeply each remembered that the tie which had brought
+them together was no longer of this world,--that the hand, which should
+have been joined with theirs, was in the tomb. I now saw that not even
+religion was proof against the sadness of mortality. For, as the old man
+put the ringlets aside from her forehead, and contemplated in that clear
+countenance the reflection of what her mother had been, there was a
+mournfulness mingled with his piety, as he said, "Heaven rest her soul!"
+which showed how little even the certainty of a heaven for those we love
+can subdue our regret for having lost them on earth.
+
+The full light of day had now risen upon the desert, and our host,
+reminded, by the faint looks of Alethe, of the many anxious hours we had
+passed without sleep, proposed that we should seek, in the chambers of the
+rock, such rest as the dwelling of a hermit could offer. Pointing to one
+of the largest openings, as he addressed me,--"Thou wilt find," he said,
+"in that grotto a bed of fresh doum leaves, and may the consciousness of
+having protected the orphan sweeten thy sleep!"
+
+I felt how dearly this praise had been earned, and already almost repented
+of having deserved it. There was a sadness in the countenance of Alethe,
+as I took leave of her, to which the forebodings of my own heart but too
+faithfully responded; nor could I help fearing, as her hand parted
+lingeringly from mine, that I had, by this sacrifice, placed her beyond my
+reach for ever.
+
+Having lighted me a lamp, which, in these recesses, even at noon, is
+necessary, the holy man led me to the entrance of the grotto;--and here, I
+blush to say, my career of hypocrisy began. With the sole view of
+obtaining another glance at Alethe, I turned humbly to solicit the
+benediction of the Christian, and, having conveyed to her, as I bent
+reverently down, as much of the deep feeling of my soul as looks could
+express, with a desponding spirit I hurried into the cavern.
+
+A short passage led me to the chamber within,--the walls of which I found
+covered, like those of the grottos of Lycopolis, with paintings, which,
+though executed long ages ago, looked fresh as if their colours were but
+laid on yesterday. They were, all of them, representations of rural and
+domestic scenes; and, in the greater number, the melancholy imagination of
+the artist had called Death in, as usual, to throw his shadow over the
+picture.
+
+My attention was particularly drawn to one series of subjects, throughout
+the whole of which the same group--a youth, a maiden, and two aged persons,
+who appeared to be the father and mother of the girl,--were represented in
+all the details of their daily life. The looks and attitudes of the young
+people denoted that they were lovers; and, sometimes, they were seen
+sitting under a canopy of flowers, with their eyes fixed on each other's
+faces, as though they could never look away; sometimes, they appeared
+walking along the banks of the Nile,
+
+      ----on one of those sweet nights
+  When Isis, the pure star of lovers, lights
+  Her bridal crescent o'er the holy stream,--
+  When wandering youths and maidens watch her beam,
+  And number o'er the nights she hath to run,
+  Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun.
+
+Through all these scenes of endearment the two elder persons stood
+by;--their calm countenances touched with a share of that bliss, in whose
+perfect light the young lovers were basking. Thus far, all was
+happiness,--but the sad lesson of mortality was to come. In the last
+picture of the series, one of the figures was missing. It was that of the
+young maiden, who had disappeared from among them. On the brink of a dark
+lake stood the three who remained; while a boat, just departing for the
+City of the Dead, told too plainly the end of their dream of happiness.
+
+This memorial of a sorrow of other times--of a sorrow, ancient as death
+itself,--was not wanting to deepen the melancholy of my mind, or to add to
+the weight of the many bodings that pressed on it.
+
+After a night, as it seemed, of anxious and unsleeping thought, I rose
+from my bed and returned to the garden. I found the Christian
+alone,--seated, under the shade of one of his trees, at a small table, with
+a volume unrolled before him, while a beautiful antelope lay sleeping at
+his feet. Struck forcibly by the contrast which he presented to those
+haughty priests, whom I had seen surrounded by the pomp and gorgeousness
+of temples, "Is this, then," thought I, "the faith, before which the world
+trembles--its temple the desert, its treasury a book, and its High Priest
+the solitary dweller of the rock!"
+
+He had prepared for me a simple, but hospitable, repast, of which fruits
+from his own garden, the white bread of Olyra, and the juice of the honey-
+cane were the most costly luxuries. His manner to me was even more cordial
+than before; but the absence of Alethe, and, still more, the ominous
+reserve, with which he not only, himself, refrained from all mention of
+her name, but eluded the few inquiries, by which I sought to lead to it,
+seemed to confirm all the fears I had felt in parting from her.
+
+She had acquainted him, it was evident, with the whole history of our
+flight. My reputation as a philosopher--my desire to become a Christian--all
+was already known to the zealous Anchoret, and the subject of my
+conversion was the very first on which he entered. O pride of philosophy,
+how wert thou then humbled, and with what shame did I stand, casting down
+my eyes, before that venerable man, as, with ingenuous trust in the
+sincerity of my intention, he welcomed me to a participation of his holy
+hope, and imprinted the Kiss of Charity on my infidel brow!
+
+Embarrassed as I felt by the consciousness of hypocrisy, I was even still
+more perplexed by my total ignorance of the real tenets of the faith to
+which I professed myself a convert. Abashed and confused, and with a heart
+sick at its own deceit, I heard the animated and eloquent gratulations of
+the Christian, as though they were words in a dream, without link or
+meaning; nor could disguise but by the mockery of a reverential bow, at
+every pause, the entire want of self-possession, and even of speech, under
+which I laboured.
+
+A few minutes more of such trial, and I must have avowed my imposture. But
+the holy man saw my embarrassment;--and, whether mistaking it for awe, or
+knowing it to be ignorance, relieved me from my perplexity by, at once,
+changing the theme. Having gently awakened his antelope from its sleep,
+"You have heard," he said, "I doubt not, of my brother-anchoret, Paul,
+who, from his cave in the marble mountains, near the Red Sea, sends hourly
+'the sacrifice of thanksgiving' to heaven. Of _his_ walks, they tell me, a
+lion is the companion; but, for me," he added, with a playful and
+significant smile, "who try my powers of taming but on the gentler
+animals, this feeble child of the desert is a far fitter play-mate." Then,
+taking his staff, and putting the time-worn volume which he had been
+reading into a large goat-skin pouch, that hung by his side, "I will now,"
+said he, "lead thee over my rocky kingdom,--that thou mayst see in what
+drear and barren places, that 'fruit of the spirit,' Peace, may be
+gathered."
+
+To speak of peace to a heart like mine, at that moment, was like talking
+of some distant harbour to the mariner sinking at sea. In vain did I look
+round for some sign of Alethe;--in vain make an effort even to utter her
+name. Consciousness of my own deceit, as well as a fear of awakening in
+Melanius any suspicion that might frustrate my only hope, threw a fetter
+over my spirit and checked my tongue. In silence, therefore, I followed,
+while the cheerful old man, with slow, but firm, step, ascended the rock,
+by the same ladders which I had mounted on the preceding night.
+
+During the time when the Decian Persecution was raging, many Christians of
+this neighbourhood, he informed me, had taken refuge under his protection,
+in these grottos; and the chapel on the summit, where I had found them at
+prayer, was, in those times of danger, their place of retreat, where, by
+drawing up these ladders, they were enabled to secure themselves from
+pursuit.
+
+From the top of the rock, the view, on either side, embraced the two
+extremes of fertility and desolation; nor could the Epicurean and the
+Anchoret, who now gazed from that height, be at any loss to indulge their
+respective tastes, between the living luxuriance of the world on one side,
+and the dead repose of the desert on the other. When we turned to the
+river, what a picture of animation presented itself! Near us, to the
+south, were the graceful colonnades of Antino�, its proud, populous
+streets, and triumphal monuments. On the opposite shore, rich plains,
+teeming with cultivation to the water's edge, offered up, as from verdant
+altars, their fruits to the sun; while, beneath us, the Nile,
+
+            ----the glorious stream,
+  That late between its banks was seen to glide,--
+  With shrines and marble cities, on each side,
+  Glittering, like jewels strung along a chain,--
+  Had now sent forth its waters, and o'er plain
+  And valley, like a giant from his bed
+  Rising with outstretch'd limbs, superbly spread.
+
+From this scene, on one side of the mountain, we had but to turn round our
+eyes, and it was as if nature herself had become suddenly extinct;--a wide
+waste of sands, bleak and interminable, wearying out the sun with its
+sameness of desolation;--black, burnt-up rocks, that stood as barriers, at
+which life stopped;--while the only signs of animation, past or present,
+were the foot-prints, here and there, of an antelope or ostrich, or the
+bones of dead camels, as they lay whitening at a distance, marking out the
+track of the caravans over the waste.
+
+After listening, while he contrasted, in a few eloquent words, the two
+regions of life and death on whose confines we stood, I again descended
+with my guide to the garden we had left. From thence, turning into a path
+along the mountain-side, he conducted me to another row of grottos, facing
+the desert, which had once, he said, been the abode of those brethren in
+Christ, who had fled with him to this solitude from the crowded world,--but
+which death had, within a few months, rendered tenantless. A cross of red
+stone, and a few faded trees, were the only traces these solitaries had
+left behind.
+
+A silence of some minutes succeeded, while we descended to the edge of the
+canal; and I saw opposite, among the rocks, that solitary cave, which had
+so chilled me with its aspect on the preceding night. By the bank we found
+one of those rustic boats, which the Egyptians construct of planks of wild
+thorn, bound rudely together with bands of papyrus. Placing ourselves in
+this boat, and rather impelling than rowing it across, we made our way
+through the foul and shallow flood, and landed directly under the site of
+the cave.
+
+This dwelling, as I have already mentioned, was situated upon a ledge of
+the rock; and, being provided with a sort of window or aperture to admit
+the light of heaven, was accounted, I found, more cheerful than the
+grottos on the other side of the ravine. But there was a dreariness in the
+whole region around, to which light only lent more horror. The dead
+whiteness of the rocks, as they stood, like ghosts, in the sunshine;--that
+melancholy pool, half lost in the sands;--all gave me the idea of a wasting
+world. To dwell in such a place seemed to me like a living death; and when
+the Christian, as we entered the cave, said, "Here is to be thy home,"
+prepared as I was for the worst, my resolution gave way;--every feeling of
+disappointed passion and humbled pride, which had been gathering round my
+heart for the last few hours, found a vent at once, and I burst into
+tears!
+
+Well accustomed to human weakness, and perhaps guessing at some of the
+sources of mine, the good Hermit, without appearing to notice this
+emotion, expatiated, with a cheerful air, on, what he called, the many
+comforts of my dwelling. Sheltered, he said, from the dry, burning wind of
+the south, my porch would inhale the fresh breeze of the Dog-star. Fruits
+from his own mountain-garden should furnish my repast. The well of the
+neighbouring rock would supply my beverage; and, "here," he
+continued,--lowering his voice into a more solemn tone, as he placed upon
+the table the volume which he had brought,--"here, my son, is that 'well of
+living waters,' in which alone thou wilt find lasting refreshment or
+peace!" Thus saying, he descended the rock to his boat, and after a few
+plashes of his oar had died upon my ear, the solitude and silence around
+me was complete.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XVII.
+
+
+What a fate was mine!--but a few weeks since, presiding over that splendid
+Festival of the Garden, with all the luxuries of existence tributary in my
+train; and now,--self-humbled into a solitary outcast,--the hypocritical
+pupil of a Christian anchoret,--without even the excuse of fanaticism, or
+of any other madness, but that of love, wild love, to extenuate my fall!
+Were there a hope that, by this humiliating waste of existence, I might
+purchase but a glimpse, now and then, of Alethe, even the depths of the
+desert, with such a chance, would be welcome. But to live--and live
+thus--_without_ her, was a misery which I neither foresaw nor could endure.
+
+Hating even to look upon the den to which I was doomed, I hurried out into
+the air, and found my way, along the rocks, to the desert. The sun was
+going down, with that blood-red hue, which he so frequently wears, in this
+clime, at his setting. I saw the sands, stretching out, like a sea, to the
+horizon, as if their waste extended to the very verge of the world,--and,
+in the bitterness of my feelings, rejoiced to see so much of creation
+rescued, even by this barren liberty, from the grasp of man. The thought
+seemed to relieve my wounded pride, and, as I wandered over the dim and
+boundless solitude, to be thus free, even amid blight and desolation,
+appeared a blessing.
+
+The only living thing I saw was a restless swallow, whose wings were of
+the hue of the grey sands over which he fluttered. "Why may not the mind,
+like this bird, take the colour of the desert, and sympathise in its
+austerity, its freedom, and its calm?"--thus, between despondence and
+defiance, did I ask myself, endeavouring to face with fortitude what yet
+my heart sickened to contemplate. But the effort was unavailing. Overcome
+by that vast solitude, whose repose was not the slumber of peace, but the
+sullen and burning silence of hate, I felt my spirit give way, and even
+love itself yield to despair.
+
+Seating myself on a fragment of a rock, and covering my eyes with my
+hands, I made an effort to shut out the overwhelming prospect. But in
+vain--it was still before me, deepened by all that fancy could add; and
+when, again looking up, I saw the last red ray of the sun, shooting across
+that melancholy and lifeless waste, it seemed to me like the light of the
+comet that once desolated this world, shining out luridly over the ruin
+that it had made!
+
+Appalled by my own gloomy imaginations, I turned towards the ravine; and,
+notwithstanding the disgust with which I had left my dwelling, was not ill
+pleased to find my way, over the rocks, to it again. On approaching the
+cave, to my astonishment, I saw a light within. At such a moment, any
+vestige of life was welcome, and I hailed the unexpected appearance with
+pleasure. On entering, however, I found the chamber as lonely as I had
+left it. The light came from a lamp that burned brightly on the table;
+beside it was unfolded the volume which Melanius had brought, and upon the
+leaves--oh, joy and surprise--lay the well-known cross of Alethe!
+
+What hand, but her own, could have prepared this reception for me?--The
+very thought sent a hope into my heart, before which all despondency fled.
+Even the gloom of the desert was forgotten, and my cave at once brightened
+into a bower. She had here reminded me, herself, by this sacred memorial,
+of the vow which I had pledged to her under the Hermit's rock; and I now
+scrupled not to reiterate the same daring promise, though conscious that
+through hypocrisy alone I could fulfil it.
+
+Eager to prepare myself for my task of imposture, I sat down to the
+volume, which I now found to be the Hebrew Scriptures; and the first
+sentence, on which my eyes fell, was--"The Lord hath commanded the
+blessing, even Life for evermore!" Startled by these words, in which the
+Spirit of my dream seemed again to pronounce his assuring prediction, I
+raised my eyes from the page, and repeated the sentence over and over, as
+if to try whether the sounds had any charm or spell, to reawaken that
+faded illusion in my soul. But, no--the rank frauds of the Memphian
+priesthood had dispelled all my trust in the promises of religion. My
+heart had again relapsed into its gloom of scepticism, and, to the word of
+"Life," the only answer it sent back was, "Death!"
+
+Impatient, however, to possess myself of the elements of a faith, on
+which,--whatever it might promise for hereafter,--I felt that my happiness
+here depended, I turned over the pages with an earnestness and avidity,
+such as never even the most favourite of my studies had awakened in me.
+Though, like all, who seek but the surface of learning, I flew desultorily
+over the leaves, lighting only on the more prominent and shining points, I
+yet found myself, even in this undisciplined career, arrested, at every
+page, by the awful, the supernatural sublimity, the alternate melancholy
+and grandeur of the images that crowded upon me.
+
+I had, till now, known the Hebrew theology but through the platonising
+refinements of Philo;--as, in like manner, for my knowledge of the
+Christian doctrine I was indebted to my brother Epicureans, Lucian and
+Celsus. Little, therefore, was I prepared for the simple majesty, the high
+tone of inspiration,--the poetry, in short, of heaven that breathed
+throughout these oracles. Could admiration have kindled faith, I should,
+that night, have been a believer; so elevated, so awed was my imagination
+by that wonderful book,--its warnings of woe, its announcements of glory,
+and its unrivalled strains of adoration and sorrow.
+
+Hour after hour, with the same eager and desultory curiosity, did I turn
+over the leaves;--and when, at length, I lay down to rest, my fancy was
+still haunted by the impressions it had received. I went again through the
+various scenes of which I had read; again called up, in sleep, the bright
+images that had charmed me, and, when wakened at day-break by the Hymn
+from the chapel, fancied myself still listening to the sound of the winds,
+sighing mournfully through the harps of Israel on the willows.
+
+Starting from my bed, I hurried out upon the rock, with a hope that, among
+the tones of that morning choir, I might be able to distinguish the sweet
+voice of Alethe. But the strain had ceased;--I caught only the last notes
+of the Hymn, as, echoing up that lonely valley, they died away into the
+silence of the desert.
+
+With the first glimpse of light I was again at my study, and,
+notwithstanding the distraction both of my thoughts and looks towards the
+half-seen grottos of the Anchoret, pursued it perseveringly through the
+day. Still alive, however, but to the eloquence, the poetry of what I
+read, of its connection or authenticity, as a history, I never paused to
+consider. My fancy being alone interested by it, to fancy I referred all
+it contained; and, passing rapidly from annals to prophecy, from narration
+to song, regarded the whole but as a tissue of splendid allegories, in
+which the melancholy of Egyptian associations was interwoven with the rich
+imagery of the East.
+
+Towards sunset I saw the boat of Melanius on its way, across the canal, to
+my cave. Though he had no other companion than his graceful antelope, that
+stood snuffing the wild air of the desert, as if scenting its home, I felt
+his visit, even thus, to be a most welcome relief. It was the hour, he
+said, of his evening ramble up the mountain,--of his accustomed visit to
+those cisterns of the rock, from which he nightly drew his most precious
+beverage. While he spoke, I observed in his hand one of those earthen
+cups, in which the inhabitants of the wilderness are accustomed to collect
+the fresh dew among the rocks. Having proposed that I should accompany him
+in his walk, he led me, in the direction of the desert, up the side of the
+mountain that rose above my dwelling, and which formed the southern wall
+or screen of the defile.
+
+Near the summit we found a seat, where the old man paused to rest. It
+commanded a full view over the desert, and was by the side of one of those
+hollows in the rock, those natural reservoirs, in which the dews of night
+are treasured up for the refreshment of the dwellers in the wilderness.
+Having learned from me how far I had proceeded in my study, "In that
+light," said he, pointing to a small cloud in the east, which had been
+formed on the horizon by the haze of the desert, and was now faintly
+reflecting the splendours of sunset,--"in that light stands Mount Sinai, of
+whose glory thou hast read; on whose summit was the scene of one of those
+awful revelations, in which the Almighty has, from time to time, renewed
+his communication with Man, and kept alive the remembrance of his own
+Providence in this world."
+
+After a pause, as if absorbed in the immensity of the subject, the holy
+man continued his sublime theme. Looking back to the earliest annals of
+time, he showed how constantly every relapse of the human race into
+idolatry has been followed by some manifestation of divine power,
+chastening the proud by punishment, and winning back the humble by love.
+It was to preserve, he said, unextinguished upon earth, that vital
+truth,--the Creation of the world by one Supreme Being,--that God chose,
+from among the nations, an humble and enslaved race;--that he brought them
+out of their captivity "on eagles' wings," and, surrounding every step of
+their course with miracles, placed them before the eyes of all succeeding
+generations, as the depositaries of his will, and the ever-during
+memorials of his power.
+
+Passing, then, in review the long train of inspired interpreters, whose
+pens and whose tongues were made the echoes of the Divine voice, he
+traced(8), through the events of successive ages, the gradual unfolding of
+the dark scheme of Providence--darkness without, but all light and glory
+within. The glimpses of a coming redemption, visible even through the
+wrath of heaven;--the long series of prophecy, through which this hope
+runs, burning and alive, like a spark through a chain;--the merciful
+preparation of the hearts of mankind for the great trial of their faith
+and obedience that was at hand, not only by miracles that appealed to the
+living, but by predictions launched into futurity to carry conviction to
+the yet unborn;--"through all these glorious and beneficent gradations we
+may track," said he, "the manifest footsteps of a Creator, advancing to
+his grand, ultimate end, the salvation of his creatures."
+
+After some hours devoted to these holy instructions, we returned to the
+ravine, and Melanius left me at my cave; praying, as he parted from
+me,--with a benevolence I but ill, alas! deserved,--that my soul, under
+these lessons, might be "as a watered garden," and, ere long, bear "fruit
+unto life eternal."
+
+Next morning, I was again at my study, and even more eager in the task
+than before. With the commentary of the Hermit freshly in my memory, I
+again read through, with attention, the Book of the Law. But in vain did I
+seek the promise of immortality in its pages. "It tells me," said I, "of a
+God coming down to earth, but of the ascent of Man to heaven it speaks
+not. The rewards, the punishments it announces, lie all on this side of
+the grave; nor did even the Omnipotent offer to his own chosen servants a
+hope beyond the impassable limits of this world. Where, then, is the
+salvation of which the Christian spoke? or, if Death be at the root of the
+faith, can Life spring out of it!"
+
+Again, in the bitterness of disappointment, did I mock at my own willing
+self-delusion,--again rail at the arts of that traitress, Fancy, ever
+ready, like the Delilah of this book, to steal upon the slumbers of
+Reason, and deliver him up, shorn and powerless, to his foes. If
+deception--thought I, with a sigh--be necessary, at least let me not
+practise it on myself;--in the desperate alternative before me, let me
+rather be even hypocrite than dupe.
+
+These self-accusing reflections, cheerless as they rendered my task, did
+not abate, for a single moment, my industry in pursuing it. I read on and
+on, with a sort of sullen apathy, neither charmed by style, nor
+transported by imagery,--that fatal blight in my heart having communicated
+itself to my fancy and taste. The curses and the blessings, the glory and
+the ruin, which the historian recorded and the prophet predicted, seemed
+all of this world,--all, temporal and earthly. That mortality, of which the
+fountain-head had tasted, tinged the whole stream; and when I read the
+words, "all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again," a feeling, like
+the wind of the desert, came witheringly over me. Love, Beauty, Glory,
+every thing most bright upon earth, appeared sinking before my eyes, under
+this dreadful doom, into one general mass of corruption and silence.
+
+Possessed by the image of desolation I had called up, I laid my head on
+the book, in a paroxysm of despair. Death, in all his most ghastly
+varieties, passed before me; and I had continued thus for some time, as
+under the influence of a fearful vision, when the touch of a hand upon my
+shoulder roused me. Looking up, I saw the Anchoret standing by my
+side;--his countenance beaming with that sublime tranquillity, which a
+hope, beyond this earth, alone can bestow. How I envied him!
+
+We again took our way to the seat upon the mountain,--the gloom in my own
+mind making every thing around me more gloomy. Forgetting my hypocrisy in
+my feelings, I, at once, avowed to him all the doubts and fears which my
+study of the morning had awakened.
+
+"Thou art yet, my son," he answered, "but on the threshold of our faith.
+Thou hast seen but the first rudiments of the Divine plan;--its full and
+consummate perfection hath not yet opened upon thee. However glorious that
+manifestation of Divinity on Mount Sinai, it was but the forerunner of
+another, still more glorious, that, in the fulness of time, was to burst
+upon the world; when all, that had seemed dim and incomplete, was to be
+perfected, and the promises, shadowed out by the 'spirit of prophecy,'
+realized;--when the silence, that lay, as a seal, on the future, was to be
+broken, and the glad tidings of life and immortality proclaimed to the
+world!"
+
+Observing my features brighten at these words, the pious man continued.
+Anticipating some of the holy knowledge that was in store for me, he
+traced, through all its wonders and mercies, the great work of Redemption,
+dwelling on every miraculous circumstance connected with it;--the exalted
+nature of the Being, by whose ministry it was accomplished, the noblest
+and first created of the Sons of God, inferior only to the one, self-
+existent Father;--the mysterious incarnation of this heavenly
+messenger;--the miracles that authenticated his divine mission;--the example
+of obedience to God and love to man, which he set, as a shining light,
+before the world for ever;--and, lastly and chiefly, his death and
+resurrection, by which the covenant of mercy was sealed, and "life and
+immortality brought to light."
+
+"Such," continued the Hermit, "was the Mediator, promised through all
+time, to 'make reconciliation for iniquity,' to change death into life,
+and bring 'healing on his wings' to a darkened world. Such was the last
+crowning dispensation of that God of benevolence, in whose hands sin and
+death are but instruments of everlasting good, and who, through apparent
+evil and temporary retribution, bringing all things 'out of darkness into
+his marvellous light,' proceeds watchfully and unchangingly to the great,
+final object of his providence,--the restoration of the whole human race to
+purity and happiness!"
+
+With a mind astonished, if not touched, by these discourses, I returned to
+my cave; and found the lamp, as before, ready lighted to receive me. The
+volume which I had been reading was replaced by another, which lay open
+upon the table, with a branch of fresh palm between its leaves. Though I
+could not have a doubt to whose gentle hand I was indebted for this
+invisible superintendence over my studies, there was yet a something in
+it, so like spiritual interposition, that it awed me;--and never more than
+at this moment, when, on approaching the volume, I saw, as the light
+glistened over its silver letters, that it was the very Book of Life of
+which the Hermit had spoken!
+
+The orison of the Christians had sounded through the valley, before I
+raised my eyes from that sacred volume; and the second hour of the sun
+found me again over its pages.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XVIII.
+
+
+In this mode of existence did I pass some days;--my mornings devoted to
+reading, my nights to listening, under the canopy of heaven, to the holy
+eloquence of Melanius. The perseverance with which I enquired, and the
+quickness with which I learned, soon succeeded in deceiving my benevolent
+instructor, who mistook curiosity for zeal and knowledge for belief. Alas!
+cold, and barren, and earthly was that knowledge,--the word, without the
+spirit, the shape, without the life. Even when, as a relief from
+hypocrisy, I persuaded myself that I believed, it was but a brief
+delusion, a faith, whose hope crumbled at the touch,--like the fruit of the
+desert-shrub, shining and empty!
+
+But, though my soul was still dark, the good Hermit saw not into its
+depths. The very facility of my belief, which might have suggested some
+doubt of its sincerity, was but regarded by his innocent zeal, as a more
+signal triumph of the truth. His own ingenuousness led him to a ready
+trust in others; and the examples of such conversion as that of the
+philosopher, Justin, who received the light into his soul during a walk by
+the sea-shore, had prepared him for illuminations of the spirit, even more
+rapid than mine.
+
+During this time, I neither saw nor heard of Alethe;--nor could my patience
+have endured so long a privation, had not those mute vestiges of her
+presence, that welcomed me every night on my return, made me feel that I
+was still living under her gentle influence, and that her sympathy hung
+round every step of my progress. Once, too, when I ventured to speak her
+name to Melanius, though he answered not my enquiry, there was a smile, I
+thought, of promise upon his countenance, which love, more alive than
+faith, interpreted as it wished.
+
+At length,--it was on the sixth or seventh evening of my solitude, when I
+lay resting at the door of my cave, alter the study of the day,--I was
+startled by hearing my name called loudly from the opposite rocks, and
+looking up, saw, on the cliff near the deserted grottos, Melanius and--oh,
+I could not doubt--my Alethe by his side!
+
+Though I had never ceased, since the first night of my return from the
+desert, to flatter myself with the fancy that I was still living in her
+presence, the actual sight of her again made me feel what an age we had
+been separated. She was clothed all in white, and, as she stood in the
+last remains of the sunshine, appeared to my too prophetic fancy like a
+parting spirit, whose last footsteps on earth that glory encircled.
+
+With a delight only to be imagined, I saw them descend the rocks, and
+placing themselves in the boat, proceed towards my cave. To disguise from
+Melanius the feelings with which we met was impossible;--nor did Alethe
+even attempt to make a secret of her innocent joy. Though blushing at her
+own happiness, she could as little conceal it, as the clear waters of
+Ethiopia can hide their gold. Every look, too, every word, spoke a fulness
+of affection, to which, doubtful as I was of our tenure of happiness, I
+knew not how to answer.
+
+I was not long, however, left ignorant of the bright fate that awaited me;
+but, as we wandered or rested among the rocks, learned every thing that
+had been arranged since our parting. She had made the Hermit, I found,
+acquainted with all that had passed between us; had told him, without
+reserve, every incident of our voyage,--the avowals, the demonstrations of
+affection on one side, and the deep sentiment that gratitude had awakened
+on the other. Too wise to regard feelings, so natural, with
+severity,--knowing that they were of heaven, and but made evil by man,--the
+good Hermit had heard of our attachment with pleasure; and, proved as he
+thought the purity of my views had been, by the fidelity with which I had
+delivered up my trust into his hands, saw, in my affection for the young
+orphan, but a providential resource against that friendless solitude in
+which his death must soon leave her.
+
+As I collected these particulars from their discourse, I could hardly
+trust my ears. It seemed too much happiness to be real; nor can words give
+an idea of the joy--the shame--the wonder with which I listened, while the
+holy man himself declared, that he awaited but the moment, when he should
+find me worthy of becoming a member of the Christian Church, to give me
+also the hand of Alethe in that sacred union, which alone sanctifies love,
+and makes the faith, which it pledges, heavenly. It was but yesterday, he
+added, that his young charge, herself, after a preparation of prayer and
+repentance, such as even her pure spirit required, had been admitted, by
+the sacred ordinance of baptism, into the bosom of the faith;--and the
+white garment she wore, and the ring of gold on her finger, "were
+symbols," he said, "of that New Life into which she had been initiated."
+
+I raised my eyes to her as he spoke, but withdrew them again, dazzled and
+confused. Even her beauty, to my imagination, seemed to have undergone
+some brightening change; and the contrast between that open and happy
+countenance, and the unblest brow of the infidel that stood before her,
+abashed me into a sense of unworthiness, and almost checked my rapture.
+
+To that night, however, I look back, as an epoch in my existence. It
+proved that sorrow is not the only awakener of devotion, but that joy may
+sometimes call the holy spark into life. Returning to my cave, with a
+heart full, even to oppression, of its happiness, I knew no other relief
+to my overcharged feelings than that of throwing myself on my knees, and,
+for the first time in my life, uttering a prayer, that if, indeed, there
+were a Being who watched over mankind, he would send down one ray of his
+truth into my soul, and make it worthy of the blessings, both here and
+hereafter, proffered to me!
+
+My days now rolled on in a perfect dream of happiness. Every hour of the
+morning was welcomed as bringing nearer and nearer the blest time of
+sunset, when the Hermit and Alethe never failed to pay their visit to my
+now charmed cave, where her smile left a light, at each parting, that
+lasted till her return. Then, our rambles, by star-light, over the
+mountain;--our pauses, on the way, to contemplate the bright wonders of
+that heaven above us;--our repose by the cistern of the rock, and our
+silent listening, through hours that seemed minutes, to the holy eloquence
+of our teacher;--all, all was happiness of the most heartfelt kind, and
+such as even the doubts, the cold, lingering doubts, that still hung, like
+a mist, around my heart, could neither cloud nor chill.
+
+When the moonlight nights returned, we used to venture into the desert;
+and those sands, which but lately had appeared to me so desolate, now wore
+even a cheerful and smiling aspect. To the light, innocent heart of Alethe
+every thing was a source of enjoyment. For her, even the desert had its
+jewels and flowers; and, sometimes, her delight was to search among the
+sands for those beautiful pebbles of jasper that abound in
+them;--sometimes, her eyes sparkled on finding, perhaps, a stunted
+marigold, or one of those bitter, scarlet flowers, that lend their mockery
+of ornament to the desert. In all these pursuits and pleasures the good
+Hermit took a share,--mingling with them occasionally the reflections of a
+benevolent piety, that lent its own cheerful hue to all the works of
+creation, and saw the consoling truth "God is Love," written legibly every
+where.
+
+Such was, for a few weeks, my blissful life. Oh mornings of hope, oh
+nights of happiness, with what mournful pleasure do I retrace your flight,
+and how reluctantly pass to the sad events that followed!
+
+During this time, in compliance with the wishes of Melanius, who seemed
+unwilling that I should become wholly estranged from the world, I
+occasionally paid a visit to the neighbouring city, Antino�, which, as the
+capital of the Thebaid, is the centre of all the luxury of Upper Egypt.
+Here,--so changed was my every feeling by the all-transforming passion that
+possessed me,--I wandered, unamused and uninterested by either the scenes
+or the people that surrounded me, and, sighing for that rocky solitude
+where Alethe breathed, felt _this_ to be the wilderness, and _that_, the
+world.
+
+Even the thoughts of my own native Athens, that were called up, at every
+step, by the light, Grecian architecture of this imperial city, did not
+awaken one single regret in my heart--one wish to exchange even an hour of
+my desert for the best luxuries and honours that awaited me in the Garden.
+I saw the arches of triumph;--I walked under the superb portico, which
+encircles the whole city with its marble shade;--I stood in the Circus of
+the Sun, by whose rose-coloured pillars the mysterious movements of the
+Nile are measured;--all these bright ornaments of glory and art, as well as
+the gay multitude that enlivened them, I saw with an unheeding eye. If
+they awakened in me any thought, it was the mournful idea, that, one day,
+like Thebes and Heliopolis, this pageant would pass away, leaving nothing
+behind but a few mouldering ruins,--like the sea-shells found where the
+ocean has been,--to tell that the great tide of Life was once there!
+
+But, though indifferent thus to all that had formerly attracted me, there
+were subjects, once alien to my heart, on which it was now most
+tremblingly alive; and some rumours which had reached me, in one of my
+visits to the city, of an expected change in the policy of the Emperor
+towards the Christians, filled me with apprehensions as new as they were
+dreadful to me.
+
+The peace and even favour which the Christians enjoyed, during the first
+four years of the reign of Valerian, had removed from them all fear of a
+renewal of those horrors, which they had experienced under the rule of his
+predecessor, Decius. Of late, however, some less friendly dispositions had
+manifested themselves. The bigots of the court, taking alarm at the spread
+of the new faith, had succeeded in filling the mind of the monarch with
+that religious jealousy, which is the ever-ready parent of cruelty and
+injustice. Among these counsellors of evil was Macrianus, the Pr�torian
+Prefect, who was, by birth, an Egyptian, and--so akin is superstition to
+intolerance--had long made himself notorious by his addiction to the dark
+practices of demon-worship and magic.
+
+From this minister, who was now high in the favour of Valerian, the
+expected measures of severity against the Christians, it was supposed,
+would emanate. All tongues, in all quarters, were busy with the news. In
+the streets, in the public gardens, on the steps of the temples, I saw,
+every where, groups of enquirers collected, and heard the name of
+Macrianus upon every tongue. It was dreadful, too, to observe, in the
+countenances of those who spoke, the variety of feeling with which the
+rumour was discussed, according as they desired or dreaded its
+truth,--according as they were likely to be among the torturers or the
+victims.
+
+Alarmed, though still ignorant of the whole extent of the danger, I
+hurried back to the ravine, and, going at once to the grotto of Melanius,
+detailed to him every particular of the intelligence I had collected. He
+heard me with a composure, which I mistook, alas, for confidence in his
+security; and, naming the hour for our evening walk, retired into his
+grotto.
+
+At the accustomed time Alethe and he were at my cave. It was evident that
+he had not communicated to her the intelligence which I had brought, for
+never did brow wear such a happiness as that which now played round
+hers;--it was, alas, _not_ of this earth! Melanius, himself, though
+composed, was thoughtful; and the solemnity, almost approaching to
+melancholy, with which he placed the hand of Alethe in mine--in the
+performance, too, of a ceremony that _ought_ to have filled my heart with
+joy--saddened and alarmed me. This ceremony was our betrothment,--the
+plighting of our faith to each other,--which we now solemnized on the rock
+before the door of my cave, in the face of that sunset heaven, with its
+one star standing as witness. After a blessing from the Hermit on our
+spousal pledge, I placed the ring,--the earnest of our future union--on her
+finger, and, in the blush, with which she surrendered her whole heart to
+me at that instant, forgot every thing but my happiness, and felt secure,
+even against fate!
+
+We took our accustomed walk over the rocks and on the desert. The moon was
+so bright,--like the daylight, indeed, of other climes--that we could see
+plainly the tracks of the wild antelopes in the sand; and it was not
+without a slight tremble of feeling in his voice, as if some melancholy
+analogy occurred to him as he spoke, that the good Hermit said, "I have
+observed in my walks, that where-ever the track of that gentle animal is
+seen, there is, almost always, the foot-print of a beast of prey near it."
+He regained, however, his usual cheerfulness before we parted, and fixed
+the following evening for an excursion, on the other side of the ravine,
+to a point, looking, he said, "towards that northern region of the desert,
+where the hosts of the Lord encamped in their departure out of bondage."
+
+Though, in the presence of Alethe, my fears, even for herself, were
+forgotten in that perpetual element of happiness, which encircled her like
+the air that she breathed, no sooner was I alone than vague terrors and
+bodings crowded upon me. In vain did I try to reason myself out of my
+fears by dwelling on the most cheering circumstances,--the reverence with
+which Melanius was regarded, even by the Pagans, and the inviolate
+security with which he had lived through the most perilous periods, not
+only safe himself, but affording sanctuary in his grottos to others. When,
+somewhat calmed by these considerations, I sunk off to sleep, dark,
+horrible dreams took possession of my mind. Scenes of death and of torment
+passed confusedly before me, and, when I awoke, it was with the fearful
+impression that all these horrors were real.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XIX.
+
+
+At length, the day dawned,--that dreadful day. Impatient to be relieved
+from my suspense, I threw myself into my boat,--the same in which we had
+performed our happy voyage,--and, as fast as oars could speed me, hurried
+away to the city. I found the suburbs silent and solitary, but, as I
+approached the Forum, loud yells, like those of barbarians in combat,
+struck on my ear, and, when I entered it,--great God, what a spectacle
+presented itself! The imperial edict against the Christians had arrived
+during the night, and already the wild fury of bigotry was let loose.
+
+Under a canopy, in the middle of the Forum, was the tribunal of the
+Governor. Two statues, one of Apollo, the other of Osiris, stood at the
+bottom of the steps that led up to his judgment-seat. Before these idols
+were shrines, to which the devoted Christians were dragged from all
+quarters by the soldiers and mob, and there compelled to recant, by
+throwing incense into the flame, or, on their refusal, hurried away to
+torture and death. It was an appalling scene;--the consternation, the cries
+of some of the victims,--the pale, silent resolution of others;--the fierce
+shouts of laughter that broke from the multitude, when the frankincense,
+dropped on the altar, proclaimed some denier of Christ; and the fiend-like
+triumph with which the courageous Confessors, who avowed their faith, were
+led away to the flames;--never could I have conceived such an assemblage of
+horrors!
+
+Though I gazed but for a few minutes, in those minutes I felt enough for
+years. Already did the form of Alethe flit before me through that
+tumult;--I heard them shout her name;--her shriek fell on my ear; and the
+very thought so palsied me with terror, that I stood fixed and statue-like
+on the spot.
+
+Recollecting, however, the fearful preciousness of every moment, and
+that--perhaps, at this very instant--some emissaries of blood might be on
+their way to the grottos, I rushed wildly out of the Forum, and made my
+way to the quay.
+
+The streets were now crowded; but I ran headlong through the multitude,
+and was already under the portico leading down to the river,--already saw
+the boat that was to bear me to Alethe,--when a Centurion stood sternly in
+my path, and I was surrounded and arrested by soldiers! It was in vain
+that I implored, that I struggled with them as for life, assuring them
+that I was a stranger,--that I was an Athenian,--that I was--_not_ a
+Christian. The precipitation of my flight was sufficient evidence against
+me, and unrelentingly, and by force, they bore me away to the quarters of
+their Chief.
+
+It was enough to drive me to madness! Two hours, two frightful hours, was
+I kept waiting the arrival of the Tribune of their Legion(9),--my brain
+burning with a thousand fears and imaginations, which every passing minute
+made more likely to be realised. Every thing, too, that I could collect
+from the conversations around me but added to the agonising apprehensions
+with which I was racked. Troops, it was said, had been sent in all
+directions through the neighbourhood, to bring in the rebellious
+Christians, and make them bow before the Gods of the Empire. With horror,
+too, I heard of Orcus,--Orcus, the High Priest of Memphis,--as one of the
+principal instigators of this sanguinary edict, and as here present in
+Antino�, animating and directing its execution.
+
+In this state of torture I remained till the arrival of the Tribune.
+Absorbed in my own thoughts, I had not perceived his entrance;--till,
+hearing a voice, in a tone of friendly surprise, exclaim, "Alciphron!" I
+looked up, and in this legionary Chief recognised a young Roman of rank,
+who had held a military command, the year before, at Athens, and was one
+of the most distinguished visitors of the Garden. It was no time, however,
+for courtesies;--he was proceeding with cordiality to greet me, but, having
+heard him order my instant release, I could wait for no more.
+Acknowledging his kindness but by a grasp of the hand, I flew off, like
+one frantic, through the streets, and, in a few minutes, was on the river.
+
+My sole hope had been to reach the grottos before any of the detached
+parties should arrive, and, by a timely flight across the desert, rescue,
+at least, Alethe from their fury. The ill-fated delay that had occurred
+rendered this hope almost desperate; but the tranquillity I found every
+where as I proceeded down the river, and the fond confidence I still
+cherished in the sacredness of the Hermit's retreat, kept my heart from
+giving way altogether under its terrors.
+
+Between the current and my oars, the boat flew, like wind, along the
+waters; and I was already near the rocks of the ravine, when I saw,
+turning out of the canal into the river, a barge crowded with people, and
+glittering with arms! How did I ever survive the shock of that sight? The
+oars dropped, as if struck out of my hands, into the water, and I sat,
+helplessly gazing, as that terrific vision approached. In a few minutes,
+the current brought us together;--and I saw, on the deck of the barge,
+Alethe and the Hermit surrounded by soldiers!
+
+We were already passing each other when, with a desperate effort, I sprang
+from my boat and lighted upon the edge of their vessel. I knew not what I
+did, for despair was my only prompter. Snatching at the sword of one of
+the soldiers, as I stood tottering on the edge, I had succeeded in
+wresting it out of his hands, when, at the same moment, I received a
+thrust of a lance from one of his comrades, and fell backward into the
+river. I can just remember rising again and making a grasp at the side of
+the vessel;--but the shock, the faintness from my wound, deprived me of all
+consciousness, and a shriek from Alethe, as I sunk, is all I can recollect
+of what followed.
+
+Would I had then died!--Yet, no, Almighty Being,--I should have died in
+darkness, and I have lived to know Thee!
+
+On returning to my senses, I found myself reclined on a couch, in a
+splendid apartment, the whole appearance of which being Grecian, I, for a
+moment, forgot all that had passed, and imagined myself in my own home at
+Athens. But too soon the whole dreadful certainty flashed upon me; and,
+starting wildly--disabled as I was--from my couch, I called loudly, and with
+the shriek of a maniac, on Alethe.
+
+I was in the house, I found, of my friend and disciple, the young Tribune,
+who had made the Governor acquainted with my name and condition, and had
+received me under his roof, when brought, bleeding and insensible, to
+Antino�. From him I now learned at once,--for I could not wait for
+details,--the sum of all that had happened in that dreadful interval.
+Melanius was no more,--Alethe, still alive, but in prison!
+
+"Take me to her"--I had but time to say--"take me to her instantly, and let
+me die by her side,"--when, nature again failing under such shocks, I
+relapsed into insensibility. In this state I continued for near an hour,
+and, on recovering, found the Tribune by my side. The horrors, he said, of
+the Forum were, for that day, over,--but what the morrow might bring, he
+shuddered to contemplate. His nature, it was plain, revolted from the
+inhuman duties in which he was engaged. Touched by the agonies he saw me
+suffer, he, in some degree, relieved them, by promising that I should, at
+night-fall, be conveyed to the prison, and, if possible, through his
+influence, gain access to Alethe. She might yet, he added, be saved, could
+I succeed in persuading her to comply with the terms of the edict, and
+make sacrifice to the Gods.--"Otherwise," said he, "there is no hope;--the
+vindictive Orcus, who has resisted even this short respite of mercy, will,
+to-morrow, inexorably demand his prey."
+
+He then related to me, at my own request,--though every word was
+torture,--all the harrowing details of the proceeding before the Tribunal.
+"I have seen courage," said he, "in its noblest forms, in the field; but
+the calm intrepidity with which that aged Hermit endured torments--which it
+was hardly less torment to witness--surpassed all that I could have
+conceived of human fortitude!"
+
+My poor Alethe, too,--in describing to me her conduct, the brave man wept
+like a child. Overwhelmed, he said, at first by her apprehensions for my
+safety, she had given way to a full burst of womanly weakness. But no
+sooner was she brought before the Tribunal, and the declaration of her
+faith was demanded of her, than a spirit almost supernatural seemed to
+animate her whole form. "She raised her eyes," said he, "calmly, but with
+fervour, to heaven, while a blush was the only sign of mortal feeling on
+her features;--and the clear, sweet, and untrembling voice, with which she
+pronounced her dooming words, 'I am a Christian!' sent a thrill of
+admiration and pity throughout the multitude. Her youth, her loveliness,
+affected all hearts, and a cry of 'Save the young maiden!' was heard in
+all directions."
+
+The implacable Orcus, however, would not hear of mercy. Resenting, as it
+appeared, with all his deadliest rancour, not only her own escape from his
+toils, but the aid with which, so fatally to his views, she had assisted
+mine, he demanded loudly, and in the name of the insulted sanctuary of
+Isis, her instant death. It was but by the firm intervention of the
+Governor, who shared the general sympathy in her fate, that the delay of
+another day was accorded, to give a chance to the young maiden of yet
+recalling her confession, and thus affording some pretext for saving her.
+
+Even in yielding reluctantly to this brief respite, the inhuman Priest
+would accompany it with some mark of his vengeance. Whether for the
+pleasure (observed the Tribune) of mingling mockery with his cruelty, or
+as a warning to her of the doom she must ultimately expect, he gave orders
+that there should be tied round her brow one of those chaplets of
+coral(10), with which it is the custom of young Christian maidens to array
+themselves on the day of their martyrdom;--"and, thus fearfully adorned,"
+said he, "she was led away, amid the gaze of the pitying multitude, to
+prison."
+
+With these details the short interval till night-fall,--every minute of
+which seemed an age,--was occupied. As soon as it grew dark, I was placed
+upon a litter,--my wound, though not dangerous, requiring such a
+conveyance,--and conducted, under the guidance of my friend, to the prison.
+Through his interest with the guard, we were without difficulty admitted,
+and I was borne into the chamber where the maiden lay immured. Even the
+veteran guardian of the place seemed touched with compassion for his
+prisoner, and supposing her to be asleep, had the litter placed gently
+near her.
+
+She was half reclining, with her face hid in her hands, upon a couch,--at
+the foot of which stood an idol, over whose hideous features a lamp of
+naptha, hanging from the ceiling, shed a wild and ghastly glare. On a
+table before the image stood a censer, with a small vessel of incense
+beside it,--one grain of which, thrown voluntarily into the flame, would,
+even now, save that precious life. So strange, so fearful was the whole
+scene, that I almost doubted its reality. Alethe! my own, happy Alethe!
+_can_ it, I thought, be thou that I look upon?
+
+She now, slowly and with difficulty, raised her head from the couch; on
+observing which, the kind Tribune withdrew, and we were left alone. There
+was a paleness, as of death, over her features; and those eyes, which when
+last I saw them, were but too bright, too happy for this world, looked dim
+and sunken. In raising herself up, she put her hand, as if from pain, to
+her forehead, whose marble hue but appeared more death-like from those red
+bands that lay so awfully across it.
+
+After wandering vaguely for a minute, her eyes rested upon me,--and, with a
+shriek, half terror, half joy, she sprung from the couch, and sunk upon
+her knees by my side. She had believed me dead; and, even now, scarcely
+trusted her senses. "My husband! my love!" she exclaimed; "oh, if thou
+comest to call me from this world, behold I am ready!" In saying thus, she
+pointed wildly to that ominous wreath, and then dropped her head down upon
+my knee, as if an arrow had pierced it.
+
+"Alethe!"--I cried, terrified to the very soul by that mysterious pang,--and
+the sound of my voice seemed to reanimate her;--she looked up, with a faint
+smile, in my face. Her thoughts, which had evidently been wandering,
+became collected; and in her joy at my safety, her sorrow at my suffering,
+she forgot wholly the fate that impended over herself. Love, innocent
+love, alone occupied all her thoughts; and the tenderness with which she
+spoke,--oh, at any other moment, how I would have listened, have lingered
+upon, have blessed every word!
+
+But the time flew fast--the dreadful morrow was approaching. Already I saw
+her writhing in the hands of the torturer,--the flames, the racks, the
+wheels were before my eyes! Half frantic with the fear that her resolution
+was fixed, I flung myself from the litter, in an agony of weeping, and
+supplicated her, by the love she bore me, by the happiness that awaited
+us, by her own merciful God, who was too good to require such a
+sacrifice,--by all that the most passionate anxiety could dictate, I
+implored that she would avert from us the doom that was coming, and--but
+for once--comply with the vain ceremony demanded of her.
+
+Shrinking from me, as I spoke,--but with a look more of sorrow than
+reproach,--"What, thou, too!" she said mournfully,--"thou, into whose spirit
+I had fondly hoped the same heavenly truth had descended as into my own!
+Oh, be not thou leagued with those who would tempt me to 'make shipwreck
+of my faith!' Thou, who couldst alone bind me to life, use not thy power;
+but let me die, as He I serve hath commanded,--die for the Truth. Remember
+the holy lessons we heard on those nights, those happy nights, when both
+the Present and Future smiled upon us,--when even the gift of eternal life
+came more welcome to my soul, from the blessed conviction that thou wert
+to be a sharer in it;--shall I forfeit now that divine privilege? shall I
+deny the true God, whom we then learned to love?
+
+"No, my own betrothed," she continued,--pointing to the two rings on her
+finger,--"behold these pledges,--they are both sacred. I should have been as
+true to thee as I am now to heaven,--nor in that life to which I am
+hastening shall our love be forgotten. Should the baptism of fire, through
+which I shall pass to-morrow, make me worthy to be heard before the Throne
+of Grace, I will intercede for thy soul--I will pray that it may yet share
+with mine that 'inheritance, immortal and undefiled,' which Mercy offers,
+and that thou,--my dear mother,--and I--"
+
+She here dropped her voice; the momentary animation, with which devotion
+and affection had inspired her, vanished;--and a darkness overspread all
+her features, a livid darkness,--like the coming of death--that made me
+shudder through every limb. Seizing my hand convulsively, and looking at
+me with a fearful eagerness, as if anxious to hear some consoling
+assurance from my own lips,--"Believe me," she continued, "not all the
+torments they are preparing for me,--not even this deep, burning pain in my
+brow, which they will hardly equal,--could be half so dreadful to me, as
+the thought that I leave thee--"
+
+Here, her voice again failed; her head sunk upon my arm, and--merciful God,
+let me forget what I then felt,--I saw that she was dying! Whether I
+uttered any cry, I know not;--but the Tribune came rushing into the
+chamber, and, looking on the maiden, said, with a face full of horror, "It
+is but too true!"
+
+He then told me in a low voice, what he had just learned from the guardian
+of the prison, that the band round the young Christian's brow was--oh
+horrible cruelty!--a compound of the most deadly poison,--the hellish
+invention of Orcus, to satiate his vengeance, and make the fate of his
+poor victim secure. My first movement was to untie that fatal wreath,--but
+it would not come away--it would not come away!
+
+Roused by the pain, she again looked in my face; but, unable to speak,
+took hastily from her bosom the small silver cross which she had brought
+with her from my cave. Having prest it to her own lips, she held it
+anxiously to mine, and seeing me kiss the holy symbol with fervour, looked
+happy, and smiled. The agony of death seemed to have passed away;--there
+came suddenly over her features a heavenly light, some share of which I
+felt descending into my own soul, and, in a few minutes more, she expired
+in my arms.
+
+                  -------------------------------------
+
+_Here ends the Manuscript; but, on the outer cover there is, in the hand-
+writing of a much later period, the following Notice, extracted, as it
+appears, from some Egyptian martyrology:--_
+
+"Alciphron,--an Epicurean philosopher, converted to Christianity A. D. 257,
+by a young Egyptian maiden, who suffered martyrdom in that year.
+Immediately upon her death he betook himself to the desert, and lived a
+life, it is said, of much holiness and penitence. During the persecution
+under Dioclesian, his sufferings for the faith were most exemplary; and,
+being at length, at an advanced age, condemned to hard labour, for
+refusing to comply with an Imperial edict, he died at the brass mines of
+Palestine, A. D. 297.--
+
+"As Alciphron held the opinions maintained since by Arius, his memory has
+not been spared by Athanasian writers, who, among other charges, accuse
+him of having been addicted to the superstitions of Egypt. For this
+calumny, however, there appears to be no better foundation than a
+circumstance, recorded by one of his brother monks, that there was found,
+after his death, a small metal mirror, like those used in the ceremonies
+of Isis, suspended round his neck."
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  NOTES.
+
+
+Page 17.--For the importance attached to dreams by the ancients, see
+_Jortin_, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, vol. 1. p. 90.
+
+
+Page 22.--"_The Pillar of Pillars_"--more properly, perhaps, "the column of
+the pillars." v. _Abdallatif_, Relation de l'Egypte, and the notes of _M.
+de Sacy_. The great portico round this column (formerly designated
+Pompey's, but now known to have been erected in honour of Dioclesian) was
+still standing, M. de Sacy says, in the time of Saladin. v. _Lord
+Valentia's Travels_.
+
+
+Page 23.--Ammianus thus speaks of the state of Alexandria in his time,
+which was, I believe, as late as the end of the fourth century:--"Ne nunc
+quidem in eadem urbe Doctrin� vari� silent, non apud nos exaruit Musica
+nec Harmonia conticuit." Lib. 22.
+
+
+Page 25.--From the character of the features of the Sphinx, and a passage
+in Herodotus, describing the Egyptians as _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}_,
+Volney, Bruce, and a few others, have concluded that the ancient
+inhabitants of Egypt were negroes. But this opinion is contradicted by a
+host of authorities. See _Castera_'s notes upon _Browne's Travels_, for
+the result of Blumenbach's dissection of a variety of mummies. Denon,
+speaking of the character of the heads represented in the ancient
+sculpture and painting of Egypt, says, "Celle des femmes ressemble encore
+� la figure des jolies femmes d'aujourd'hui: de la rondeur, de la volupt�,
+le nez petit, les yeux longs, peu ouverts," &c. &c. He could judge, too,
+he says, from the female mummies, "que leurs cheveux �toient longs et
+lisses, que le caract�re de t�te de la plupart tenoit du beau style"--"Je
+raportai," he adds, "une t�te de vieille femme qui �toit aussi belle que
+celles de Michel Ange, et leur ressembloit beaucoup."
+
+In a "_Description g�n�rale de Th�bes_" by _Messrs. Jollois et
+Desvilliers_, they say, "Toutes les sculptures Egyptiennes, depuis les
+plus grands colosses de Th�bes jusqu'aux plus petites idoles, ne
+rappellent en aucune mani�re les traits de la figure des n�gres; outre que
+les t�tes des momies des catacombs de Th�bes presentent des profils
+droits." See also _M. Jomard_'s "Description of Syene and the Cataracts,"
+_Baron Larrey_, on the "conformation physique" of the Egyptians, &c.
+
+De Pauw, the great depreciator of every thing Egyptian, has, on the
+authority of a passage in �lian, presumed to affix to the countrywomen of
+Cleopatra the stigma of complete and unredeemed ugliness. The following
+line of Euripides, however, is an answer to such charges:--
+
+  _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}._
+
+In addition to the celebrated instances of Cleopatra, Rhodope, &c. we are
+told, on the authority of Manetho (as given by Zoega from Georgius
+Syncellus), of a beautiful queen of Memphis, Nitocris, of the sixth
+dynasty, who, in addition to other charms and perfections, was (rather
+inconsistently with the negro hypothesis) _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_.
+
+See, for a tribute to the beauty of the Egyptian women, Montesquieu's
+Temple de Gnide.
+
+
+Page 35.--"_Among beds of lotus flowers._"--v. _Strabo_.
+
+
+Page 36.--"_Isle of the golden Venus._"--"On trouve une �le appel�e Venus-
+Dor�e, ou le champ d'or, avant de remonter jusqu'� Memphis." _Voyages de
+Pythagore._
+
+
+Page 39.--For an account of the Table of Emerald, v. _Lettres sur l'Origine
+des Dieux d'Egypte_. _De Pauw_ supposes it to be a modern fiction of the
+Arabs. Many writers have fancied that the art of making gold was the great
+secret that lay hid under the forms of Egyptian theology. "La science
+Herm�tique," says the Benedictine, Pernetz, "l'art sacerdotal �toit la
+source de toutes les richesses des Rois d'Egypte, et l'objet de ces
+myst�res si cach�s sous le voile du leur pretendu Religion." _Fables
+Egyptiennes._ The hieroglyphs, that formerly covered the Pyramids, are
+supposed by some of these writers to relate to the same art. See _Mutus
+liber, Rupell�_.
+
+
+Page 40.--"By reflecting the sun's rays," says _Clarke_, speaking of the
+Pyramids, "they appeared white as snow."
+
+
+Page 41.--For Bubastis, the Diana of the Egyptians, v. _Jablonski_, lib. 3.
+c. 4.
+
+
+Page 43.--"_The light coracle_," _&c._--v. _Amuilhon_, "_Histoire de la
+Navigation et du Commerce des Egyptiens sous les Ptolem�es_." See also,
+for a description of the various kinds of boats used on the Nile,
+_Maillet_, tom. i. p. 98.
+
+
+Page 44.--v. _Maurice_, Appendix to "Ruins of Babylon." Another reason, he
+says, for their worship of the Ibis, "founded on their love of geometry,
+was (according to Plutarch) that the space between its legs, when parted
+asunder, as it walks, together with its beak, forms a complete equilateral
+triangle." From the examination of the embalmed birds, found in the
+Catacombs of Saccara, there seems to be no doubt that the Ibis was the
+same kind of bird as that described by Bruce, under the Arabian name of
+Abou Hannes.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The sistrum_," _&c._--"Isis est genius," says _Servius_, "�gypti, qui
+per sistri motum, quod gerit in dextra, Nili accessus recessusque
+significat."
+
+
+Page 48.--"_The ivy encircled it_," _&c._--The ivy was consecrated to
+Osiris. v. _Diodor. Sic._ 1. 10.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The small mirror._"--"Quelques unes," says _Dupuis_, describing the
+processions of Isis, "portoient des miroirs attach�s � leurs �paules, afin
+de multiplier et de porter dans tous les sens les images de la D�esse."
+_Origine des Cultes_, tom. 8. p. 847. A mirror, it appears, was also one
+of the emblems in the mysteries of Bacchus.
+
+
+Page 49.--"_There__ is, to the north of Memphis_," _&c._--"Tout prouve que
+la territoire de Sakkarah �toit la Necropolis au sud de Memphis, et le
+faubourg oppos� � celui-ci, o� sont les pyramides de Gizeh, une autre
+Ville des Morts, qui terminoit Memphis au nord." _Denon._
+
+There is nothing known with certainty as to the site of Memphis, but it
+will be perceived that the description of its position given by the
+Epicurean corresponds, in almost every particular, with that which M.
+Maillet (the French consul, for many years, at Cairo) has left us. It must
+be always borne in mind, too, that of the distances between the respective
+places here mentioned, we have no longer any accurate means of judging.
+
+
+Page 49.--"_Pyramid beyond pyramid._"--"Multas olim pyramidas fuisse e
+ruinis arguitur." _Zoega._--_Vansleb_, who visited more than ten of the
+small pyramids, is of opinion that there must have originally been a
+hundred in this place.
+
+See, for the lake to the northward of Memphis, _Shaw's Travels_, p. 302.
+
+
+Page 57.--"_The Theban beetle._"--"On voit en Egypte, apr�s la retraite du
+Nil et la f�condation des terres, le limon couvert d'une multitude de
+scarab�es. Un pareil ph�nom�ne a d� sembler aux Egyptiens le plus propre �
+peindre une nouvelle existence." _M. Jomard._--Partly for the same reason,
+and partly for another, still more fanciful, the early Christians used to
+apply this emblem to Christ. "Bonus ille scarab�us meus," says St.
+Augustine "non e� tantum de caus� quod unigenitus, quod ipsemet sui auctor
+mortalium speciem induerit, sed quod in hac nostr� f�ce sese volutaverit
+et ex hac ipsa nasci voluerit."
+
+
+Ib.--"_Enshrined within a case of crystal._"--"Les Egyptiens ont fait aussi,
+pour conserver leurs morts, des caisses de verre." _De Pauw._--He mentions,
+in another place, a sort of transparent substance, which the Ethiopians
+used for the same purpose, and which was frequently mistaken by the Greeks
+for glass.
+
+
+Page 58.--"_Among the emblems of death._"--"Un pr�tre, qui brise la tige
+d'une fleur, des oiseaux qui s'envolent sont les emblemes de la morte et
+de l'�me qui se s�pare du corps." _Denon._
+
+Theseus employs the same image in the Ph�dra:--
+
+  _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}_
+  _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}._
+
+
+Page 59.--"The singular appearance of a Cross so frequently recurring among
+the hieroglyphics of Egypt, had excited the curiosity of the Christians at
+a very early period of ecclesiastical history; and as some of the Priests,
+who were acquainted with the meaning of the hieroglyphics, became
+converted to Christianity the secret transpired. 'The converted heathens,'
+says Socrates Scholasticus, 'explained the symbol, and declared that it
+signified Life to Come.'" _Clarke._
+
+Lipsius, therefore, erroneously supposes the Cross to have been an emblem
+peculiar to the Christians. See, on this subject, _L'Histoire des Juifs_,
+liv. 9. c. 16.
+
+It is singular enough that while the Cross was held sacred among the
+Egyptians, not only the custom of marking the forehead with the sign of
+the Cross, but Baptism and the consecration of the bread in the Eucharist
+were imitated in the mysterious ceremonies of Mithra. _Tertull. de
+Proscriptione Hereticorum._
+
+Zoega is of opinion that the Cross found (for the first time, it is said)
+on the destruction of the temple of Serapis, by the Christians, could have
+not been the crux ansata; as nothing is more common than this emblem on
+all the Egyptian monuments.
+
+
+Page 62.--"_Stood shadowless._"--It was an idea entertained among the
+ancients that the Pyramids were so constructed ("mecanic� constructione,"
+says _Ammianus Marcellinus_) as never to cast any shadow.
+
+
+Page 64.--"_Rhodope._"--From the story of Rhodope, Zoega thinks, "videntur
+Arabes ansam arripuisse ut in una ex pyramidibus, genii loco, habitare
+dicerent mulierem nudam insignis pulchritudinis qu� aspectu suo homines
+insanire faciat." _De Usu Obeliscorum._ See also _L'Egypte de Murtadi par
+Vattier_.
+
+
+Page 66.--"_The Gates of Oblivion._"--"Apud Memphim �neas quasdam portas,
+qu� Lethes et Cocyti (hoc est oblivionis et lamentationis) appellenter
+aperiri, gravem asperumque edentes sonum." _Zoega._
+
+
+Page 69.--"_A pile of lifeless bodies._"--See, for the custom of burying the
+dead upright ("post funus stantia busto corpora," as Statius describes
+it), Dr. Clarke's preface to the 2d section of his fifth volume. They used
+to insert precious stones in the place of the eyes. "Les yeux �toient
+form�s d'�meraudes, de turquoises," &c.--v. _Masoudy_, quoted by
+_Quatremere_.
+
+
+Page 72.--"_It seemed as if every echo._"--See, for the echoes in the
+pyramids, _Plutarch, de Placitis Philosoph._
+
+
+Page 74.--"_Pale phantom-like shapes._"--"Ce moment heureux (de l'Autopsie)
+�toit prepar� par des sc�nes effrayantes, par des alternatives de crainte
+et de joie, de lumi�re et des t�n�bres, par la lueur des �clairs, par le
+bruit terrible de la foudre, qu'on imitoit, et par des apparitions de
+spectres, des illusions magiques, qui frappoient les yeux et les oreilles
+tout ensemble." _Dupuis._
+
+
+Page 77.--"_Serpents of fire._"--"Ces consid�rations me portent � penser
+que, dans les myst�res, ces ph�nom�nes �toient beaucoup mieux ex�cut�es et
+sans comparison plus terribles � l'aide de quelque composition pyrique,
+qui est rest�e cach�e, comme celle du feu Gr�geois." _De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 78.--"_The burning of the reed-beds of Ethiopia._"--"Il n'y a point
+d'autre moyen que de porter le feu dans ces for�ts de roseaux, qui
+r�pandent alors dans tout le pa�s une lumi�re aussi consid�rable que celle
+du jour m�me." _Maillet_, tom. 1. p. 63.
+
+
+Page 79.--"_The sound of torrents._"--The Nile, _Pliny_ tells us, was
+admitted into the Pyramid.
+
+
+Page 81.--"_I had almost given myself up._"--"On exer�oit," says _Dupuis_,
+"les recipiendaires, pendant plusieurs jours, � traverser, � la nage, une
+grande �tendue d'eau. On les y jettoit et ce n'�toit que avec peine qu'
+ils s'en retiroient. On appliquoit le fer et le feu sur leurs membres. On
+les faisoit passer � travers les flammes."
+
+The aspirants were often in considerable danger, and Pythagoras, we are
+told, nearly lost his life in the trials. v. _Recherches sur les
+Initiations, par Robin_.
+
+
+Page 90.--For the two cups used in the mysteries, see _L'Histoire des
+Juifs_, liv. 9. c. 16.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Osiris._"--Osiris, under the name of Serapis, was supposed to rule
+over the subterranean world; and performed the office of Pluto, in the
+mythology of the Egyptians. "They believed," says Dr. Pritchard, "that
+Serapis presided over the region of departed souls, during the period of
+their absence, when languishing without bodies, and that the dead were
+deposited in his palace." _Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology._
+
+
+Ib.--"_To cool the lips of the dead._"--"Frigidam illam aquam post mortem,
+tanquam Hebes poculum, expetitam." _Zoega._--The Lethe of the Egyptians was
+called Ameles. See _Dupuis_, tom. 8. p. 651.
+
+
+Page 90.--"_A draught divine._"--_Diodor. Sicul._
+
+
+Page 93.--"_Grasshopper, symbol of initiation._"--_Hor. Apoll._--The
+grasshopper was also consecrated to the sun as being musical.
+
+
+Page 94.--"_Isle of gardens._"--The isle Antirrhodus near Alexandria.
+_Maillet._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Vineyard at Anthylla._"--See _Athen. Deipnos._
+
+
+Page 97.--"_We can see those stars._"--"On voyoit en plein jour par ces
+ouvertures les �toiles, et m�me quelques plan�tes en leur plus grande
+latitude septentrionale; et les pr�tres avoient bient�t profit� de ce
+ph�nom�ne pour observer � diverses heures la passage des �toiles."
+_S�thos._--_Strabo_ mentions certain caves or pits, constructed for the
+purpose of astronomical observations, which lay in the Zelopolitan
+prefecture, beyond Heliopolis.
+
+
+Page 98.--"_A plantain._"--This tree was dedicated to the Genii of the
+Shades, from its being an emblem of repose and cooling airs. "Cui imminet
+mus� folium, quod ab Iside infera geniisque ei addictis manu geri solitum,
+umbram requiemque et auras frigidas subindigitare videtur." _Zoega._
+
+
+Page 107.--"_He spoke of the preexistence of the soul_," _&c._--For a full
+account of the doctrines which are here represented as having been taught
+to the initiated in the Egyptian mysteries, the reader may consult
+_Dupuis_, _Pritchard's Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology_, &c. &c. "L'on
+d�couvroit l'origine de l'ame, sa chute sur la terre, � travers les
+sph�res et les �l�mens, et son retour au lieu de sa origine ... c'�toit
+ici la partie la plus m�taphysique, et que ne pourroit gu�re entendre le
+commun des Initi�s, mais dont on lui donnoit le spectacle par des figures
+et des spectres all�goriques." _Dupuis._
+
+
+Page 108.--"_Those fields of radiance._"--See _Beausobre_, liv. 3. c. 4. for
+the "terre bienheureuse et lumineuse" which the Manicheans supposed God to
+inhabit. Plato, too, speaks (in Ph�d.) of a "pure land lying in the pure
+sky (_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}_), the abode of divinity,
+of innocence, and of life."
+
+
+Page 110.--"_Tracing it from the first moment of earthward desire._"--In the
+original construction of this work, there was an episode introduced here,
+(which I have since published in another form,) illustrating the doctrine
+of the fall of the soul by the Oriental fable of the Loves of the Angels.
+
+
+Page 111.--"_Restoring her lost wings._"--_Damascius_ in his Life of
+Isidorus, says, "Ex antiquissimis Philosophis Pythagoram et Platonem
+Isidorus ut Deos coluit, et _eorum animas alatas esse_ dixit quas in locum
+supercoelestem inque campum veritatis et pratum elevatas, divinis putavit
+ideis pasci." _Apud Phot. Bibliothec._
+
+
+Page 112.--"_A pale, moonlike meteor._"--_Apuleius_, in describing the
+miraculous appearances exhibited in the mysteries, says, "Nocte medi� vidi
+solem candido coruscantem lumine." _Metamorphos._ lib. 11.
+
+
+Page 113.--"_So entirely did the illusion of the scene_," _&c._--In tracing
+the early connection of spectacles with the ceremonies of religion,
+Voltaire says, "Il y a bien plus; les v�ritables grandes trag�dies, les
+representations imposantes et terribles, �toient les myst�res sacr�s,
+qu'on c�l�broit dans les plus vastes temples du monde, en pr�sence des
+seuls Initi�s; c'�toit l� que les habits, les d�corations, les machines
+�toient propres au sujet; et le sujet �toit la vie pr�sente et la vie
+future." _Des divers changemens arriv�s � l'art tragique._
+
+To these scenic representations in the Egyptian mysteries, there is
+evidently an allusion in the vision of Ezekiel, where the spirit shows him
+the abominations which the Israelites learned in Egypt:--"Then said he unto
+me, 'Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel
+do in the dark, every man in _the chambers of his imagery_.'" Chap. 8.
+
+
+Page 118.--"_The seven tables of stone._"--"Bernard, Comte de la Marche
+Tr�visane, instruit par la lecture des livres anciens, dit qu' Hermes
+trouva sept tables dans la vall�e d'Hebron, sur lesquelles �toient grav�s
+les principes des arts liberaux." _Fables Egyptiennes._ See _Jablonski de
+stelis Herm._
+
+
+Page 119.--"_Beside the goat of Mendes._"--For an account of the animal
+worship of the Egyptians, see _De Pauw_, tom. 2.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The Isiac serpents._"--"On auguroit bien des serpens Isiaques,
+lorsqu'ils goutoient l'offrande et se trainoient lentement autour de
+l'autel." _De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 121.--"_Hence the festivals and hymns_," _&c._--For an account of the
+various festivals at the different periods of the sun's progress, in the
+spring, and in the autumn, see _Dupuis_ and _Pritchard_.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The mysteries of the night._"--v. _Athenag. Leg. pro Christ._ p. 133.
+
+
+Page 125.--"_A peal like that of thunder._"--See, for some curious remarks
+on the mode of imitating thunder and lightning in the ancient mysteries,
+_De Pauw_, tom. 1. p. 323. The machine with which these effects were
+produced on the stage was called a ceraunoscope.
+
+
+Page 131.--"_Windings, capriciously intricate._"--In addition to the
+accounts which the ancients have left us of the prodigious excavations in
+all parts of Egypt,--the fifteen hundred chambers under the Labyrinth--the
+subterranean stables of the Theba�d, containing a thousand horses--the
+crypts of Upper Egypt passing under the bed of the Nile, &c. &c.--the
+stories and traditions current among the Arabs still preserve the memory
+of those wonderful substructions. "Un Arabe," says Paul Lucas, "qui �toit
+avec nous, m'assura qu'�tant entr� autrefois dans le Labyrinthe, il avoit
+march� dans les chambres souterraines jusqu'en un lieu o� il y avoit une
+grande place environn�e de plusieurs niches qui ressembloit � de petites
+boutiques, d'o� l'on entroit dans d'autres all�es et dans des chambres,
+sans pouvoir en trouver la fin." In speaking, too, of the arcades along
+the Nile, near Cosseir, "Ils me dirent m�me que ces souterrains �toient si
+profondes qu'il y en avoient qui alloient � trois journ�es de l�, et
+qu'ils conduisoient dans un pays o� l'on voyoit de beaux jardins, qu'on y
+trouvoit de belles maisons," &c. &c.
+
+See also in _M. Quatremere's Memoires sur l'Egypte_, tom. 1. p. 142., an
+account of a subterranean reservoir, said to have been discovered at Ka�s,
+and of the expedition undertaken by a party of persons, in a long narrow
+boat, for the purpose of exploring it. "Leur voyage avoit �t� de six
+jours, dont les quatre premiers furent employ�s � p�n�trer les bords; les
+deux autres � revenir au lieu d'o� ils �toient partis: Pendant tout cet
+intervalle ils ne purent atteindre l'extr�mit� du bassin. L'�mir Ala-
+eddin-Tamboga, gouverneur de Behnesa, �crivit ces d�tails au sultan, qui
+en fut extr�mement surpris."
+
+
+Page 136.--"_A small island in the centre of Lake Moeris._"--The position
+here given to Lake Moeris, in making it the immediate boundary of the city
+of Memphis to the south, corresponds exactly with the site assigned to it
+by Maillet:--"Memphis avoit encore � son midi un vaste reservoir, par o�
+tout ce qui peut servir � la commodit� et � l'agr�ment de la vie lui �toit
+voitur� abondamment de toutes les parties de l'Egypte. Ce lac qui la
+terminoit de ce c�t�-l�," &c. &c. Tom. 2. p. 7.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Ruins rising blackly above the wave._"--"On voit sur la rive
+orientale des antiquit�s qui sont presque enti�rement sous les eaux."
+_Belzoni._
+
+
+Page 137.--"_Its thundering portals._"--"Quorundam autem domorum (in
+Labyrintho) talis est situs, ut adaperientibus foris tonitru intus
+terribile existat." _Pliny._
+
+
+Page 138.--"_Leaves that serve as cups._"--_Strabo._ According to the French
+translator of Strabo, it was the fruit of the _faba �gyptiaca_, not the
+leaf, that was used for this purpose. "Le _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_," he says, "devoit
+s'entendre de la capsule ou fruit de cette plante, dont les Egyptiens se
+servoient comme d'un vase, imaginant que l'eau du Nil y devenoit
+delicieuse."
+
+
+Page 142.--"_The fish of these waters_," _&c._--_�lian_, lib. 6. 32.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Pleasure boats or yachts._"--Called Thalamages, from the pavilion on
+the deck. v. _Strabo_.
+
+
+Page 144.--"_Covered with beds of those pale, sweet roses._"--As April is
+the season for gathering these roses (See _Malte-brun's Economical
+Calendar_), the Epicurean could not, of course, mean to say that he saw
+them actually in flower.
+
+
+Page 146.--"_The lizards upon the bank._"--"L'or et l'azur brillent en
+bandes longitudinales sur leur corps entier, et leur queue est du plus
+beau bleu celeste." _Sonnini._
+
+
+Page 147.--"_The canal through which we now sailed._"--"Un canal," says
+_Maillet_, "tr�s profond et tr�s large y voituroit les eaux du Nil."
+
+
+Page 150.--"_For a draught of whose flood_," _&c._--"Anciennement on portoit
+les eaux du Nil jusqu'au des contr�es fort �loign�es, et surtout chez les
+princesses du sang des Ptolom�es, mari�es dans des families �trang�res."
+_De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 154.--"_Bearing each the name of its owner._"--"Le nom du ma�tre y
+�toit �crit, pendant la nuit en lettres de feu." _Maillet._
+
+
+Page 155.--"_Cups of that frail crystal_"--called Alassontes. For their
+brittleness _Martial_ is an authority:--
+
+  Tolle, puer, calices, tepidique toreumata Nili,
+  Et mihi secur� pocula trade manu.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia._"--The bean of the
+Glycyne, which is so beautiful as to be strung into necklaces and
+bracelets, is generally known by the name of the black bean of Abyssinia.
+_Niebhur._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Sweet lotus-wood flute._"--See _M. Villoteau on the musical
+instruments of the Egyptians_.
+
+
+Page 156.--"_Shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at night._"--_Solinus_
+speaks of the snowy summit of Mount Atlas glittering with flames at night.
+In the account of the Periplus of Hanno, as well as in that of Eudoxus, we
+read that as those navigators were coasting this part of Africa, torrents
+of light were seen to fall on the sea.
+
+
+Page 158.--"_The tears of Isis._"--"Per lacrymas, vero, Isidis intelligo
+effluvia qu�dam Lun�, quibus tantam vim videntur tribuisse �gypti."
+_Jablonski._--He is of opinion that the superstition of the _Nucta_, or
+miraculous drop, is of a relic of the veneration paid to the dews, as the
+tears of Isis.
+
+
+Page 158.--"_The rustling of the acacias_," _&c._--_Travels of Captain
+Mangles._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Supposed to rest in the valley of the moon._"--_Plutarch._ _Dupuis_,
+tom. 10. The Manicheans held the same belief. See _Beausobre_, p. 565.
+
+
+Page 160.--"_Sothis, the fair star of the waters._"--_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_ is the
+epithet applied to this star by _Plutarch_, _de Isid._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Was its birth-star._"--_{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH DASIA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}
+{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_. _Porphyr. de Antro Nymph._
+
+
+Page 168.--"_Golden Mountains._"--v. _Wilford on Egypt and the Nile_,
+Asiatic Researches.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Sweet-smelling wood._"--"'A l'�poque de la crue le Nil Vert charie
+les planches d'un bois qui a une odeur semblable � celle de l'encens."
+_Quatremere._
+
+
+Page 169.--"_Barges full of bees._"--_Maillet._
+
+
+Page 170.--"_Such a profusion of the white flowers_," _&c._--"On les voit
+comme jadis cueillir dans les champs des tiges du lotus, signes du
+d�bordement et pr�sages de l'abondance; ils s'enveloppent les bras et le
+corps avec les longues tiges fleuries, et parcourent les rues," &c.
+_Description des Tombeaux des Rois, par M. Costaz._
+
+
+Page 173.--"_While composing his commentary on the scriptures._"--It was
+during the composition of his great critical work, the Hexapla, that
+Origen employed these female scribes.
+
+
+Page 176.--"_That rich tapestry_," _&c._
+
+  Non ego pr�tulerim Babylonica picta superb�
+  Texta, Semirami� qu� variantur acu.
+
+                                                                _Martial._
+
+
+Page 200.--"_The Place of Weeping._"--v. _Wilford_, _Asiatic Researches_,
+vol. 3. p. 340.
+
+
+Page 210.--"_We had long since left this mountain behind._"--The voyages on
+the Nile are, under favourable circumstances, performed with considerable
+rapidity. "En cinq ou six jours," says _Maillet_, "on pourroit ais�ment
+remonter de l'embouchure du Nil � ses cataractes, ou descendre des
+cataractes jusqu'� la mer." The great uncertainty of the navigation is
+proved by what _Belzoni_ tells us:--"Nous ne m�mes cette fois que deux
+jours et demi pour faire le trajet du Caire � Melawi, auquel, dans notre
+second voyage, nous avions employ�s dix-huit jours."
+
+
+Page 212.--"_Those mighty statues, that fling their shadows._"--"Elles out
+pr�s de vingt m�tres (61 pieds) d'�l�vation; et au lever du soleil, leurs
+ombres immenses s'�tendent au loin sur la chaine Libyen." _Description
+g�n�rale de Th�bes, par Messrs. Jollois et Desvilliers._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Those cool alcoves._"--_Paul Lucas._
+
+
+Page 219.--"_Whose waters are half sweet, half bitter._"--_Paul Lucas._
+
+
+Page 224.--"_The Mountain of the Birds._"--There has been much controversy
+among the Arabian writers, with respect to the site of this mountain, for
+which see _Quatremere_, tom. 1. art. _Amoun_.
+
+
+Page 230.--"_The hand of labour had succeeded_," _&c._--The monks of Mount
+Sinai (_Shaw_ says) have covered over near four acres of the naked rocks
+with fruitful gardens and orchards.
+
+
+Page 233.--"_The image of a head._"--There was usually, Tertullian tells us,
+the image of Christ on the communion-cups.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Kissed her forehead._"--"We are rather disposed to infer," says the
+present Bishop of Lincoln, in his very sensible work on Tertullian, "that,
+at the conclusion of all their meetings for the purpose of devotion, the
+early Christians were accustomed to give the kiss of peace, in token of
+the brotherly love subsisting between them."
+
+
+Page 237.--"_In the middle of the seven valleys._"--See Macrizy's account of
+these valleys, given by Quatremere, tom. 1. p. 450.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Red lakes of Nitria._"--For a striking description of this region,
+see "_Rameses_,"--a work which, though, in general, too technical and
+elaborate, shows, in many passages, to what picturesque effects the
+scenery and mythology of Egypt may be made subservient.
+
+
+Page 238.--"_In the neighbourhood of Antino�._"--From the position assigned
+to Antino� in this work, we should conclude that it extended much farther
+to the north, than these few ruins of it that remain would seem to
+indicate; so as to render the distance between the city and the Mountain
+of the Birds considerably less than what it appears to be at present.
+
+
+Page 243.--"_When Isis, the pure star of lovers._"--v. _Plutarch de Isid._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun._"--"Conjunctio solis cum
+luna, quod est veluti utriusque connubium." _Jablonski._
+
+
+Page 247.--"_Of his walks a lion is the companion._"--M. Chateaubriand has
+introduced Paul and his lion into the "_Martyrs_," liv. 11.
+
+
+Page 235.--"_Come thus secretly before day-break._"--It was among the
+accusations of Celsus against the Christians, that they held their
+assemblies privately and contrary to law; and one of the speakers in the
+curious work of Minucius Felix calls the Christians "latebrosa et
+lucifugax natio."
+
+
+Page 256.--"_A swallow_," _&c._--"Je vis dans le desert des hirondelles d'un
+gris clair comme le sable sur lequel elles volent."--_Denon._
+
+
+Page 257.--"_The comet that once desolated this world._"--In alluding to
+Whiston's idea of a comet having caused the deluge, _M. Girard_, having
+remarked that the word Typhon means a deluge, adds, "On ne peut entendre
+par le tems du r�gne de Typhon que celui pendant lequel le d�luge inonda
+la terre, tems pendant lequel on d�t observer la com�te qui l'occasionna,
+et dont l'apparition fut, non seulement pour les peuples de l'Egypte, et
+de l'Ethiopie, mais encore pour tous les peuples le pr�sage funeste de
+leur destruction presque totale." _Description de la Vall�e de
+l'E'garement._
+
+
+Page 259.--"_In which the spirit of my dream_," _&c._--"Many people," said
+_Origen_, "have been brought over to Christianity by the Spirit of God
+giving a sudden turn to their minds, and offering visions to them either
+by day or night." On this _Jortin_ remarks:--"Why should it be thought
+improbable that Pagans of good dispositions, but not free from prejudices,
+should have been called by divine admonitions, by dreams or visions, which
+might be a support to Christianity in those days of distress."
+
+
+Page 263.--"_One of those earthen cups._"--_Palladius_, who lived some time
+in Egypt, describes the monk Ptolem�us, who inhabited the desert of Scete,
+as collecting in earthen cups the abundant dew from the
+rocks.--_Bibliothec. Pat._ tom. 13.
+
+
+Page 264.--"_It was to preserve, he said_," _&c._--The brief sketch here
+given of the Jewish dispensation agrees very much with the view taken of
+it by Dr. Sumner, the present Bishop of Llandaff, in the first chapters of
+his eloquent and luminous work, the "Records of the Creation."
+
+
+Page 266.--"_In vain did I seek the promise of immortality._"--"It is
+impossible to deny," says the Bishop of Llandaff, "that the sanctions of
+the Mosaic Law are altogether temporal.... It is, indeed, one of the facts
+that can only be explained by acknowledging that he really acted under a
+divine commission, promulgating a temporary law for a peculiar purpose,"--a
+much more candid and sensible way of treating this very difficult point,
+than by either endeavouring, like Warburton, to escape from it into a
+paradox, or still worse, contriving, like Dr. Graves, to increase its
+difficulty by explanation. v. "_On the Pentateuch_." See also _Horne's
+Introduction_, _&c._ vol. I. p. 226.
+
+
+Page 268.--"_All are of the dust_," _&c._--While Voltaire, Volney, &c. refer
+to the Ecclesiastes, as abounding with tenets of materialism and
+Epicurism, Mr. Des Voeux and others find in it strong proofs of belief in
+a future state. The chief difficulty lies in the chapter from which this
+text is quoted; and the mode of construction by which some writers attempt
+to get rid of it,--namely, by putting these texts into the mouth of a
+foolish reasoner,--appears forced and gratuitous. v. _Dr. Hales's
+Analysis_.
+
+
+Page 270.--"_The noblest and first-created_," _&c._--This opinion of the
+Hermit may be supposed to have been derived from his master, Origen; but
+it is not easy to ascertain the exact doctrine of Origen on this subject.
+In the Treatise on Prayer attributed to him, he asserts that God the
+Father alone should be invoked,--which, says Bayle, is "encherir sur les
+H�r�sies des Sociniens." Notwithstanding this, however, and some other
+indications of, what was afterwards called, Arianism, (such as the opinion
+of the divinity being received by _communication_, which _Milner_ asserts
+to have been held by this Father,) Origen was one of the authorities
+quoted by Athanasius in support of his high doctrines of co-eternity and
+co-essentiality. What Priestley says is, perhaps, the best solution of
+these inconsistencies;--"Origen, as well as Clemens Alexandrinus, has been
+thought to favour the Arian principle; but he did it only in words and not
+in ideas." _Early Opinions_, _&c._ Whatever uncertainty, however, there
+may exist with respect to the opinion of Origen himself on this subject,
+there is no doubt that the doctrines of his immediate followers were, at
+least, Anti-Athanasian. "So many Bishops of Africa," says Priestley,
+"were, at this period (between the years 255 and 258), Unitarians, that
+Athanasius says, 'The Son of God,'--meaning his divinity,--'was scarcely any
+longer preached in the churches.'"
+
+
+Page 271.--"_The restoration of the whole human race to purity and
+happiness._"--This benevolent doctrine,--which not only goes far to solve
+the great problem of moral and physical evil, but which would, if received
+more generally, tend to soften the spirit of uncharitableness, so fatally
+prevalent among Christian sects,--was maintained by that great light of the
+early Church, Origen, and has not wanted supporters among more modern
+Theologians. That Tillotson was inclined to the opinion appears from his
+sermon preached before the queen. Paley is supposed to have held the same
+amiable doctrine; and Newton (the author of the work on the Prophecies) is
+also among the supporters of it. For a full account of the arguments in
+favour of this opinion, derived both from reason and the express language
+of Scripture, see Dr. Southwood Smith's very interesting work, "On the
+Divine Government." See also _Magee on the Atonement_, where the doctrine
+of the advocates of Universal Restoration is thus briefly and fairly
+explained:--"Beginning with the existence of an infinitely powerful, wise,
+and good Being, as the first and fundamental principle of rational
+religion, they pronounce the essence of this Being to be _love_, and from
+this infer, as a demonstrable consequence, that none of the creatures
+formed by such a Being will ever be made eternally miserable.... Since God
+(they say) would act unjustly in inflicting eternal misery for temporary
+crimes, the sufferings of the wicked can be but remedial, and will
+terminate in a complete purification from moral disorder, and in their
+ultimate restoration to virtue and happiness."
+
+
+Page 273.--"_Fruit of the desert shrub._"--v. _Hamilton's �gyptiaca_.
+
+
+Page 278.--"_The white garment she wore, and the ring of gold on her
+finger._"--See, for the custom among the early Christians of wearing white
+for a few days after baptism, _Ambros. de Myst._--With respect to the ring,
+the Bishop of Lincoln says, in his work on Tertullian, "The natural
+inference from these words (_Tertull. de Pudiciti�_) appears to be that a
+ring used to be given in baptism; but I have found no other trace of such
+a custom."
+
+
+Page 280.--"_Pebbles of jasper._"--v. _Clarke_.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Stunted marigold_," _&c._--"Les _Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum_ et
+_Zygophyllum coccineum_, plantes grasses des d�serts, rejet�es � cause de
+leur �cret� par les chameaux, les ch�vres, et les gazelles." _M. Delile
+upon the plants of Egypt._
+
+
+Page 281.--"_Antino�._"--v. _Savary_ and _Quatremere_.
+
+
+Page 286.--"_I have observed in my walks._"--"Je remarquai avec une
+r�flexion triste, qu'un animal de proie accompagne presque toujours les
+pas de ce joli et fr�le individu."
+
+
+Page 272.--"_Glistened over its silver letters._"--The Codex Cottonianus of
+the New Testament is written in silver letters on a purple ground. The
+Codex Cottonianus of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament is
+supposed to be the identical copy that belonged to Origen.
+
+
+Page 289.--"_Some denier of Christ._"--Those Christians who sacrificed to
+idols to save themselves were called by various names, _Thurificati_,
+_Sacrificati_, _Mittentes_, _Negatores_, &c. Baronius mentions a bishop of
+this period (253), Marcellinus, who, yielding to the threats of the
+Gentiles, threw incense upon the altar. v. _Arnob. contra Gent._ lib. 7.
+
+
+Page 297.--"_The clear voice with which_," _&c._--The merit of the
+confession "Christianus sum," or "Christiana sum," was considerably
+enhanced by the clearness and distinctness with which it was pronounced.
+_Eusebius_ mentions the martyr Vetius as making it _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}_.
+
+
+Page 304.--"_The band round the young Christian's brow._"--We find poisonous
+crowns mentioned by _Pliny_, under the designation of "coron� ferales."
+_Paschalius_, too, gives the following account of these "deadly garlands,"
+as he calls them:--"Sed mirum est tam salutare inventum humanam nequitiam
+reperisse, quomodo ad nefarios usus traducent. Nempe, repert� sunt nefand�
+coron� harum, quas dixi, tam salubrium per nomen quidem et speciem
+imitatrices, at re et effectu ferales, atque adeo capitis, cui imponuntur,
+interfectrices." _De Coronis._
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 THE END.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                    Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
+                            New-Street-Square.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                FOOTNOTES
+
+
+    1 The description, here alluded to, may also be found, copied
+      _verbatim_ from Sethos, in the "Voyages d'Ant�nor."--"In that
+      philosophical romance, called 'La Vie de S�thos,'" says Warburton,
+      "we find a much juster account of old Egyptian wisdom, than in all
+      the pretended 'Histoire du Ciel.'" _Div. Leg._ book 4. sect. 14.
+
+    2 A cross was, among the Egyptians, the emblem of a future life.
+
+    3 "On s'�toit m�me avis�, depuis la premi�re construction de ces
+      demeures, de percer en plusieurs endroits jusq'au haut les terres
+      qui les couvroient; non pas, � la v�rit�, pour tirer un jour qui
+      n'auroit jamais �t� suffisant, mais pour recevoir un air salutaire,
+      &c."--_Sethos._
+
+    4 Osiris.
+
+    5 In the language of Plato, Hierocles, &c. to "restore to the soul its
+      wings," is the main object both of religion and philosophy.
+
+    6 See an account of this sensitive tree, which bends down its branches
+      to those who approach it, in M. Jomard's Description of Syene and
+      the Cataracts.
+
+    7 The province of Arsino�, now Fioum.
+
+    8 In the original the discourses of the Hermit are given much more at
+      length.
+
+    9 A rank, resembling that of Colonel.
+
+   10 "Une de ces couronnes de grain de corail, dont les vierges martyres
+      ornoient leurs cheveaux en allant � la mort." _Les Martyrs._
+
+
+
+
+
+                            TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
+
+
+Variations in hyphenation (e.g. "daybreak", "day-break", "overhead",
+"over-head") have not been changed.
+
+In the notes, some references are to the wrong pages or out of sequence.
+
+Other changes, which have been made to the text:
+
+      page 32, "alrea d" changed to "already"
+      page 81, "stirke" changed to "strike"
+      page 93, "grashopper" changed to "grasshopper"
+      page 188, quote mark added before "The state of misery"
+      page 194, "decome" changed to "become"
+      page 312, quote mark added before "There is, to the north of
+      Memphis"
+
+
+
+
+
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+          "Cover image" /></a>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="doublepage" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-titlePage" style="text-align: center">
+        <div class="tei tei-pb" style="text-align: center"></div><span class=
+        "tei tei-docTitle" style="text-align: center"><span class=
+        "tei tei-titlePart" style="text-align: center"><span class=
+        "tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-size: 144%">THE</span></span><br />
+        <br />
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-size: 173%">EPICUREAN,</span></span></span><br />
+        <br />
+        <span class="tei tei-titlePart" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 120%">A
+        TALE.</span></span></span></span><br />
+        <br />
+
+        <div class="tei tei-byline" style="text-align: center">
+          BY<br />
+          <br />
+          <span class="tei tei-docAuthor" style=
+          "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style=
+          "text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 144%">THOMAS
+          MOORE.</span></span></span>
+        </div><br />
+        <br />
+        <span class="tei tei-docEdition" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span style="font-weight: 700">Second
+        Edition.</span></span></span><br />
+        <br />
+        <span class="tei tei-docImprint" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-pubPlace" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-size: 120%">LONDON:</span></span></span><br />
+        <span class="tei tei-publisher" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span class="tei tei-hi" style=
+        "text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 90%">PRINTED
+        FOR</span></span><br />
+        LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,<br />
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-size: 90%">PATERNOSTER-ROW.</span></span></span><br />
+        <span class="tei tei-docDate" style="text-align: center"><span class=
+        "tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-size: 120%">1827.</span></span></span></span>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <div class="tei tei-pb"></div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 0.90em"><span style=
+        "font-size: 90%">The Publishers beg to inform the Composers of Music,
+        and Music Sellers, that</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Mr. James
+        Power</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">, of the Strand,
+        Music Seller, is the only person authorized by them to publish
+        the</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Songs</span></span>
+        <span style="font-size: 90%">or</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">Verses</span></span>
+        <span style="font-size: 90%">in this Work connected with
+        Music.</span></p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <div class="tei tei-pb"></div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 1.00em">TO<br />
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-size: 144%">LORD JOHN RUSSELL</span></span><br />
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">THIS VOLUME</span></span><br />
+        IS INSCRIBED<br />
+        BY ONE WHO ADMIRES HIS CHARACTER<br />
+        AND TALENTS,<br />
+        AND IS PROUD OF HIS FRIENDSHIP.</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-pb"></div>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="doublepage" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pagev">[pg v]</span>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">A</span><br />
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">LETTER TO THE TRANSLATOR,</span></h1>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-byline" style="text-align: center">
+          <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+          "font-size: 90%">FROM</span></span><br />
+          ——, <span class="tei tei-hi" style=
+          "text-align: center"><span style="font-variant: small-caps">Esq.</span></span>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-dateline">
+          <span style="font-style: italic">Cairo, June 19. 1800.</span>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-salute">
+          My dear Sir,
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a visit I
+        lately paid to the monastery of St. Macarius,—which is situated, as
+        you know, in the Valley of the Lakes of Natron,—I was lucky enough to
+        obtain possession of a curious Greek manuscript, which, in the hope
+        that you may be induced to translate it, I herewith send you.
+        Observing one of the monks very busily occupied in tearing up, into a
+        variety of fantastic shapes, some papers <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "pagevi">[pg vi]</span>which had the appearance of being the leaves
+        of old books, I enquired of him the meaning of his task, and received
+        the following explanation:—</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Arabs, it
+        seems, who are as fond of pigeons as the ancient Egyptians, have a
+        superstitious notion that, if they place in their pigeon-houses small
+        scraps of paper, written over with learned characters, the birds are
+        always sure to thrive the better for the charm; and the monks, who
+        are never slow in profiting by superstition, have, at all times, a
+        supply of such amulets for purchasers.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In general, the
+        holy fathers have been in the habit of scribbling these mystic
+        fragments, themselves; but a discovery, which they have lately made,
+        saves them this trouble. Having dug up (as my informant stated) a
+        chest of old manuscripts, which, being chiefly on the subject of
+        alchemy, must have been buried in the time of Dioclesian,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“we thought we could not,”</span> added the
+        monk, <span class="tei tei-q">“employ such <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="pagevii">[pg vii]</span>rubbish more properly, than in tearing it
+        up, as you see, for the pigeon-houses of the Arabs.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On my expressing a
+        wish to rescue some part of these treasures from the fate to which
+        his indolent fraternity had consigned them, he produced the
+        manuscript which I have now the pleasure of sending you,—the only
+        one, he said, remaining entire,—and I very readily paid him the price
+        he demanded for it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">You will find the
+        story, I think, not altogether uninteresting; and the coincidence, in
+        many respects, of the curious details in Chap. VI. with the
+        description of the same ceremonies in the Romance of <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Sethos</span></span><a id="noteref_1" name=
+        "noteref_1" href="#note_1"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">1</span></span></a>, will, I
+        have no doubt, strike <span class="tei tei-pb" id="pageviii">[pg
+        viii]</span>you. Hoping that you may be tempted to give a translation
+        of this Tale to the world,</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-signed" style="text-align: right">
+          I am, my dear Sir,<br />
+          Very truly yours,<br />
+          ——
+        </div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr class="page" />
+
+    <div class="tei tei-body" style=
+    "margin-top: 6.00em; margin-bottom: 6.00em">
+      <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page1">[pg 1]</span><a name="Pg001" id=
+      "Pg001" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+      <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.73em; text-align: center">
+      <span style="font-size: 173%">THE EPICUREAN.</span></p>
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <a name="toc1" id="toc1"></a><a name="pdf2" id="pdf2"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAPTER I.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was in the
+        fourth year of the reign of the late Emperor Valerian, that the
+        followers of Epicurus, who were at that time numerous in Athens,
+        proceeded to the election of a person to fill the vacant chair of
+        their sect;—and, by the unanimous voice of the School, I was the
+        individual chosen for their Chief. I was just then entering on my
+        twenty-fourth year, and no instance had ever before occurred, of a
+        person so young being selected for that office. Youth, however, and
+        the personal advantages that adorn it, were not, it may be supposed,
+        among the least valid recommendations, to a sect that included within
+        its circle all the beauty as well as wit of Athens, and which, though
+        dignifying its <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page2">[pg
+        2]</span><a name="Pg002" id="Pg002" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>pursuits with the name of philosophy, was little
+        else than a pretext for the more refined cultivation of pleasure.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The character of
+        the sect had, indeed, much changed, since the time of its wise and
+        virtuous founder, who, while he asserted that Pleasure is the only
+        Good, inculcated also that Good is the only source of Pleasure. The
+        purer part of this doctrine had long evaporated, and the temperate
+        Epicurus would have as little recognised his own sect in the
+        assemblage of refined voluptuaries who now usurped its name, as he
+        would have known his own quiet Garden in the luxurious groves and
+        bowers among which the meetings of the School were now held.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Many causes,
+        besides the attractiveness of its doctrines, concurred, at this
+        period, to render our school the most popular of any that still
+        survived the glory of Greece. It may generally be observed, that the
+        prevalence, in one half of a community, of very rigid notions on the
+        subject of religion, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page3">[pg
+        3]</span><a name="Pg003" id="Pg003" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>produces the opposite extreme of laxity and
+        infidelity in the other; and this kind of re-action it was that now
+        mainly contributed to render the doctrines of the Garden the most
+        fashionable philosophy of the day. The rapid progress of the
+        Christian faith had alarmed all those, who, either from piety or
+        worldliness, were interested in the continuance of the old
+        established creed—all who believed in the Deities of Olympus, and all
+        who lived by them. The consequence was, a considerable increase of
+        zeal and activity, throughout the constituted authorities and
+        priesthood of the whole Heathen world. What was wanting in sincerity
+        of belief was made up in rigour;—the weakest parts of the Mythology
+        were those, of course, most angrily defended, and any reflections,
+        tending to bring Saturn, or his wife Ops, into contempt, were
+        punished with the utmost severity of the law.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this state of
+        affairs, between the alarmed bigotry of the declining Faith,
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page4">[pg 4]</span><a name="Pg004" id=
+        "Pg004" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and the simple, sublime austerity
+        of her rival, it was not wonderful that those lovers of ease and
+        pleasure, who had no interest, reversionary or otherwise, in the old
+        religion, and were too indolent to enquire into the sanctions of the
+        new, should take refuge from the severities of both under the shelter
+        of a luxurious philosophy, which, leaving to others the task of
+        disputing about the future, centered all its wisdom in the full
+        enjoyment of the present.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sectaries of
+        the Garden had, ever since the death of their founder, been
+        accustomed to dedicate to his memory the twentieth day of every
+        month. To these monthly rites had, for some time, been added a grand
+        annual Festival, in commemoration of his birth. The feasts, given on
+        this occasion by my predecessors in the Chair, had been invariably
+        distinguished for their taste and splendour; and it was my ambition,
+        not merely to imitate this example, but even to render the
+        anniversary, now celebrated under my auspices, <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page5">[pg 5]</span><a name="Pg005" id="Pg005"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>so brilliant, as to efface the
+        recollection of all that went before it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Seldom, indeed,
+        had Athens witnessed such a scene. The grounds that formed the
+        original site of the Garden had, from time to time, received
+        considerable additions; and the whole extent was laid out with that
+        perfect taste, which knows how to wed Nature to Art, without
+        sacrificing her simplicity to the alliance. Walks, leading through
+        wildernesses of shade and fragrance—glades, opening, as if to afford
+        a play-ground for the sunshine—temples, rising on the very spots
+        where imagination herself would have called them up, and fountains
+        and lakes, in alternate motion and repose, either wantonly courting
+        the verdure, or calmly sleeping in its embrace,—such was the variety
+        of feature that diversified these fair gardens; and, animated as they
+        were on this occasion, by all the living wit and loveliness of
+        Athens, it afforded a scene such as my own youthful fancy, rich as it
+        was then in <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page6">[pg 6]</span><a name=
+        "Pg006" id="Pg006" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>images of luxury and
+        beauty, could hardly have anticipated.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The ceremonies of
+        the day began with the very dawn, when, according to the form of
+        simpler and better times, those among the disciples who had
+        apartments within the Garden, bore the image of our Founder in
+        procession from chamber to chamber, chanting verses in praise of—what
+        had long ceased to be objects of our imitation—his frugality and
+        temperance.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Round a beautiful
+        lake, in the centre of the garden, stood four white Doric temples, in
+        one of which was collected a library containing all the flowers of
+        Grecian literature; while, in the remaining three, Conversation, the
+        Song, and the Dance, held, uninterrupted by each other, their
+        respective rites. In the Library stood busts of all the most
+        illustrious Epicureans, both of Rome and Greece—Horace, Atticus,
+        Pliny the elder, the poet Lucretius, Lucian, and the biographer of
+        the Philosophers, lately lost to us, Dio<span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page7">[pg 7]</span><a name="Pg007" id="Pg007" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>genes Laertius. There were also the portraits,
+        in marble, of all the eminent female votaries of the school—Leontium
+        and her fair daughter Danae, Themista, Philænis, and others.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was here that,
+        in my capacity of Heresiarch, on the morning of the Festival, I
+        received the felicitations of the day from some of the fairest lips
+        of Athens; and, in pronouncing the customary oration to the memory of
+        our Master (in which it was usual to dwell on the doctrines he
+        inculcated) endeavoured to attain that art, so useful before such an
+        audience, of diffusing over the gravest subjects a charm, which
+        secures them listeners even among the simplest and most volatile.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though study, as
+        may easily be supposed, engrossed but little of the mornings of the
+        Garden, yet the lighter part of learning,—that portion of its attic
+        honey, for which the bee is not obliged to go very deep into the
+        flower—was zealously cultivated. Even here, however, the student
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page8">[pg 8]</span><a name="Pg008" id=
+        "Pg008" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>had to encounter distractions,
+        which are, of all others, least favourable to composure of thought;
+        and, with more than one of my fair disciples, there used to occur
+        such scenes as the following, which a poet of the Garden, taking his
+        picture from the life, described:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “As o’er the lake, in evening’s glow,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            That temple threw its lengthening shade,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Upon the marble steps below,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            There sate a fair Corinthian maid,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Gracefully o’er some volume bending;
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            While, by her side, the youthful Sage
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Held back her ringlets, lest, descending,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            They should o’er-shadow all the page.”
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But it was for the
+        evening of that day, that the richest of our luxuries were reserved.
+        Every part of the Garden was illuminated, with the most skilful
+        variety of lustre; while over the Lake of the Temples were scattered
+        wreaths of flowers, through which boats, filled with beautiful
+        children, floated, as through a liquid parterre.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Between two of
+        these boats a perpetual combat was maintained;—their respective
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page9">[pg 9]</span><a name="Pg009" id=
+        "Pg009" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>commanders, two blooming youths,
+        being habited to represent Eros and Anteros; the former, the
+        Celestial Love of the Platonists, and the latter, that more earthly
+        spirit, which usurps the name of Love among the Epicureans.
+        Throughout the evening their conflict was carried on with various
+        success; the timid distance at which Eros kept from his more lively
+        antagonist being his only safeguard against those darts of fire, with
+        showers of which the other continually assailed him, but which,
+        luckily falling short of their mark upon the lake, only scorched the
+        flowers upon which they fell, and were extinguished.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In another part of
+        the gardens, on a wide verdant glade, lighted only by the moon, an
+        imitation of the torch-race of the Panathenæa was performed, by young
+        boys chosen for their fleetness, and arrayed with wings, like Cupids;
+        while, not far off, a group of seven nymphs, with each a star on her
+        forehead, represented the movements of the planetary choir, and
+        embodied the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page10">[pg
+        10]</span><a name="Pg010" id="Pg010" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>dream
+        of Pythagoras into real motion and song.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At every turning
+        some new enchantment broke upon the ear or eye. Sometimes, from the
+        depth of a grove, from which a fountain at the same time issued,
+        there came a strain of music, which, mingling with the murmur of the
+        water, seemed like the voice of the spirit that presided over its
+        flow;—while sometimes the strain rose breathing from among flowers;
+        and, again, would appear to come suddenly from under ground, as if
+        the foot had just touched some spring that set it in motion.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It seems strange
+        that I should now dwell upon these minute descriptions; but every
+        thing connected with that memorable night—even its long-repented
+        follies—must for ever live sacredly in my memory. The festival
+        concluded with a banquet, at which I, of course, presided; and,
+        feeling myself to be the ascendant spirit of the whole scene, gave
+        life to all around me, and saw my own happiness reflected in that of
+        others.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page11">[pg 11]</span><a name="Pg011"
+        id="Pg011" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc3" id=
+        "toc3"></a><a name="pdf4" id="pdf4"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. II.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The festival was
+        over;—the sounds of the song and dance had ceased, and I was now left
+        in those luxurious gardens, alone. Though so ardent and active a
+        votary of pleasure, I had, by nature, a disposition full of
+        melancholy;—an imagination that presented sad thoughts, even in the
+        midst of mirth and happiness, and threw the shadow of the future over
+        the gayest illusions of the present. Melancholy was, indeed,
+        twin-born in my soul with Passion; and, not even in the fullest
+        fervour of the latter, were they separated. From the first moment
+        that I was conscious of thought and feeling, the same dark thread had
+        run across the web; and images of death and annihilation mingled
+        themselves with the most smiling scenes through which my career of
+        enjoyment led me. My very passion for pleasure but deepened these
+        gloomy <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page12">[pg 12]</span><a name=
+        "Pg012" id="Pg012" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>fancies. For, shut out,
+        as I was by my creed, from a future life, and having no hope beyond
+        the narrow horizon of this, every minute of delight assumed a
+        mournful preciousness in my eyes, and pleasure, like the flower of
+        the cemetery, grew but more luxuriant from the neighbourhood of
+        death.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This very night my
+        triumph, my happiness had seemed complete. I had been the presiding
+        genius of that voluptuous scene. Both my ambition and my love of
+        pleasure had drunk deep of the cup for which they thirsted. Looked up
+        to by the learned, and loved by the beautiful and the young, I had
+        seen, in every eye that met mine, either the acknowledgment of
+        triumphs already won, or the promise of others, still brighter, that
+        awaited me. Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark
+        thoughts had presented themselves;—the perishableness of myself and
+        all around me every instant recurred to my mind. Those hands I had
+        prest—those eyes, in <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page13">[pg
+        13]</span><a name="Pg013" id="Pg013" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which
+        I had seen sparkling, a spirit of light and life that should never
+        die—those voices, that had talked of eternal love—all, all, I felt,
+        were but a mockery of the moment, and would leave nothing eternal but
+        the silence of their dust!</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Oh, were it not for this sad voice,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Stealing amid our mirth to say,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            That all, in which we most rejoice,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Ere night may be the earth-worm’s prey;—
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style=
+            "font-style: italic">But</span></span> for this bitter—only this—
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Full as the world is brimm’d with bliss,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And capable as feels my soul
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Of draining to its depth the whole,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            I should turn earth to heaven, and be,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            If bliss made gods, a deity!
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such was the
+        description I gave of my own feelings, in one of those wild,
+        passionate songs, to which this ferment of my spirits, between mirth
+        and melancholy, gave birth.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Seldom had my
+        heart more fully abandoned itself to such vague sadness than at the
+        present moment, when, as I paced <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page14">[pg 14]</span><a name="Pg014" id="Pg014" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>thoughtfully among the fading lights and flowers
+        of the banquet, the echo of my own step was all that sounded, where
+        so many gay forms had lately been revelling. The moon was still up,
+        the morning had not yet glimmered, and the calm glories of night
+        still rested on all around. Unconscious whither my pathway led, I
+        wandered along, till I, at length, found myself before that fair
+        statue of Venus, with which the chisel of Alcamenes had embellished
+        our Garden;—that image of deified woman, the only idol to which I had
+        ever bent the knee. Leaning against the pedestal, I raised my eyes to
+        heaven, and fixing them sadly and intently on the ever-burning stars,
+        as if I sought to read the mournful secret in their light, asked,
+        wherefore was it that Man alone must perish, while they, less
+        wonderful, less glorious than he, lived on in light unchangeable and
+        for ever!—<span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, that there were some spell,
+        some talisman,”</span> I exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“to make
+        the spirit within us <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page15">[pg
+        15]</span><a name="Pg015" id="Pg015" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>deathless as those stars, and open to its
+        desires a career like theirs, burning and boundless throughout all
+        time!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While I gave
+        myself up to this train of thought, that lassitude which earthly
+        pleasure, however sweet, leaves behind,—as if to show how earthly it
+        is,—came drowsily over me, and I sunk at the base of the statue to
+        sleep.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Even in sleep,
+        however, my fancy was still busy; and a dream, so vivid as to leave
+        behind it the impression of reality, thus passed through my mind. I
+        thought myself transported to a wide desert plain, where nothing
+        seemed to breathe, or move, or live. The very sky above it looked
+        pale and extinct, giving the idea, not of darkness, but of light that
+        had died; and, had that region been the remains of some older world,
+        left broken up and sunless, it could not have looked more dead and
+        desolate. The only thing that bespoke life, in this melancholy waste,
+        was a small moving spark, that at first glimmered in the
+        dis<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page16">[pg 16]</span><a name="Pg016"
+        id="Pg016" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tance, but, at length, slowly
+        approached the spot where I stood. As it drew nearer, I could
+        perceive that its feeble gleam was from a taper in the hand of a pale
+        venerable man, who now stood, like a messenger from the grave, before
+        me. After a few moments of awful silence, during which he looked at
+        me with a sadness that thrilled my very soul, he said,—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Thou, who seekest eternal life, go unto the shores of
+        the dark Nile—go unto the shores of the dark Nile, and thou wilt find
+        the eternal life thou seekest!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No sooner had he
+        said these words than the death-like hue of his cheek brightened into
+        a smile of more than human promise. The small torch that he held sent
+        forth a radiance, by which suddenly the whole surface of the desert
+        was illuminated, even to the far horizon’s edge, along whose line
+        were now seen gardens, palaces, and spires, all bright and golden,
+        like the architecture of the clouds at sunset. Sweet music, too, was
+        heard every where, floating <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page17">[pg
+        17]</span><a name="Pg017" id="Pg017" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>around, and, from all sides, such varieties of
+        splendour poured, that, with the excess both of harmony and of light,
+        I woke.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That infidels
+        should be superstitious is an anomaly neither unusual nor strange. A
+        belief in superhuman agency seems natural and necessary to the mind;
+        and, if not suffered to flow in the obvious channels, it will find a
+        vent in some other. Hence, many who have doubted the existence of a
+        God, have yet implicitly placed themselves under the patronage of
+        Fate or the stars. Much the same inconsistency I was conscious of in
+        my own feelings. Though rejecting all belief in a Divine Providence,
+        I had yet a faith in dreams, that all my philosophy could not
+        conquer. Nor was experience wanting to confirm me in my delusion;
+        for, by some of those accidental coincidences, which make the fortune
+        of soothsayers and prophets, dreams, more than once, had been to
+        me</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Oracles, truer far than oak,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Or dove, or tripod, ever spoke.
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page18">[pg 18]</span><a name=
+        "Pg018" id="Pg018" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was not
+        wonderful, therefore, that the vision of that night, touching, as it
+        did, a chord so ready to vibrate, should have affected me with more
+        than ordinary power, and sunk deeper into my memory with every effort
+        I made to forget it. In vain did I mock at my own weakness;—such
+        self-derision is seldom sincere. In vain did I pursue my accustomed
+        pleasures. Their zest was, as usual, for ever new; but still came the
+        saddening consciousness of mortality, and, with it, the recollection
+        of this visionary promise, to which my fancy, in defiance of my
+        reason, still clung.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Sometimes
+        indulging in reveries, that were little else than a continuation of
+        my dream, I even contemplated the possible existence of some secret,
+        by which youth might be, if not perpetuated, at least prolonged, and
+        that dreadful vicinity of death, within whose circle love pines and
+        pleasure sickens, might be for a while averted. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Who knows,”</span> I would ask, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“but that in Egypt, that land of wonders, where Mystery
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page19">[pg 19]</span><a name="Pg019"
+        id="Pg019" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>hath yet unfolded but half her
+        treasures,—where so many dark secrets of the antediluvian world still
+        remain, undeciphered, upon the pillars of Seth—who knows but some
+        charm, some amulet, may lie hid, whose discovery, as this phantom
+        hath promised, but waits my coming—some compound of the same pure
+        atoms, that scintillate in the eternal stars, and whose infusion into
+        the frame of man might make him, too, fadeless and
+        immortal!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus did I fondly
+        speculate, in those rambling moods, when the life of excitement which
+        I led, acting upon a warm heart and vivid fancy, produced an
+        intoxication of spirit, during which I was not wholly myself. This
+        bewilderment, too, was not a little increased by the constant
+        struggle between my own natural feelings, and the cold, mortal creed
+        of my sect, in endeavouring to escape from whose deadening bondage I
+        but broke loose into the realms of romance and fantasy.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Even, however, in
+        my calmest and soberest moments, that strange vision per<span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page20">[pg 20]</span><a name="Pg020" id="Pg020"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>petually haunted me. In vain were all my
+        efforts to chase it from my mind; and the deliberate conclusion to
+        which I came at last, was, that without, at least, a visit to Egypt,
+        I could not rest, nor, till convinced of my folly by disappointment,
+        be reasonable. I, therefore, announced without delay to my associates
+        of the Garden, the intention which I had formed to pay a visit to the
+        land of Pyramids. To none of them did I dare to confess the vague,
+        visionary impulse that actuated me. Knowledge was the object that I
+        alleged, while Pleasure was that for which they gave me credit. The
+        interests of the School, it was apprehended, would suffer by my
+        absence; and there were some tenderer ties, which had still more to
+        fear from separation. But for the former inconvenience a temporary
+        remedy was provided; while the latter a skilful distribution of vows
+        and sighs alleviated. Being furnished with recommendatory letters to
+        all parts of Egypt, in the summer of the year 257, A.D. I set sail
+        for Alexandria.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page21">[pg 21]</span><a name="Pg021"
+        id="Pg021" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc5" id=
+        "toc5"></a><a name="pdf6" id="pdf6"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. III.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To one, who
+        extracted such sweets from every moment on land, a sea-voyage,
+        however smooth and favourable, appeared the least agreeable mode of
+        losing time that could be devised. Often did my imagination, in
+        passing some isle of those seas, people it with fair forms and kind
+        hearts, to whom most willingly, if I might, would I have paused to
+        pay homage. But the wind blew direct towards the land of Mystery;
+        and, still more, I heard a voice within me, whispering for ever
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“On.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As we approached
+        the coast of Egypt, our course became less prosperous; and we had a
+        specimen of the benevolence of the divinities of the Nile, in the
+        shape of a storm, or rather whirlwind, which had nearly sunk our
+        vessel, and which, the Egyptians on board said, was the work of their
+        God, Typhon. After a day and night <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page22">[pg 22]</span><a name="Pg022" id="Pg022" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>of danger, during which we were driven out of
+        our course to the eastward, some benigner influence prevailed above;
+        and, at length, as the morning freshly broke, we saw the beautiful
+        city of Alexandria rising from the sea, with its Palace of Kings, its
+        portico of four hundred columns, and the fair Pillar of Pillars,
+        towering up to heaven in the midst.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After passing in
+        review this splendid vision, we shot rapidly round the Rock of
+        Pharos, and, in a few minutes, found ourselves in the harbour of
+        Eunostus. The sun had risen, but the light on the Great Tower of the
+        Rock was still burning; and there was a languor in the first waking
+        movements of that voluptuous city—whose houses and temples lay
+        shining in silence round the harbour—that sufficiently attested the
+        festivities of the preceding night.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were soon
+        landed on the quay; and, as I walked, through a line of palaces and
+        shrines, up the street which leads from the sea to the Gate of
+        Canopus, fresh as I was <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page23">[pg
+        23]</span><a name="Pg023" id="Pg023" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>from
+        the contemplation of my own lovely Athens, I felt a glow of
+        admiration at the scene around me, which its novelty, even more than
+        its magnificence, inspired. Nor were the luxuries and delights, which
+        such a city promised, among the least of the considerations on which
+        my fancy, at that moment, dwelt. On the contrary, every thing around
+        seemed prophetic of future pleasure. The very forms of the
+        architecture, to my Epicurean imagination, appeared to call up images
+        of living grace; and even the dim seclusion of the temples and groves
+        spoke only of tender mysteries to my mind. As the whole bright scene
+        grew animated around me, I felt that though Egypt might not enable me
+        to lengthen life, she could teach the next best art,—that of
+        multiplying its enjoyments.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The population of
+        Alexandria, at this period, consisted of the most motley miscellany
+        of nations, religions, and sects, that had ever been brought together
+        in one city. Beside the school of the Grecian <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page24">[pg 24]</span><a name="Pg024" id="Pg024"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Platonist was seen the oratory of the
+        cabalistic Jew; while the church of the Christian stood, undisturbed,
+        over the crypts of the Egyptian Hierophant. Here, the adorer of Fire,
+        from the east, laughed at the superstition of the worshipper of cats,
+        from the west. Here Christianity, too, unluckily, had learned to
+        emulate the vagaries of Paganism; and while, on one side, her Ophite
+        professor was seen kneeling down gravely before his serpent, on the
+        other, a Nicosian was, as gravely, contending that there was no
+        chance of salvation out of the pale of the Greek alphabet. Still
+        worse, the uncharitableness of Christian schism was already
+        distinguishing itself with equal vigour; and I heard of nothing, on
+        my arrival, but the rancour and hate, with which the Greek and Latin
+        churchmen persecuted each other, because, forsooth, the one fasted on
+        the seventh day of the week, and the others fasted upon the fourth
+        and sixth!</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page25">[pg
+        25]</span><a name="Pg025" id="Pg025" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To none of those
+        religions or sects, however, except for purposes of ridicule, did I
+        pay much attention. I was now in the most luxurious city of the
+        universe, and gave way, without reserve, to the seductions that
+        surrounded me. My reputation, as a philosopher and a man of pleasure,
+        had preceded me; and Alexandria, the second Athens of the world,
+        welcomed me as her own. My celebrity, indeed, was as a talisman, that
+        opened hearts and doors at my approach. The usual noviciate of
+        acquaintance was dispensed with in my favour, and not only
+        intimacies, but loves and friendships, ripened in my path, as rapidly
+        as vegetation springs up where the Nile has flowed. The dark beauty
+        of the Egyptian women had a novelty in my eyes that enhanced its
+        other charms; and that hue of the sun on their rounded cheeks was but
+        an earnest of the ardour he had kindled in their hearts—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Th’ imbrowning of the fruit, that tells
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            How rich within the soul of sweetness dwells.
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page26">[pg 26]</span><a name=
+        "Pg026" id="Pg026" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Some weeks rolled
+        on in such perpetual and ever-changing pleasures, that even the
+        melancholy voice in my heart, though it still spoke, was but seldom
+        listened to, and soon died away in the sound of the siren songs that
+        surrounded me. At length, however, as the novelty of these scenes
+        wore off, the same gloomy bodings began to mingle with all my joys;
+        and an incident that occurred, during one of my gayest revels,
+        conduced still more to deepen their gloom.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The celebration of
+        the annual festival of Serapis took place during my stay, and I was,
+        more than once, induced to mingle with the gay multitudes, that
+        crowded to his shrine at Canopus on the occasion. Day and night,
+        while this festival lasted, the canal, which led from Alexandria to
+        Canopus, was covered with boats full of pilgrims of both sexes, all
+        hastening to avail themselves of this pious licence, which lent the
+        zest of a religious sanction to pleasure, and gave a holiday to the
+        passions of earth, in honour of heaven.</p><span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page27">[pg 27]</span><a name="Pg027" id="Pg027" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was returning,
+        one lovely night, to Alexandria. The north wind, that welcome
+        visitor, freshened the air, while the banks, on either side, sent
+        forth, from groves of orange and henna, the most delicious odours. As
+        I had left all the crowd behind me at Canopus, there was not a boat
+        to be seen on the canal but my own; and I was just yielding to the
+        thoughts which solitude at such an hour inspires, when my reveries
+        were broken by the sound of some female voices, coming, mingled with
+        laughter and screams, from the garden of a pavilion, that stood,
+        brilliantly illuminated, upon the bank of the canal.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On rowing nearer,
+        I perceived that both the mirth and the alarm had been caused by the
+        efforts of some playful girls to reach a hedge of jasmin which grew
+        near the water, and in bending towards which they had nearly fallen
+        into the stream. Hastening to proffer my assistance, I soon
+        recognised the voice of one of my fair Alexandrian <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page28">[pg 28]</span><a name="Pg028" id="Pg028"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>friends, and, springing on the bank, was
+        surrounded by the whole group, who insisted on my joining their party
+        in the pavilion, and flinging the tendrils of jasmin, which they had
+        just plucked, around me, led me, no unwilling captive, to the
+        banquet-room.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found here an
+        assemblage of the very flower of Alexandrian society. The
+        unexpectedness of the meeting gave it an additional zest on both
+        sides; and seldom had I felt more enlivened myself, or contributed
+        more successfully to circulate life among others.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Among the company
+        were some Greek women, who, according to the fashion of their
+        country, wore veils; but, as usual, rather to set off than conceal
+        their beauty, some gleams of which were continually escaping from
+        under the cloud. There was, however, one female, who particularly
+        attracted my attention, on whose head was a chaplet of dark-coloured
+        flowers, and who sat veiled and silent during the whole <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page29">[pg 29]</span><a name="Pg029" id="Pg029"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of the banquet. She took no share, I
+        observed, in what was passing around: the viands and the wine went by
+        her untouched, nor did a word that was spoken seem addressed to her
+        ear. This abstraction from a scene so sparkling with gaiety, though
+        apparently unnoticed by any one but myself, struck me as mysterious
+        and strange. I inquired of my fair neighbour the cause of it, but she
+        looked grave and was silent.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the mean time,
+        the lyre and the cup went round; and a young maid from Athens, as if
+        inspired by the presence of her countryman, took her lute, and sung
+        to it some of the songs of Greece, with a feeling that bore me back
+        to the banks of the Ilissus, and, even in the bosom of present
+        pleasure, drew a sigh from my heart for that which had passed away.
+        It was daybreak ere our delighted party rose, and unwillingly
+        re-embarked to return to the city.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Scarcely were we
+        afloat, when it was discovered that the lute of the young
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page30">[pg 30]</span><a name="Pg030"
+        id="Pg030" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Athenian had been left behind;
+        and, with my heart still full of its sweet sounds, I most readily
+        sprung on shore to seek it. I hastened to the banquet-room, which was
+        now dim and solitary, except that—there, to my astonishment, still
+        sat that silent figure, which had awakened my curiosity so strongly
+        during the night. A vague feeling of awe came over me, as I now
+        slowly approached it. There was no motion, no sound of breathing in
+        that form;—not a leaf of the dark chaplet on its brow stirred. By the
+        light of a dying lamp which stood before the figure, I raised, with a
+        hesitating hand, the veil, and saw—what my fancy had already
+        anticipated—that the shape underneath was lifeless, was a skeleton!
+        Startled and shocked, I hurried back with the lute to the boat, and
+        was almost as silent as that shape for the remainder of the
+        voyage.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This custom among
+        the Egyptians of placing a mummy, or skeleton, at the banquet-table,
+        had been for some time disused, except at particular ceremonies;
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page31">[pg 31]</span><a name="Pg031"
+        id="Pg031" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and, even on such occasions, it
+        had been the practice of the luxurious Alexandrians to disguise this
+        memorial of mortality in the manner just described. But to me, who
+        was wholly unprepared for such a spectacle, it gave a shock from
+        which my imagination did not speedily recover. This silent and
+        ghastly witness of mirth seemed to embody, as it were, the shadow in
+        my own heart. The features of the grave were now stamped on the idea
+        that haunted me, and this picture of what I <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">was to be</span></span>
+        mingled itself with the sunniest aspect of what I <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">was</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The memory of the
+        dream now recurred to me more livelily than ever. The bright assuring
+        smile of that venerable Spirit, and his words, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Go to the shores of the dark Nile, and thou wilt find
+        the eternal life thou seekest,”</span> were for ever before my mind.
+        But as yet, alas, I had done nothing towards realising this splendid
+        promise. Alexandria was not Egypt;—the very soil on which it stood
+        was not in existence, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page32">[pg
+        32]</span><a name="Pg032" id="Pg032" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>when
+        Thebes and Memphis <a name="corr032" id="corr032" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">already</span>
+        counted ages of glory.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“It is beneath the Pyramids of Memphis,”</span> I
+        exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“or in the mystic Halls of the
+        Labyrinth, that I must seek those holy arcana of science, of which
+        the antediluvian world has made Egypt its heir, and among which—blest
+        thought!—the key to eternal life may lie.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having formed my
+        determination, I took leave of my many Alexandrian friends, and
+        departed for Memphis.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page33">[pg 33]</span><a name="Pg033"
+        id="Pg033" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc7" id=
+        "toc7"></a><a name="pdf8" id="pdf8"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. IV.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Egypt was the
+        country, of all others, from that mixture of the melancholy and the
+        voluptuous, which marked the character of her people, her religion,
+        and her scenery, to affect deeply a temperament and fancy like mine,
+        and keep tremblingly alive the sensibilities of both. Wherever I
+        turned, I saw the desert and the garden, mingling their bloom and
+        desolation together. I saw the love-bower and the tomb standing side
+        by side, and pleasure and death keeping hourly watch upon each other.
+        In the very luxury of the climate there was the same saddening
+        influence. The monotonous splendour of the days, the solemn radiance
+        of the nights—all tended to cherish that ardent melancholy, the
+        offspring of passion and of thought, which had so long been the
+        inmate of my soul.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page34">[pg
+        34]</span><a name="Pg034" id="Pg034" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When I sailed from
+        Alexandria, the inundation of the Nile was at its full. The whole
+        valley of Egypt lay covered by its flood; and, as I saw around me, in
+        the light of the setting sun, shrines, palaces, and monuments,
+        encircled by the waters, I could almost fancy that I beheld the
+        sinking island of Atalantis, on the last evening its temples were
+        visible above the wave. Such varieties, too, of animation as
+        presented themselves on every side!—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            While, far as sight can reach, beneath as clear
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And blue a heaven as ever bless’d this sphere,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Gardens, and pillar’d streets, and porphyry domes,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And high-built temples, fit to be the homes
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Of mighty gods, and pyramids, whose hour
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Outlasts all time, above the waters tower!
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Then, too, the scenes of pomp and joy, that make
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            One theatre of this vast, peopled lake,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Where all that Love, Religion, Commerce gives
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Of life and motion, ever moves and lives.
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Here, up the steps of temples, from the wave
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Ascending, in procession slow and grave,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Priests, in white garments, go, with sacred wands
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And silver cymbals gleaming in their hands:
+          </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page35">[pg 35]</span><a name=
+          "Pg035" id="Pg035" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            While, there, rich barks—fresh from those sunny tracts
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Far off, beyond the sounding cataracts—
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Glide with their precious lading to the sea,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Plumes of bright birds, rhinoceros’ ivory,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Gems from the isle of Meröe, and those grains
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Of gold, wash’d down by Abyssinian rains.
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Here, where the waters wind into a bay
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Shadowy and cool, some pilgrims, on their way
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            To Saïs or Bubastus, among beds
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Of lotus-flowers, that close above their heads,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Push their light barks, and hid, as in a bower,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Sing, talk, or sleep away the sultry hour;
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            While haply, not far off, beneath a bank
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Of blossoming acacias, many a prank
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Is play’d in the cool current by a train
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Of laughing nymphs, lovely as she, whose chain
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Around two conquerors of the world was cast,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            But, for a third too feeble, broke at last!
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Enchanted with the
+        whole scene, I lingered on my voyage, visiting all those luxurious
+        and venerable places, whose names have been consecrated by the wonder
+        of ages. At Saïs I was present during her Festival of Lamps, and
+        read, by the blaze of innumerable lights, those sublime words
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page36">[pg 36]</span><a name="Pg036"
+        id="Pg036" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>on the temple of Neitha:
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“I am all that has been, that is, and that
+        will be, and no man hath ever lifted my veil.”</span> I wandered
+        among the prostrate obelisks of Heliopolis, and saw, not without a
+        sigh, the sun smiling over her ruins, as if in mockery of the mass of
+        perishable grandeur, that had once called itself, in its pride,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“The City of the Sun.”</span> But to the Isle
+        of the Golden Venus was my fondest pilgrimage;—and as I explored its
+        shades, where bowers are the only temples, I felt how far more fit to
+        form the shrine of a Deity are the ever-living stems of the garden
+        and the grove, than the most precious columns that the inanimate
+        quarry can supply.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Every where new
+        pleasures, new interests awaited me; and though Melancholy, as usual,
+        stood always near, her shadow fell but half-way over my vagrant path,
+        and left the rest more welcomely brilliant from the contrast. To
+        relate my various adventures, during this short voyage, would only
+        detain me from events, far, far more <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page37">[pg 37]</span><a name="Pg037" id="Pg037" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>worthy of record. Amidst such endless variety of
+        attractions, the great object of my journey was forgotten;—the
+        mysteries of this land of the sun were, to me, as much mysteries as
+        ever, and I had as yet been initiated in nothing but its
+        pleasures.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was not till
+        that evening, when I first stood before the Pyramids of Memphis, and
+        saw them towering aloft, like the watch-towers of Time, from whose
+        summit, when he expires, he will look his last,—it was not till this
+        moment that the great secret, of which I had dreamed, again rose, in
+        all its inscrutable darkness, upon my thoughts. There was a solemnity
+        in the sunshine that rested upon those monuments—a stillness, as of
+        reverence, in the air around them, that stole, like the music of past
+        times, into my heart. I thought what myriads of the wise, the
+        beautiful, and the brave, had sunk into dust since earth first beheld
+        those wonders; and, in the sadness of my soul, I
+        exclaimed,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Must man alone, then, perish?
+        must <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page38">[pg 38]</span><a name=
+        "Pg038" id="Pg038" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>minds and hearts be
+        annihilated, while pyramids endure? Death, Death, even on these
+        everlasting tablets,—the only approach to immortality that kings
+        themselves could purchase,—thou hast written our doom, saying,
+        awfully and intelligibly, <span class="tei tei-q">‘There is, for man,
+        no eternal mansion, but the tomb!’</span> ”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My heart sunk at
+        the thought; and, for the moment, I yielded to that desolate feeling,
+        which overspreads the soul that hath no light from the future. But
+        again the buoyancy of my nature prevailed, and again, the willing
+        dupe of vain dreams, I deluded myself into the belief of all that I
+        most wished, with that happy facility which makes imagination stand
+        in place of happiness. <span class="tei tei-q">“Yes,”</span> I cried,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“immortality <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">must</span></span> be
+        within man’s reach; and, as wisdom alone is worthy of such a
+        blessing, to the wise alone must the secret have been revealed. Deep,
+        it is said, under yonder pyramid, has for ages lain concealed the
+        Table of Emerald, on which <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page39">[pg
+        39]</span><a name="Pg039" id="Pg039" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the
+        Thrice-Great Hermes engraved, before the flood, the secret of
+        Alchemy, that gives gold at will. Why may not the mightier, the more
+        god-like secret, that gives life at will, be recorded there also? It
+        was by the power of gold, of endless gold, that the kings, who repose
+        in those massy structures, scooped earth to the centre, and raised
+        quarries into the air, to provide themselves with tombs that might
+        outstand the world. Who can tell but that the gift of immortality was
+        also theirs? who knows but that they themselves, triumphant over
+        decay, still live—those mansions, which we call tombs, being rich and
+        everlasting palaces, within whose depths, concealed from this
+        withering world, they still wander, with the few who are sharers of
+        their gift, through a sunless, but illuminated, elysium of their own?
+        Else, wherefore those structures? wherefore that subterraneous realm,
+        by which the whole valley of Egypt is undermined? Why, else, those
+        labyrinths, which none <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page40">[pg
+        40]</span><a name="Pg040" id="Pg040" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of
+        earth hath ever beheld—which none of heaven, except that God, with
+        the finger on his hushed lip, hath trodden!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While I indulged
+        in these dreams, the sun, half sunk beneath the horizon, was taking,
+        calmly and gloriously, his leave of the Pyramids,—as he had done,
+        evening after evening, for ages, till they had become familiar to him
+        as the earth itself. On the side turned to his ray they now presented
+        a front of dazzling whiteness, while, on the other, their great
+        shadows, lengthening to the eastward, looked like the first steps of
+        Night, hastening to envelope the hills of Araby in her shade.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No sooner had the
+        last gleam of the sun disappeared, than, on every house-top in
+        Memphis, gay, gilded banners were seen waving aloft, to proclaim his
+        setting,—while a full burst of harmony pealed from all the temples
+        along the shores.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Startled from my
+        musing by these sounds, I at once recollected, that, on that very
+        evening, the great festival of the Moon <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page41">[pg 41]</span><a name="Pg041" id="Pg041" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>was to be celebrated. On a little island,
+        half-way over between the gardens of Memphis and the eastern shore,
+        stood the temple of that goddess,</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 15.00em; text-align: left">
+            Whose beams
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Bring the sweet time of night-flowers and dreams.
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style=
+            "font-style: italic">Not</span></span> the cold Dian of the
+            North, who chains
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            In vestal ice the current of young veins;
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            But she, who haunts the gay, Bubastian grove,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And owns she sees, from her bright heav’n above,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Nothing on earth, to match that heav’n, but love!
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus did I
+        exclaim, in the words of one of their own Egyptian poets, as,
+        anticipating the various delights of the festival, I cast away from
+        my mind all gloomy thoughts, and, hastening to my little bark, in
+        which I now lived, like a Nile-bird, on the waters, steered my course
+        to the island-temple of the Moon.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page42">[pg 42]</span><a name="Pg042"
+        id="Pg042" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc9" id=
+        "toc9"></a><a name="pdf10" id="pdf10"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. V.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The rising of the
+        Moon, slow and majestic, as if conscious of the honours that awaited
+        her upon earth, was welcomed with a loud acclaim from every eminence,
+        where multitudes stood watching for her first light. And seldom had
+        she risen upon a scene more beautiful. Memphis,—still grand, though
+        no longer the unrivalled Memphis, that had borne away from Thebes the
+        crown of supremacy, and worn it undisputed through so many
+        centuries,—now, softened by the moonlight that harmonised with her
+        decline, shone forth among her lakes, her pyramids, and her shrines,
+        like a dream of glory that was soon to pass away. Ruin, even now, was
+        but too visible around her. The sands of the Libyan desert gained
+        upon her like a sea; and, among solitary columns and sphinxes,
+        already half sunk from sight, Time seemed to stand <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page43">[pg 43]</span><a name="Pg043" id="Pg043"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>waiting, till all, that now flourished
+        around, should fall beneath his desolating hand, like the rest.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On the waters all
+        was life and gaiety. As far as eye could reach, the lights of
+        innumerable boats were seen, studding, like rubies, the surface of
+        the stream. Vessels of all kinds,—from the light coracle, built for
+        shooting down the cataracts, to the large yacht that glides to the
+        sound of flutes,—all were afloat for this sacred festival, filled
+        with crowds of the young and the gay, not only from Memphis and
+        Babylon, but from cities still farther removed from the scene.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I approached
+        the island, I could see, glittering through the trees on the bank,
+        the lamps of the pilgrims hastening to the ceremony. Landing in the
+        direction which those lights pointed out, I soon joined the crowd;
+        and, passing through a long alley of sphinxes, whose spangling marble
+        shone out from the dark sycamores around them, in a short time
+        reached <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page44">[pg 44]</span><a name=
+        "Pg044" id="Pg044" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the grand vestibule of
+        the temple, where I found the ceremonies of the evening already
+        commenced.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this vast hall,
+        which was surrounded by a double range of columns, and lay open
+        over-head to the stars of heaven, I saw a group of young maidens,
+        moving in a sort of measured step, between walk and dance, round a
+        small shrine, upon which stood one of those sacred birds, that, on
+        account of the variegated colour of their wings, are dedicated to the
+        moon. The vestibule was dimly lighted,—there being but one lamp of
+        naptha on each of the great pillars that encircled it. But, having
+        taken my station beside one of those pillars, I had a distinct view
+        of the young dancers, as in succession they passed me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Their long,
+        graceful drapery was as white as snow; and each wore loosely, beneath
+        the rounded bosom, a dark-blue zone, or bandelet, studded, like the
+        skies at midnight, with little silver stars. Through their dark locks
+        was wreathed the white <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page45">[pg
+        45]</span><a name="Pg045" id="Pg045" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>lily
+        of the Nile,—that flower being accounted as welcome to the moon, as
+        the golden blossoms of the bean-flower are to the sun. As they passed
+        under the lamp, a gleam of light flashed from their bosoms, which, I
+        could perceive, was the reflection of a small mirror, that, in the
+        manner of the women of the East, each wore beneath her left
+        shoulder.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There was no music
+        to regulate their steps; but, as they gracefully went round the bird
+        on the shrine, some, by the beat of the castanet, some, by the shrill
+        ring of the sistrum,—which they held uplifted in the attitude of
+        their own divine Isis,—harmoniously timed the cadence of their feet;
+        while others, at every step, shook a small chain of silver, whose
+        sound, mingling with those of the castanets and sistrums, produced a
+        wild, but not an unpleasing harmony.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">They seemed all
+        lovely; but there was one—whose face the light had not yet reached,
+        so downcast she held it,—who <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page46">[pg
+        46]</span><a name="Pg046" id="Pg046" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>attracted, and, at length, riveted all my
+        attention. I knew not why, but there was a something in those
+        half-seen features,—a charm in the very shadow, that hung over their
+        imagined beauty,—which took me more than all the out-shining
+        loveliness of her companions. So enchained was my fancy by this coy
+        mystery, that her alone, of all the group, could I either see or
+        think of—her alone I watched, as, with the same downcast brow, she
+        glided round the altar, gently and aërially, as if her presence, like
+        that of a spirit, was something to be felt, not seen.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Suddenly, while I
+        gazed, the loud crash of a thousand cymbals was heard;—the massy
+        gates of the Temple flew open, as if by magic, and a flood of
+        radiance from the illuminated aisle filled the whole vestibule;
+        while, at the same instant, as if the light and the sounds were born
+        together, a peal of rich harmony came mingling with the radiance.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was then,—by
+        that light, which shone <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page47">[pg
+        47]</span><a name="Pg047" id="Pg047" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>full
+        upon the young maiden’s features, as, starting at the blaze, she
+        raised her eyes to the portal, and, as suddenly, let fall their lids
+        again,—it was then I beheld, what even my own ardent imagination, in
+        its most vivid dreams of beauty, had never pictured. Not Psyche
+        herself, when pausing on the threshold of heaven, while its first
+        glories fell on her dazzled lids, could have looked more beautiful,
+        or blushed with a more innocent shame. Often as I had felt the power
+        of looks, none had ever entered into my soul so far. It was a new
+        feeling—a new sense—coming as suddenly as that radiance into the
+        vestibule, and, at once, filling my whole being;—and had that vision
+        but lingered another moment before my eyes, I should have wholly
+        forgotten who I was and where, and thrown myself, in prostrate
+        adoration, at her feet.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But scarcely had
+        that gush of harmony been heard, when the sacred bird, which had,
+        till now, stood motionless as an image, expanded his wings, and flew
+        into the Tem<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page48">[pg
+        48]</span><a name="Pg048" id="Pg048" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ple;
+        while his graceful young worshippers, with a fleetness like his own,
+        followed,—and she, who had left a dream in my heart never to be
+        forgotten, vanished with the rest. As she went rapidly past the
+        pillar against which I leaned, the ivy that encircled it caught in
+        her drapery, and disengaged some ornament which fell to the ground.
+        It was the small mirror which I had seen shining on her bosom.
+        Hastily and tremulously I picked it up, and hurried to restore
+        it;—but she was already lost to my eyes in the crowd.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In vain I tried to
+        follow;—the aisles were already filled, and numbers of eager pilgrims
+        pressed towards the portal. But the servants of the Temple prevented
+        all further entrance, and still, as I presented myself, their white
+        wands barred the way. Perplexed and irritated amid that crowd of
+        faces, regarding all as enemies that impeded my progress, I stood on
+        tiptoe, gazing into the busy aisles, and with a heart beating as I
+        caught, from <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page49">[pg
+        49]</span><a name="Pg049" id="Pg049" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>time
+        to time, a glimpse of some spangled zone, or lotus wreath, which led
+        me to fancy that I had discovered the object of my search. But it was
+        all in vain;—in every direction, files of sacred nymphs were moving,
+        but nowhere could I see her, whom alone I sought.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this state of
+        breathless agitation did I stand for some time,—bewildered with the
+        confusion of faces and lights, as well as with the clouds of incense
+        that rolled around me,—till, fevered and impatient, I could endure it
+        no longer. Forcing my way out of the vestibule into the cool air, I
+        hurried back through the alley of sphinxes to the shore, and flung
+        myself into my boat.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is, to the
+        north of Memphis, a solitary lake (which, at this season of the year,
+        mingles with the rest of the waters,) upon whose shores stands the
+        Necropolis, or City of the Dead—a place of melancholy grandeur,
+        covered over with shrines and pyramids, where many a kingly head,
+        proud <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page50">[pg 50]</span><a name=
+        "Pg050" id="Pg050" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>even in death, has for
+        ages awaited the resurrection of its glories. Through a range of
+        sepulchral grots underneath, the humbler denizens of the tomb are
+        deposited,—looking out on each successive generation that visits
+        them, with the same face and features they wore centuries ago. Every
+        plant and tree, that is consecrated to death, from the
+        asphodel-flower to the mystic plantain, lends its sweetness or shadow
+        to this place of tombs; and the only noise that disturbs its eternal
+        calm, is the low humming sound of the priests at prayer, when a new
+        inhabitant is added to the silent city.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was towards
+        this place of death that, in a mood of mind, as usual, half bright,
+        half gloomy, I now, almost unconsciously, directed my bark. The form
+        of the young Priestess was continually before me. That one bright
+        look of hers, the very memory of which was worth all the actual
+        smiles of others, never left my mind. Absorbed in such thoughts, I
+        rowed on, scarce knowing <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page51">[pg
+        51]</span><a name="Pg051" id="Pg051" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>whither I went, till, startled by finding myself
+        within the shadow of the City of the Dead, I looked up, and saw,
+        rising in succession before me, pyramid beyond pyramid, each towering
+        more loftily than the other,—while all were out-topped in grandeur by
+        one, upon whose summit the moon seemed to rest, as on a pedestal.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Drawing near to
+        the shore, which was sufficiently elevated to raise this city of
+        monuments above the level of the inundation, I lifted my oar, and let
+        the boat rock idly on the water, while my thoughts, left equally
+        without direction, fluctuated as idly. How various and vague were the
+        dreams that then passed through my mind—that bright vision of the
+        temple mingling itself with all! Sometimes she stood before me, like
+        an aërial spirit, as pure as if that element of music and light, into
+        which I had seen her vanish, was her only dwelling. Sometimes,
+        animated with passion, and kindling into a creature of earth, she
+        seemed to lean towards me with looks of <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page52">[pg 52]</span><a name="Pg052" id="Pg052" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>tenderness, which it were worth worlds, but for
+        one instant, to inspire; and again—as the dark fancies, that ever
+        haunted me, recurred—I saw her cold, parched, and blackening, amid
+        the gloom of those eternal sepulchres before me!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Turning away, with
+        a shudder, from the cemetery at this thought, I heard the sound of an
+        oar plying swiftly through the water, and, in a few moments, saw,
+        shooting past me towards the shore, a small boat in which sat two
+        female figures, muffled up and veiled. Having landed them not far
+        from the spot where I lay,—concealed by the shadow of a monument on
+        the bank,—the boat again departed, with the same fleetness, over the
+        flood.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Never had the
+        prospect of an adventure come more welcome than at this moment, when
+        my fancy was weaving such chains for my heart, as threatened a
+        bondage, of all others, the most difficult to break. To become
+        enamoured thus of a creature of <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page53">[pg 53]</span><a name="Pg053" id="Pg053" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>my own imagination, was the worst, because the
+        most lasting, of follies. Reality alone gives a chance of dissolving
+        such spells, and the idol I was now creating to myself must for ever
+        remain ideal. Any pursuit, therefore, that seemed likely to divert me
+        from such thoughts—to bring back my imagination to earth and reality,
+        from the vague region in which it was wandering, was a relief too
+        seasonable not to be welcomed with eagerness.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had watched the
+        course which the two figures took, and, having hastily fastened my
+        boat to the bank, stepped gently on shore, and, at a little distance,
+        followed them. The windings through which they led were intricate;
+        but, by the bright light of the moon, I was enabled to keep their
+        forms in view, as, with rapid step, they glided among the monuments.
+        At length, in the shade of a small pyramid, whose peak barely
+        surmounted the plane-trees that grew nigh, they vanished from my
+        sight. I hastened to the spot, but there <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page54">[pg 54]</span><a name="Pg054" id="Pg054" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>was not a sign of life around; and had my creed
+        extended to another world, I might have fancied that these forms were
+        spirits, sent from thence to mock me,—so instantaneously they
+        disappeared. I searched through the neighbouring grove, but all there
+        was still as death. At length, in examining one of the sides of the
+        pyramid, which, for a few feet from the ground, was furnished with
+        steps, I found, midway between peak and base, a part of the surface,
+        which, though presenting an appearance of smoothness to the eye, gave
+        to the touch, I thought, indications of a concealed opening.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a variety of
+        efforts and experiments, I, at last, more by accident than skill,
+        pressed the spring that commanded this mysterious aperture. In an
+        instant the portal slid aside, and disclosed a narrow stair-way
+        within, the two or three first steps of which were discernible by the
+        moonlight, while the rest were lost in utter darkness. Though it was
+        difficult to conceive that the persons whom I had followed
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page55">[pg 55]</span><a name="Pg055"
+        id="Pg055" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>would have ventured to pass
+        through this gloomy opening, yet to account for their disappearance
+        otherwise was still more difficult. At all events, my curiosity was
+        now too eager in the chase to relinquish it;—the spirit of adventure,
+        once raised, could not be so easily laid. Accordingly, having sent up
+        a gay prayer to that bliss-loving Queen whose eye alone was upon me,
+        I passed through the portal and descended into the pyramid.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page56">[pg 56]</span><a name="Pg056"
+        id="Pg056" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc11" id=
+        "toc11"></a><a name="pdf12" id="pdf12"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. VI.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the bottom of
+        the stair-way I found myself in a low, narrow passage, through which,
+        without stooping almost to earth, it was impossible to proceed.
+        Though leading through a multiplicity of dark windings, this way
+        seemed but little to advance my progress,—its course, I perceived,
+        being chiefly circular, and gathering, at every turn, but a deeper
+        intensity of darkness.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Can this,”</span> I thought, <span class="tei tei-q">“be
+        the sojourn of any thing human?”</span>—and had scarcely asked myself
+        the question, when the path opened into a long gallery, at the
+        farthest end of which a gleam of light was visible. This welcome
+        glimmer appeared to come from some cell or alcove, in which the
+        right-hand wall of the gallery terminated, <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page57">[pg 57]</span><a name="Pg057" id="Pg057" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>and, breathless with expectation, I stole gently
+        towards it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Arrived at the end
+        of the gallery, a scene presented itself to my eyes, for which my
+        fondest expectations of adventure could not have prepared me. The
+        place from which the light proceeded was a small chapel, of whose
+        interior, from the dark recess in which I stood, I had, unseen
+        myself, a full and distinct view. Over the walls of this oratory were
+        painted some of those various symbols, by which the mystic wisdom of
+        the Egyptians loves to shadow out the History of the Soul—the winged
+        globe with a serpent,—the rays descending from above, like a glory,
+        and the Theban beetle, as he comes forth, after the waters have
+        passed away, and the first sunbeam falls on his regenerated
+        wings.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the middle of
+        the chapel stood a low altar of granite, on which lay a lifeless
+        female form, enshrined within a case of crystal,—as they preserve
+        their dead in Ethiopia,—and looking as freshly beautiful <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page58">[pg 58]</span><a name="Pg058" id="Pg058"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>as if the soul had but a few hours
+        departed. Among the emblems of death, on the front of the altar, were
+        a slender lotus-branch, broken in two, and a bird, just winging its
+        flight from the spray.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To these memorials
+        of the dead, however, I but little attended; for there was a living
+        object there upon which my eyes were most intently fixed.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The lamp, by which
+        the whole of the chapel was illuminated, was placed at the head of
+        the pale image in the shrine; and, between its light and me, stood a
+        female form, bending over the monument, as if to gaze upon the silent
+        features within. The position in which this figure was placed,
+        intercepting a strong light, afforded me, at first, but an imperfect
+        and shadowy view of it. Yet even at this mere outline my heart beat
+        high,—and memory, as it proved, had as much share in this feeling as
+        imagination. For, on the head changing its position, so as to let a
+        gleam fall on the features, I saw with a transport, which had almost
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page59">[pg 59]</span><a name="Pg059"
+        id="Pg059" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>led me to betray my
+        lurking-place, that it was she—the young worshipper of Isis—the same,
+        the very same, whom I had seen, brightening the holy place where she
+        stood, and looking like an inhabitant of some purer world.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The movement, by
+        which she had now given me an opportunity of recognising her, was
+        made in raising from the shrine a small cross<a id="noteref_2" name=
+        "noteref_2" href="#note_2"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">2</span></span></a> of
+        silver, which lay directly over the bosom of the lifeless figure.
+        Bringing it close to her lips, she kissed it with a religious
+        fervour; then, turning her eyes mournfully upwards, held them fixed
+        with an inspired earnestness, as if, at that moment, in direct
+        communion with heaven, they saw neither roof, nor any other earthly
+        barrier between them and the skies.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">What a power hath
+        innocence, whose very helplessness is its safeguard—in whose presence
+        even Passion himself <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page60">[pg
+        60]</span><a name="Pg060" id="Pg060" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>stands abashed, and turns worshipper at the
+        altar which he came to despoil. She, who, but a short hour before,
+        had presented herself to my imagination, as something I could have
+        risked immortality to win—she, whom gladly, from the floor of her own
+        lighted temple, in the very face of its proud ministers, I would have
+        borne away in triumph, and defied all punishments, both human and
+        sacred, to make her mine,—she was now before me, thrown, as if by
+        fate itself, into my power—standing there, beautiful and alone, with
+        nothing but her innocence for her guard! Yet, no—so touching was the
+        purity of the whole scene, so calm and august that protection which
+        the dead seemed to extend over the living, that every earthlier
+        feeling was forgotten as I gazed, and love itself became exalted into
+        reverence.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Entranced, indeed,
+        as I felt in witnessing such a scene, thus to enjoy it by stealth,
+        seemed a wrong, a sacrilege—and, rather <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page61">[pg 61]</span><a name="Pg061" id="Pg061" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>than let her eyes meet the flash of mine, or
+        disturb, by a whisper, that sacred silence, in which Youth and Death
+        held communion through Love, I would have let my heart break, without
+        a murmur, where I stood. Gently, as if life depended upon every
+        movement, I stole away from that tranquil and holy scene—leaving it
+        still tranquil and holy as I found it—and, gliding back through the
+        same passages and windings by which I had entered, regained the
+        narrow stair-way, and again ascended into light.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun had just
+        risen, and, from the summit of the Arabian hills, was pouring down
+        his beams into that vast valley of waters,—as if proud of the homage
+        that had been paid to his own Isis, now fading away in the superior
+        light of her Lord. My first impulse was to fly from this dangerous
+        spot, and in new loves and pleasures seek forgetfulness of the scene
+        which I had witnessed. <span class="tei tei-q">“Once out of the
+        circle of this <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page62">[pg
+        62]</span><a name="Pg062" id="Pg062" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>enchantment,”</span> I exclaimed, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“I know my own susceptibility to new impressions too
+        well, to doubt that I shall soon break the spell that is around
+        me.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But vain were my
+        efforts and resolves. Even while I swore to fly, my steps were still
+        lingering round the pyramid—my eyes still turned towards the secret
+        portal, which severed this enchantress from the world of the living.
+        Hour after hour did I wander through that City of Silence,—till,
+        already, it was noon, and, under the sun’s meridian eye, the mighty
+        pyramid of pyramids stood, like a great spirit, shadowless.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again did those
+        wild and passionate feelings, which had, for a moment, been subdued
+        into reverence by her presence, return to kindle up my imagination
+        and senses. I even reproached myself for the awe, that had held me
+        spell-bound before her. <span class="tei tei-q">“What would my
+        companions of the Garden say, did they know that their chief,—he,
+        whose path Love had strewed <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page63">[pg
+        63]</span><a name="Pg063" id="Pg063" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with
+        trophies—was now pining for a simple Egyptian girl, in whose presence
+        he had not dared to give utterance to a sigh, and who had vanquished
+        the victor, without even knowing her triumph!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A blush came over
+        my cheek at the humiliating thought, and my determination was fixed
+        to await her coming. That she should be an inmate of those gloomy
+        caverns seemed inconceivable; nor did there appear to be any issue
+        from their depths but by the pyramid. Again, therefore, like a
+        sentinel of the dead, did I pace up and down among these tombs,
+        contrasting, in many a mournful reflection, the burning fever within
+        my own veins with the cold quiet of those who slept around.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length the
+        fierce glow of the sun over my head, and, still more, that ever
+        restless agitation in my heart, were too much for even strength like
+        mine to bear. Exhausted, I lay down at the base of the
+        pyramid—placing myself directly <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page64">[pg 64]</span><a name="Pg064" id="Pg064" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>under the portal, where, even should slumber
+        surprise me, my heart, if not my ear, might still be on the watch,
+        and her footstep, light as it was, could not fail to awake me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After many an
+        ineffectual struggle against drowsiness, I at length sunk into
+        sleep—but not into forgetfulness. The same image still haunted me, in
+        every variety of shape, with which imagination, assisted by memory,
+        could invest it. Now, like Neïtha, upon her throne at Saïs, she
+        seemed to sit, with the veil just raised from that brow, which mortal
+        had never, till then, beheld,—and now, like the beautiful enchantress
+        Rhodope, I saw her rise out of the pyramid in which she had dwelt for
+        ages,—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “Fair Rhodope, as story tells,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            The bright, unearthly nymph, who dwells
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Mid sunless gold and jewels hid,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            The Lady of the Pyramid!”
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So long, amid that
+        unbroken silence, did my sleep continue, that I found the
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page65">[pg 65]</span><a name="Pg065"
+        id="Pg065" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>moon again shining above the
+        horizon, when I awoke. All around was silent and lifeless as before,
+        nor did a print upon the herbage betray that any foot had passed it
+        since my own. Refreshed by rest, and with a fancy still more excited
+        by the mystic wonders of which I had been dreaming, I now resolved to
+        revisit the chapel in the pyramid, and put an end, if possible, to
+        this illusion that haunted me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having learned
+        from the experience of the preceding night, the inconvenience of
+        encountering those labyrinths without a light, I now hastened to
+        provide myself with a lamp from my boat. Tracking my way back with
+        some difficulty to the shore, I there found, not only my lamp, but
+        some dates and dried fruits, with a store of which, for my roving
+        life upon the waters, I was always supplied,—and which now, after so
+        many hours of abstinence, were a welcome and necessary relief.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus prepared, I
+        again ascended the pyramid, and was proceeding to search <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page66">[pg 66]</span><a name="Pg066" id="Pg066"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>out the secret spring, when a loud, dismal
+        noise was heard at a distance, to which all the echoes of the
+        cemetery answered. It came, I knew, from the Great Temple on the
+        shore of the Lake, and was the shriek which its gates—the Gates of
+        Oblivion, as they were called—sent forth from their hinges, in
+        opening at night, to receive within their precincts the newly-landed
+        dead.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had heard that
+        sound before, and always with sadness; but, at this moment, it
+        thrilled through me, like a voice of ill omen, and I almost doubted
+        whether I should not abandon my enterprise. The hesitation, however,
+        was but momentary;—even while it passed through my mind, I had
+        touched the spring of the portal. In a few seconds more, I was again
+        in the passage beneath the pyramid, and being enabled by my lamp to
+        follow the windings of the way more rapidly, soon found myself at the
+        door of the small chapel in the gallery.</p><span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page67">[pg 67]</span><a name="Pg067" id="Pg067" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I entered, still
+        awed, though there was now nothing living within. The young Priestess
+        had fled—had vanished, like a spirit, into the darkness. All the rest
+        was as I had left it on the preceding night. The lamp still stood
+        burning upon the crystal shrine—the cross lay where the hands of the
+        young mourner had placed it, and the cold image beneath wore the same
+        tranquil look, as if resigned to the solitude of death—of all lone
+        things the loneliest. Remembering the lips that I had seen kiss that
+        cross, and kindling with the recollection, I raised it passionately
+        to my own;—but, at the same moment, I fancied the dead eyes met mine,
+        and, saddened in the midst of my ardour, I replaced the cross upon
+        the shrine.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had now lost all
+        clue to the object of my pursuit, and was preparing slowly to retrace
+        my steps to earth, with that gloomy satisfaction which certainty,
+        even when unwelcome, brings,—when, as I held forth my lamp, on
+        leaving the chapel, I <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page68">[pg
+        68]</span><a name="Pg068" id="Pg068" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>could
+        perceive that the gallery, instead of terminating here, took a sudden
+        bend to the left, which had before eluded my eye, and which gave a
+        promise of leading still further into those recesses. Re-animated by
+        this discovery, which opened a new source of hope to my heart, I cast
+        but one hesitating look at my lamp, as if to ask whether it would be
+        faithful through the gloom I was about to encounter, and, without
+        further thought, rushed eagerly forward.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page69">[pg 69]</span><a name="Pg069"
+        id="Pg069" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc13" id=
+        "toc13"></a><a name="pdf14" id="pdf14"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. VII.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The path led, for
+        some time, through the same sort of narrow windings as those which I
+        had encountered in descending the stair-way; and at length opened, in
+        a similar manner, into a straight and steep gallery, along each side
+        of which stood, closely ranged and upright, a file of lifeless
+        bodies, whose glassy eyes threw a preternatural glare upon me as I
+        passed.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Arrived at the end
+        of this gallery, I found my hopes a second time vanish. The path, I
+        perceived, extended no further. The only object that I could discern,
+        by the glimmering of my lamp, which now, every minute, burned fainter
+        and fainter, was the mouth of a huge well, that lay gaping before
+        me—a reservoir of darkness, black and unfathomable. It now crossed my
+        memory that I had heard of such wells, as being used occasionally for
+        passages <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page70">[pg 70]</span><a name=
+        "Pg070" id="Pg070" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>by the Priests. Leaning
+        down, therefore, over the edge, I looked anxiously within, to
+        discover whether it was possible to descend into the chasm; but the
+        sides were hard and smooth as glass, being varnished all over with
+        that dark pitch, which the Dead Sea throws out on its slimy
+        shore.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a more
+        attentive scrutiny, however, I observed, at the depth of a few feet,
+        a sort of iron step, projecting dimly from the side, and, below it,
+        another, which, though hardly perceptible, was just sufficient to
+        encourage an adventurous foot to the trial. Though all hope of
+        tracing the young Priestess was at an end,—it being impossible that
+        female foot should have dared this descent,—yet, as I had so far
+        engaged in the adventure, and there was, at least, a mystery to be
+        unravelled, I determined, at all hazards, to explore the chasm.
+        Placing my lamp (which was hollowed at the bottom, so as to fit like
+        a helmet) firmly on my head, and having <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page71">[pg 71]</span><a name="Pg071" id="Pg071" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>thus both hands at liberty for exertion, I set
+        my foot cautiously on the iron step, and descended into the well.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found the same
+        footing, at regular intervals, to a considerable depth; and had
+        already counted near a hundred of these steps, when the ladder
+        altogether ceased, and I could descend no farther. In vain did I
+        stretch down my foot in search of support—the hard, slippery sides
+        were all that it encountered. At length, stooping my head, so as to
+        let the light fall below, I observed an opening or window directly
+        above the step on which I stood, and, taking for granted that the way
+        must lie in that direction, with some little difficulty clambered
+        through the aperture.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I now found myself
+        on a rude and narrow stair-way, the steps of which were cut out of
+        the living rock, and wound spirally downward in the same direction as
+        the well. Almost dizzy with the descent, which seemed as if it would
+        never end, I, at last, reached the bottom, where a pair of massy
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page72">[pg 72]</span><a name="Pg072"
+        id="Pg072" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>iron gates closed directly
+        across my path, as if to forbid any further progress. Massy, however,
+        and gigantic as they were, I found, to my surprise, that the hand of
+        an infant might have opened them with ease—so readily did their great
+        folds give way to my touch,</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “Light as a lime-bush, that receives
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Some wandering bird among its leaves.”
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No sooner,
+        however, had I passed through, than the din, with which the gates
+        clashed together again, was such as might have awakened death itself.
+        It seemed as if every echo, throughout that vast, subterranean world,
+        from the Catacombs of Alexandria to Thebes’s Valley of Kings, had
+        caught up and repeated the thundering sound.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Startled, however,
+        as I was, not even this supernatural clangour could divert my
+        attention from the light that now broke upon me—soft, warm, and
+        welcome as are the stars of his own South to the mariner <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page73">[pg 73]</span><a name="Pg073" id="Pg073"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>who has been wandering through the seas of
+        the north. Looking for the source of this splendour, I saw, through
+        an archway opposite, a long illuminated alley, stretching away as far
+        as the eye could reach, and fenced, on one side, with thickets of
+        odoriferous shrubs, while, along the other, extended a line of lofty
+        arcades, from which the light, that filled the whole area, issued. As
+        soon, too, as the din of the deep echoes had subsided, there stole
+        gradually on my ear a strain of choral music, which appeared to come,
+        mellowed and sweetened in its passage, through many a spacious hall
+        within those shining arcades. Among the voices I could distinguish
+        some female tones, towering high and clear over all the rest, and
+        forming the spire, as it were, into which the harmony tapered, as it
+        rose.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So excited was my
+        fancy by this sudden enchantment, that—though never had I caught a
+        sound from the young Egyptian’s <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page74">[pg 74]</span><a name="Pg074" id="Pg074" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>lips,—I yet persuaded myself that the voice I
+        now heard was hers, sounding highest and most heavenly of all that
+        choir, and calling to me, like a distant spirit out of its sphere.
+        Animated by this thought, I flew forward to the archway, but found,
+        to my mortification, that it was guarded by a trellis-work, whose
+        bars, though invisible at a distance, resisted all my efforts to
+        force them.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While occupied in
+        these ineffectual struggles, I perceived, to the left of the archway,
+        a dark, cavernous opening, which seemed to lead in a direction
+        parallel to the lighted arcades. Notwithstanding my impatience,
+        however, the aspect of this passage, as I looked shudderingly into
+        it, chilled my very blood. It was not so much darkness, as a sort of
+        livid and ghastly twilight, from which a damp, like that of
+        death-vaults, exhaled, and through which, if my eyes did not deceive
+        me, pale, phantom-like shapes were, at that very moment,
+        hovering.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page75">[pg
+        75]</span><a name="Pg075" id="Pg075" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Looking anxiously
+        round, to discover some less formidable outlet, I saw, over the vast
+        folding-gates through which I had just passed, a blue, tremulous
+        flame, which, after playing for a few seconds over the dark ground of
+        the pediment, settled gradually into characters of light, and formed
+        the following words:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            You, who would try
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            Yon terrible track,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            To live, or to die,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            But ne’er to look back—
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            You, who aspire
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            To be purified there,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            By the terrors of Fire,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Of Water, and Air,—
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            If danger, and pain,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            And death you despise,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            On—for again
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Into light you shall rise;
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Rise into light
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            With that Secret Divine,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Now shrouded from sight
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            By the Veils of the Shrine!
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            But if——
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page76">[pg 76]</span><a name=
+        "Pg076" id="Pg076" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here the letters
+        faded away into a dead blank, more awfully intelligible than the most
+        eloquent words.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A new hope now
+        flashed across me. The dream of the Garden, which had been for some
+        time almost forgotten, returned to my mind. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Am I then,”</span> I exclaimed, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“in the path to the promised mystery? and shall the great
+        secret of Eternal Life <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">indeed</span></span> be mine?”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Yes!”</span> seemed to answer, out of the air, that
+        spirit-voice, which still was heard crowning the choir with its
+        single sweetness. I hailed the omen with transport. Love and
+        Immortality, both beckoning me onward—who could give a thought to
+        fear, with two such bright hopes in view? Having invoked and blessed
+        that unknown enchantress, whose steps had led me to this abode of
+        mystery and knowledge, I plunged into the chasm.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Instead of that
+        vague, spectral twilight which had at first met my eye, I now found,
+        as I entered, a thick darkness, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page77">[pg 77]</span><a name="Pg077" id="Pg077" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>which, though far less horrible, was, at this
+        moment, still more disconcerting, as my lamp, which had been, for
+        some time, almost useless, was fast expiring. Resolved, however, to
+        make the most of its last gleam, I hastened, with rapid step, through
+        this gloomy region, which seemed wider and more open to the air than
+        any that I had yet passed. Nor was it long before the appearance of a
+        bright blaze in the distance announced to me that my first great
+        Trial was at hand. As I drew nearer, the flames burst high and wide
+        on all sides;—and the spectacle that now presented itself was such as
+        might have appalled even hearts more habituated to dangers than
+        mine.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There lay before
+        me, extending completely across my path, a thicket, or grove of the
+        most combustible trees of Egypt—tamarind, pine, and Arabian balm.
+        Around their stems and branches were coiled serpents of fire, which,
+        twisting <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page78">[pg 78]</span><a name=
+        "Pg078" id="Pg078" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>themselves rapidly from
+        bough to bough, spread their own wild-fire as they went, and involved
+        tree after tree in one general blaze. It was, indeed, rapid as the
+        burning of those reed-beds of Ethiopia, whose light brightens, at
+        night, the distant cataracts of the Nile.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Through the middle
+        of this blazing grove, I perceived, my only pathway lay. There was
+        not a moment to be lost—the conflagration gained rapidly on either
+        side, and already the narrowing path between was strewed with fire.
+        Casting away my now useless lamp, and holding my robe as some
+        protection over my head, with a tremor, I own, in every limb, I
+        ventured through the blaze.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Instantly, as if
+        my presence had given new life to the flames, a fresh outbreak of
+        combustion arose on all sides. The trees clustered into a bower of
+        fire above my head, while the serpents, that hung hissing from the
+        red branches, shot showers of sparkles down upon me, as I passed.
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page79">[pg 79]</span><a name="Pg079"
+        id="Pg079" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Never were decision and
+        activity more serviceable;—one minute later, and I must have
+        perished. The narrow opening, of which I had so promptly availed
+        myself, closed instantly behind me; and, as I looked back, to
+        contemplate the ordeal which I had passed, I saw that the whole grove
+        was already one mass of fire.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Happy at having
+        escaped this first trial, I plucked from one of the pine-trees a
+        bough that was but just kindled, and, with this for my only guide,
+        hastened breathlessly forward. I had gone but a few paces, when the
+        path turned suddenly off,—leading downwards, as I could see by the
+        glimmer of my brand, into a more confined space, through which a
+        chilling air, as if from some neighbouring waters, blew over my brow.
+        Nor had I proceeded very far, when the sound of torrents fell on my
+        ear,—mingled, as I thought, from time to time, with shrill wailings,
+        like the cries of persons in danger or <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page80">[pg 80]</span><a name="Pg080" id="Pg080" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>distress. At every step the noise of the dashing
+        waters increased, and I now perceived that I had entered an immense
+        rocky cavern, through the middle of which, headlong as a
+        winter-torrent, the flood, to whose roar I had been listening,
+        rushed. Upon its surface, too, there floated strange, spectre-like
+        shapes, which, as they went by, sent forth those dismal shrieks, as
+        if in fear of some precipice to whose brink they were hurrying.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I saw too plainly
+        that my course must be across that torrent. It was fearful; but in
+        courage lay my only hope. What awaited me on the opposite shore, I
+        knew not; for all there was wrapped in impenetrable gloom, nor could
+        the weak light I held reach half so far. Dismissing, however, all
+        thoughts but that of pressing onward, I sprung from the rock on which
+        I stood into the flood,—trusting that, with my right hand, I should
+        be able to buffet the current, while, with the other, I might
+        contrive to hold my <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page81">[pg
+        81]</span><a name="Pg081" id="Pg081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>brand
+        aloft, as long as a glimmer of it remained, to guide me to the
+        shore.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Long and
+        formidable was the struggle I had to maintain. More than once,
+        overpowered by the rush of the waters, I had almost given myself up,
+        as destined to follow those apparitions, that still passed me,
+        hurrying, with mournful cries, to their doom in some invisible gulf
+        before them.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length, just as
+        my strength was nearly exhausted, and the last remains of the
+        pine-branch were falling from my hand, I saw, outstretching towards
+        me into the water, a light double balustrade, with a flight of steps
+        between, ascending, almost perpendicularly, from the wave, till they
+        seemed lost in a dense mass of clouds above. This glimpse—for it was
+        no more, as my light expired in giving it—lent new spring to my
+        courage. Having now both hands at liberty, so desperate were my
+        efforts, that after a few minutes’ struggle, I felt my brow <a name=
+        "corr081" id="corr081" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class=
+        "tei tei-corr">strike</span> <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page82">[pg
+        82]</span><a name="Pg082" id="Pg082" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>against the stairway, and, in an instant more,
+        my feet were on the steps.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Rejoiced at my
+        rescue from that perilous flood, though I knew not whither the
+        stairway led, I promptly ascended it. But this feeling of confidence
+        was of short duration. I had not mounted far, when, to my horror, I
+        perceived, that each successive step, as my foot left it, broke away
+        from beneath me,—leaving me in midair, with no other alternative than
+        that of mounting still by the same momentary footing, and with the
+        dreadful doubt whether it would even endure my tread.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And thus did I,
+        for a few seconds, continue to ascend, with nothing beneath me but
+        that awful river, in which—so tranquil it had become—I could hear the
+        plash of the falling fragments, as every step in succession gave way
+        under my feet. It was a trying moment, but still worse remained. I
+        now found the balustrade, by which I had held during my ascent, and
+        which had hitherto seemed firm, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page83">[pg 83]</span><a name="Pg083" id="Pg083" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>grow tremulous in my hand,—while the step to
+        which I was about to trust myself, tottered under my foot. Just then,
+        a momentary flash, as if of lightning, broke around, and I saw,
+        hanging out of the clouds, within my reach, a huge brazen ring.
+        Instinctively I stretched forth my arm to seize it, and, at the same
+        instant, both balustrade and steps gave way beneath me, and I was
+        left swinging by my hands in the dark void. As if, too, this massy
+        ring, which I grasped, was by some magic power linked with all the
+        winds in heaven, no sooner had I seized it than, like the touching of
+        a spring, it seemed to give loose to every variety of gusts and
+        tempests, that ever strewed the sea-shore with wrecks or dead; and,
+        as I swung about, the sport of this elemental strife, each new burst
+        of its fury threatened to shiver me, like a storm-sail, to atoms!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nor was even this
+        the worst;—still holding, I know not how, by the ring, I felt myself
+        caught up, as if by a thousand <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page84">[pg 84]</span><a name="Pg084" id="Pg084" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>whirlwinds, and round and round, like a
+        stone-shot in a sling, whirled in the midst of all this deafening
+        chaos, till my brain grew dizzy, and my recollection confused, and I
+        almost fancied myself on that wheel of the infernal world, whose
+        rotations, it is said, Eternity alone can number!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Human strength
+        could no longer sustain such a trial. I was on the point, at last, of
+        loosing my hold, when suddenly the violence of the storm
+        moderated;—my whirl through the air gradually ceased, and I felt the
+        ring slowly descend with me, till—happy as a shipwrecked mariner at
+        the first touch of land—I found my feet once more upon firm
+        ground.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the same
+        moment, a light of the most delicious softness filled the whole air.
+        Music, such as is heard in dreams, came floating at a distance; and,
+        as my eyes gradually recovered their powers of vision, a scene of
+        glory was revealed to them, almost too bright for imagination, and
+        yet living and real. As far as the sight <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page85">[pg 85]</span><a name="Pg085" id="Pg085" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>could reach, enchanting gardens were seen,
+        opening away through long tracts of light and verdure, and sparkling
+        every where with fountains, that circulated, like streams of life,
+        among the flowers. Not a charm was here wanting, that the imagination
+        of poet or prophet, in their pictures of Elysium, ever yet dreamed or
+        promised. Vistas, opening into scenes of indistinct
+        grandeur,—streams, shining out at intervals, in their shadowy
+        course,—and labyrinths of flowers, leading, by mysterious windings,
+        to green, spacious glades, full of splendour and repose. Over all
+        this, too, there fell a light, from some unseen source, resembling
+        nothing that illumines our upper world—a sort of golden moonlight,
+        mingling the warm radiance of day with the calm and melancholy lustre
+        of night.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nor were there
+        wanting inhabitants for this sunless Paradise. Through all the bright
+        gardens were wandering, with the serene air and step of happy
+        spirits, groups <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page86">[pg
+        86]</span><a name="Pg086" id="Pg086" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>both
+        of young and old, of venerable and of lovely forms, bearing, most of
+        them, the Nile’s white flowers on their heads, and branches of the
+        eternal palm in their hands; while, over the verdant turf, fair
+        children and maidens went dancing to aërial music, whose source was,
+        like that of the light, invisible, but which filled the whole air
+        with its mystic sweetness.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Exhausted as I was
+        by the trials I had undergone, no sooner did I perceive those fair
+        groups in the distance, than my weariness, both of frame and spirit,
+        was forgotten. A thought crossed me that she, whom I sought, might be
+        among them; and, notwithstanding the awe, with which that unearthly
+        scene inspired me, I was about to fly, on the instant, to ascertain
+        my hope. But in the act of making the effort, I felt my robe gently
+        pulled, and turning, beheld an aged man before me, whom, by the
+        sacred hue of his garb, I knew to be a Hierophant. Placing a branch
+        of the consecrated palm in my hand, he said, <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page87">[pg 87]</span><a name="Pg087" id="Pg087" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>in a solemn voice, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Aspirant of the Mysteries, welcome!”</span>—then,
+        regarding me for a few seconds with grave attention, added, in a tone
+        of courteousness and interest, <span class="tei tei-q">“The victory
+        over the body hath been gained!—Follow me, young Greek, to thy
+        resting place.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I obeyed in
+        silence,—and the Priest, turning away from this scene of splendour,
+        into a secluded path, where the light faded away, as we advanced,
+        conducted me to a small pavilion, by the side of a whispering stream,
+        where the very spirit of slumber seemed to preside, and, pointing to
+        a bed of dried poppy-leaves within it, left me to repose.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page88">[pg 88]</span><a name="Pg088"
+        id="Pg088" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc15" id=
+        "toc15"></a><a name="pdf16" id="pdf16"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. VIII.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though the sight
+        of that splendid scene which opened upon me, like a momentary glimpse
+        into another world, had, for an instant, re-animated my strength and
+        spirit, so completely had fatigue overmastered my whole frame, that,
+        even had the form of the young Priestess stood before me, my limbs
+        would have sunk in the effort to reach her. No sooner had I fallen on
+        my leafy couch, than sleep, like a sudden death, came over me; and I
+        lay, for hours, in the deep, and motionless rest, which not even a
+        shadow of life disturbs.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On awaking I saw,
+        beside me, the same venerable personage, who had welcomed me to this
+        subterranean world on the preceding night. At the foot of my couch
+        stood a statue, of Grecian workmanship, representing a boy, with
+        wings, seated gracefully <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page89">[pg
+        89]</span><a name="Pg089" id="Pg089" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>on a
+        lotus-flower, and having the forefinger of his right hand pressed to
+        his lips. This action, together with the glory round his brows,
+        denoted, as I already knew, the God of Silence and Light.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Impatient to know
+        what further trials awaited me, I was about to speak, when the Priest
+        exclaimed, anxiously, <span class="tei tei-q">“Hush!”</span>—and
+        pointing to this statue at the foot of the couch, said—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Let the spell of that Spirit be on thy lips, young
+        stranger, till the wisdom of thy instructors shall think fit to
+        remove it. Not unaptly doth the same god preside over Silence and
+        Light; since it is only out of the depth of contemplative silence,
+        that the great light of the soul, Truth, arises!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Little used to the
+        language of dictation or instruction, I was now preparing to rise,
+        when the priest again restrained me; and, at the same moment, two
+        boys, beautiful as the young Genii of the stars, entered the
+        pavilion. They were habited in long garments of the purest white, and
+        bore <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page90">[pg 90]</span><a name=
+        "Pg090" id="Pg090" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>each a small golden
+        chalice in his hand. Advancing towards me, they stopped on opposite
+        sides of the couch, and one of them, presenting to me his chalice of
+        gold, said, in a tone between singing and speaking,—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “Drink of this cup—Osiris sips
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            The same in his halls below;
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And the same he gives, to cool the lips
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Of the Dead, who downward go.
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “Drink of this cup—the water within
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            Is fresh from Lethe’s stream;
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            ’Twill make the past with all its sin,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            And all its pain and sorrows, seem
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            Like a long-forgotten dream!
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “The pleasure, whose charms
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            Are steep’d in woe;
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            The knowledge, that harms
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            The soul to know;
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “The hope, that, bright
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            As the lake of the waste,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Allures the sight,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            But mocks the taste;
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page91">[pg 91]</span><a name=
+        "Pg091" id="Pg091" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “The love, that binds
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            Its innocent wreath,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Where the serpent winds,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            In venom, beneath;—
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “All that, of evil or false, by thee
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Hath ever been known or seen,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Shall melt away in this cup, and be
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Forgot, as it never had been!”
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Unwilling to throw
+        a slight on this strange ceremony, I leaned forward, with all due
+        gravity, and tasted the cup; which I had no sooner done than the
+        young cup-bearer, on the other side, invited my attention, and, in
+        his turn, presenting the chalice which he held, sung, with a voice
+        still sweeter than that of his companion, the following strain:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “Drink of this cup—when Isis led
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Her boy, of old, to the beaming sky,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            She mingled a draught divine, and said—
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            ‘Drink of this cup, thou’lt never die!’
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “Thus do I say and sing to thee,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            Heir of that boundless heav’n on high,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Though frail, and fall’n, and lost thou be,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Drink of this cup, thou’lt never die!”
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page92">[pg 92]</span><a name=
+        "Pg092" id="Pg092" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Much as I had
+        endeavoured to keep my philosophy on its guard, against the illusions
+        with which, I knew, this region abounded, the young cup-bearer had
+        here touched a spring of imagination, over which, as has been seen,
+        my philosophy had but little controul. No sooner had the words,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“thou shalt never die,”</span> struck on my
+        ear, than the dream of the Garden came fully to my mind, and,
+        starting half-way from the couch, I stretched forth my hands to the
+        cup. Recollecting myself, however, and fearful of having betrayed to
+        others a weakness only fit for my own secret indulgence, with an
+        affected smile of indifference I sunk back again on my couch,—while
+        the young minstrel, but little interrupted by my movement, still
+        continued his strain, of which I heard but the concluding words:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “And Memory, too, with her dreams shall come,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            Dreams of a former, happier day,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            When Heaven was still the Spirit’s home,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            And her wings had not yet fallen away;
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page93">[pg 93]</span><a name=
+        "Pg093" id="Pg093" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            “Glimpses of glory, ne’er forgot,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            That tell, like gleams on a sunset sea,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            What once hath been, what now is not,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            But, oh, what again shall brightly be!”
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though the
+        assurances of immortality, contained in these verses, would, at any
+        other moment,—vain and visionary as I thought them,—have sent my
+        fancy wandering into reveries of the future, the effort of
+        self-control I had just made enabled me to hear them with
+        indifference.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having gone
+        through the form of tasting this second cup, I again looked anxiously
+        to the Hierophant, to ascertain whether I might be permitted to rise.
+        His assent having been given, the young pages brought to my couch a
+        robe and tunic, which, like their own, were of linen of the purest
+        white; and having assisted to clothe me in this sacred garb, they
+        then placed upon my head a chaplet of myrtle, in which the symbol of
+        Initiation, a golden <a name="corr093" id="corr093" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">grasshopper</span>,
+        was seen shining out from among the dark leaves.</p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page94">[pg 94]</span><a name="Pg094" id="Pg094"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though sleep had
+        done much to refresh my frame, something more was still wanting to
+        restore its strength; and it was not without a smile at my own
+        reveries I reflected, how much more welcome than the young page’s cup
+        of immortality was the unpretending, but real, repast now set before
+        me,—fresh fruits from the Isle of Gardens in the Nile, the delicate
+        flesh of the desert antelope, and wine from the Vineyard of the
+        Queens at Anthylla, fanned by one of the pages with a palm-leaf, to
+        keep it cool.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having done
+        justice to these dainties, it was with pleasure I heard the proposal
+        of the Priest, that we should now walk forth together, and meditate
+        among the scenes without. I had not forgotten the elysium that
+        welcomed me last night,—those enchanted gardens, that mysterious
+        music, and light, and the fair forms I saw wandering about,—as if, in
+        the very midst of happiness, still seeking it. The hope, which had
+        then occurred to me, that, perhaps, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page95">[pg 95]</span><a name="Pg095" id="Pg095" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>among those sparkling groups, might be the
+        maiden I sought, now returned with increased strength. I had little
+        doubt that my guide was about to lead to the same Elysian scene, and
+        that the form, so fit to inhabit it, would again appear before my
+        eyes.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But far different
+        was the region to which he conducted me; nor could the whole world
+        produce a scene more gloomy, or more strange. It had the appearance
+        of a small, solitary valley, inclosed, on every side, by rocks, which
+        seemed to rise, almost perpendicularly, to the very sky;—for it was,
+        indeed, the blue sky that I saw shining between their summits, and
+        whose light, dimmed and half lost, in its descent thus far, formed
+        the melancholy daylight of this nether world.<a id="noteref_3" name=
+        "noteref_3" href="#note_3"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">3</span></span></a> Down the
+        side of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page96">[pg 96]</span><a name=
+        "Pg096" id="Pg096" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>these rocky walls fell
+        a cataract, whose source was upon earth, and on whose waters, as they
+        rolled glassily over the edge above, a gleam of radiance rested, that
+        showed how brilliant was the sunshine they left. From thence,
+        gradually darkening, and broken, in its long descent, by alternate
+        chasms and projections, the stream fell, at last, in a pale and thin
+        mist—the phantom of what it had been on earth—into a small lake that
+        lay at the base of the rock to receive it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nothing could be
+        more bleak and saddening than the appearance of this lake. The usual
+        ornaments of the waters of Egypt were not wanting: the lotus here
+        uplifted her silvery flowers, and the crimson flamingo floated over
+        the tide. But they were, neither of them, the same as in the upper
+        world;—the flower had exchanged its whiteness for a livid hue, and
+        the wings of the bird hung heavy and colourless. Every thing wore the
+        same half-living aspect; and the only sounds that dis<span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page97">[pg 97]</span><a name="Pg097" id="Pg097"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>turbed the mournful stillness were the
+        wailing cry of a heron among the sedges, and that din of the waters,
+        in their midway struggle, above.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There was an
+        unearthly sadness in the whole scene, of which no heart, however
+        light, could resist the influence. Perceiving how I was affected by
+        it, <span class="tei tei-q">“Such scenes,”</span> said the Priest,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“are best suited to that solemn complexion of
+        mind, which becomes him who approaches the Great Secret of futurity.
+        Behold,”</span>—and, in saying thus, he pointed to the opening over
+        our heads, through which I could perceive a star or two twinkling in
+        the heavens, though the sun had but a short time passed his
+        meridian,—<span class="tei tei-q">“as from this gloomy depth we can
+        see those stars, which are now invisible to the dwellers upon the
+        bright earth, even so, to the sad and self-humbled spirit, doth many
+        a mystery of heaven reveal itself, of which they, who walk in the
+        light of the proud world, know not!”</span></p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page98">[pg 98]</span><a name="Pg098" id="Pg098"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He now led me
+        towards a rustic seat or alcove, beside which stood an image of that
+        dark Deity, that God without a smile, who presides over the kingdom
+        of the Dead.<a id="noteref_4" name="noteref_4" href=
+        "#note_4"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">4</span></span></a> The same
+        livid and lifeless hue was upon his features, that hung over every
+        thing in this dim valley; and, with his right hand, he pointed
+        directly downwards, to denote that his melancholy kingdom lay there.
+        A plantain—that favourite tree of the genii of Death—stood behind the
+        statue, and spread its branches over the alcove, in which the Priest
+        now, seating himself, signified that I should take my place by his
+        side.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a long
+        pause, as if of thought and preparation,—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Nobly,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“young
+        Greek, hast thou sustained the first trials of Initiation. What
+        remains, though of vital import to the soul, brings with it neither
+        pain nor peril to the body. Having now proved and chastened thy
+        mortal frame, by the three ordeals of Fire, of <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page99">[pg 99]</span><a name="Pg099" id="Pg099"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Water, and of Air, the next task to which
+        we are called is the purification of thy spirit,—the cleansing of
+        that inward and immortal part, so as to render it fit for the
+        reception of the last luminous revealment, when the Veils of the
+        Sanctuary shall be thrown aside, and the Great Secret of Secrets
+        unfolded to thee!—Towards this object, the primary and most essential
+        step is, instruction. What the three purifying elements, through
+        which thou hast passed, have done for thy body, instruction will
+        effect for——”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“But that lovely maiden!”</span> I exclaimed, bursting
+        from my silence, having fallen, during his speech, into a deep
+        revery, in which I had forgotten him, myself, the Great Secret, every
+        thing—but her.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Startled by this
+        profane interruption, he cast a look of alarm towards the statue, as
+        if fearful lest the God should have heard my words. Then, turning to
+        me, in a tone of mild solemnity, <span class="tei tei-q">“It is but
+        too plain,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“that thoughts of
+        the upper <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page100">[pg
+        100]</span><a name="Pg100" id="Pg100" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>world, and of its vain delights, still engross
+        thee too much, to let the lessons of Truth sink profitably into thy
+        heart. A few hours of meditation amid this solemn scenery—of that
+        wholesome meditation, which purifies, by saddening—may haply dispose
+        thee to receive, with reverence, the holy and immortal knowledge that
+        is in store for thee. With this hope, I now leave thee to thy own
+        thoughts, and to that God, before whose calm and mournful eye the
+        vanities of the world, from which thou comest, wither!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus saying, he
+        turned slowly away, and passing behind the statue, towards which he
+        had pointed during the last sentence, suddenly, and as if by
+        enchantment, disappeared from my sight.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page101">[pg 101]</span><a name="Pg101"
+        id="Pg101" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc17" id=
+        "toc17"></a><a name="pdf18" id="pdf18"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. IX.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Being left to my
+        own solitary thoughts, I had now leisure to reflect, with coolness,
+        on the inconveniences, if not dangers, of the situation into which my
+        love of adventure had hurried me. However ready my imagination was to
+        kindle, in its own ideal sphere, I have ever found that, when brought
+        into contact with reality, it as suddenly cooled;—like those meteors,
+        that seem stars in the air, but, the moment they touch earth, are
+        extinguished. Such was the disenchantment that now succeeded to the
+        dreams in which I had been indulging. As long as Fancy had the field
+        of the future to herself, even immortality did not seem too distant a
+        race for her. But when human instruments interposed, the illusion
+        vanished. From mortal lips the promise of immortality <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page102">[pg 102]</span><a name="Pg102" id="Pg102"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>seemed a mockery, and imagination herself
+        had no wings that could carry beyond the grave.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nor was this
+        disappointment the only feeling that occupied me;—the imprudence of
+        the step, which I had taken, now appeared in its full extent before
+        my eyes. I had thrown myself into the power of the most artful
+        priesthood in the world, without a chance of being able to escape
+        from their toils, or to resist any machinations with which they might
+        beset me. It seemed evident, from the state of preparation in which I
+        had found all that wonderful apparatus, by which the terrors and
+        splendours of Initiation are produced, that my descent into the
+        pyramid was not unexpected. Numerous, indeed, and active as were the
+        spies of the Sacred College of Memphis, there could be but little
+        doubt that all my movements, since my arrival, had been tracked; and
+        the many hours I had passed in watching and wandering round the
+        pyramid, betrayed a curiosity <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page103">[pg 103]</span><a name="Pg103" id="Pg103" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>which might well inspire these wily priests with
+        the hope of drawing an Epicurean into their superstitious toils.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I well knew their
+        hatred to the sect of which I was Chief;—that they considered the
+        Epicureans as, next to the Christians, the most formidable enemies of
+        their craft and power. <span class="tei tei-q">“How thoughtless,
+        then,”</span> I exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“to have placed
+        myself in a situation, where I am equally helpless against their
+        fraud and violence, and must either seem to be the dupe of their
+        impostures, or submit to become the victim of their
+        vengeance.”</span> Of these alternatives, bitter as they were, the
+        latter appeared by far the more welcome. I blushed even to think of
+        the mockeries to which I already had yielded; and the prospect of
+        being put through still further ceremonials, and of being tutored and
+        preached to by hypocrites I despised, appeared to me, in my present
+        temper, a trial of patience, to which the flames <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page104">[pg 104]</span><a name="Pg104" id="Pg104"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and the whirlwinds I had already
+        encountered were pastime.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Often and
+        impatiently did I look up, between those rocky walls, to the bright
+        sky that appeared to rest upon their summits, as, round and round,
+        through every part of the valley, I endeavoured to find an outlet
+        from its gloomy precincts. But in vain I endeavoured;—that rocky
+        barrier, which seemed to end but in heaven, interposed itself every
+        where. Neither did the image of the young maiden, though constantly
+        in my mind, now bring with it the least consolation or hope. Of what
+        avail was it that she, perhaps, was an inhabitant of this region, if
+        I could neither see her smile, nor catch the sound of her voice,—if,
+        while among preaching priests I wasted away my hours, her presence
+        diffused its enchantment elsewhere.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length
+        exhausted, I lay down by the brink of the lake, and gave myself up to
+        all the melancholy of my fancy. The <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page105">[pg 105]</span><a name="Pg105" id="Pg105" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>pale semblance of daylight, which had hitherto
+        shone around, grew, every moment, more dim and dismal. Even the rich
+        gleam, at the summit of the cascade, had faded; and the sunshine,
+        like the water, exhausted in its descent, had now dwindled into a
+        ghostly glimmer, far worse than darkness. The birds upon the lake, as
+        if about to die with the dying light, sunk down their heads; and, as
+        I looked to the statue, the deepening shadows gave an expression to
+        its mournful features that chilled my very soul.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The thought of
+        death, ever ready to present itself to my imagination, now came, with
+        a disheartening weight, such as I had never before felt. I almost
+        fancied myself already in the dark vestibule of the grave,—separated,
+        for ever, from the world above, and with nothing but the blank of an
+        eternal sleep before me. It had often, I knew, happened that the
+        visitants of this mysterious realm were, after their descent
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page106">[pg 106]</span><a name="Pg106"
+        id="Pg106" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>from earth, never seen or heard
+        of;—being condemned, for some failure in their initiatory trials, to
+        pine away their lives in the dark dungeons, with which, as well as
+        with altars, this region abounded. Such, I shuddered to think, might
+        probably be my destiny; and so appalling was the thought, that even
+        the spirit of defiance died within me, and I was already giving
+        myself up to helplessness and despair.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length, after
+        some hours of this gloomy musing, I heard a rustling in the sacred
+        grove behind the statue; and, soon after, the sound of the Priest’s
+        voice—more welcome than I had ever thought such voice could
+        be—brought the assurance that I was not yet, at least, wholly
+        abandoned. Finding his way to me through the gloom, he now led me to
+        the same spot, on which we had parted so many hours before; and, in a
+        voice that retained no trace of displeasure, bespoke my attention,
+        while he should reveal to me some of those divine truths, by whose
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page107">[pg 107]</span><a name="Pg107"
+        id="Pg107" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>infusion, he said, into the
+        soul of man, its purification can alone be effected.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The valley had now
+        become so wholly dark, that we could no longer discern each other’s
+        faces, as we sat. There was a melancholy in the voice of my
+        instructor that well accorded with the gloom around us; and, saddened
+        and subdued, I now listened with resignation, if not with interest,
+        to those sublime, but, alas, I thought, vain tenets, which, with the
+        warmth of a believer, this Hierophant expounded to me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He spoke of the
+        pre-existence of the soul,—of its abode, from all eternity, in a
+        place of bliss, of which all that we have most beautiful in our
+        conceptions here is but a dim transcript, a clouded remembrance. In
+        the blue depths of ether, he said, lay that <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Country of the Soul,”</span>—its boundary alone visible
+        in the line of milky light, that separates it, as by a barrier of
+        stars, from the dark earth. <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh, realm of
+        purity! <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page108">[pg 108]</span><a name=
+        "Pg108" id="Pg108" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Home of the yet
+        unfallen Spirit!—where, in the days of her primal innocence, she
+        wandered, ere her beauty was soiled by the touch of earth, or her
+        resplendent wings had withered away. Methinks,”</span> he cried,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“I see, at this moment, those fields of
+        radiance,—I look back, through the mists of life, into that luminous
+        world, where the souls that have never lost their high, heavenly
+        rank, still soar, without a stain, above the shadowless stars, and
+        dwell together in infinite perfection and bliss!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As he spoke these
+        words, a burst of pure, brilliant light, like a sudden opening of
+        heaven, broke through the valley; and, as soon as my eyes were able
+        to endure the splendour, such a vision of loveliness and glory opened
+        upon them, as took even my sceptical spirit by surprise, and made it
+        yield, at once, to the potency of the spell.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Suspended, as I
+        thought, in air, and occupying the whole of the opposite region of
+        the valley, there appeared an immense <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page109">[pg 109]</span><a name="Pg109" id="Pg109" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>orb of light, within which, through a haze of
+        radiance, I could see distinctly groups of young female spirits, who,
+        in silent, but harmonious movement, like that of the stars, wound
+        slowly through a variety of fanciful evolutions; and, as they linked
+        and unlinked each other’s arms, formed a living labyrinth of beauty
+        and grace. Though their feet seemed to tread along a field of light,
+        they had also wings, of the richest hue, which, like rainbows over
+        waterfalls, when played with by the breeze, at every moment reflected
+        a new variety of glory.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I stood, gazing
+        with wonder, the orb, with all its ethereal inmates, gradually
+        receded into the dark void, lessening, as it went, and growing more
+        bright, as it lessened;—till, at length, distant, apparently, as a
+        retiring comet, this little world of Spirits, in one small point of
+        intense radiance, shone its last and vanished. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Go,”</span> exclaimed the rapt Priest, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“ye happy souls, of whose dwelling a glimpse is thus
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page110">[pg 110]</span><a name="Pg110"
+        id="Pg110" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>given to our eyes, go, wander,
+        in your orb, through the boundless heaven, nor ever let a thought of
+        this perishable world come to mingle its dross with your divine
+        nature, or tempt you to that earthward fall, by which spirits, as
+        bright, have been ruined!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A pause ensued,
+        during which, still under the influence of wonder, I sent my fancy
+        wandering after the inhabitants of that orb,—almost wishing myself
+        credulous enough to believe in a heaven, of which creatures, so like
+        all that I most loved on earth, were inmates.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length, the
+        Priest, with a sigh at the contrast he was about to draw, between the
+        happy spirits we had just seen and the fallen ones of earth, resumed
+        his melancholy History of the Soul. Tracing it, from the first moment
+        of earthward desire, to its final eclipse in the shadows of this
+        world, he dwelt upon every stage of its darkening descent, with a
+        pathos that sent sadness into the very depths of the heart. The first
+        downward look of the Spirit to<span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page111">[pg 111]</span><a name="Pg111" id="Pg111" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>wards earth—the tremble of her wings on the edge
+        of Heaven—the giddy slide, at length, down that fatal descent, and
+        the Lethæan cup, midway in the sky, of which when she has once
+        tasted, Heaven is forgot,—through all these gradations he mournfully
+        traced her fall, to the last stage of darkness, when, wholly immersed
+        in this world, her celestial nature is changed, she can no longer
+        rise above earth, nor remembers her home, but by glimpses so vague,
+        that, mistaking for hope what is only memory, she believes them to be
+        a light from the Future, not the Past.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“To retrieve this ruin of the once blessed Soul—to clear
+        away, from around her, the clouds of earth, and, restoring her lost
+        wings<a id="noteref_5" name="noteref_5" href="#note_5"><span class=
+        "tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">5</span></span></a>,
+        facilitate their return to Heaven—such,”</span> said the reverend
+        man, <span class="tei tei-q">“is the great task of our religion, and
+        such the triumph of those divine Mysteries, in <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page112">[pg 112]</span><a name="Pg112" id="Pg112"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which the life and essence of our religion
+        lie. However sunk and changed and clouded may be the Spirit, as long
+        as a single trace of her original light remains, there is yet hope
+        that——”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here his voice was
+        interrupted by a strain of mournful music, of which the low, distant
+        breathings had been, for some minutes, heard, but which now gained
+        upon the ear too thrillingly to let it listen to any more earthly
+        sound. A faint light, too, at that instant broke through the
+        valley,—and I could perceive, not far from the spot where we sat, a
+        female figure, veiled, and crouching to earth, as if subdued by
+        sorrow, or under the influence of shame.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The light, by
+        which I saw her, was from a pale, moon-like meteor, which had formed
+        itself in the air as the music approached, and shed over the rocks
+        and the lake a glimmer as cold as that by which the Dead, in their
+        own realm, gaze on each other. The music, too, which appeared
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page113">[pg 113]</span><a name="Pg113"
+        id="Pg113" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to rise directly out of the
+        lake, and to come full of the breath of its dark waters, spoke a
+        despondency in every note which no language could express;—and, as I
+        listened to its tones, and looked upon that fallen Spirit, (for such,
+        the holy man whispered, was the form before us,) so entirely did the
+        illusion of the scene take possession of me, that, with breathless
+        anxiety, I waited the result.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Nor had I gazed
+        long before that form rose slowly from its drooping position;—the air
+        around it grew bright, and the pale meteor overhead assumed a more
+        cheerful and living light. The veil, which had before shrouded the
+        face of the figure, became gradually transparent, and the features,
+        one by one, disclosed themselves through it. Having tremblingly
+        watched the progress of the apparition, I now started from my seat,
+        and half exclaimed, <span class="tei tei-q">“It is she!”</span> In
+        another minute, this veil had, like a thin mist, melted away, and the
+        young Priestess of the Moon stood, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page114">[pg 114]</span><a name="Pg114" id="Pg114" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>for the third time, revealed before my eyes.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To rush instantly
+        towards her was my first impulse—but the arm of the Priest held me
+        firmly back. The fresh light, which had begun to flow in from all
+        sides, collected itself in a glory round the spot where she stood.
+        Instead of melancholy music, strains of the most exalted rapture were
+        heard; and the young maiden, buoyant as the inhabitants of the fairy
+        orb, amid a blaze of light like that which fell upon her in the
+        Temple, ascended into the air.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Stay, beautiful vision, stay!”</span> I exclaimed, as,
+        breaking from the hold of the Priest, I flung myself prostrate on the
+        ground,—the only mode by which I could express the admiration, even
+        to worship, with which I was filled. But the vanishing spirit heard
+        me not:—receding into the darkness, like that orb, whose track she
+        seemed to follow, her form lessened away, till she was seen no more.
+        Gazing, till <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page115">[pg
+        115]</span><a name="Pg115" id="Pg115" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the
+        last luminous speck had disappeared, I suffered myself unconsciously
+        to be led away by my reverend guide, who, placing me once more on my
+        bed of poppy-leaves, left me to such repose as it was possible, after
+        such a scene, to enjoy.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page116">[pg 116]</span><a name="Pg116"
+        id="Pg116" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc19" id=
+        "toc19"></a><a name="pdf20" id="pdf20"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. X.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The apparition
+        with which I had been blessed in that Valley of Visions—as the place
+        where I had witnessed these wonders was called—brought back to my
+        heart all the hopes and fancies, in which I had indulged during my
+        descent from earth. I had now seen once more that matchless creature,
+        who had been my guiding star into this mysterious world; and that she
+        was, in some way, connected with the further revelations that awaited
+        me, I saw no reason to doubt. There was a sublimity, too, in the
+        doctrines of my reverend teacher, and even a hope in the promises of
+        immortality held out by him, which, in spite of reason, won
+        insensibly both upon my fancy and my pride.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The Future,
+        however, was now but of secondary consideration;—the Present,
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page117">[pg 117]</span><a name="Pg117"
+        id="Pg117" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and that deity of the Present,
+        woman, were the objects that engrossed my whole soul. For the sake,
+        indeed, of such beings alone did I think immortality desirable, nor,
+        without them, would eternal life have appeared to me worth a prayer.
+        To every further trial of my patience and faith, I now made up my
+        mind to submit without a murmur. Some propitious chance, I fondly
+        persuaded myself, might yet bring me nearer to the object of my
+        adoration, and enable me to address, as mortal woman, her who had
+        hitherto been to me but as a vision, a shade.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The period of my
+        probation, however, was nearly at an end. Both frame and spirit had
+        now been tried; and, as the crowning test of the purification of the
+        latter was that power of seeing into the world of spirits, with
+        which, in the Valley of Visions, I had proved myself to be endowed,
+        there remained now, to perfect my Initiation, but this one night
+        more, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page118">[pg 118]</span><a name=
+        "Pg118" id="Pg118" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>when, in the Temple of
+        Isis, and in the presence of her unveiled image, the last grand
+        revelation of the Secret of Secrets was to open upon me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I passed the
+        morning of this day in company with the same venerable personage, who
+        had, from the first, presided over the ceremonies of my instruction;
+        and who, to inspire me with due reverence for the power and
+        magnificence of his religion, now conducted me through the long range
+        of illuminated galleries and shrines, that extend under the site upon
+        which Memphis and the Pyramids stand, and form a counterpart under
+        ground to that mighty city of temples upon earth.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He then descended
+        with me, still lower, into those winding crypts, where lay the Seven
+        Tables of stone, found by Hermes in the valley of Hebron.
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“On these tables,”</span> said he,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“is written all the knowledge of the
+        antediluvian race,—the decrees of the stars from the beginning of
+        time, the annals of a still earlier world, <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page119">[pg 119]</span><a name="Pg119" id="Pg119" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>and all the marvellous secrets, both of heaven
+        and earth, which would have been,</span></p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 8.00em; text-align: left">
+            “<span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: left"><span style=
+            "font-style: italic">but</span></span> for this key,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Lost in the Universal Sea.”
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Returning to the
+        region, from which we had descended, we next visited, in succession,
+        a series of small shrines, representing the various objects of
+        adoration through Egypt, and thus furnishing to the Priest an
+        occasion for explaining the mysterious nature of animal worship, and
+        the refined doctrines of theology that lay veiled under its forms.
+        Every shrine was consecrated to a particular faith, and contained a
+        living image of the deity which it adored. Beside the goat of Mendes,
+        with his refulgent star upon his breast, I saw the crocodile, as
+        presented to the eyes of its idolaters at Arsinoë, with costly gems
+        in its loathsome ears, and rich bracelets of gold encircling its
+        feet. Here, floating through a tank in the centre of a temple, the
+        sacred carp of Lepidotum exhibited its silvery <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page120">[pg 120]</span><a name="Pg120" id="Pg120"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>scales; while, there, the Isiac serpents
+        trailed languidly over the altar, with that movement which most
+        inspires the hopes of their votaries. In one of the small chapels we
+        found a beautiful child, feeding and watching over those golden
+        beetles, which are adored for their brightness, as emblems of the
+        sun; while, in another, stood a sacred ibis upon its pedestal, so
+        like, in plumage and attitude, to the bird of the young Priestess,
+        that I could gladly have knelt down and worshipped it for her
+        sake.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After visiting
+        these various shrines, and listening to the reflections which they
+        suggested, I was next led by my guide to the Great Hall of the
+        Zodiac, on whose ceiling, in bright and undying colours, was
+        delineated the map of the firmament, as it appeared at the first dawn
+        of time. Here, in pointing out the track of the sun, among the
+        spheres, he spoke eloquently of the analogy that exists between moral
+        and physical darkness—of the sympathy with <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page121">[pg 121]</span><a name="Pg121" id="Pg121" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>which all spiritual creatures regard the sun, so
+        as to sadden and droop when he sinks into his wintry hemisphere, and
+        to rejoice when he resumes his own empire of light. Hence, the
+        festivals and hymns, with which most of the nations of the earth are
+        wont to welcome the resurrection of his orb in spring, as an emblem
+        and pledge of the re-ascent of the soul to heaven. Hence, the songs
+        of sorrow, the mournful ceremonies,—like those Mysteries of the
+        Night, upon the Lake of Saïs,—in which they brood over his autumnal
+        descent into the shades, as a type of the Spirit’s fall into this
+        world of death.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In discourses such
+        as these the hours passed away; and though there was nothing in the
+        light of this sunless region to mark to the eye the decline of day,
+        my own feelings told me that the night drew near;—nor, in spite of my
+        incredulity, could I refrain from a flutter of hope, as <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page122">[pg 122]</span><a name="Pg122" id="Pg122"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that promised moment of revelation
+        approached, when the Mystery of Mysteries was to be made all my own.
+        This consummation, however, was less near than I expected. My
+        patience had still further trials to encounter. It was necessary, I
+        now found, that I should keep watch, during the greater part of the
+        night, in the Sanctuary of the Temple, alone and in darkness,—and
+        thus prepare myself, by meditation, for the awful moment, when the
+        irradiation from behind the sacred Veils was to burst upon me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the appointed
+        hour, we left the Hall of the Zodiac, and proceeded through a line of
+        long marble galleries, where the lamps were more thinly scattered as
+        we advanced, till, at length, we found ourselves in total darkness.
+        Here the Priest, taking me by the hand, and leading me down a flight
+        of steps, into a place where the same deep gloom prevailed, said,
+        with a voice trembling, as if from excess of awe,—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Thou art now in the Sanctuary of our <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page123">[pg 123]</span><a name="Pg123" id="Pg123"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>goddess, Isis, and the dark veils, that
+        hang over her image, are before thee!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After exhorting me
+        earnestly to that train of thought, which best accorded with the
+        spirit of the place where I stood, and, above all, to that full and
+        unhesitating faith, with which alone, he said, the manifestation of
+        such mysteries should be approached, the holy man took leave of me,
+        and re-ascended the steps;—while, so spell-bound did I feel by that
+        deep darkness, that the last sound of his footsteps died upon my ear,
+        before I ventured to stir a limb from the position in which he had
+        left me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The prospect of
+        the long watch, now before me, was dreadful. Even danger itself, in
+        an active form, would have been preferable to this sort of safe, but
+        dull, probation, by which patience was the only virtue put to the
+        proof. Having ascertained how far the space around me was free from
+        obstacles, I endeavoured <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page124">[pg
+        124]</span><a name="Pg124" id="Pg124" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>to
+        beguile the time by pacing up and down within those limits, till I
+        became tired of the echoes of my own tread. Finding my way, then, to
+        what I felt to be a massive pillar, and, leaning wearily against it,
+        I surrendered myself to a train of thoughts and feelings, far
+        different from those with which the Hierophant had hoped to inspire
+        me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Why,”</span> I again asked, <span class="tei tei-q">“if
+        these priests possess the secret of life, why are they themselves the
+        victims of death? why sink into the grave with the cup of immortality
+        in their hands? But no, safe boasters, the eternity they so lavishly
+        promise is reserved for <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">another</span></span>, a future world—that ready
+        resource of all priestly promises—that depository of the airy pledges
+        of all creeds. Another world!—alas, where does it lie? or, what
+        spirit hath ever come to say that Life is there?”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The conclusion, to
+        which, half sadly, half passionately, I arrived, was that, life being
+        but a dream of the moment, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page125">[pg
+        125]</span><a name="Pg125" id="Pg125" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>never to come again, every bliss that is
+        promised for hereafter should be secured by the wise man here. And,
+        as no heaven I had ever heard of from these visionary priests opened
+        half such certainty of happiness as that smile which I beheld last
+        night,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Let me,”</span> I exclaimed,
+        impatiently, striking the massy pillar, till it rung, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“let me but make that beautiful Priestess my own, and I
+        here willingly exchange for her every chance of immortality, that the
+        combined wisdom of Egypt’s Twelve Temples can offer me!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">No sooner had I
+        uttered these words, than a tremendous peal, like that of thunder,
+        rolled over the Sanctuary, and seemed to shake its walls. On every
+        side, too, a succession of blue, vivid flashes pierced, like so many
+        lances of light, through the gloom, revealing to me, at intervals,
+        the mighty dome in which I stood—its ceiling of azure, studded with
+        stars, its colossal columns, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page126">[pg 126]</span><a name="Pg126" id="Pg126" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>towering aloft, and those dark, mysterious
+        veils, which hung, in massy drapery, from the roof to the floor, and
+        covered the rich glories of the Shrine under their folds.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So weary had I
+        grown of my tedious watch, that this stormy and fitful illumination,
+        during which the Sanctuary seemed to rock to its base, was by no
+        means an unwelcome interruption of the monotony under which my
+        impatience suffered. After a short interval, however, the flashes
+        ceased;—the sounds died away, like exhausted thunder, through the
+        abyss, and darkness and silence, like that of the grave,
+        succeeded.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Resting my back
+        once more against the pillar, and fixing my eyes upon that side of
+        the Sanctuary, from which the promised irradiation was to burst, I
+        now resolved to await the awful moment in patience. Resigned and
+        immovable, I had remained thus, for nearly another hour, when,
+        suddenly, along the edges of the mighty Veils, I perceived a thin rim
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page127">[pg 127]</span><a name="Pg127"
+        id="Pg127" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of light, as if from some
+        brilliant object under them;—like that border which encircles a cloud
+        at sunset, when the radiance, from behind, is escaping at its
+        edges.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This indication of
+        concealed glories grew every instant more strong; till, at last,
+        vividly marked as it was upon the darkness, the narrow fringe of
+        lustre almost pained the eye, giving promise of a splendour too
+        bright to be endured. My expectations were now wound to the highest
+        pitch, and all the scepticism, into which I had been cooling down my
+        mind, was forgotten. The wonders that had been presented to me since
+        my descent from earth—that glimpse into Elysium on the first night of
+        my coming—those visitants from the Land of Spirits in the mysterious
+        valley,—all led me to expect, in this last and brightest revelation,
+        such visions of glory and knowledge as might transcend even fancy
+        itself, nor leave <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page128">[pg
+        128]</span><a name="Pg128" id="Pg128" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a
+        doubt that they belonged less to earth than heaven.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While, with an
+        imagination thus excited, I stood waiting the result, an increased
+        gush of light still more awakened my attention; and I saw, with an
+        intenseness of interest, which made my heart beat aloud, one of the
+        corners of the mighty Veil slowly raised up. I now felt that the
+        Great Secret—whatever it might be—was at hand. A vague hope even
+        crossed my mind—so wholly had imagination resumed her empire—that the
+        splendid promise of my dream was on the point of being realised!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With surprise,
+        however, and—for a moment—with disappointment, I perceived, that the
+        massy corner of the Veil was but raised sufficiently to allow a
+        female figure to emerge from under it,—and then fell again, over its
+        mystic splendours, as dark as before. By the strong light, too, that
+        issued when the drapery was lifted, and illuminated the profile of
+        the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page129">[pg 129]</span><a name=
+        "Pg129" id="Pg129" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>emerging figure, I
+        either saw, or fancied that I saw, the same bright features, that had
+        already mocked me so often with their momentary charm, and seemed
+        destined to haunt my heart as unavailingly as the fond, vain dream of
+        Immortality itself.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Dazzled as I had
+        been by that short gush of splendour, and distrusting even my senses,
+        when under the influence of a fancy so excited, I had hardly time to
+        question myself as to the reality of my impression, when I heard the
+        sounds of light footsteps approaching me through the gloom. In a
+        second or two more, the figure stopped before me, and, placing the
+        end of a riband gently in my hand, said, in a tremulous whisper,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“Follow, and be silent.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So sudden and
+        strange was the adventure, that, for a moment, I hesitated,—fearful
+        lest my eyes should have been deceived as to the object they had
+        seen. Casting a look towards the Veil, which seemed bursting with its
+        luminous secret, I was almost <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page130">[pg 130]</span><a name="Pg130" id="Pg130" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>doubting to which of the two chances I should
+        commit myself, when I felt the riband in my hand pulled softly at the
+        other extremity. This movement, at once, like a touch of magic,
+        decided me. Without further deliberation, I yielded to the silent
+        summons, and following my guide, who was already at some distance
+        before me, found myself led up the same flight of marble steps, by
+        which the Priest had conducted me into the Sanctuary. Arrived at
+        their summit, I felt the pace of my conductress quicken, and, giving
+        one more look to the Veiled Shrine, whose glories we left burning
+        ineffectually behind us, hastened into the gloom, full of confidence
+        in the belief, that she, who now held the other end of that clue, was
+        one whom I could follow devotedly through the world.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page131">[pg 131]</span><a name="Pg131"
+        id="Pg131" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc21" id=
+        "toc21"></a><a name="pdf22" id="pdf22"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XI.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">So rapidly was I
+        hurried along by my unseen conductress, full of wonder at the speed
+        with which she ventured through these labyrinths, that I had but
+        little time to reflect upon the strangeness of the adventure to which
+        I had committed myself. My knowledge of the character of the priests,
+        as well as the fearful rumours that had reached me, of the fate that
+        often attended unbelievers in their hands, waked a momentary
+        suspicion of treachery in my mind. But, when I recalled the face of
+        my guide, as I had seen it in the chapel, with that divine look, the
+        very memory of which brought purity into the heart, this suspicion
+        all vanished, and I felt shame at having harboured it but an
+        instant.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the mean while,
+        our course continued uninterrupted, through windings more
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page132">[pg 132]</span><a name="Pg132"
+        id="Pg132" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>capriciously intricate than any
+        that I had yet passed, and whose darkness seemed never to have been
+        disturbed by a single glimmer. My conductress still continued at some
+        distance before me, and the clue, to which I clung as if it were the
+        thread of Destiny herself, was still kept, by her speed, at full
+        stretch between us. At length, suddenly stopping, she said, in a
+        breathless whisper, <span class="tei tei-q">“Seat thyself
+        here,”</span> and, at the same moment, led me by the hand to a sort
+        of low car, in which I lost not a moment in placing myself, as
+        desired, while the maiden, as promptly, took her seat by my side.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A sudden click,
+        like the touching of a spring, was then heard, and the car,—which, as
+        I had felt in entering it, leaned half-way over a steep descent,—on
+        being loosed from its station, shot down, almost perpendicularly,
+        into the darkness, with a rapidity which, at first, nearly deprived
+        me of breath. The wheels slid smoothly and noiselessly in grooves,
+        and <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page133">[pg 133]</span><a name=
+        "Pg133" id="Pg133" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the impetus, which the
+        car acquired in descending, was sufficient, I perceived, to carry it
+        up an eminence that succeeded,—from the summit of which it again
+        rushed down another declivity, even still more long and precipitous
+        than the former. In this manner we proceeded, by alternate falls and
+        rises, till, at length, from the last and steepest elevation, the car
+        descended upon a level of deep sand, where, after running for a few
+        yards, it by degrees lost its motion and stopped.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here, the maiden
+        alighting, again placed the riband in my hands,—and again I followed
+        her, though with more slowness and difficulty than before, as our way
+        led up a flight of damp and time-worn steps, whose ascent seemed to
+        the weary and insecure foot interminable. Perceiving with what
+        languor my guide now advanced, I was on the point of making an effort
+        to assist her progress, when the creak of an opening door above, and
+        a faint gleam of light which, at the <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page134">[pg 134]</span><a name="Pg134" id="Pg134" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>same moment, shone upon her figure, apprised me
+        that we were arrived within reach of sunshine.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Joyfully I
+        followed through this opening, and, by the dim light, could discern,
+        that we were now in the sanctuary of a vast, ruined temple,—having
+        entered by a passage under the lofty pedestal, upon which an image of
+        the idol of the place once stood. The first movement of the maiden,
+        after replacing the portal under the pedestal, was, without even a
+        look towards me, to cast herself down on her knees, with her hands
+        clasped and uplifted, as if for the purpose of thanksgiving or
+        prayer. But she was unable to sustain herself in this position;—her
+        strength could hold out no longer. Overcome by agitation and fatigue,
+        she sunk senseless upon the pavement.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Bewildered as I
+        was, myself, by the events of the night, I stood for some minutes
+        looking upon her in a state of helplessness and alarm. But, reminded,
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page135">[pg 135]</span><a name="Pg135"
+        id="Pg135" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>by my own feverish sensations,
+        of the reviving effects of the air, I raised her gently in my arms,
+        and crossing the corridor that surrounded the sanctuary, found my way
+        to the outer vestibule of the temple. Here, shading her eyes from the
+        sun, I placed her, reclining, upon the steps, where the cool wind,
+        then blowing freshly from the north, might play, with free draught,
+        between the pillars over her brow.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was, indeed,—I
+        now saw, with certainty,—the same beautiful and mysterious girl, who
+        had been the cause of my descent into that subterranean world, and
+        who now, under such strange and unaccountable circumstances, was my
+        guide back again to the realms of day. I looked round, to discover
+        where we were, and beheld such a scene of grandeur, as—could my eyes
+        have wandered to any other object from the pale form reclining at my
+        side—might well have won them to dwell on its splendid beauties.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was now
+        standing, I found, on the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page136">[pg
+        136]</span><a name="Pg136" id="Pg136" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>small island in the centre of Lake Mœris; and
+        that sanctuary, where we had emerged from darkness, formed part of
+        the ruins of a temple, which (as I have since learned) was, in the
+        grander days of Memphis, a place of pilgrimage for worshippers from
+        all parts of Egypt. The fair Lake, itself, out of whose waters once
+        rose pavilions, palaces, and even lofty pyramids, was still, though
+        divested of many of these wonders, a scene of interest and splendour
+        such as the whole world could not equal. While the shores still
+        sparkled with mansions and temples, that bore testimony to the luxury
+        of a living race, the voice of the Past, speaking out of unnumbered
+        ruins, whose summits, here and there, rose blackly above the wave,
+        told of times long fled and generations long swept away, before whose
+        giant remains all the glory of the present stood humbled. Over the
+        southern bank of the Lake hung the dark relics of the Labyrinth;—its
+        twelve Royal Palaces, like the mansions of the <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page137">[pg 137]</span><a name="Pg137" id="Pg137"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Zodiac,—its thundering portals and
+        constellated halls, having left nothing behind but a few frowning
+        ruins, which, contrasted with the soft groves of olive and acacia
+        around them, seemed to rebuke the luxuriant smiles of nature, and
+        threw a melancholy grandeur over the whole scene.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The effects of the
+        air, in re-animating the young Priestess, were less speedy than I had
+        expected;—her eyes were still closed, and she remained pale and
+        insensible. Alarmed, I now rested her head (which had been, for some
+        time, supported by my arm,) against the base of a column, with my
+        cloak for its pillow, while I hastened to procure some water from the
+        Lake. The temple stood high, and the descent to the shore was
+        precipitous. But, my Epicurean habits having but little impaired my
+        activity, I soon descended, with the lightness of a desert deer, to
+        the bottom. Here, plucking from a lofty bean-tree, whose flowers
+        stood, shining like gold, above the <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page138">[pg 138]</span><a name="Pg138" id="Pg138" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>water, one of those large hollowed leaves that
+        serve as cups for the Hebes of the Nile, I filled it from the Lake,
+        and hurried back with the cool draught to the temple. It was not
+        without some difficulty and delay that I succeeded, in bearing my
+        rustic chalice steadily up the steep; more than once did an unlucky
+        slip waste its contents, and as often did I impatiently return to
+        refill it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During this time,
+        the young maiden was fast recovering her animation and consciousness;
+        and, at the moment when I appeared above the edge of the steep, was
+        just rising from the steps, with her hand pressed to her forehead, as
+        if confusedly recalling the recollection of what had occurred. No
+        sooner did she observe me, than a short cry of alarm broke from her
+        lips. Looking anxiously round, as though she sought for protection,
+        and half audibly uttering the words, <span class="tei tei-q">“Where
+        is he?”</span> she made an effort, as I approached, to retreat into
+        the temple.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page139">[pg
+        139]</span><a name="Pg139" id="Pg139" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Already, however,
+        I was by her side, and taking her hand gently, as she turned away,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“Whom dost thou seek, fair Priestess?”</span>
+        I asked,—for the first time breaking through the silence she had
+        enjoined, and in a tone that might have re-assured the most timid
+        spirit. But my words had no effect in calming her apprehension.
+        Trembling, and with her eyes still averted towards the Temple, she
+        continued in a voice of suppressed alarm,—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Where <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">can</span></span> he be?—that venerable
+        Athenian, that philosopher, who——”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Here, here,”</span> I exclaimed, anxiously interrupting
+        her,—<span class="tei tei-q">“behold him still by thy side—the same,
+        the very same who saw thee steal from under the lighted Veils of the
+        Sanctuary, whom thou hast guided by a clue through those labyrinths
+        below, and who now but waits his command from those lips, to devote
+        himself through life and death to thy service.”</span> As I spoke
+        these words, she turned <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page140">[pg
+        140]</span><a name="Pg140" id="Pg140" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>slowly round, and looking timidly in my face,
+        while her own burned with blushes, said, in a tone of doubt and
+        wonder, <span class="tei tei-q">“Thou!”</span> and hid her eyes in
+        her hands.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I knew not how to
+        interpret a reception so unexpected. That some mistake or
+        disappointment had occurred was evident; but so inexplicable did the
+        whole adventure appear, that it was in vain to think of unravelling
+        any part of it. Weak and agitated, she now tottered to the steps of
+        the temple, and there seating herself, with her forehead against the
+        cold marble, seemed for some moments absorbed in the most anxious
+        thought,—while silent and watchful I waited her decision, with a
+        prophetic feeling, however, that my destiny would be henceforth
+        linked with hers.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The inward
+        struggle by which she was agitated, though violent, was not of long
+        continuance. Starting suddenly from her seat, with a look of terror
+        towards the temple, as if the fear of <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page141">[pg 141]</span><a name="Pg141" id="Pg141" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>immediate pursuit had alone decided her, she
+        pointed eagerly towards the East, and exclaimed, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“To the Nile, without delay!”</span>—clasping her hands,
+        when she had spoken, with the most suppliant fervour, as if to soften
+        the abruptness of the mandate she had given, and appealing to me with
+        a look that would have taught Stoics tenderness.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I lost no time in
+        obeying the welcome command. While a thousand wild hopes and wishes
+        crowded upon my fancy, at the prospect which a voyage, under such
+        auspices, presented, I descended rapidly to the shore, and hailing
+        one of the numerous boats that ply upon the Lake for hire, arranged
+        speedily for a passage down the canal to the Nile. Having learned,
+        too, from the boatmen, a more easy path up the rock, I hastened back
+        to the Temple for my fair charge; and without a word, a look, that
+        could alarm, even by its kindness, or disturb that innocent
+        confidence which she now placed in me, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page142">[pg 142]</span><a name="Pg142" id="Pg142" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>led her down by the winding path to the
+        boat.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Every thing looked
+        smiling around us as we embarked. The morning was now in its first
+        freshness, and the path of the breeze might be traced over the Lake,
+        wakening up its waters from their sleep of the night. The gay,
+        golden-winged birds that haunt these shores, were, in every
+        direction, skimming along the lake; while, with a graver
+        consciousness of beauty, the swan and the pelican were seen dressing
+        their white plumage in the mirror of its wave. To add to the
+        animation of the scene, a sweet tinkling of musical instruments came,
+        at intervals, on the breeze, from boats at a distance, employed thus
+        early in pursuing the fish of these waters, that suffer themselves to
+        be decoyed into the nets by music.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The vessel which I
+        selected for our voyage was one of those small pleasure-boats or
+        yachts,—so much in use among the luxurious navigators of the
+        Nile,—<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page143">[pg 143]</span><a name=
+        "Pg143" id="Pg143" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in the centre of which
+        rises a pavilion of cedar or cypress wood, gilded gorgeously,
+        without, with religious emblems, and fitted up, within, for all the
+        purposes of feasting and repose. To the door of this pavilion I now
+        led my companion, and, after a few words of kindness—tempered with as
+        much respectful reserve as the deep tenderness which I felt would
+        admit of—left her in solitude to court that restoring rest, which the
+        agitation of her spirits but too much required.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">For myself, though
+        repose was hardly less necessary to me, the ferment in which my
+        thoughts had been kept seemed to render it hopeless. Throwing myself
+        upon the deck, under an awning which the sailors had raised for me, I
+        continued, for some hours, in a sort of vague day-dream,—sometimes
+        passing in review the scenes of that subterranean drama, and
+        sometimes, with my eyes fixed in drowsy vacancy, receiving passively
+        the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page144">[pg 144]</span><a name=
+        "Pg144" id="Pg144" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>impressions of the
+        bright scenery through which we passed.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The banks of the
+        canal were then luxuriantly wooded. Under the tufts of the light and
+        towering palm were seen the orange and the citron, interlacing their
+        boughs; while, here and there, huge tamarisks thickened the shade,
+        and, at the very edge of the bank, the willow of Babylon stood
+        bending its graceful branches into the water. Occasionally, out of
+        the depth of these groves, there shone a small temple or
+        pleasure-house;—while, now and then, an opening in their line of
+        foliage allowed the eye to wander over extensive fields, all covered
+        with beds of those pale, sweet roses, for which this district of
+        Egypt is so celebrated.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The activity of
+        the morning hour was visible every where. Flights of doves and
+        lapwings were fluttering among the leaves, and the white heron, which
+        had roosted all night in some date-tree, now <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page145">[pg 145]</span><a name="Pg145" id="Pg145" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>stood sunning its wings upon the green bank, or
+        floated, like living silver, over the flood. The flowers, too, both
+        of land and water, looked freshly awakened;—and, most of all, the
+        superb lotus, which had risen with the sun from the wave, and was now
+        holding up her chalice for a full draught of his light.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such were the
+        scenes that now passed before my eyes, and mingled with the reveries
+        that floated through my mind, as our boat, with its high, capacious
+        sail, swept over the flood. Though the occurrences of the last few
+        days appeared to me one series of wonders, yet by far the most
+        miraculous wonder of all was, that she, whose first look had sent
+        wild-fire into my heart,—whom I had thought of ever since with a
+        restlessness of passion, that would have dared any thing on earth to
+        obtain its object,—was now sleeping sacredly in that small pavilion,
+        while guarding her, even from myself, I lay calmly at its
+        threshold.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page146">[pg
+        146]</span><a name="Pg146" id="Pg146" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile, the sun
+        had reached his meridian. The busy hum of the morning had died
+        gradually away, and all around was sleeping in the hot stillness of
+        noon. The Nile-goose, folding her splendid wings, was lying
+        motionless on the shadow of the sycamores in the water. Even the
+        nimble lizards upon the bank seemed to move more languidly, as the
+        light fell upon their gold and azure hues. Overcome as I was with
+        watching, and weary with thought, it was not long before I yielded to
+        the becalming influence of the hour. Looking fixedly at the
+        pavilion,—as if once more to assure my senses, that I was not already
+        in a dream, but that the young Egyptian was really there,—I felt my
+        eyes close as I looked, and in a few minutes sunk into a profound
+        sleep.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page147">[pg 147]</span><a name="Pg147"
+        id="Pg147" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc23" id=
+        "toc23"></a><a name="pdf24" id="pdf24"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XII.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was by the
+        canal through which we now sailed, that, in the more prosperous days
+        of Memphis, the commerce of Upper Egypt and Nubia was transported to
+        her magnificent Lake, and from thence, having paid tribute to the
+        queen of cities, was poured out again, through the Nile, into the
+        ocean. The course of this canal to the river was not direct, but
+        ascending in a south-easterly direction towards the Saïd; and in
+        calms, or with adverse winds, the passage was tedious. But as the
+        breeze was now blowing freshly from the north, there was every
+        prospect of our reaching the river before night-fall. Rapidly, too,
+        as our galley swept along the flood, its motion was so smooth as to
+        be hardly felt; and the quiet gurgle of the waters underneath, and
+        the drowsy song of the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page148">[pg
+        148]</span><a name="Pg148" id="Pg148" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>boatman at the prow, alone disturbed the deep
+        silence that prevailed.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun, indeed,
+        had nearly sunk behind the Libyan hills, before the sleep, in which
+        these sounds lulled me, was broken; and the first object, on which my
+        eyes rested, in waking, was that fair young Priestess,—seated under a
+        porch by which the door of the pavilion was shaded, and bending
+        intently over a small volume that lay unrolled on her lap.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Her face was but
+        half turned towards me, and as, once or twice, she raised her eyes to
+        the warm sky, whose light fell, softened through the trellis, over
+        her cheek, I found every feeling of reverence, with which she had
+        inspired me in the chapel, return. There was even a purer and holier
+        charm around her countenance, thus seen by the natural light of day,
+        than in those dim and unhallowed regions below. She could now, too,
+        look direct to the glorious sky, and that heaven and her eyes, so
+        worthy of each other, met.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page149">[pg 149]</span><a name="Pg149" id="Pg149" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After
+        contemplating her for a few moments, with little less than adoration,
+        I rose gently from my resting-place, and approached the pavilion. But
+        the mere movement had startled her from her devotion, and, blushing
+        and confused, she covered the volume with the folds of her robe.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the art of
+        winning upon female confidence, I had long been schooled; and, now
+        that to the lessons of gallantry the inspiration of love was added,
+        my ambition to please and to interest could hardly, it may be
+        supposed, fail of success. I soon found, however, how much less
+        fluent is the heart than the fancy, and how very distinct are the
+        operations of making love and feeling it. In the few words of
+        greeting now exchanged between us, it was evident that the gay, the
+        enterprising Epicurean was little less embarrassed than the secluded
+        Priestess;—and, after one or two ineffectual efforts to <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page150">[pg 150]</span><a name="Pg150" id="Pg150"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>bring our voices acquainted with each
+        other, the eyes of both turned bashfully away, and we relapsed into
+        silence.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From this
+        situation—the result of timidity on one side, and of a feeling
+        altogether new, on the other—we were, at length, after an interval of
+        estrangement, relieved, by the boatmen announcing that the Nile was
+        in sight. The countenance of the young Egyptian brightened at this
+        intelligence; and the smile with which I congratulated her on the
+        speed of our voyage was answered by another, so full of gratitude,
+        that already an instinctive sympathy seemed established between
+        us.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were now on the
+        point of entering that sacred river, of whose sweet waters the exile
+        drinks in his dreams,—for a draught of whose flood the daughters of
+        the Ptolemies, when wedded to foreign kings, sighed in the midst of
+        their splendour. As our boat, with slackened sail, <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page151">[pg 151]</span><a name="Pg151" id="Pg151"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>glided into the current, an enquiry from
+        the boatmen, whether they should anchor for the night in the Nile,
+        first reminded me of the ignorance, in which I still remained, with
+        respect to either the motive or destination of our voyage.
+        Embarrassed by their question I directed my eyes towards the
+        Priestess, whom I saw waiting for my answer with a look of anxiety,
+        which this silent reference to her wishes at once dispelled. Eagerly
+        unfolding the volume with which I had seen her occupied, she took
+        from its folds a small leaf of papyrus, on which there appeared to be
+        some faint lines of drawing, and after thoughtfully looking upon it,
+        herself, for a moment, placed it, with an agitated hand, in mine.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the mean time,
+        the boatmen had taken in their sail, and the yacht drove slowly down
+        the river with the current, while, by a light which had been kindled
+        at sunset on the deck, I stood examining the leaf that the Priestess
+        had given me,—her <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page152">[pg
+        152]</span><a name="Pg152" id="Pg152" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>dark
+        eyes fixed anxiously on my countenance all the while. The lines
+        traced upon the papyrus were so faint as to be almost invisible, and
+        I was for some time at a loss to divine their import. At length, I
+        could perceive that they were the outlines, or map—traced slightly
+        and unsteadily with a Memphian reed—of a part of that mountainous
+        ridge by which Upper Egypt is bounded to the east, together with the
+        names, or rather emblems, of the chief towns in the
+        neighbourhood.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was thither, I
+        could not doubt, that the young Priestess wished to pursue her
+        course. Without a moment’s delay, therefore, I gave orders to the
+        boatmen to set our yacht before the wind and ascend the current. My
+        command was promptly obeyed: the white sail again rose into the
+        region of the breeze, and the satisfaction that beamed in every
+        feature of the fair Egyptian showed that the quickness with which I
+        had obeyed her wishes was not unfelt by her. The moon had now risen;
+        and <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page153">[pg 153]</span><a name=
+        "Pg153" id="Pg153" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>though the current was
+        against us, the Etesian wind of the season blew strongly up the
+        river, and we were soon floating before it, through the rich plains
+        and groves of the Saïd.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The love, with
+        which this simple girl had inspired me, was—possibly from the mystic
+        scenes and situations in which I had seen her—not unmingled with a
+        tinge of superstitious awe, under the influence of which I felt the
+        buoyancy of my spirit checked. The few words that had passed between
+        us on the subject of our route had somewhat loosened this spell; and
+        what I wanted of vivacity and confidence was more than made up by the
+        tone of deep sensibility which love had awakened in their place.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had not
+        proceeded far before the glittering of lights at a distance, and the
+        shooting up of fireworks, at intervals, into the air, apprised us
+        that we were approaching one of those night-fairs, or marts, which it
+        is the custom, at this season, to <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page154">[pg 154]</span><a name="Pg154" id="Pg154" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>hold upon the Nile. To me the scene was
+        familiar; but to my young companion it was evidently a new world; and
+        the mixture of alarm and delight with which she gazed, from under her
+        veil, upon the busy scene into which we now sailed, gave an air of
+        innocence to her beauty, which still more heightened its every
+        charm.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was one of the
+        widest parts of the river; and the whole surface, from one bank to
+        the other, was covered with boats. Along the banks of a green island,
+        in the middle of the stream, lay anchored the galleys of the
+        principal traders,—large floating bazaars, bearing each the name of
+        its owner, emblazoned in letters of flame, upon the stern. Over their
+        decks were spread out, in gay confusion, the products of the loom and
+        needle of Egypt,—rich carpets of Memphis, and those variegated veils,
+        for which the female embroiderers of the Nile are so celebrated, and
+        to which the name of Cleopatra lends a traditional value. In each of
+        the other galleys was <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page155">[pg
+        155]</span><a name="Pg155" id="Pg155" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>exhibited some branch of Egyptian
+        workmanship,—vases of the fragrant porcelain of On,—cups of that
+        frail crystal, whose hues change like those of the pigeon’s
+        plumage,—enamelled amulets graven with the head of Anubis, and
+        necklaces and bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">While Commerce
+        thus displayed her luxuries in one quarter, in every other direction
+        Pleasure, multiplied into her thousand shapes, swarmed over the
+        waters. Nor was the festivity confined to the river only. All along
+        the banks of the island and on the shores, lighted up mansions were
+        seen through the trees, from which sounds of music and merriment
+        came. In some of the boats were bands of minstrels, who, from time to
+        time, answered each other, like echoes, across the wave; and the
+        notes of the lyre, the flageolet, and the sweet lotus-wood flute,
+        were heard, in the pauses of revelry, dying along the waters.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Meanwhile, from
+        other boats stationed <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page156">[pg
+        156]</span><a name="Pg156" id="Pg156" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in
+        the least lighted places, the workers of fire sent forth their
+        wonders into the air. Bursting out from time to time, as if in the
+        very exuberance of joy, these sallies of flame seemed to reach the
+        sky, and there breaking into a shower of sparkles, shed such a
+        splendour round, as brightened even the white Arabian hills,—making
+        them shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at night, when the fire from
+        his own bosom is playing around its snows.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The opportunity
+        which this luxurious mart afforded us, of providing ourselves with
+        other and less remarkable habiliments than those in which we had
+        escaped from that nether world, was too seasonable not to be gladly
+        taken advantage of by both. For myself, the strange mystic garb that
+        I wore was sufficiently concealed by my Grecian mantle, which I had
+        luckily thrown round me on the night of my watch. But the thin veil
+        of my companion was a far less efficient disguise. She had, indeed,
+        flung away the golden <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page157">[pg
+        157]</span><a name="Pg157" id="Pg157" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>beetles from her hair; but the sacred robe of
+        her order was still too visible, and the stars of the bandelet shone
+        brightly through her veil.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Most gladly,
+        therefore, did she avail herself of this opportunity of a change;
+        and, as she took from a casket—which, with the volume I had seen her
+        reading, appeared to be her only treasure—a small jewel, to exchange
+        for the simple garments she had chosen, there fell out, at the same
+        time, the very cross of silver, which I had seen her kiss, as may be
+        remembered, in the monumental chapel, and which was afterwards
+        pressed to my own lips. This link (for such it appeared to my
+        imagination) between us, now revived in my heart all the burning
+        feelings of that moment;—and, had I not abruptly turned away, my
+        agitation would, but too plainly, have betrayed itself.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The object, for
+        which we had delayed in this gay scene, being accomplished, the sail
+        was again spread, and we proceeded <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page158">[pg 158]</span><a name="Pg158" id="Pg158" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>on our course up the river. The sounds and the
+        lights we left behind died gradually away, and we now floated along
+        in moonlight and silence once more. Sweet dews, worthy of being
+        called <span class="tei tei-q">“the tears of Isis,”</span> fell
+        through the air, and every plant and flower sent its fragrance to
+        meet them. The wind, just strong enough to bear us smoothly against
+        the current, scarcely stirred the shadow of the tamarisks on the
+        water. As the inhabitants from all quarters were collected at the
+        night-fair, the Nile was more than usually still and solitary. Such a
+        silence, indeed, prevailed, that, as we glided near the shore, we
+        could hear the rustling of the acacias, as the chameleons ran up
+        their stems. It was, altogether, a night such as only the clime of
+        Egypt can boast, when every thing lies lulled in that sort of bright
+        tranquillity, which, we may imagine, shines over the sleep of those
+        happy spirits, who are supposed to rest in the Valley of the Moon, on
+        their way to heaven.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page159">[pg
+        159]</span><a name="Pg159" id="Pg159" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By such a light,
+        and at such an hour, seated, side by side, on the deck of that bark,
+        did we pursue our course up the lonely Nile—each a mystery to the
+        other—our thoughts, our objects, our very names a secret;—separated,
+        too, till now, by destinies so different, the one, a gay voluptuary
+        of the Garden of Athens, the other, a secluded Priestess of the
+        Temples of Memphis;—and the only relation yet established between us
+        being that dangerous one of love, passionate love, on one side, and
+        the most feminine and confiding dependence on the other.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The passing
+        adventure of the night-fair had not only dispelled still more our
+        mutual reserve, but had supplied us with a subject on which we could
+        converse without embarrassment. From this topic I took care to lead
+        on, without interruption, to others,—fearful lest our former silence
+        should return, and the music of her voice again be lost to me. It
+        was, indeed, only by thus <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page160">[pg
+        160]</span><a name="Pg160" id="Pg160" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>indirectly unburdening my heart that I was
+        enabled to refrain from the full utterance of all I thought and felt;
+        and the restless rapidity with which I flew from subject to subject
+        was but an effort to escape from the only one in which my heart was
+        interested.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“How bright and happy,”</span> said I,—pointing up to
+        Sothis, the fair Star of the Waters, which was just then sparkling
+        brilliantly over our heads,—<span class="tei tei-q">“How bright and
+        happy this world ought to be, if—as your Egyptian sages assert—yon
+        pure and beautiful luminary was its birth-star!”</span> Then, still
+        leaning back, and letting my eyes wander over the firmament, as if
+        seeking to disengage them from the fascination which they
+        dreaded—<span class="tei tei-q">“To the study (I said), for ages, of
+        skies like this, may the pensive and mystic character of your nation
+        be traced. That mixture of pride and melancholy which naturally
+        arises, at the sight of those eternal lights shining out of
+        dark<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page161">[pg 161]</span><a name=
+        "Pg161" id="Pg161" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ness;—that sublime, but
+        saddened, anticipation of a Future, which comes over the soul in the
+        silence of such an hour, when, though Death seems to reign in the
+        repose of earth, there are those beacons of Immortality burning in
+        the sky—”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Pausing, as I
+        uttered the word <span class="tei tei-q">“immortality,”</span> with a
+        sigh to think how little my heart echoed to my lips, I looked in the
+        face of the maiden, and saw that it had lighted up, as I spoke, into
+        a glow of holy animation, such as Faith alone gives—such as Hope
+        herself wears, when she is dreaming of heaven. Touched by the
+        contrast, and gazing upon her with mournful tenderness, I found my
+        arms half opened, to clasp her to my heart, while the words died away
+        inaudibly upon my lips,—<span class="tei tei-q">“thou, too, beautiful
+        maiden! must thou, too, die for ever?”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My self-command, I
+        felt, had nearly deserted me. Rising abruptly from my seat, I walked
+        to the middle of the deck, and stood, for some moments,
+        uncon<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page162">[pg 162]</span><a name=
+        "Pg162" id="Pg162" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>sciously gazing upon
+        one of those fires, which,—as is the custom of all who travel by
+        night upon the Nile,—our boatmen had just kindled, to scare away the
+        crocodiles from the vessel. But it was in vain that I endeavoured to
+        compose my spirit. Every effort I made but more deeply convinced me,
+        that, till the mystery which hung round that maiden should be
+        solved—till the secret, with which my own bosom laboured, should be
+        disclosed—it was fruitless to attempt even a semblance of
+        tranquillity.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My resolution was
+        therefore taken;—to lay open, at least, my own heart, as far as such
+        a revelation might be risked, without startling the timid innocence
+        of my companion. Thus resolved, I returned, with more composure, to
+        my seat by her side, and taking from my bosom the small mirror which
+        she had dropped in the Temple, and which I had ever since worn
+        suspended round my neck, with a trembling hand presented it to her
+        view. The boatmen had just kindled one of their <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page163">[pg 163]</span><a name="Pg163" id="Pg163"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>night-fires near us, and its light, as she
+        leaned forward towards the mirror, fell on her face.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The quick blush of
+        surprise with which she recognised it to be hers, and her look of
+        bashful, yet eager, inquiry, in raising her eyes to mine, were
+        appeals to which I was not, of course, slow in answering. Beginning
+        with the first moment when I saw her in the Temple, and passing
+        hastily, but with words that burned as they went, over the impression
+        which she had then left upon my heart and fancy, I proceeded to
+        describe the particulars of my descent into the pyramid—my surprise
+        and adoration at the door of the chapel—my encounter with the Trials
+        of Initiation, so mysteriously prepared for me, and all the various
+        visionary wonders I had witnessed in that region, till the moment
+        when I had seen her stealing from under the Veils to approach me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though, in
+        detailing these events, I had said but little of the feelings they
+        had <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page164">[pg 164]</span><a name=
+        "Pg164" id="Pg164" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>awakened in me,—though
+        my lips had sent back many a sentence, unuttered, there was still
+        enough that could neither be subdued or disguised, and which, like
+        that light from under the veils of her own Isis, glowed through every
+        word that I spoke. When I told of the scene in the chapel,—of the
+        silent interview which I had witnessed between the dead and the
+        living,—the maiden leaned down her head and wept, as from a heart
+        full of tears. It seemed a pleasure to her, however, to listen; and,
+        when she looked at me again, there was an earnest and affectionate
+        cordiality in her eyes, as if the knowledge of my having been present
+        at that mournful scene had opened a new source of sympathy and
+        intelligence between us. So neighbouring are the fountains of Love
+        and of Sorrow, and so imperceptibly do they often mingle their
+        streams.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Little, indeed, as
+        I was guided by art or design, in my manner and conduct to
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page165">[pg 165]</span><a name="Pg165"
+        id="Pg165" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>this innocent girl, not all the
+        most experienced gallantry of the Garden could have dictated a policy
+        half so seductive as that which my new master, Love, now taught me.
+        The ardour which, shown at once, and without reserve, might have
+        startled a heart so little prepared for it, thus checked and softened
+        by the timidity of real love, won its way without alarm, and, when
+        most diffident of success, most triumphed. Like one whose sleep is
+        gradually broken by music, the maiden’s heart was awakened without
+        being disturbed. She followed the charm, unconscious whither it led,
+        nor was aware of the flame she had lighted in another’s bosom, till
+        she perceived the reflection of it glimmering in her own.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Impatient as I was
+        to appeal to her generosity and sympathy, for a similar proof of
+        confidence to that which I had just given, the night was now too far
+        advanced for me to impose such a task upon her. After exchanging a
+        few words, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page166">[pg
+        166]</span><a name="Pg166" id="Pg166" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in
+        which, though little was said, there was a tone and manner that spoke
+        far more than language, we took a lingering leave of each other for
+        the night, with every prospect of still being together in our
+        dreams.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page167">[pg 167]</span><a name="Pg167"
+        id="Pg167" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc25" id=
+        "toc25"></a><a name="pdf26" id="pdf26"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XIII.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was so near the
+        dawn of day when we parted, that we again found the sun sinking
+        westward when we rejoined each other. The smile with which she met
+        me,—so frankly cordial,—might have been taken for the greeting of a
+        long mellowed friendship, did not the blush and the castdown eyelid,
+        that followed, give symptoms of a feeling newer and less calm. For
+        myself, lightened as I was, in some degree, by the confession which I
+        had made, I was yet too conscious of the new aspect thus given to our
+        intercourse, to feel altogether unembarrassed at the prospect of
+        returning to the theme. It was, therefore, willingly we both suffered
+        our attention to be diverted, by the variety of objects that
+        presented themselves on the way, from a subject that both equally
+        trembled to approach.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page168">[pg
+        168]</span><a name="Pg168" id="Pg168" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The river was now
+        full of life and motion. Every moment we met with boats descending
+        the current, so independent of aid from sail or oar, that the sailors
+        sat idly upon the deck as they shot along, singing or playing upon
+        their double-reeded pipes. Of these boats, the greater number came
+        loaded with merchandise from Coptos,—some with those large emeralds,
+        from the mine in the desert, whose colours, it is said, are brightest
+        at the full of the moon, and some laden with frankincense from the
+        acacia-groves near the Red Sea. On the decks of others, that had been
+        to the Golden Mountains beyond Syene, were heaped blocks and
+        fragments of that sweet-smelling wood, which the Green Nile of Nubia
+        washes down in the season of the floods.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our companions up
+        the stream were far less numerous. Occasionally a boat, returning
+        lightened from the fair of last night, with those high sails that
+        catch every breeze from over the hills, shot past <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page169">[pg 169]</span><a name="Pg169" id="Pg169"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>us;—while, now and then, we overtook one
+        of those barges full of bees, that at this season of the year, are
+        sent to colonise the gardens of the south, and take advantage of the
+        first flowers after the inundation has passed away.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">By these various
+        objects we were, for a short time, enabled to divert the conversation
+        from lighting and settling upon the one subject, round which it
+        continually hovered. But the effort, as might be expected, was not
+        long successful. As evening advanced, the whole scene became more
+        solitary. We less frequently ventured to look upon each other, and
+        our intervals of silence grew more long.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was near
+        sunset, when, in passing a small temple on the shore, whose porticoes
+        were now full of the evening light, we saw, issuing from a thicket of
+        acanthus near it, a train of young maids linked together in the dance
+        by lotus-stems, held at arms’ length between them. Their tresses were
+        also wreathed <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page170">[pg
+        170]</span><a name="Pg170" id="Pg170" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with
+        this emblem of the season, and such a profusion of the white flowers
+        were twisted round their waists and arms, that they might have been
+        taken, as they gracefully bounded along the bank, for Nymphs of the
+        Nile, risen freshly from their gardens under the wave.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After looking for
+        a few moments at this sacred dance, the maid turned away her eyes,
+        with a look of pain, as if the remembrances it recalled were of no
+        welcome nature. This momentary retrospect, this glimpse into the
+        past, seemed to offer a sort of clue to the secret for which I
+        panted;—and, gradually and delicately as my impatience would allow, I
+        availed myself of it. Her frankness, however, saved me the
+        embarrassment of much questioning. She even seemed to feel that the
+        confidence I sought was due to me, and beyond the natural hesitation
+        of maidenly modesty, not a shade of reserve or evasion appeared.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To attempt to
+        repeat, in her own <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page171">[pg
+        171]</span><a name="Pg171" id="Pg171" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>touching words, the simple story which she now
+        related to me, would be like endeavouring to note down some strain of
+        unpremeditated music, with those fugitive graces, those felicities of
+        the moment, which no art can restore, as they first met the ear. From
+        a feeling, too, of humility, she had omitted in her narrative some
+        particulars relating to herself, which I afterwards learned;—while
+        others, not less important, she but slightly passed over, from a fear
+        of wounding the prejudices of her heathen hearer.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I shall,
+        therefore, give her story, as the outline which she, herself,
+        sketched was afterwards filled up by a pious and venerable hand,—far,
+        far more worthy than mine of being associated with the memory of such
+        purity.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page172">[pg 172]</span><a name="Pg172"
+        id="Pg172" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc27" id=
+        "toc27"></a><a name="pdf28" id="pdf28"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">STORY OF ALĒTHE.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The mother of this maiden was the beautiful Theora of
+        Alexandria, who, though a native of that city, was descended from
+        Grecian parents. When very young, Theora was one of the seven maidens
+        selected, to note down the discourses of the eloquent Origen, who, at
+        that period, presided over the School of Alexandria, and was in all
+        the fulness of his fame, both among Pagans and Christians. Endowed
+        richly with the learning of both creeds, he brought the natural light
+        of philosophy to elucidate the mysteries of faith, and was only proud
+        of his knowledge of the wisdom of this world, inasmuch as it
+        ministered to the triumph of divine truth.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Though he had courted in vain the crown of martyrdom, it
+        was held, throughout his life, suspended over his head, and in more
+        than one persecution, he had evinced his readiness to die for that
+        faith which he <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page173">[pg
+        173]</span><a name="Pg173" id="Pg173" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>lived but to testify and adorn. On one of these
+        occasions, his tormentors, having habited him like an Egyptian
+        priest, placed him upon the steps of the Temple of Serapis, and
+        commanded that he should, in the manner of the Pagan ministers,
+        present palm-branches to the multitude who went up to the shrine. But
+        the courageous Christian disappointed their views. Holding forth the
+        branches with an unshrinking hand, he cried aloud, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">‘Come hither and take the branch, not of an Idol Temple,
+        but of Christ.’</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“So indefatigable was this learned Father in his studies,
+        that, while composing his Commentary on the Scriptures, he was
+        attended by seven scribes or notaries, who relieved each other in
+        taking down the dictates of his eloquent tongue; while the same
+        number of young females, selected for the beauty of their penmanship,
+        were employed in arranging and transcribing the precious
+        leaves.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Among the scribes so selected, was the <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page174">[pg 174]</span><a name="Pg174" id="Pg174"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>fair young Theora, whose parents, though
+        attached to the Pagan worship, were not unwilling to profit by the
+        accomplishments of their daughter, thus devoted to a task which they
+        considered purely mechanical. To the maid herself, however, her task
+        brought far other feelings and consequences. She read anxiously as
+        she wrote, and the divine truths, so eloquently illustrated, found
+        their way, by degrees, from the page to her heart. Deeply, too, as
+        the written words affected her, the discourses from the lips of the
+        great teacher himself, which she had frequent opportunities of
+        hearing, sunk still more deeply into her mind. There was, at once, a
+        sublimity and gentleness in his views of religion, which, to the
+        tender hearts and lively imaginations of women, never failed to
+        appeal with convincing power. Accordingly, the list of his female
+        pupils was numerous; and the names of Barbara, Juliana, Heraïs, and
+        others, bear honourable testimony to his influence over that
+        sex.</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page175">[pg
+        175]</span><a name="Pg175" id="Pg175" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“To Theora the feeling, with which his discourses
+        inspired her, was like a new soul,—a consciousness of spiritual
+        existence, unfelt before. By the eloquence of the comment she was
+        awakened into admiration of the text; and when, by the kindness of a
+        Catechumen of the school, who had been struck by her innocent zeal,
+        she, for the first time, became possessor of a copy of the
+        Scriptures, she could not sleep for thinking of her sacred treasure.
+        With a mixture of pleasure and fear she hid it from all eyes, and was
+        like one who had received a divine guest under her roof, and felt
+        fearful of betraying its divinity to the world.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“A heart so awake would have been easily secured to the
+        faith, had her opportunities of hearing the sacred word continued.
+        But circumstances arose to deprive her of this advantage. The mild
+        Origen, long harassed and thwarted in his labours by the tyranny of
+        the Bishop of Alexandria, Demetrius, was obliged to <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page176">[pg 176]</span><a name="Pg176" id="Pg176"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>relinquish his school and fly from Egypt.
+        The occupation of the fair scribe was, therefore, at an end: her
+        intercourse with the followers of the new faith ceased; and the
+        growing enthusiasm of her heart gave way to more worldly
+        impressions.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Love, among the rest, had its share in alienating her
+        thoughts from religion. While still very young, she became the wife
+        of a Greek adventurer, who had come to Egypt as a purchaser of that
+        rich tapestry, in which the needles of Persia are rivalled by the
+        looms of the Nile. Having taken his young bride to Memphis, which was
+        still the great mart of this merchandise, he there, in the midst of
+        his speculations, died,—leaving his widow on the point of becoming a
+        mother, while, as yet, but in her nineteenth year.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“For single and unprotected females, it has been, at all
+        times, a favourite resource, to seek admission into the service of
+        some of those great temples, which absorb so much of the wealth and
+        power of Egypt. In most <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page177">[pg
+        177]</span><a name="Pg177" id="Pg177" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of
+        these institutions there exists an order of Priestesses, which,
+        though not hereditary, like that of the Priests, is provided for by
+        ample endowments, and confers that rank and station, with which, in a
+        government so theocratic, Religion is sure to invest even her
+        humblest handmaids. From the general policy of the Sacred College of
+        Memphis, it may be concluded, that an accomplished female, like
+        Theora, found but little difficulty in being chosen one of the
+        Priestesses of Isis; and it was in the service of the subterranean
+        shrines that her ministry chiefly lay.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Here, a month or two after her admission, she gave birth
+        to Alethe, who first opened her eyes among the unholy pomps and
+        specious miracles of this mysterious region. Though Theora, as we
+        have seen, had been diverted by other feelings from her first
+        enthusiasm for the Christian faith, she had never wholly forgot the
+        impression then made upon her. The sacred volume, which the pious
+        Catechu<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page178">[pg 178]</span><a name=
+        "Pg178" id="Pg178" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>men had given her, was
+        still treasured with care; and, though she seldom opened its pages,
+        there was an idea of sanctity associated with it in her memory, and
+        often would she sit to look upon it with reverential pleasure,
+        recalling the happiness she felt when it was first made her
+        own.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The leisure of her new retreat, and the lone melancholy
+        of widowhood, led her still more frequently to indulge in such
+        thoughts, and to recur to those consoling truths which she had heard
+        in the school of Alexandria. She now began to peruse eagerly the
+        sacred book, drinking deep of the fountain of which she before but
+        tasted, and feeling—what thousands of mourners, since her, have
+        felt—that Christianity is the true religion of the
+        sorrowful.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“This study of her secret hours became still more dear to
+        her, from the peril with which, at that period, it was attended, and
+        the necessity she was under of concealing from those around her the
+        precious light <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page179">[pg
+        179]</span><a name="Pg179" id="Pg179" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that
+        had been kindled in her heart. Too timid to encounter the fierce
+        persecution, which awaited all who were suspected of a leaning to
+        Christianity, she continued to officiate in the pomps and ceremonies
+        of the Temple;—though, often, with such remorse of soul, that she
+        would pause, in the midst of the rites, and pray inwardly to God,
+        that he would forgive this profanation of his Spirit.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“In the mean time her daughter, the young Alethe, grew up
+        still lovelier than herself, and added, every hour, to her happiness
+        and her fears. When arrived at a sufficient age, she was taught, like
+        the other children of the priestesses, to take a share in the service
+        and ceremonies of the shrines. The duty of some of these young
+        servitors was to look after the flowers for the altar;—of others, to
+        take care that the sacred vases were filled every day with fresh
+        water from the Nile. The task of some was to preserve, in perfect
+        polish, those silver images of the moon <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page180">[pg 180]</span><a name="Pg180" id="Pg180" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>which the priests carried in processions; while
+        others were, as we have seen, employed in feeding the consecrated
+        animals, and in keeping their plumes and scales bright, for the
+        admiring eyes of their worshippers.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The office allotted to Alethe—the most honourable of
+        these minor ministries—was to wait upon the sacred birds of the Moon,
+        to feed them with those eggs from the Nile which they loved, and
+        provide for their use that purest water, which alone these delicate
+        birds will touch. This employment was the delight of her childish
+        hours; and that ibis, which Alciphron (the Epicurean) saw her dance
+        round in the Temple, was her favourite, of all the sacred flock, and
+        had been daily fondled and fed by her from infancy.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Music, as being one of the chief spells of this
+        enchanted region, was an accomplishment required of all its
+        ministrants; and the harp, the lyre, and the sacred flute, sounded
+        nowhere so sweetly as that <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page181">[pg
+        181]</span><a name="Pg181" id="Pg181" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>through these subterranean gardens. The chief
+        object, indeed, in the education of the youth of the Temple, was to
+        fit them, by every grace of art and nature, to give effect to the
+        illusion of those shows and phantasms, in which the whole charm and
+        secret of Initiation lay.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Among the means employed to support the old system of
+        superstition, against the infidelity and, still more, the new Faith
+        that menaced it, was an increased display of splendour and marvels in
+        those Mysteries for which Egypt has so long been celebrated. Of these
+        ceremonies so many imitations had, under various names, been
+        multiplied through Europe, that the parent superstition ran a risk of
+        being eclipsed by its progeny; and, in order still to retain their
+        rank of the first Priesthood in the world, those of Egypt found it
+        necessary to continue still the best impostors.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Accordingly, every contrivance that art could devise, or
+        labour execute—every <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page182">[pg
+        182]</span><a name="Pg182" id="Pg182" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>resource that the wonderful knowledge of the
+        Priests, in pyrotechny, mechanics, and dioptrics, could command, was
+        brought into action to heighten the effect of their Mysteries, and
+        give an air of enchantment to every thing connected with
+        them.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The final scene of beatification—the Elysium, into which
+        the Initiate was received,—formed, of course, the leading attraction
+        of these ceremonies; and to render it captivating alike to the senses
+        of the man of pleasure, and the imagination of the spiritualist, was
+        the object to which the whole skill and attention of the Sacred
+        College were devoted. By the influence of the Priests of Memphis over
+        those of the other Temples they had succeeded in extending their
+        subterranean frontier, both to the north and south, so as to include,
+        within their ever-lighted Paradise, some of the gardens excavated for
+        the use of the other Twelve Shrines.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The beauty of the young Alethe, the touching sweetness
+        of her voice, and the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page183">[pg
+        183]</span><a name="Pg183" id="Pg183" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>sensibility that breathed throughout her every
+        look and movement, rendered her a powerful auxiliary in such appeals
+        to the imagination. She was, accordingly, from her childhood,
+        selected from among her fair companions, as the most worthy
+        representative of spiritual loveliness, in those pictures of
+        Elysium—those scenes of another world—by which not only the fancy,
+        but the reason, of the excited Aspirants was dazzled.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“To the innocent child herself these shows were pastime.
+        But to Theora, who knew too well the imposition to which they were
+        subservient, this profanation of all that she loved was a perpetual
+        source of horror and remorse. Often would she—when Alethe stood
+        smiling before her, arrayed, perhaps, as a spirit of the Elysian
+        world,—turn away, with a shudder, from the happy child, almost
+        fancying that she already saw the shadows of sin descending over that
+        innocent brow, as she gazed on it.</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page184">[pg 184]</span><a name="Pg184" id="Pg184" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“As the intellect of the young maid became more active
+        and inquiring, the apprehensions and difficulties of the mother
+        increased. Afraid to communicate her own precious secret, lest she
+        should involve her child in the dangers that encompassed it, she yet
+        felt it to be no less a cruelty than a crime to leave her wholly
+        immersed in the darkness of Paganism. In this dilemma, the only
+        resource that remained to her was to select, and disengage from the
+        dross that surrounded them, those pure particles of truth which lie
+        at the bottom of all religions;—those feelings, rather than
+        doctrines, which God has never left his creatures without, and which,
+        in all ages, have furnished, to those who sought it, some clue to his
+        glory.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The unity and perfect goodness of the Creator; the fall
+        of the human soul into corruption; its struggles with the darkness of
+        this world, and its final redemption and re-ascent to the source of
+        all spirit;—these natural solutions of the problem of <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page185">[pg 185]</span><a name="Pg185" id="Pg185"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>our existence, these elementary grounds of
+        all religion and virtue, which Theora had heard illustrated by her
+        Christian teacher, lay also, she knew, veiled under the theology of
+        Egypt; and to impress them, in all their abstract purity, upon the
+        mind of her susceptible pupil, was, in default of more heavenly
+        lights, her sole ambition and care.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“It was their habit, after devoting their mornings to the
+        service of the Temple, to pass their evenings and nights in one of
+        those small mansions above ground, allotted to some of the most
+        favoured Priestesses, in the precincts of the Sacred College. Here,
+        out of the reach of those gross superstitions, which pursued them, at
+        every step, below, she endeavoured to inform, as far as she might,
+        the mind of her beloved girl; and found it lean as naturally and
+        instinctively to truth, as plants that have been long shut up in
+        darkness will, when light is let in, incline themselves to its
+        ray.</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page186">[pg
+        186]</span><a name="Pg186" id="Pg186" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Frequently, as they sat together on the terrace at
+        night, contemplating that assembly of glorious stars, whose beauty
+        first misled mankind into idolatry, she would explain to the young
+        listener by what gradations it was that the worship, thus transferred
+        from the Creator to the creature, sunk lower and lower in the scale
+        of being, till man, at length, presumed to deify man, and by the most
+        monstrous of inversions, heaven was made the mirror of earth,
+        reflecting all its most earthly features.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Even in the Temple itself, the anxious mother would
+        endeavour to interpose her purer lessons among the idolatrous
+        ceremonies in which they were engaged. When the favourite ibis of
+        Alethe took its station on the shrine, and the young maiden was seen
+        approaching, with all the gravity of worship, the very bird which she
+        had played with but an hour before,—when the acacia-bough, which she
+        herself had plucked, seemed to acquire a sudden sacredness in
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page187">[pg 187]</span><a name="Pg187"
+        id="Pg187" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>her eyes, as soon as the priest
+        had breathed on it,—on all such occasions Theora, though with fear
+        and trembling, would venture to suggest to the youthful worshipper
+        the distinction that should be drawn between the sensible object of
+        adoration, and that spiritual, unseen Deity, of which it was but the
+        remembrancer or type.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“With sorrow, however, she soon discovered that, in thus
+        but partially enlightening a mind too ardent to be satisfied with
+        such glimmerings, she only bewildered the heart that she meant to
+        guide, and cut down the hope round which its faith twined, without
+        substituting any other support in its place. As the beauty, too, of
+        Alethe began to attract all eyes, new fears crowded upon the mother’s
+        heart;—fears, in which she was but too much justified by the
+        characters of some of those around her.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“In this sacred abode, as may easily be conceived,
+        morality did not always <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page188">[pg
+        188]</span><a name="Pg188" id="Pg188" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>go
+        hand in hand with religion. The hypocritical and ambitious Orcus, who
+        was, at this period, High Priest of Memphis, was a man, in every
+        respect, qualified to preside over a system of such splendid fraud.
+        He had reached that effective time of life, when enough of the warmth
+        of youth remains to give animation to the counsels of age. But, in
+        his instance, youth had only the baser passions to bequeath, while
+        age but contributed a more refined maturity of mischief. The
+        advantages of a faith appealing so wholly to the senses, were well
+        understood by him; nor was he ignorant that the only way of making
+        religion subservient to his own interests was by shaping it adroitly
+        to the passions of others.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“<a name="corr188" id="corr188" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">The</span> state of
+        misery and remorse in which the mind of Theora was kept by the
+        scenes, however veiled by hypocrisy, which she witnessed around her,
+        became at length intolerable. No perils that the cause of truth could
+        bring with it would <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page189">[pg
+        189]</span><a name="Pg189" id="Pg189" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>be
+        half so dreadful as this endurance of sinfulness and deceit. Her
+        child was, as yet, pure and innocent;—but, without that sentinel of
+        the soul, Religion, how long might she continue so?</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“This thought at once decided her;—all other fears
+        vanished before it. She resolved instantly to lay open to Alethe the
+        whole secret of her soul; to make her, who was her only hope on
+        earth, the sharer of all her hopes in heaven, and then fly with her,
+        as soon as possible, from this unhallowed place, to the desert—to the
+        mountains—to any place, however desolate, where God and the
+        consciousness of innocence might be with them.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The promptitude with which her young pupil caught from
+        her the divine truths, was even beyond what she expected. It was like
+        the lighting of one torch at another,—so prepared was Alethe’s mind
+        for the illumination. Amply was the mother now repaid for all her
+        misery, by this perfect communion of love and faith, <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page190">[pg 190]</span><a name="Pg190" id="Pg190"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>and by the delight with which she saw her
+        beloved child—like the young antelope, when first led by her dam to
+        the well,—drink thirstily by her side, at the source of all life and
+        truth.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“But such happiness was not long to last. The anxieties
+        that Theora had suffered preyed upon her health. She felt her
+        strength daily decline; and the thoughts of leaving, alone and
+        unguarded in the world, that treasure which she had just devoted to
+        heaven, gave her a feeling of despair which but hastened the ebb of
+        life. Had she put in practice her resolution of flying from this
+        place, her child might have been now beyond the reach of all she
+        dreaded, and in the solitude of the wilderness would have found at
+        least safety from wrong. But the very happiness she had felt in her
+        new task diverted her from this project;—and it was now too late, for
+        she was already dying.</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page191">[pg 191]</span><a name="Pg191" id="Pg191" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“She concealed, however, her state from the tender and
+        sanguine girl, who, though she saw the traces of disease on her
+        mother’s cheek, little knew that they were the hastening footsteps of
+        death, nor thought even of the possibility of losing what was so dear
+        to her. Too soon, however, the moment of separation arrived; and
+        while the anguish and dismay of Alethe were in proportion to the
+        security in which she had indulged, Theora, too, felt, with bitter
+        regret, that she had sacrificed to her fond consideration much
+        precious time, and that there now remained but a few brief and
+        painful moments, for the communication of all those wishes and
+        instructions, on which the future destiny of the young orphan
+        depended.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“She had, indeed, time for little more than to place the
+        sacred volume solemnly in her hands, to implore that she would, at
+        all risks, fly from this unholy place, and, pointing in the direction
+        of the mountains of the Saïd, to name, with her last <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page192">[pg 192]</span><a name="Pg192" id="Pg192"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>breath, the holy man, to whom, under
+        heaven, she trusted for the protection and salvation of her
+        child.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The first violence of feeling to which Alethe gave way
+        was succeeded by a fixed and tearless grief, which rendered her
+        insensible, for some time, to the dangers of her situation. Her only
+        comfort was in visiting that monumental chapel, where the beautiful
+        remains of Theora lay. There, night after night, in contemplation of
+        those placid features, and in prayers for the peace of the departed
+        spirit, did she pass her lonely, and—sad as they were—happiest hours.
+        Though the mystic emblems that decorated that chapel were but ill
+        suited to the slumber of a Christian saint, there was one among them,
+        the Cross, which, by a remarkable coincidence, is an emblem common
+        alike to the Gentile and the Christian,—being, to the former, a
+        shadowy type of that immortality, of which, to the latter, it is a
+        substantial and assuring pledge.</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page193">[pg 193]</span><a name="Pg193" id="Pg193" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Nightly, upon this cross, which she had often seen her
+        lost mother kiss, did she breathe forth a solemn and heartfelt vow,
+        never to abandon the faith which that departed spirit had bequeathed
+        to her. To such enthusiasm, indeed, did her heart at such moments
+        rise, that, but for the last injunctions from those pallid lips, she
+        would, at once, have avowed her perilous secret, and spoken out the
+        words, <span class="tei tei-q">‘I am a Christian,’</span> among those
+        benighted shrines!</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“But the will of her, to whom she owed more than life,
+        was to be obeyed. To escape from this haunt of superstition must now,
+        she felt, be her first object; and, in devising the means of
+        effecting it, her mind, day and night, was employed. It was with a
+        loathing not to be concealed she now found herself compelled to
+        resume her idolatrous services at the shrine. To some of the offices
+        of Theora she succeeded, as is the custom, by inheritance; and in the
+        performance of these<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page194">[pg
+        194]</span><a name="Pg194" id="Pg194" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>—sanctified as they were in her eyes by the pure
+        spirit she had seen engaged in them—there was a sort of melancholy
+        pleasure in which her sorrow found relief. But the part she was again
+        forced to take, in the scenic shows of the Mysteries, brought with it
+        a sense of wrong and degradation which she could no longer
+        bear.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“She had already formed, in her own mind, a plan of
+        escape, in which her knowledge of all the windings of this
+        subterranean realm gave her confidence, when the reception of
+        Alciphron, as an Initiate, took place.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“From the first moment of the landing of that philosopher
+        at Alexandria, he had <a name="corr194" id="corr194" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr">become</span> an
+        object of suspicion and watchfulness to the inquisitorial Orcus, whom
+        philosophy, in any shape, naturally alarmed, but to whom the sect
+        over which the young Athenian presided was particularly obnoxious.
+        The accomplishments of Alciphron, his popularity, wherever he
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page195">[pg 195]</span><a name="Pg195"
+        id="Pg195" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>went, and the freedom with
+        which he indulged his wit at the expense of religion, was all
+        faithfully reported to the High Priest by his spies, and stirred up
+        within him no kindly feelings towards the stranger. In dealing with
+        an infidel, such a personage as Orcus could know no alternative but
+        that of either converting or destroying him; and though his spite, as
+        a man, would have been more gratified by the latter proceeding, his
+        pride, as a priest, led him to prefer the triumph of the
+        former.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“The first descent of the Epicurean into the pyramid was
+        speedily known, and the alarm immediately given to the Priests below.
+        As soon as it was discovered that the young philosopher of Athens was
+        the intruder, and that he still continued to linger round the
+        pyramid, looking often and wistfully towards the portal, it was
+        concluded that his curiosity would impel him to try a second descent;
+        and Orcus, blessing the good chance which had thus <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page196">[pg 196]</span><a name="Pg196" id="Pg196"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>brought the wild bird to his net,
+        determined not to allow an opportunity so precious to be
+        wasted.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Instantly, the whole of that wonderful machinery, by
+        which the phantasms and illusions of Initiation are produced, were
+        put in active preparation throughout that subterranean realm; and the
+        increased stir and watchfulness excited among its inmates, by this
+        more than ordinary display of all the resources of priestcraft,
+        rendered the accomplishment of Alethe’s design, at such a moment,
+        peculiarly difficult. Wholly ignorant of the share which had fallen
+        to herself in attracting the young philosopher down to this region,
+        she but heard of him vaguely, as the Chief of a great Grecian sect,
+        who had been led, by either curiosity or accident, to expose himself
+        to the first trials of Initiation, and whom the priests, she saw,
+        were endeavouring to ensnare in their toils, by every art and skill
+        with which their science of darkness had gifted
+        them.</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page197">[pg
+        197]</span><a name="Pg197" id="Pg197" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“To her mind, the image of a philosopher, such as
+        Alciphron had been represented to her, came associated with ideas of
+        age and reverence; and, more than once, the possibility of his being
+        made instrumental to her deliverance flashed a hope across her heart
+        in which she could not help indulging. Often had she been told by
+        Theora of the many Gentile sages, who had laid their wisdom down
+        humbly at the foot of the Cross; and though this Initiate, she
+        feared, could hardly be among the number, yet the rumours which she
+        had gathered from the servants of the Temple, of his undisguised
+        contempt for the errors of heathenism, led her to hope she might find
+        tolerance, if not sympathy, in her appeal to him.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Nor was it solely with a view to her own chance of
+        deliverance that she thus connected him in her thoughts with the plan
+        which she meditated. The look of <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page198">[pg 198]</span><a name="Pg198" id="Pg198" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>proud and self-gratulating malice, with which
+        the High Priest had mentioned this <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">‘infidel,’</span> as he styled him, when instructing her
+        in the scene she was to enact before the philosopher in the valley,
+        but too plainly informed her of the destiny that hung over him. She
+        knew how many were the hapless candidates for Initiation, who had
+        been doomed to a durance worse than that of the grave, for but a
+        word, a whisper breathed against the sacred absurdities which they
+        witnessed; and it was evident to her that the venerable Greek (for
+        such her fancy represented Alciphron) was no less interested in
+        escaping from this region than herself.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Her own resolution was, at all events, fixed. That
+        visionary scene, in which she had appeared before Alciphron,—little
+        knowing how ardent were the heart and imagination, over which her
+        beauty, at that moment, shed its whole influence,—was, she solemnly
+        resolved, the very last un<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page199">[pg
+        199]</span><a name="Pg199" id="Pg199" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>holy
+        service, that superstition or imposture should ever command of
+        her.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“On the following night the Aspirant was to watch in the
+        Great Temple of Isis. Such an opportunity of approaching and
+        addressing him might never come again. Should he, from compassion for
+        her situation, or a sense of the danger of his own, consent to lend
+        his aid to her flight, most gladly would she accept it,—assured that
+        no danger or treachery she might risk could be half so dreadful as
+        those she left behind. Should he, on the contrary, refuse, her
+        determination was equally fixed—to trust to that God, who watches
+        over the innocent, and go forth alone.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“To reach the island in Lake Mœris was her first object,
+        and there occurred luckily, at this time, a mode of accomplishing it,
+        by which the difficulty and dangers of the attempt would be, in a
+        great degree, diminished. The day of <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page200">[pg 200]</span><a name="Pg200" id="Pg200" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>the annual visitation of the High Priest to the
+        Place of Weeping—as that island in the centre of the lake is
+        called—was now fast approaching; and Alethe well knew that the
+        self-moving car, by which the High Priest and one of the Hierophants
+        are conveyed to the chambers under the lake, stood waiting in
+        readiness. By availing herself of this expedient, she would gain the
+        double advantage both of facilitating her own flight and retarding
+        the speed of her pursuers.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Having paid a last visit to the tomb of her beloved
+        mother, and wept there, long and passionately, till her heart almost
+        failed in the struggle,—having paused, too, to give a kiss to her
+        favourite ibis, which, though too much a Christian to worship, she
+        was still child enough to love,—with a trembling step she went early
+        to the Sanctuary, and hid herself in one of the recesses of the
+        Shrine. Her intention was to steal out from thence to Alciphron,
+        while it was yet dark, and be<span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page201">[pg 201]</span><a name="Pg201" id="Pg201" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>fore the illumination of the great Statue behind
+        the Veils had begun. But her fears delayed her till it was almost too
+        late;—already was the image lighted up, and still she remained
+        trembling in her hiding place.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“In a few minutes more the mighty Veils would have been
+        withdrawn, and the glories of that scene of enchantment laid
+        open,—when, at length, summoning up courage, and taking advantage of
+        a momentary absence of those employed in the preparations of this
+        splendid mockery, she stole from under the Veil and found her way,
+        through the gloom, to the Epicurean. There was then no time for
+        explanation;—she had but to trust to the simple words, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">‘Follow, and be silent;’</span> and the implicit
+        readiness with which she found them obeyed filled her with no less
+        surprise than the philosopher himself felt in hearing
+        them.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“In a second or two they were on their way through the
+        subterranean windings, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page202">[pg
+        202]</span><a name="Pg202" id="Pg202" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>leaving the ministers of Isis to waste their
+        splendours on vacancy, through a long series of miracles and visions
+        which they now exhibited,—unconscious that he, whom they took such
+        pains to dazzle, was already, under the guidance of the young
+        Christian, removed beyond the reach of their spells.”</span></p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page203">[pg 203]</span><a name="Pg203"
+        id="Pg203" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc29" id=
+        "toc29"></a><a name="pdf30" id="pdf30"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XIV.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such was the
+        story, of which this innocent girl gave me, in her own touching
+        language, the outline.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The sun was just
+        rising as she finished her narrative. Fearful of encountering the
+        expression of those feelings with which, she could not but observe, I
+        was affected by her recital, scarcely had she concluded the last
+        sentence, when, rising abruptly from her seat, she hurried into the
+        pavilion, leaving me with the words already crowding for utterance to
+        my lips.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Oppressed by the
+        various emotions, thus sent back upon my heart, I lay down on the
+        deck in a state of agitation, that defied even the most distant
+        approaches of sleep. While every word she had <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page204">[pg 204]</span><a name="Pg204" id="Pg204"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>uttered, every feeling she expressed, but
+        ministered new fuel to that flame within me, to describe which,
+        passion is too weak a word, there was also much of her recital that
+        disheartened, that alarmed me. To find a Christian thus under the
+        garb of a Memphian Priestess, was a discovery that, had my heart been
+        less deeply interested, would but have more powerfully stimulated my
+        imagination and pride. But, when I recollected the austerity of the
+        faith she had embraced,—the tender and sacred tie, associated with it
+        in her memory, and the devotion of woman’s heart to objects thus
+        consecrated,—her very perfections but widened the distance between
+        us, and all that most kindled my passion at the same time chilled my
+        hopes.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Were we left to
+        each other, as on this silent river, in this undisturbed communion of
+        thoughts and feelings, I knew too well, I thought, both her sex’s
+        nature and my own, to feel a doubt that love would ultimately
+        triumph. But the severity of <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page205">[pg 205]</span><a name="Pg205" id="Pg205" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>the guardianship to which I must resign
+        her,—some monk of the desert, some stern Solitary,—the influence such
+        a monitor would gain over her mind, and the horror with which, ere
+        long, she would be taught to regard the reprobate infidel on whom she
+        now smiled,—in all this prospect I saw nothing but despair. After a
+        few short hours, my happiness would be at an end, and such a dark
+        chasm open between our fates, as must sever them, far as earth is
+        from heaven, asunder.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was true, she
+        was now wholly in my power. I feared no witnesses but those of earth,
+        and the solitude of the desert was at hand. But though I acknowledged
+        not a heaven, I worshipped her who was, to me, its type and
+        substitute. If, at any moment, a single thought of wrong or deceit,
+        towards a creature so sacred, arose in my mind, one look from her
+        innocent eyes averted the sacrilege. Even passion itself felt a holy
+        fear in her presence,—<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page206">[pg
+        206]</span><a name="Pg206" id="Pg206" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>like
+        the flame trembling in the breeze of the sanctuary,—and Love, pure
+        Love, stood in place of Religion.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As long as I knew
+        not her story, I might indulge, at least, in dreams of the future.
+        But, now—what hope, what prospect remained? My sole chance of
+        happiness lay in the feeble hope of beguiling away her thoughts from
+        the plan which she meditated; of weaning her, by persuasion, from
+        that austere faith, which I had before hated and now feared, and
+        of—attaching her, perhaps, alone and unlinked as she was in the
+        world, to my own fortunes for ever!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the agitation
+        of these thoughts, I had started from my resting-place, and continued
+        to pace up and down, under a burning sun, till, exhausted both by
+        thought and feeling, I sunk down, amid its blaze, into a sleep,
+        which, to my fevered brain, seemed a sleep of fire.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On awaking, I
+        found the veil of Alethe <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page207">[pg
+        207]</span><a name="Pg207" id="Pg207" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>laid
+        carefully over my brow, while she, herself, sat near me, under the
+        shadow of the sail, looking anxiously at that leaf, which her mother
+        had given her, and apparently employed in comparing its outlines with
+        the course of the river and the forms of the rocky hills by which we
+        passed. She looked pale and troubled, and rose eagerly to meet me, as
+        if she had long and impatiently waited for my waking.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Her heart, it was
+        plain, had been disturbed from its security, and was beginning to
+        take alarm at its own feelings. But, though vaguely conscious of the
+        peril to which she was exposed, her reliance, as is usually the case,
+        increased with her danger, and on me, far more than on herself, did
+        she depend for saving her from it. To reach, as soon as possible, her
+        asylum in the desert, was now the urgent object of her entreaties and
+        wishes; and the self-reproach she expressed at having permitted her
+        thoughts to be diverted, for a single <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page208">[pg 208]</span><a name="Pg208" id="Pg208" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>moment, from this sacred purpose, not only
+        revealed the truth, that she had forgotten it, but betrayed even a
+        glimmering consciousness of the cause.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Her sleep, she
+        said, had been broken by ill-omened dreams. Every moment the shade of
+        her mother had stood before her, rebuking her, with mournful looks,
+        for her delay, and pointing, as she had done in death, to the eastern
+        hills. Bursting into tears at this accusing recollection, she hastily
+        placed the leaf, which she had been examining, in my hands, and
+        implored that I would ascertain, without a moment’s delay, what
+        portion of our voyage was still unperformed, and in what space of
+        time we might hope to accomplish it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had, still less
+        than herself, taken note of either place or distance; and, had we
+        been left to glide on in this dream of happiness, should never have
+        thought of pausing to ask where it would end. But such confidence, I
+        felt, was too sacred to be deceived. Reluctant as I was, naturally,
+        to <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page209">[pg 209]</span><a name=
+        "Pg209" id="Pg209" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>enter on an inquiry,
+        which might so soon dissipate even my last hope, her wish was
+        sufficient to supersede even the selfishness of love, and on the
+        instant I proceeded to obey her will.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is, on the
+        eastern bank of the Nile, to the north of Antinöe, a high and steep
+        rock, impending over the flood, which for ages, from a prodigy
+        connected with it, has borne the name of the Mountain of the Birds.
+        Yearly, it is said, at a certain season and hour, large flocks of
+        birds assemble in the ravine, of which this rocky mountain forms one
+        of the sides, and are there observed to go through the mysterious
+        ceremony of inserting each its beak into a particular cleft of the
+        rock, till the cleft closes upon one of their number, when the rest,
+        taking wing, leave the selected victim to die.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Through the ravine
+        where this charm—for such the multitude consider it—is worked, there
+        ran, in ancient times, a canal from the Nile, to some great and
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page210">[pg 210]</span><a name="Pg210"
+        id="Pg210" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>forgotten city that now lies
+        buried in the desert. To a short distance from the river this canal
+        still exists, but, soon after having passed through the defile, its
+        scanty waters disappear altogether, and are lost under the sands.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was in the
+        neighbourhood of this place, as I could collect from the delineations
+        on the leaf,—where a flight of birds represented the name of the
+        mountain,—that the dwelling of the Solitary, to whom Alethe was
+        bequeathed, lay. Imperfect as was my knowledge of the geography of
+        Egypt, it at once struck me, that we had long since left this
+        mountain behind; and, on inquiring of our boatmen, I found my
+        conjecture confirmed. We had, indeed, passed it, as appeared, on the
+        preceding night; and, as the wind had, ever since, blown strongly
+        from the north, and the sun was already declining towards the
+        horizon, we must now be, at least, an ordinary day’s sail to the
+        southward of the spot.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page211">[pg
+        211]</span><a name="Pg211" id="Pg211" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At this discovery,
+        I own, my heart felt a joy which I could with difficulty conceal. It
+        seemed to me as if fortune was conspiring with love, and, by thus
+        delaying the moment of our separation, afforded me at least a chance
+        of happiness. Her look, too, and manner, when informed of our
+        mistake, rather encouraged than chilled this secret hope. In the
+        first moment of astonishment, her eyes opened upon me with a
+        suddenness of splendour, under which I felt my own wink, as if
+        lightning had crossed them. But she again, as suddenly, let their
+        lids fall, and, after a quiver of her lip, which showed the conflict
+        of feeling within, crossed her arms upon her bosom, and looked
+        silently down upon the deck;—her whole countenance sinking into an
+        expression, sad, but resigned, as if she felt, with me, that fate was
+        on the side of wrong, and saw Love already stealing between her soul
+        and heaven.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was not slow in
+        availing myself of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page212">[pg
+        212]</span><a name="Pg212" id="Pg212" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>what
+        I fancied to be the irresolution of her mind. But, fearful of
+        exciting alarm by any appeal to tenderer feelings, I but addressed
+        myself to her imagination, and to that love of novelty, which is for
+        ever fresh in the youthful breast. We were now approaching that
+        region of wonders, Thebes. <span class="tei tei-q">“In a day or
+        two,”</span> said I, <span class="tei tei-q">“we shall see, towering
+        above the waters, the colossal Avenue of Sphinxes, and the bright
+        Obelisks of the Sun. We shall visit the plain of Memnon, and those
+        mighty statues, that fling their shadows at sunrise over the Libyan
+        hills. We shall hear the image of the Son of the Morning answering to
+        the first touch of light. From thence, in a few hours, a breeze like
+        this will transport us to those sunny islands near the cataracts;
+        there, to wander, among the sacred palm-groves of Philæ, or sit, at
+        noon-tide hour, in those cool alcoves, which the waterfall of Syene
+        shadows under its arch. Oh, who, with such scenes of loveliness
+        within <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page213">[pg 213]</span><a name=
+        "Pg213" id="Pg213" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>reach, would turn
+        coldly away to the bleak desert, and leave this fair world, with all
+        its enchantments, shining behind them, unseen and unenjoyed? At
+        least,”</span>—I added, tenderly taking her by the hand,—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“at least, let a few more days be stolen from the dreary
+        fate to which thou hast devoted thyself, and then——”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She had heard but
+        the last few words;—the rest had been lost upon her. Startled by the
+        tone of tenderness, into which, in spite of all my resolves, my voice
+        had softened, she looked for an instant in my face, with passionate
+        earnestness;—then, dropping upon her knees with her clasped hands
+        upraised, exclaimed—<span class="tei tei-q">“Tempt me not, in the
+        name of God I implore thee, tempt me not to swerve from my sacred
+        duty. Oh, take me instantly to that desert mountain, and I will bless
+        thee for ever.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This appeal, I
+        felt, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">could
+        not</span></span> be resisted,—though my heart were to break for it.
+        Having silently expressed my assent to <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page214">[pg 214]</span><a name="Pg214" id="Pg214" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>her prayer, by a pressure of her hand as I
+        raised her from the deck, I hastened, as we were still in full career
+        for the south, to give orders that our sail should be instantly
+        lowered, and not a moment lost in retracing our course.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In proceeding,
+        however, to give these directions, it, for the first time, occurred
+        to me, that, as I had hired this yacht in the neighbourhood of
+        Memphis, where it was probable that the flight of the young fugitive
+        would be most vigilantly tracked, we should act imprudently in
+        betraying to the boatmen the place of her retreat;—and the present
+        seemed the most favourable opportunity of evading such a danger.
+        Desiring, therefore, that we should be landed at a small village on
+        the shore, under pretence of paying a visit to some shrine in the
+        neighbourhood, I there dismissed our barge, and was relieved from
+        fear of further observation, by seeing it again set sail, and resume
+        its course fleetly up the current.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page215">[pg 215]</span><a name="Pg215" id="Pg215" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the boats of
+        all descriptions that lay idle beside the bank, I now selected one,
+        which, in every respect, suited my purpose,—being, in its shape and
+        accommodations, a miniature of our former vessel, but so small and
+        light as to be manageable by myself alone, and, with the advantage of
+        the current, requiring little more than a hand to steer it. This boat
+        I succeeded, without much difficulty, in purchasing, and, after a
+        short delay, we were again afloat down the current;—the sun just then
+        sinking, in conscious glory, over his own golden shrines in the
+        Libyan waste.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The evening was
+        more calm and lovely than any that yet had smiled upon our voyage;
+        and, as we left the bank, there came soothingly over our ears a
+        strain of sweet, rustic melody from the shore. It was the voice of a
+        young Nubian girl, whom we saw kneeling on the bank before an acacia,
+        and singing, while her companions stood round, the wild song
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page216">[pg 216]</span><a name="Pg216"
+        id="Pg216" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of invocation, which, in her
+        country, they address to that enchanted tree:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            “Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">
+            We pray, we pray, to thee;
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            By the glow of thy golden fruit,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 2.00em; text-align: left">
+            And the violet hue of thy flower,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 4.00em; text-align: left">
+            And the greeting mute
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 4.00em; text-align: left">
+            Of thy bough’s salute
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            To the stranger who seeks thy bower.<a id="noteref_6" name=
+            "noteref_6" href="#note_6"><span class="tei tei-noteref" style=
+            "text-align: left"><span style=
+            "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">6</span></span></a>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-head" style=
+          "margin-top: 1.00em; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;II.
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            “Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 4.00em; text-align: left">
+            How the traveller blesses thee,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            When the night no moon allows,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            And the sun-set hour is near,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 4.00em; text-align: left">
+            And thou bend’st thy boughs
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "margin-left: 4.00em; text-align: left">
+            To kiss his brows,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 2.00em">
+            Saying, ‘Come rest thee here.’
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">
+            Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">
+            Thus bow thy head to me!”
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page217">[pg 217]</span><a name=
+        "Pg217" id="Pg217" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the burden of
+        this song the companions of the young Nubian joined; and we heard the
+        words, <span class="tei tei-q">“Oh! Abyssinian tree,”</span> dying
+        away on the breeze, long after the whole group had been lost to our
+        eyes.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Whether, in this
+        new arrangement which I had made for our voyage, any motive, besides
+        those which I professed, had a share, I can scarcely, even myself, so
+        bewildered were my feelings, determine. But no sooner had the current
+        borne us away from all human dwellings, and we were alone on the
+        waters, with not a soul near, than I felt how closely such solitude
+        draws hearts together, and how much more we seemed to belong to each
+        other, than when there were eyes around.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The same feeling,
+        but without the same sense of its danger, was manifest in every look
+        and word of Alethe. The consciousness of the one great effort she had
+        made appeared to have satisfied her heart on the score of duty,—while
+        the devotedness with which she saw I <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page218">[pg 218]</span><a name="Pg218" id="Pg218" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>attended to her every wish, was felt with all
+        that gratitude which, in woman, is the day-spring of love. She was,
+        therefore, happy, innocently happy; and the confiding, and even
+        affectionate, unreserve of her manner, while it rendered my trust
+        more sacred, made it also far more difficult.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was only,
+        however, on subjects unconnected with our situation or fate, that she
+        yielded to such interchange of thought, or that her voice ventured to
+        answer mine. The moment I alluded to the destiny that awaited us, all
+        her cheerfulness fled, and she became saddened and silent. When I
+        described to her the beauty of my own native land—its founts of
+        inspiration and fields of glory—her eyes sparkled with sympathy, and
+        sometimes even softened into fondness. But when I ventured to
+        whisper, that, in that glorious country, a life full of love and
+        liberty awaited her; when I proceeded to contrast the adoration and
+        bliss she <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page219">[pg
+        219]</span><a name="Pg219" id="Pg219" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>might command, with the gloomy austerities of
+        the life to which she was hastening,—it was like the coming of a
+        sudden cloud over a summer sky. Her head sunk, as she listened;—I
+        waited in vain for an answer; and when, half playfully reproaching
+        her for this silence, I stooped to take her hand, I could feel the
+        warm tears fast falling over it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But even
+        this—little hope as it held out—was happiness. Though it foreboded
+        that I should lose her, it also whispered that I was loved. Like that
+        lake, in the Land of Roses<a id="noteref_7" name="noteref_7" href=
+        "#note_7"><span class="tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">7</span></span></a>, whose
+        waters are half sweet, half bitter, I felt my fate to be a compound
+        of bliss and pain,—but the very pain well worth all ordinary
+        bliss.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">And thus did the
+        hours of that night pass along; while every moment shortened our
+        happy dream, and the current seemed to flow with a swifter pace than
+        any that <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page220">[pg
+        220]</span><a name="Pg220" id="Pg220" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ever
+        yet hurried to the sea. Not a feature of the whole scene but is, at
+        this moment, freshly in my memory;—the broken star-light on the
+        water;—the rippling sound of the boat, as, without oar or sail, it
+        went, like a thing of enchantment, down the stream;—the scented fire,
+        burning beside us on the deck, and, oh, that face, on which its light
+        fell, still revealing, as it turned, some new charm, some blush or
+        look, more beautiful than the last.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Often, while I sat
+        gazing, forgetful of all else in this world, our boat, left wholly to
+        itself, would drive from its course, and, bearing us to the bank, get
+        entangled in the water-flowers, or be caught in some eddy, ere I
+        perceived where we were. Once, too, when the rustling of my oar among
+        the flowers had startled away from the bank some wild antelopes, that
+        had stolen, at that still hour, to drink of the Nile, what an emblem
+        I thought it of the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page221">[pg
+        221]</span><a name="Pg221" id="Pg221" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>young heart beside me,—tasting, for the first
+        time, of hope and love, and so soon, alas, to be scared from their
+        sweetness for ever!</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page222">[pg 222]</span><a name="Pg222"
+        id="Pg222" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc31" id=
+        "toc31"></a><a name="pdf32" id="pdf32"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XV.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The night was now
+        far advanced;—the bend of our course towards the left, and the
+        closing in of the eastern hills upon the river, gave warning of our
+        approach to the hermit’s dwelling. Every minute now seemed like the
+        last of existence; and I felt a sinking of despair at my heart, which
+        would have been intolerable, had not a resolution that suddenly, and
+        as if by inspiration, occurred to me, presented a glimpse of hope
+        which, in some degree, calmed my feelings.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Much as I had, all
+        my life, despised hypocrisy,—the very sect I had embraced being
+        chiefly recommended to me by the war which they waged on the cant of
+        all others,—it was, nevertheless, in hypocrisy that I now scrupled
+        not to take refuge <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page223">[pg
+        223]</span><a name="Pg223" id="Pg223" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>from, what I dreaded more than shame or death,
+        my separation from Alethe. In my despair, I adopted the humiliating
+        plan—deeply humiliating as I felt it to be, even amid the joy with
+        which I welcomed it—of offering myself to this hermit, as a convert
+        to his faith, and thus becoming the fellow-disciple of Alethe under
+        his care!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the moment I
+        resolved upon this plan, my spirit felt lightened. Though having
+        fully before my eyes the labyrinth of imposture into which it would
+        lead me, I thought of nothing but the chance of our being still
+        together;—in this hope, all pride, all philosophy was forgotten, and
+        every thing seemed tolerable, but the prospect of losing her.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Thus resolved, it
+        was with somewhat less reluctant feelings, that I now undertook, at
+        the anxious desire of Alethe, to ascertain the site of that
+        well-known mountain, in the neighbourhood of which the dwelling of
+        the anchoret lay. We had <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page224">[pg
+        224]</span><a name="Pg224" id="Pg224" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>already passed one or two stupendous rocks,
+        which stood, detached, like fortresses, over the river’s brink, and
+        which, in some degree, corresponded with the description on the leaf.
+        So little was there of life now stirring along the shores, that I had
+        begun almost to despair of any assistance from inquiry, when, on
+        looking to the western bank, I saw a boatman among the sedges, towing
+        his small boat, with some difficulty, up the current. Hailing him, as
+        we passed, I asked, <span class="tei tei-q">“Where stands the
+        Mountain of the Birds?”</span>—and he had hardly time to answer,
+        pointing above our heads, <span class="tei tei-q">“There,”</span>
+        when we perceived that we were just then entering into the shadow,
+        which this mighty rock flings across the whole of the flood.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a few moments
+        we had reached the mouth of the ravine, of which the Mountain of the
+        Birds forms one of the sides, and through which the scanty canal from
+        the Nile flows. At the sight <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page225">[pg 225]</span><a name="Pg225" id="Pg225" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>of this chasm, in some of whose gloomy
+        recesses—if we had rightly interpreted the leaf—the dwelling of the
+        Solitary lay, our voices, at once, sunk into a low whisper, while
+        Alethe looked round upon me with a superstitious fearfulness, as if
+        doubtful whether I had not already disappeared from her side. A quick
+        movement, however, of her hand towards the ravine, told too plainly
+        that her purpose was still unchanged. With my oars, therefore,
+        checking the career of our boat, I succeeded, after no small
+        exertion, in turning it out of the current of the river, and steering
+        into this bleak and stagnant canal.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Our transition
+        from life and bloom to the very depth of desolation, was immediate.
+        While the water and one side of the ravine lay buried in shadow, the
+        white, skeleton-like crags of the other stood aloft in the pale glare
+        of moonlight. The sluggish stream through which we moved, yielded
+        sullenly to the oar, and the shriek of a few water-birds, which we
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page226">[pg 226]</span><a name="Pg226"
+        id="Pg226" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>had roused from their
+        fastnesses, was succeeded by a silence, so dead and awful, that our
+        lips seemed afraid to disturb it by a breath; and half-whispered
+        exclamations, <span class="tei tei-q">“How
+        dreary!”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“How dismal!”</span>—were
+        almost the only words exchanged between us.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We had proceeded
+        for some time through this gloomy defile, when, at a distance before
+        us, among the rocks on which the moonlight fell, we perceived, upon a
+        ledge but little elevated above the canal, a small hut or cave,
+        which, from a tree or two planted around it, had some appearance of
+        being the abode of a human being. <span class="tei tei-q">“This,
+        then,”</span> thought I, <span class="tei tei-q">“is the home to
+        which Alethe is destined!”</span>—A chill of despair came again over
+        my heart, and the oars, as I gazed, lay motionless in my hands.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I found Alethe,
+        too, whose eyes had caught the same object, drawing closer to my side
+        than she had yet ventured. Laying her hand agitatedly upon mine,
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page227">[pg 227]</span><a name="Pg227"
+        id="Pg227" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“We
+        must here,”</span> she said, <span class="tei tei-q">“part for
+        ever.”</span> I turned to her, as she spoke: there was a tenderness,
+        a despondency in her countenance, that at once saddened and inflamed
+        my soul. <span class="tei tei-q">“Part!”</span> I exclaimed
+        passionately,—<span class="tei tei-q">“No!—the same God shall receive
+        us both. Thy faith, Alethe, shall, from this hour, be mine, and I
+        will live and die in this desert with thee!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Her surprise, her
+        delight, at these words, was like a momentary delirium. The wild,
+        anxious smile, with which she looked into my face, as if to ascertain
+        whether she had, indeed, heard my words aright, bespoke a happiness
+        too much for reason to bear. At length the fulness of her heart found
+        relief in tears; and, murmuring forth an incoherent blessing on my
+        name, she let her head fall languidly and powerlessly on my arm. The
+        light from our boat-fire shone upon her face. I saw her eyes, which
+        she had closed for a moment, again opening upon me with the
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page228">[pg 228]</span><a name="Pg228"
+        id="Pg228" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>same tenderness, and—merciful
+        Providence, how I remember that moment!—was on the point of bending
+        down my lips towards hers, when, suddenly, in the air above our
+        heads, as if it came from heaven, there burst forth a strain from a
+        choir of voices, that with its solemn sweetness filled the whole
+        valley.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Breaking away from
+        my caress at these supernatural sounds, the maiden threw herself
+        trembling upon her knees, and, not daring to look up, exclaimed
+        wildly, <span class="tei tei-q">“My mother, oh my mother!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was the
+        Christian’s morning hymn that we heard;—the same, as I learned
+        afterwards, that, on their high terrace at Memphis, Alethe had been
+        often taught by her mother to sing to the rising sun.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Scarcely less
+        startled than my companion, I looked up, and, at the very summit of
+        the rock above us, saw a light, appearing to come from a small
+        opening or window, through which also the sounds, that had appeared
+        so supernatural, issued. <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page229">[pg
+        229]</span><a name="Pg229" id="Pg229" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>There could be no doubt, that we had now
+        found—if not the dwelling of the anchoret—at least, the haunt of some
+        of the Christian brotherhood of these rocks, by whose assistance we
+        could not fail to find the place of his retreat.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The agitation,
+        into which Alethe had been thrown by the first burst of that
+        psalmody, soon yielded to the softening recollections which it
+        brought back; and a calm came over her brow, such as it had never
+        before worn, since our meeting. She seemed to feel that she had now
+        reached her destined haven, and to hail, as the voice of heaven
+        itself, those sounds by which she was welcomed to it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In her
+        tranquillity, however, I could not now sympathize. Impatient to know
+        all that awaited her and myself, I pushed our boat close to the base
+        of the rock,—directly under that lighted window on the summit, to
+        find my way up to which was my first object. Having hastily received
+        my instructions from Alethe, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page230">[pg 230]</span><a name="Pg230" id="Pg230" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>and made her repeat again the name of the
+        Christian whom we sought, I sprang upon the bank, and was not long in
+        discovering a sort of rude stair-way, cut out of the rock, but
+        leading, I found, by easy windings, up the steep.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After ascending
+        for some time, I arrived at a level space or ledge, which the hand of
+        labour had succeeded in converting into a garden, and which was
+        planted, here and there, with fig-trees and palms. Around it, too, I
+        could perceive, through the glimmering light, a number of small caves
+        or grottos, into some of which, human beings might find entrance,
+        while others appeared no larger than the tombs of the Sacred Birds
+        round Lake Mœris.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was still, I
+        found, but half-way up the ascent to the summit, nor could perceive
+        any further means of continuing my course, as the mountain from hence
+        rose, almost perpendicularly, like a wall. At length, however, on
+        exploring around, I discovered behind the shade of a syca<span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page231">[pg 231]</span><a name="Pg231" id="Pg231"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>more a large ladder of wood, resting
+        firmly against the rock, and affording an easy and secure ascent up
+        the steep.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having ascertained
+        thus far, I again descended to the boat for Alethe,—whom I found
+        trembling already at her short solitude,—and having led her up the
+        steps to this quiet garden, left her safely lodged, amid its holy
+        silence, while I pursued my way upward to the light on the rock.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the top of the
+        long ladder I found myself on another ledge or platform, somewhat
+        smaller than the first, but planted in the same manner, with trees,
+        and, as I could perceive by the mingled light of morning and the
+        moon, embellished with flowers. I was now near the summit;—there
+        remained but another short ascent, and, as a ladder against the rock,
+        as before, supplied the means of scaling it, I was in a few minutes
+        at the opening from which the light issued.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had ascended
+        gently, as well from <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page232">[pg
+        232]</span><a name="Pg232" id="Pg232" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>a
+        feeling of awe at the whole scene, as from an unwillingness to
+        disturb too rudely the rites on which I intruded. My approach was,
+        therefore, unheard, and an opportunity, during some moments, afforded
+        me of observing the group within, before my appearance at the window
+        was discovered.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the middle of
+        the apartment, which seemed once to have been a Pagan oratory, there
+        was an assembly of seven or eight persons, some male, some female,
+        kneeling in silence round a small altar;—while, among them, as if
+        presiding over their ceremony, stood an aged man, who, at the moment
+        of my arrival, was presenting to one of the female worshippers an
+        alabaster cup, which she applied, with much reverence, to her lips.
+        On the countenance of the venerable minister, as he pronounced a
+        short prayer over her head, there was an expression of profound
+        feeling that showed how wholly he was absorbed in that rite; and when
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page233">[pg 233]</span><a name="Pg233"
+        id="Pg233" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>she had drank of the cup,—which
+        I saw had engraven on its side the image of a head, with a glory
+        round it,—the holy man bent down and kissed her forehead.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After this parting
+        salutation, the whole group rose silently from their knees; and it
+        was then, for the first time, that, by a cry of terror from one of
+        the women, the appearance of a stranger at the window was discovered.
+        The whole assembly seemed startled and alarmed, except him, that
+        superior person, who, advancing from the altar, with an unmoved look,
+        raised the latch of the door, which was adjoining to the window, and
+        admitted me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There was, in this
+        old man’s features, a mixture of elevation and sweetness, of
+        simplicity and energy, which commanded at once attachment and homage;
+        and half hoping, half fearing to find in him the destined guardian of
+        Alethe, I looked anxiously in his face, as I entered, and pronounced
+        the name <span class="tei tei-q">“Melanius!”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Melanius is my name, young stranger,”</span> he
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page234">[pg 234]</span><a name="Pg234"
+        id="Pg234" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>answered; <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“and whether in friendship or in enmity thou comest,
+        Melanius blesses thee.”</span> Thus saying, he made a sign with his
+        right hand above my head, while, with involuntary respect, I bowed
+        beneath the benediction.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Let this volume,”</span> I replied, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“answer for the peacefulness of my mission,”</span>—at
+        the same time, placing in his hands the copy of the Scriptures, which
+        had been his own gift to the mother of Alethe, and which her child
+        now brought as the credential of her claims on his protection. At the
+        sight of this sacred pledge, which he recognized instantly, the
+        solemnity that had marked his first reception of me softened into
+        tenderness. Thoughts of other times seemed to pass through his mind,
+        and as, with a sigh of recollection, he took the book from my hands,
+        some words on the outer leaf caught his eye. They were few,—but
+        contained, perhaps, the last wishes of the dying Theora, for as he
+        eagerly read them over, I saw the tears in his aged eyes.
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page235">[pg 235]</span><a name="Pg235"
+        id="Pg235" class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-q">“The
+        trust,”</span> he said, with a faltering voice, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“is sacred, and God will, I hope, enable his servant to
+        guard it faithfully.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During this short
+        dialogue, the other persons of the assembly had departed—being, as I
+        afterwards learned, brethren from the neighbouring bank of the Nile,
+        who came thus secretly before day-break, to join in worshipping God.
+        Fearful lest their descent down the rock might alarm Alethe, I
+        hurried briefly over the few words of explanation that remained, and,
+        leaving the venerable Christian to follow at his leisure, hastened
+        anxiously down to rejoin the maiden.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page236">[pg 236]</span><a name="Pg236"
+        id="Pg236" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc33" id=
+        "toc33"></a><a name="pdf34" id="pdf34"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XVI.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Melanius was among
+        the first of those Christians of Egypt, who, after the recent example
+        of the hermit, Paul, renouncing all the comforts of social existence,
+        betook themselves to a life of contemplation in the desert. Less
+        selfish, however, in his piety, than most of these ascetics, Melanius
+        forgot not the world, in leaving it. He knew that man was not born to
+        live wholly for himself; that his relation to human kind was that of
+        the link to the chain, and that even his solitude should be turned to
+        the advantage of others. In flying, therefore, from the din and
+        disturbance of life, he sought not to place himself beyond the reach
+        of its sympathies, but selected a retreat, where he could combine the
+        advantage of soli<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page237">[pg
+        237]</span><a name="Pg237" id="Pg237" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>tude
+        with those opportunities of serving his fellow-men, which a
+        neighbourhood to their haunts would afford.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">That taste for the
+        gloom of subterranean recesses, which the race of Misraim inherit
+        from their Ethiopian ancestors, had, by hollowing out all Egypt into
+        caverns and crypts, furnished these Christian anchorets with a choice
+        of retreats. Accordingly, some found a shelter in the grottos of
+        Elethya;—others, among the royal tombs of the Thebaïd. In the middle
+        of the Seven Valleys, where the sun rarely shines, a few have fixed
+        their dim and melancholy retreat, while others have sought the
+        neighbourhood of the red Lakes of Nitria, and there,—like those Pagan
+        solitaries of old, who dwelt among the palm-trees near the Dead
+        Sea,—muse amid the sterility of nature, and seem to find, in her
+        desolation, peace.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was on one of
+        the mountains of the Saïd, to the east of the river, that
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page238">[pg 238]</span><a name="Pg238"
+        id="Pg238" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>Melanius, as we have seen,
+        chose his place of seclusion,—between the life and fertility of the
+        Nile on the one side, and the lone, dismal barrenness of the desert
+        on the other. Half-way down this mountain, where it impends over the
+        ravine, he found a series of caves or grottos dug out of the rock,
+        which had, in other times, ministered to some purpose of mystery, but
+        whose use had been long forgotten, and their recesses abandoned.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To this place,
+        after the banishment of his great master, Origen, Melanius, with a
+        few faithful followers, retired, and, by the example of his innocent
+        life, no less than by his fervid eloquence, succeeded in winning
+        crowds of converts to his faith. Placed, as he was, in the
+        neighbourhood of the rich city, Antinoë, though he mingled not with
+        its multitude, his name and his fame were among them, and, to all who
+        sought instruction or consolation, the cell of the hermit was ever
+        open.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Notwithstanding
+        the rigid abstinence of <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page239">[pg
+        239]</span><a name="Pg239" id="Pg239" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>his
+        own habits, he was yet careful to provide for the comforts of others.
+        Contented with a rude bed of straw, himself, for the stranger he had
+        always a less homely resting-place. From his grotto, the wayfaring
+        and the indigent never went unrefreshed; and, with the assistance of
+        some of his brethren, he had formed gardens along the ledges of the
+        mountain, which gave an air of cheerfulness to his rocky dwelling,
+        and supplied him with the chief necessaries of such a climate, fruit
+        and shade.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though the
+        acquaintance which he had formed with the mother of Alethe, during
+        the short period of her attendance at the school of Origen, was soon
+        interrupted, and never afterwards renewed, the interest which he had
+        then taken in her fate was too lively to be forgotten. He had seen
+        the zeal with which her young heart welcomed instruction; and the
+        thought that such a candidate for heaven should have relapsed into
+        idolatry, came often, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page240">[pg
+        240]</span><a name="Pg240" id="Pg240" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>with
+        disquieting apprehension, over his mind.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was, therefore,
+        with true pleasure, that, but a year or two before her death, he had
+        learned, by a private communication from Theora, transmitted through
+        a Christian embalmer of Memphis, that <span class="tei tei-q">“not
+        only her own heart had taken root in the faith, but that a new bud
+        had flowered with the same divine hope, and that, ere long, he might
+        see them both transplanted to the desert.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The coming,
+        therefore, of Alethe was far less a surprise to him, than her coming
+        thus alone was a shock and a sorrow; and the silence of their meeting
+        showed how deeply each remembered that the tie which had brought them
+        together was no longer of this world,—that the hand, which should
+        have been joined with theirs, was in the tomb. I now saw that not
+        even religion was proof against the sadness of mortality. For, as the
+        old man put the ringlets aside from her forehead, and con<span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page241">[pg 241]</span><a name="Pg241" id="Pg241"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>templated in that clear countenance the
+        reflection of what her mother had been, there was a mournfulness
+        mingled with his piety, as he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Heaven
+        rest her soul!”</span> which showed how little even the certainty of
+        a heaven for those we love can subdue our regret for having lost them
+        on earth.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The full light of
+        day had now risen upon the desert, and our host, reminded, by the
+        faint looks of Alethe, of the many anxious hours we had passed
+        without sleep, proposed that we should seek, in the chambers of the
+        rock, such rest as the dwelling of a hermit could offer. Pointing to
+        one of the largest openings, as he addressed me,—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Thou wilt find,”</span> he said, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“in that grotto a bed of fresh doum leaves, and may the
+        consciousness of having protected the orphan sweeten thy
+        sleep!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I felt how dearly
+        this praise had been earned, and already almost repented of having
+        deserved it. There was a sadness in the countenance of Alethe, as I
+        took <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page242">[pg 242]</span><a name=
+        "Pg242" id="Pg242" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>leave of her, to which
+        the forebodings of my own heart but too faithfully responded; nor
+        could I help fearing, as her hand parted lingeringly from mine, that
+        I had, by this sacrifice, placed her beyond my reach for ever.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Having lighted me
+        a lamp, which, in these recesses, even at noon, is necessary, the
+        holy man led me to the entrance of the grotto;—and here, I blush to
+        say, my career of hypocrisy began. With the sole view of obtaining
+        another glance at Alethe, I turned humbly to solicit the benediction
+        of the Christian, and, having conveyed to her, as I bent reverently
+        down, as much of the deep feeling of my soul as looks could express,
+        with a desponding spirit I hurried into the cavern.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A short passage
+        led me to the chamber within,—the walls of which I found covered,
+        like those of the grottos of Lycopolis, with paintings, which, though
+        executed long ages ago, looked fresh as if their colours were but
+        laid on yesterday. They were, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page243">[pg 243]</span><a name="Pg243" id="Pg243" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>all of them, representations of rural and
+        domestic scenes; and, in the greater number, the melancholy
+        imagination of the artist had called Death in, as usual, to throw his
+        shadow over the picture.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My attention was
+        particularly drawn to one series of subjects, throughout the whole of
+        which the same group—a youth, a maiden, and two aged persons, who
+        appeared to be the father and mother of the girl,—were represented in
+        all the details of their daily life. The looks and attitudes of the
+        young people denoted that they were lovers; and, sometimes, they were
+        seen sitting under a canopy of flowers, with their eyes fixed on each
+        other’s faces, as though they could never look away; sometimes, they
+        appeared walking along the banks of the Nile,</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 4.00em">
+            ——on one of those sweet nights
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            When Isis, the pure star of lovers, lights
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Her bridal crescent o’er the holy stream,—
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            When wandering youths and maidens watch her beam,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And number o’er the nights she hath to run,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun.
+          </div>
+        </div><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page244">[pg 244]</span><a name=
+        "Pg244" id="Pg244" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Through all these
+        scenes of endearment the two elder persons stood by;—their calm
+        countenances touched with a share of that bliss, in whose perfect
+        light the young lovers were basking. Thus far, all was happiness,—but
+        the sad lesson of mortality was to come. In the last picture of the
+        series, one of the figures was missing. It was that of the young
+        maiden, who had disappeared from among them. On the brink of a dark
+        lake stood the three who remained; while a boat, just departing for
+        the City of the Dead, told too plainly the end of their dream of
+        happiness.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This memorial of a
+        sorrow of other times—of a sorrow, ancient as death itself,—was not
+        wanting to deepen the melancholy of my mind, or to add to the weight
+        of the many bodings that pressed on it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a night, as
+        it seemed, of anxious and unsleeping thought, I rose from my bed and
+        returned to the garden. I found the Christian alone,—seated, under
+        the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page245">[pg 245]</span><a name=
+        "Pg245" id="Pg245" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>shade of one of his
+        trees, at a small table, with a volume unrolled before him, while a
+        beautiful antelope lay sleeping at his feet. Struck forcibly by the
+        contrast which he presented to those haughty priests, whom I had seen
+        surrounded by the pomp and gorgeousness of temples, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Is this, then,”</span> thought I, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“the faith, before which the world trembles—its temple
+        the desert, its treasury a book, and its High Priest the solitary
+        dweller of the rock!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He had prepared
+        for me a simple, but hospitable, repast, of which fruits from his own
+        garden, the white bread of Olyra, and the juice of the honey-cane
+        were the most costly luxuries. His manner to me was even more cordial
+        than before; but the absence of Alethe, and, still more, the ominous
+        reserve, with which he not only, himself, refrained from all mention
+        of her name, but eluded the few inquiries, by which I sought to lead
+        to it, seemed to confirm all the fears I had felt in parting from
+        her.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page246">[pg 246]</span><a name=
+        "Pg246" id="Pg246" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She had acquainted
+        him, it was evident, with the whole history of our flight. My
+        reputation as a philosopher—my desire to become a Christian—all was
+        already known to the zealous Anchoret, and the subject of my
+        conversion was the very first on which he entered. O pride of
+        philosophy, how wert thou then humbled, and with what shame did I
+        stand, casting down my eyes, before that venerable man, as, with
+        ingenuous trust in the sincerity of my intention, he welcomed me to a
+        participation of his holy hope, and imprinted the Kiss of Charity on
+        my infidel brow!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Embarrassed as I
+        felt by the consciousness of hypocrisy, I was even still more
+        perplexed by my total ignorance of the real tenets of the faith to
+        which I professed myself a convert. Abashed and confused, and with a
+        heart sick at its own deceit, I heard the animated and eloquent
+        gratulations of the Christian, as though they were words in a dream,
+        without link or meaning; nor could disguise but by the <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page247">[pg 247]</span><a name="Pg247" id="Pg247"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>mockery of a reverential bow, at every
+        pause, the entire want of self-possession, and even of speech, under
+        which I laboured.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A few minutes more
+        of such trial, and I must have avowed my imposture. But the holy man
+        saw my embarrassment;—and, whether mistaking it for awe, or knowing
+        it to be ignorance, relieved me from my perplexity by, at once,
+        changing the theme. Having gently awakened his antelope from its
+        sleep, <span class="tei tei-q">“You have heard,”</span> he said,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“I doubt not, of my brother-anchoret, Paul,
+        who, from his cave in the marble mountains, near the Red Sea, sends
+        hourly <span class="tei tei-q">‘the sacrifice of thanksgiving’</span>
+        to heaven. Of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">his</span></span> walks, they tell me, a lion is
+        the companion; but, for me,”</span> he added, with a playful and
+        significant smile, <span class="tei tei-q">“who try my powers of
+        taming but on the gentler animals, this feeble child of the desert is
+        a far fitter play-mate.”</span> Then, taking his staff, and putting
+        the time-worn <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page248">[pg
+        248]</span><a name="Pg248" id="Pg248" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>volume which he had been reading into a large
+        goat-skin pouch, that hung by his side, <span class="tei tei-q">“I
+        will now,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“lead thee over my
+        rocky kingdom,—that thou mayst see in what drear and barren places,
+        that <span class="tei tei-q">‘fruit of the spirit,’</span> Peace, may
+        be gathered.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To speak of peace
+        to a heart like mine, at that moment, was like talking of some
+        distant harbour to the mariner sinking at sea. In vain did I look
+        round for some sign of Alethe;—in vain make an effort even to utter
+        her name. Consciousness of my own deceit, as well as a fear of
+        awakening in Melanius any suspicion that might frustrate my only
+        hope, threw a fetter over my spirit and checked my tongue. In
+        silence, therefore, I followed, while the cheerful old man, with
+        slow, but firm, step, ascended the rock, by the same ladders which I
+        had mounted on the preceding night.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During the time
+        when the Decian Persecution was raging, many Christians of
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page249">[pg 249]</span><a name="Pg249"
+        id="Pg249" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>this neighbourhood, he informed
+        me, had taken refuge under his protection, in these grottos; and the
+        chapel on the summit, where I had found them at prayer, was, in those
+        times of danger, their place of retreat, where, by drawing up these
+        ladders, they were enabled to secure themselves from pursuit.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From the top of
+        the rock, the view, on either side, embraced the two extremes of
+        fertility and desolation; nor could the Epicurean and the Anchoret,
+        who now gazed from that height, be at any loss to indulge their
+        respective tastes, between the living luxuriance of the world on one
+        side, and the dead repose of the desert on the other. When we turned
+        to the river, what a picture of animation presented itself! Near us,
+        to the south, were the graceful colonnades of Antinoë, its proud,
+        populous streets, and triumphal monuments. On the opposite shore,
+        rich plains, teeming with cultivation to the water’s edge, offered
+        up, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page250">[pg 250]</span><a name=
+        "Pg250" id="Pg250" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>as from verdant altars,
+        their fruits to the sun; while, beneath us, the Nile,</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style=
+          "text-align: left; margin-left: 10.00em">
+            ——the glorious stream,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            That late between its banks was seen to glide,—
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            With shrines and marble cities, on each side,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Glittering, like jewels strung along a chain,—
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Had now sent forth its waters, and o’er plain
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            And valley, like a giant from his bed
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Rising with outstretch’d limbs, superbly spread.
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From this scene,
+        on one side of the mountain, we had but to turn round our eyes, and
+        it was as if nature herself had become suddenly extinct;—a wide waste
+        of sands, bleak and interminable, wearying out the sun with its
+        sameness of desolation;—black, burnt-up rocks, that stood as
+        barriers, at which life stopped;—while the only signs of animation,
+        past or present, were the foot-prints, here and there, of an antelope
+        or ostrich, or the bones of dead camels, as they lay whitening at a
+        distance, marking out the track of the caravans over the
+        waste.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page251">[pg
+        251]</span><a name="Pg251" id="Pg251" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After listening,
+        while he contrasted, in a few eloquent words, the two regions of life
+        and death on whose confines we stood, I again descended with my guide
+        to the garden we had left. From thence, turning into a path along the
+        mountain-side, he conducted me to another row of grottos, facing the
+        desert, which had once, he said, been the abode of those brethren in
+        Christ, who had fled with him to this solitude from the crowded
+        world,—but which death had, within a few months, rendered tenantless.
+        A cross of red stone, and a few faded trees, were the only traces
+        these solitaries had left behind.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">A silence of some
+        minutes succeeded, while we descended to the edge of the canal; and I
+        saw opposite, among the rocks, that solitary cave, which had so
+        chilled me with its aspect on the preceding night. By the bank we
+        found one of those rustic boats, which the Egyptians construct of
+        planks of wild thorn, bound rudely together with bands of
+        papy<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page252">[pg 252]</span><a name=
+        "Pg252" id="Pg252" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>rus. Placing ourselves
+        in this boat, and rather impelling than rowing it across, we made our
+        way through the foul and shallow flood, and landed directly under the
+        site of the cave.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">This dwelling, as
+        I have already mentioned, was situated upon a ledge of the rock; and,
+        being provided with a sort of window or aperture to admit the light
+        of heaven, was accounted, I found, more cheerful than the grottos on
+        the other side of the ravine. But there was a dreariness in the whole
+        region around, to which light only lent more horror. The dead
+        whiteness of the rocks, as they stood, like ghosts, in the
+        sunshine;—that melancholy pool, half lost in the sands;—all gave me
+        the idea of a wasting world. To dwell in such a place seemed to me
+        like a living death; and when the Christian, as we entered the cave,
+        said, <span class="tei tei-q">“Here is to be thy home,”</span>
+        prepared as I was for the worst, my resolution gave way;—every
+        feeling of disappointed passion <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page253">[pg 253]</span><a name="Pg253" id="Pg253" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>and humbled pride, which had been gathering
+        round my heart for the last few hours, found a vent at once, and I
+        burst into tears!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Well accustomed to
+        human weakness, and perhaps guessing at some of the sources of mine,
+        the good Hermit, without appearing to notice this emotion,
+        expatiated, with a cheerful air, on, what he called, the many
+        comforts of my dwelling. Sheltered, he said, from the dry, burning
+        wind of the south, my porch would inhale the fresh breeze of the
+        Dog-star. Fruits from his own mountain-garden should furnish my
+        repast. The well of the neighbouring rock would supply my beverage;
+        and, <span class="tei tei-q">“here,”</span> he continued,—lowering
+        his voice into a more solemn tone, as he placed upon the table the
+        volume which he had brought,—<span class="tei tei-q">“here, my son,
+        is that <span class="tei tei-q">‘well of living waters,’</span> in
+        which alone thou wilt find lasting refreshment or peace!”</span> Thus
+        saying, he descended <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page254">[pg
+        254]</span><a name="Pg254" id="Pg254" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the
+        rock to his boat, and after a few plashes of his oar had died upon my
+        ear, the solitude and silence around me was complete.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page255">[pg 255]</span><a name="Pg255"
+        id="Pg255" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc35" id=
+        "toc35"></a><a name="pdf36" id="pdf36"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XVII.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">What a fate was
+        mine!—but a few weeks since, presiding over that splendid Festival of
+        the Garden, with all the luxuries of existence tributary in my train;
+        and now,—self-humbled into a solitary outcast,—the hypocritical pupil
+        of a Christian anchoret,—without even the excuse of fanaticism, or of
+        any other madness, but that of love, wild love, to extenuate my fall!
+        Were there a hope that, by this humiliating waste of existence, I
+        might purchase but a glimpse, now and then, of Alethe, even the
+        depths of the desert, with such a chance, would be welcome. But to
+        live—and live thus—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">without</span></span> her, was a misery which I
+        neither foresaw nor could endure.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hating even to
+        look upon the den to which I was doomed, I hurried out into
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page256">[pg 256]</span><a name="Pg256"
+        id="Pg256" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the air, and found my way,
+        along the rocks, to the desert. The sun was going down, with that
+        blood-red hue, which he so frequently wears, in this clime, at his
+        setting. I saw the sands, stretching out, like a sea, to the horizon,
+        as if their waste extended to the very verge of the world,—and, in
+        the bitterness of my feelings, rejoiced to see so much of creation
+        rescued, even by this barren liberty, from the grasp of man. The
+        thought seemed to relieve my wounded pride, and, as I wandered over
+        the dim and boundless solitude, to be thus free, even amid blight and
+        desolation, appeared a blessing.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The only living
+        thing I saw was a restless swallow, whose wings were of the hue of
+        the grey sands over which he fluttered. <span class="tei tei-q">“Why
+        may not the mind, like this bird, take the colour of the desert, and
+        sympathise in its austerity, its freedom, and its calm?”</span>—thus,
+        between despondence and defiance, did I ask myself, endeavouring to
+        face with fortitude what yet my heart <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page257">[pg 257]</span><a name="Pg257" id="Pg257" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>sickened to contemplate. But the effort was
+        unavailing. Overcome by that vast solitude, whose repose was not the
+        slumber of peace, but the sullen and burning silence of hate, I felt
+        my spirit give way, and even love itself yield to despair.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Seating myself on
+        a fragment of a rock, and covering my eyes with my hands, I made an
+        effort to shut out the overwhelming prospect. But in vain—it was
+        still before me, deepened by all that fancy could add; and when,
+        again looking up, I saw the last red ray of the sun, shooting across
+        that melancholy and lifeless waste, it seemed to me like the light of
+        the comet that once desolated this world, shining out luridly over
+        the ruin that it had made!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Appalled by my own
+        gloomy imaginations, I turned towards the ravine; and,
+        notwithstanding the disgust with which I had left my dwelling, was
+        not ill pleased to find my way, over the rocks, to it again. On
+        approaching the cave, to my astonish<span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page258">[pg 258]</span><a name="Pg258" id="Pg258" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>ment, I saw a light within. At such a moment,
+        any vestige of life was welcome, and I hailed the unexpected
+        appearance with pleasure. On entering, however, I found the chamber
+        as lonely as I had left it. The light came from a lamp that burned
+        brightly on the table; beside it was unfolded the volume which
+        Melanius had brought, and upon the leaves—oh, joy and surprise—lay
+        the well-known cross of Alethe!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">What hand, but her
+        own, could have prepared this reception for me?—The very thought sent
+        a hope into my heart, before which all despondency fled. Even the
+        gloom of the desert was forgotten, and my cave at once brightened
+        into a bower. She had here reminded me, herself, by this sacred
+        memorial, of the vow which I had pledged to her under the Hermit’s
+        rock; and I now scrupled not to reiterate the same daring promise,
+        though conscious that through hypocrisy alone I could fulfil
+        it.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page259">[pg 259]</span><a name=
+        "Pg259" id="Pg259" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Eager to prepare
+        myself for my task of imposture, I sat down to the volume, which I
+        now found to be the Hebrew Scriptures; and the first sentence, on
+        which my eyes fell, was—<span class="tei tei-q">“The Lord hath
+        commanded the blessing, even Life for evermore!”</span> Startled by
+        these words, in which the Spirit of my dream seemed again to
+        pronounce his assuring prediction, I raised my eyes from the page,
+        and repeated the sentence over and over, as if to try whether the
+        sounds had any charm or spell, to reawaken that faded illusion in my
+        soul. But, no—the rank frauds of the Memphian priesthood had
+        dispelled all my trust in the promises of religion. My heart had
+        again relapsed into its gloom of scepticism, and, to the word of
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“Life,”</span> the only answer it sent back
+        was, <span class="tei tei-q">“Death!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Impatient,
+        however, to possess myself of the elements of a faith, on
+        which,—whatever it might promise for hereafter,—I felt that my
+        happiness here depended, I turned over the pages with an earnestness
+        and <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page260">[pg 260]</span><a name=
+        "Pg260" id="Pg260" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>avidity, such as never
+        even the most favourite of my studies had awakened in me. Though,
+        like all, who seek but the surface of learning, I flew desultorily
+        over the leaves, lighting only on the more prominent and shining
+        points, I yet found myself, even in this undisciplined career,
+        arrested, at every page, by the awful, the supernatural sublimity,
+        the alternate melancholy and grandeur of the images that crowded upon
+        me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I had, till now,
+        known the Hebrew theology but through the platonising refinements of
+        Philo;—as, in like manner, for my knowledge of the Christian doctrine
+        I was indebted to my brother Epicureans, Lucian and Celsus. Little,
+        therefore, was I prepared for the simple majesty, the high tone of
+        inspiration,—the poetry, in short, of heaven that breathed throughout
+        these oracles. Could admiration have kindled faith, I should, that
+        night, have been a believer; so elevated, so awed was my imagination
+        by <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page261">[pg 261]</span><a name=
+        "Pg261" id="Pg261" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>that wonderful
+        book,—its warnings of woe, its announcements of glory, and its
+        unrivalled strains of adoration and sorrow.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Hour after hour,
+        with the same eager and desultory curiosity, did I turn over the
+        leaves;—and when, at length, I lay down to rest, my fancy was still
+        haunted by the impressions it had received. I went again through the
+        various scenes of which I had read; again called up, in sleep, the
+        bright images that had charmed me, and, when wakened at day-break by
+        the Hymn from the chapel, fancied myself still listening to the sound
+        of the winds, sighing mournfully through the harps of Israel on the
+        willows.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Starting from my
+        bed, I hurried out upon the rock, with a hope that, among the tones
+        of that morning choir, I might be able to distinguish the sweet voice
+        of Alethe. But the strain had ceased;—I caught only the last notes of
+        the Hymn, as, echoing up that lonely valley, they died away into the
+        silence of the desert.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page262">[pg
+        262]</span><a name="Pg262" id="Pg262" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With the first
+        glimpse of light I was again at my study, and, notwithstanding the
+        distraction both of my thoughts and looks towards the half-seen
+        grottos of the Anchoret, pursued it perseveringly through the day.
+        Still alive, however, but to the eloquence, the poetry of what I
+        read, of its connection or authenticity, as a history, I never paused
+        to consider. My fancy being alone interested by it, to fancy I
+        referred all it contained; and, passing rapidly from annals to
+        prophecy, from narration to song, regarded the whole but as a tissue
+        of splendid allegories, in which the melancholy of Egyptian
+        associations was interwoven with the rich imagery of the East.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Towards sunset I
+        saw the boat of Melanius on its way, across the canal, to my cave.
+        Though he had no other companion than his graceful antelope, that
+        stood snuffing the wild air of the desert, as if scenting its home, I
+        felt his visit, even thus, to be a most welcome relief. It was the
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page263">[pg 263]</span><a name="Pg263"
+        id="Pg263" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>hour, he said, of his evening
+        ramble up the mountain,—of his accustomed visit to those cisterns of
+        the rock, from which he nightly drew his most precious beverage.
+        While he spoke, I observed in his hand one of those earthen cups, in
+        which the inhabitants of the wilderness are accustomed to collect the
+        fresh dew among the rocks. Having proposed that I should accompany
+        him in his walk, he led me, in the direction of the desert, up the
+        side of the mountain that rose above my dwelling, and which formed
+        the southern wall or screen of the defile.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Near the summit we
+        found a seat, where the old man paused to rest. It commanded a full
+        view over the desert, and was by the side of one of those hollows in
+        the rock, those natural reservoirs, in which the dews of night are
+        treasured up for the refreshment of the dwellers in the wilderness.
+        Having learned from me how far I had proceeded in my study,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“In that light,”</span> said he, pointing to
+        a small cloud in the east, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page264">[pg
+        264]</span><a name="Pg264" id="Pg264" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>which had been formed on the horizon by the haze
+        of the desert, and was now faintly reflecting the splendours of
+        sunset,—<span class="tei tei-q">“in that light stands Mount Sinai, of
+        whose glory thou hast read; on whose summit was the scene of one of
+        those awful revelations, in which the Almighty has, from time to
+        time, renewed his communication with Man, and kept alive the
+        remembrance of his own Providence in this world.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After a pause, as
+        if absorbed in the immensity of the subject, the holy man continued
+        his sublime theme. Looking back to the earliest annals of time, he
+        showed how constantly every relapse of the human race into idolatry
+        has been followed by some manifestation of divine power, chastening
+        the proud by punishment, and winning back the humble by love. It was
+        to preserve, he said, unextinguished upon earth, that vital
+        truth,—the Creation of the world by one Supreme Being,—that God
+        chose, from among the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page265">[pg
+        265]</span><a name="Pg265" id="Pg265" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>nations, an humble and enslaved race;—that he
+        brought them out of their captivity <span class="tei tei-q">“on
+        eagles’ wings,”</span> and, surrounding every step of their course
+        with miracles, placed them before the eyes of all succeeding
+        generations, as the depositaries of his will, and the ever-during
+        memorials of his power.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Passing, then, in
+        review the long train of inspired interpreters, whose pens and whose
+        tongues were made the echoes of the Divine voice, he traced<a id=
+        "noteref_8" name="noteref_8" href="#note_8"><span class=
+        "tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">8</span></span></a>, through
+        the events of successive ages, the gradual unfolding of the dark
+        scheme of Providence—darkness without, but all light and glory
+        within. The glimpses of a coming redemption, visible even through the
+        wrath of heaven;—the long series of prophecy, through which this hope
+        runs, burning and alive, like a spark through a chain;—the merciful
+        preparation of the hearts of mankind for the great trial of their
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page266">[pg 266]</span><a name="Pg266"
+        id="Pg266" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>faith and obedience that was at
+        hand, not only by miracles that appealed to the living, but by
+        predictions launched into futurity to carry conviction to the yet
+        unborn;—<span class="tei tei-q">“through all these glorious and
+        beneficent gradations we may track,”</span> said he, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“the manifest footsteps of a Creator, advancing to his
+        grand, ultimate end, the salvation of his creatures.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After some hours
+        devoted to these holy instructions, we returned to the ravine, and
+        Melanius left me at my cave; praying, as he parted from me,—with a
+        benevolence I but ill, alas! deserved,—that my soul, under these
+        lessons, might be <span class="tei tei-q">“as a watered
+        garden,”</span> and, ere long, bear <span class="tei tei-q">“fruit
+        unto life eternal.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Next morning, I
+        was again at my study, and even more eager in the task than before.
+        With the commentary of the Hermit freshly in my memory, I again read
+        through, with attention, the Book of the Law. But in vain did I seek
+        the promise of immortality in its pages. <span class="tei tei-q">“It
+        tells me,”</span> said <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page267">[pg
+        267]</span><a name="Pg267" id="Pg267" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>I,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“of a God coming down to earth, but of the
+        ascent of Man to heaven it speaks not. The rewards, the punishments
+        it announces, lie all on this side of the grave; nor did even the
+        Omnipotent offer to his own chosen servants a hope beyond the
+        impassable limits of this world. Where, then, is the salvation of
+        which the Christian spoke? or, if Death be at the root of the faith,
+        can Life spring out of it!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Again, in the
+        bitterness of disappointment, did I mock at my own willing
+        self-delusion,—again rail at the arts of that traitress, Fancy, ever
+        ready, like the Delilah of this book, to steal upon the slumbers of
+        Reason, and deliver him up, shorn and powerless, to his foes. If
+        deception—thought I, with a sigh—be necessary, at least let me not
+        practise it on myself;—in the desperate alternative before me, let me
+        rather be even hypocrite than dupe.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">These
+        self-accusing reflections, cheer<span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page268">[pg 268]</span><a name="Pg268" id="Pg268" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>less as they rendered my task, did not abate,
+        for a single moment, my industry in pursuing it. I read on and on,
+        with a sort of sullen apathy, neither charmed by style, nor
+        transported by imagery,—that fatal blight in my heart having
+        communicated itself to my fancy and taste. The curses and the
+        blessings, the glory and the ruin, which the historian recorded and
+        the prophet predicted, seemed all of this world,—all, temporal and
+        earthly. That mortality, of which the fountain-head had tasted,
+        tinged the whole stream; and when I read the words, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again,”</span>
+        a feeling, like the wind of the desert, came witheringly over me.
+        Love, Beauty, Glory, every thing most bright upon earth, appeared
+        sinking before my eyes, under this dreadful doom, into one general
+        mass of corruption and silence.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Possessed by the
+        image of desolation I had called up, I laid my head on the book, in a
+        paroxysm of despair. Death, in all <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page269">[pg 269]</span><a name="Pg269" id="Pg269" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>his most ghastly varieties, passed before me;
+        and I had continued thus for some time, as under the influence of a
+        fearful vision, when the touch of a hand upon my shoulder roused me.
+        Looking up, I saw the Anchoret standing by my side;—his countenance
+        beaming with that sublime tranquillity, which a hope, beyond this
+        earth, alone can bestow. How I envied him!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We again took our
+        way to the seat upon the mountain,—the gloom in my own mind making
+        every thing around me more gloomy. Forgetting my hypocrisy in my
+        feelings, I, at once, avowed to him all the doubts and fears which my
+        study of the morning had awakened.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Thou art yet, my son,”</span> he answered, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“but on the threshold of our faith. Thou hast seen but
+        the first rudiments of the Divine plan;—its full and consummate
+        perfection hath not yet opened upon thee. However glorious that
+        manifestation of Divinity on Mount Sinai, it was but the <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page270">[pg 270]</span><a name="Pg270" id="Pg270"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>forerunner of another, still more
+        glorious, that, in the fulness of time, was to burst upon the world;
+        when all, that had seemed dim and incomplete, was to be perfected,
+        and the promises, shadowed out by the <span class="tei tei-q">‘spirit
+        of prophecy,’</span> realized;—when the silence, that lay, as a seal,
+        on the future, was to be broken, and the glad tidings of life and
+        immortality proclaimed to the world!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Observing my
+        features brighten at these words, the pious man continued.
+        Anticipating some of the holy knowledge that was in store for me, he
+        traced, through all its wonders and mercies, the great work of
+        Redemption, dwelling on every miraculous circumstance connected with
+        it;—the exalted nature of the Being, by whose ministry it was
+        accomplished, the noblest and first created of the Sons of God,
+        inferior only to the one, self-existent Father;—the mysterious
+        incarnation of this heavenly messenger;—the miracles that
+        authenticated his divine mission;—<span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page271">[pg 271]</span><a name="Pg271" id="Pg271" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>the example of obedience to God and love to man,
+        which he set, as a shining light, before the world for ever;—and,
+        lastly and chiefly, his death and resurrection, by which the covenant
+        of mercy was sealed, and <span class="tei tei-q">“life and
+        immortality brought to light.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Such,”</span> continued the Hermit, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“was the Mediator, promised through all time, to
+        <span class="tei tei-q">‘make reconciliation for iniquity,’</span> to
+        change death into life, and bring <span class="tei tei-q">‘healing on
+        his wings’</span> to a darkened world. Such was the last crowning
+        dispensation of that God of benevolence, in whose hands sin and death
+        are but instruments of everlasting good, and who, through apparent
+        evil and temporary retribution, bringing all things <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">‘out of darkness into his marvellous light,’</span>
+        proceeds watchfully and unchangingly to the great, final object of
+        his providence,—the restoration of the whole human race to purity and
+        happiness!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With a mind
+        astonished, if not touched, <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page272">[pg
+        272]</span><a name="Pg272" id="Pg272" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>by
+        these discourses, I returned to my cave; and found the lamp, as
+        before, ready lighted to receive me. The volume which I had been
+        reading was replaced by another, which lay open upon the table, with
+        a branch of fresh palm between its leaves. Though I could not have a
+        doubt to whose gentle hand I was indebted for this invisible
+        superintendence over my studies, there was yet a something in it, so
+        like spiritual interposition, that it awed me;—and never more than at
+        this moment, when, on approaching the volume, I saw, as the light
+        glistened over its silver letters, that it was the very Book of Life
+        of which the Hermit had spoken!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The orison of the
+        Christians had sounded through the valley, before I raised my eyes
+        from that sacred volume; and the second hour of the sun found me
+        again over its pages.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page273">[pg 273]</span><a name="Pg273"
+        id="Pg273" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc37" id=
+        "toc37"></a><a name="pdf38" id="pdf38"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XVIII.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this mode of
+        existence did I pass some days;—my mornings devoted to reading, my
+        nights to listening, under the canopy of heaven, to the holy
+        eloquence of Melanius. The perseverance with which I enquired, and
+        the quickness with which I learned, soon succeeded in deceiving my
+        benevolent instructor, who mistook curiosity for zeal and knowledge
+        for belief. Alas! cold, and barren, and earthly was that
+        knowledge,—the word, without the spirit, the shape, without the life.
+        Even when, as a relief from hypocrisy, I persuaded myself that I
+        believed, it was but a brief delusion, a faith, whose hope crumbled
+        at the touch,—like the fruit of the desert-shrub, shining and
+        empty!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But, though my
+        soul was still dark, the <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page274">[pg
+        274]</span><a name="Pg274" id="Pg274" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>good
+        Hermit saw not into its depths. The very facility of my belief, which
+        might have suggested some doubt of its sincerity, was but regarded by
+        his innocent zeal, as a more signal triumph of the truth. His own
+        ingenuousness led him to a ready trust in others; and the examples of
+        such conversion as that of the philosopher, Justin, who received the
+        light into his soul during a walk by the sea-shore, had prepared him
+        for illuminations of the spirit, even more rapid than mine.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During this time,
+        I neither saw nor heard of Alethe;—nor could my patience have endured
+        so long a privation, had not those mute vestiges of her presence,
+        that welcomed me every night on my return, made me feel that I was
+        still living under her gentle influence, and that her sympathy hung
+        round every step of my progress. Once, too, when I ventured to speak
+        her name to Melanius, though he answered not my enquiry, there was a
+        smile, I thought, of promise upon his countenance, <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page275">[pg 275]</span><a name="Pg275" id="Pg275"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>which love, more alive than faith,
+        interpreted as it wished.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length,—it was
+        on the sixth or seventh evening of my solitude, when I lay resting at
+        the door of my cave, alter the study of the day,—I was startled by
+        hearing my name called loudly from the opposite rocks, and looking
+        up, saw, on the cliff near the deserted grottos, Melanius and—oh, I
+        could not doubt—my Alethe by his side!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though I had never
+        ceased, since the first night of my return from the desert, to
+        flatter myself with the fancy that I was still living in her
+        presence, the actual sight of her again made me feel what an age we
+        had been separated. She was clothed all in white, and, as she stood
+        in the last remains of the sunshine, appeared to my too prophetic
+        fancy like a parting spirit, whose last footsteps on earth that glory
+        encircled.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With a delight
+        only to be imagined, I saw them descend the rocks, and placing
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page276">[pg 276]</span><a name="Pg276"
+        id="Pg276" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>themselves in the boat, proceed
+        towards my cave. To disguise from Melanius the feelings with which we
+        met was impossible;—nor did Alethe even attempt to make a secret of
+        her innocent joy. Though blushing at her own happiness, she could as
+        little conceal it, as the clear waters of Ethiopia can hide their
+        gold. Every look, too, every word, spoke a fulness of affection, to
+        which, doubtful as I was of our tenure of happiness, I knew not how
+        to answer.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was not long,
+        however, left ignorant of the bright fate that awaited me; but, as we
+        wandered or rested among the rocks, learned every thing that had been
+        arranged since our parting. She had made the Hermit, I found,
+        acquainted with all that had passed between us; had told him, without
+        reserve, every incident of our voyage,—the avowals, the
+        demonstrations of affection on one side, and the deep sentiment that
+        gratitude had awakened on the other. Too wise to re<span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page277">[pg 277]</span><a name="Pg277" id="Pg277"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>gard feelings, so natural, with
+        severity,—knowing that they were of heaven, and but made evil by
+        man,—the good Hermit had heard of our attachment with pleasure; and,
+        proved as he thought the purity of my views had been, by the fidelity
+        with which I had delivered up my trust into his hands, saw, in my
+        affection for the young orphan, but a providential resource against
+        that friendless solitude in which his death must soon leave her.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">As I collected
+        these particulars from their discourse, I could hardly trust my ears.
+        It seemed too much happiness to be real; nor can words give an idea
+        of the joy—the shame—the wonder with which I listened, while the holy
+        man himself declared, that he awaited but the moment, when he should
+        find me worthy of becoming a member of the Christian Church, to give
+        me also the hand of Alethe in that sacred union, which alone
+        sanctifies love, and makes the faith, which it pledges, heavenly. It
+        was but yesterday, he added, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page278">[pg 278]</span><a name="Pg278" id="Pg278" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>that his young charge, herself, after a
+        preparation of prayer and repentance, such as even her pure spirit
+        required, had been admitted, by the sacred ordinance of baptism, into
+        the bosom of the faith;—and the white garment she wore, and the ring
+        of gold on her finger, <span class="tei tei-q">“were symbols,”</span>
+        he said, <span class="tei tei-q">“of that New Life into which she had
+        been initiated.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I raised my eyes
+        to her as he spoke, but withdrew them again, dazzled and confused.
+        Even her beauty, to my imagination, seemed to have undergone some
+        brightening change; and the contrast between that open and happy
+        countenance, and the unblest brow of the infidel that stood before
+        her, abashed me into a sense of unworthiness, and almost checked my
+        rapture.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To that night,
+        however, I look back, as an epoch in my existence. It proved that
+        sorrow is not the only awakener of devotion, but that joy may
+        sometimes call the holy spark into life. Returning to <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page279">[pg 279]</span><a name="Pg279" id="Pg279"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>my cave, with a heart full, even to
+        oppression, of its happiness, I knew no other relief to my
+        overcharged feelings than that of throwing myself on my knees, and,
+        for the first time in my life, uttering a prayer, that if, indeed,
+        there were a Being who watched over mankind, he would send down one
+        ray of his truth into my soul, and make it worthy of the blessings,
+        both here and hereafter, proffered to me!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My days now rolled
+        on in a perfect dream of happiness. Every hour of the morning was
+        welcomed as bringing nearer and nearer the blest time of sunset, when
+        the Hermit and Alethe never failed to pay their visit to my now
+        charmed cave, where her smile left a light, at each parting, that
+        lasted till her return. Then, our rambles, by star-light, over the
+        mountain;—our pauses, on the way, to contemplate the bright wonders
+        of that heaven above us;—our repose by the cistern of the rock, and
+        our silent listening, through hours <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page280">[pg 280]</span><a name="Pg280" id="Pg280" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>that seemed minutes, to the holy eloquence of
+        our teacher;—all, all was happiness of the most heartfelt kind, and
+        such as even the doubts, the cold, lingering doubts, that still hung,
+        like a mist, around my heart, could neither cloud nor chill.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">When the moonlight
+        nights returned, we used to venture into the desert; and those sands,
+        which but lately had appeared to me so desolate, now wore even a
+        cheerful and smiling aspect. To the light, innocent heart of Alethe
+        every thing was a source of enjoyment. For her, even the desert had
+        its jewels and flowers; and, sometimes, her delight was to search
+        among the sands for those beautiful pebbles of jasper that abound in
+        them;—sometimes, her eyes sparkled on finding, perhaps, a stunted
+        marigold, or one of those bitter, scarlet flowers, that lend their
+        mockery of ornament to the desert. In all these pursuits and
+        pleasures the good Hermit took a share,—mingling with them
+        occasionally the reflections of a benevolent <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page281">[pg 281]</span><a name="Pg281" id="Pg281" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>piety, that lent its own cheerful hue to all the
+        works of creation, and saw the consoling truth <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“God is Love,”</span> written legibly every where.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Such was, for a
+        few weeks, my blissful life. Oh mornings of hope, oh nights of
+        happiness, with what mournful pleasure do I retrace your flight, and
+        how reluctantly pass to the sad events that followed!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">During this time,
+        in compliance with the wishes of Melanius, who seemed unwilling that
+        I should become wholly estranged from the world, I occasionally paid
+        a visit to the neighbouring city, Antinoë, which, as the capital of
+        the Thebaid, is the centre of all the luxury of Upper Egypt. Here,—so
+        changed was my every feeling by the all-transforming passion that
+        possessed me,—I wandered, unamused and uninterested by either the
+        scenes or the people that surrounded me, and, sighing for that rocky
+        solitude where Alethe breathed, felt <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">this</span></span> to
+        be the wilderness, and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">that</span></span>, the world.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Even the thoughts
+        of my own native <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page282">[pg
+        282]</span><a name="Pg282" id="Pg282" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>Athens, that were called up, at every step, by
+        the light, Grecian architecture of this imperial city, did not awaken
+        one single regret in my heart—one wish to exchange even an hour of my
+        desert for the best luxuries and honours that awaited me in the
+        Garden. I saw the arches of triumph;—I walked under the superb
+        portico, which encircles the whole city with its marble shade;—I
+        stood in the Circus of the Sun, by whose rose-coloured pillars the
+        mysterious movements of the Nile are measured;—all these bright
+        ornaments of glory and art, as well as the gay multitude that
+        enlivened them, I saw with an unheeding eye. If they awakened in me
+        any thought, it was the mournful idea, that, one day, like Thebes and
+        Heliopolis, this pageant would pass away, leaving nothing behind but
+        a few mouldering ruins,—like the sea-shells found where the ocean has
+        been,—to tell that the great tide of Life was once there!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But, though
+        indifferent thus to all that had formerly attracted me, there were
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page283">[pg 283]</span><a name="Pg283"
+        id="Pg283" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>subjects, once alien to my
+        heart, on which it was now most tremblingly alive; and some rumours
+        which had reached me, in one of my visits to the city, of an expected
+        change in the policy of the Emperor towards the Christians, filled me
+        with apprehensions as new as they were dreadful to me.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The peace and even
+        favour which the Christians enjoyed, during the first four years of
+        the reign of Valerian, had removed from them all fear of a renewal of
+        those horrors, which they had experienced under the rule of his
+        predecessor, Decius. Of late, however, some less friendly
+        dispositions had manifested themselves. The bigots of the court,
+        taking alarm at the spread of the new faith, had succeeded in filling
+        the mind of the monarch with that religious jealousy, which is the
+        ever-ready parent of cruelty and injustice. Among these counsellors
+        of evil was Macrianus, the Prætorian Prefect, who was, by birth, an
+        Egyptian, and—so akin is superstition to <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page284">[pg 284]</span><a name="Pg284" id="Pg284" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>intolerance—had long made himself notorious by
+        his addiction to the dark practices of demon-worship and magic.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">From this
+        minister, who was now high in the favour of Valerian, the expected
+        measures of severity against the Christians, it was supposed, would
+        emanate. All tongues, in all quarters, were busy with the news. In
+        the streets, in the public gardens, on the steps of the temples, I
+        saw, every where, groups of enquirers collected, and heard the name
+        of Macrianus upon every tongue. It was dreadful, too, to observe, in
+        the countenances of those who spoke, the variety of feeling with
+        which the rumour was discussed, according as they desired or dreaded
+        its truth,—according as they were likely to be among the torturers or
+        the victims.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Alarmed, though
+        still ignorant of the whole extent of the danger, I hurried back to
+        the ravine, and, going at once to the grotto of Melanius, detailed to
+        him every particular of the intelligence I had col<span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page285">[pg 285]</span><a name="Pg285" id="Pg285"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>lected. He heard me with a composure,
+        which I mistook, alas, for confidence in his security; and, naming
+        the hour for our evening walk, retired into his grotto.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At the accustomed
+        time Alethe and he were at my cave. It was evident that he had not
+        communicated to her the intelligence which I had brought, for never
+        did brow wear such a happiness as that which now played round
+        hers;—it was, alas, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">not</span></span> of this earth! Melanius,
+        himself, though composed, was thoughtful; and the solemnity, almost
+        approaching to melancholy, with which he placed the hand of Alethe in
+        mine—in the performance, too, of a ceremony that <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">ought</span></span> to
+        have filled my heart with joy—saddened and alarmed me. This ceremony
+        was our betrothment,—the plighting of our faith to each other,—which
+        we now solemnized on the rock before the door of my cave, in the face
+        of that sunset heaven, with its one star standing as witness. After a
+        blessing from the Hermit on our spousal pledge, I placed the
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page286">[pg 286]</span><a name="Pg286"
+        id="Pg286" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>ring,—the earnest of our future
+        union—on her finger, and, in the blush, with which she surrendered
+        her whole heart to me at that instant, forgot every thing but my
+        happiness, and felt secure, even against fate!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We took our
+        accustomed walk over the rocks and on the desert. The moon was so
+        bright,—like the daylight, indeed, of other climes—that we could see
+        plainly the tracks of the wild antelopes in the sand; and it was not
+        without a slight tremble of feeling in his voice, as if some
+        melancholy analogy occurred to him as he spoke, that the good Hermit
+        said, <span class="tei tei-q">“I have observed in my walks, that
+        where-ever the track of that gentle animal is seen, there is, almost
+        always, the foot-print of a beast of prey near it.”</span> He
+        regained, however, his usual cheerfulness before we parted, and fixed
+        the following evening for an excursion, on the other side of the
+        ravine, to a point, looking, he said, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“towards that northern region of the desert, <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page287">[pg 287]</span><a name="Pg287" id="Pg287"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>where the hosts of the Lord encamped in
+        their departure out of bondage.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though, in the
+        presence of Alethe, my fears, even for herself, were forgotten in
+        that perpetual element of happiness, which encircled her like the air
+        that she breathed, no sooner was I alone than vague terrors and
+        bodings crowded upon me. In vain did I try to reason myself out of my
+        fears by dwelling on the most cheering circumstances,—the reverence
+        with which Melanius was regarded, even by the Pagans, and the
+        inviolate security with which he had lived through the most perilous
+        periods, not only safe himself, but affording sanctuary in his
+        grottos to others. When, somewhat calmed by these considerations, I
+        sunk off to sleep, dark, horrible dreams took possession of my mind.
+        Scenes of death and of torment passed confusedly before me, and, when
+        I awoke, it was with the fearful impression that all these horrors
+        were real.</p>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="page" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page288">[pg 288]</span><a name="Pg288"
+        id="Pg288" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc39" id=
+        "toc39"></a><a name="pdf40" id="pdf40"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">CHAP. XIX.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">At length, the day
+        dawned,—that dreadful day. Impatient to be relieved from my suspense,
+        I threw myself into my boat,—the same in which we had performed our
+        happy voyage,—and, as fast as oars could speed me, hurried away to
+        the city. I found the suburbs silent and solitary, but, as I
+        approached the Forum, loud yells, like those of barbarians in combat,
+        struck on my ear, and, when I entered it,—great God, what a spectacle
+        presented itself! The imperial edict against the Christians had
+        arrived during the night, and already the wild fury of bigotry was
+        let loose.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Under a canopy, in
+        the middle of the Forum, was the tribunal of the Governor. Two
+        statues, one of Apollo, the other of Osiris, stood at the bottom of
+        the steps that led up to his judgment-seat. Before <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page289">[pg 289]</span><a name="Pg289" id="Pg289"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>these idols were shrines, to which the
+        devoted Christians were dragged from all quarters by the soldiers and
+        mob, and there compelled to recant, by throwing incense into the
+        flame, or, on their refusal, hurried away to torture and death. It
+        was an appalling scene;—the consternation, the cries of some of the
+        victims,—the pale, silent resolution of others;—the fierce shouts of
+        laughter that broke from the multitude, when the frankincense,
+        dropped on the altar, proclaimed some denier of Christ; and the
+        fiend-like triumph with which the courageous Confessors, who avowed
+        their faith, were led away to the flames;—never could I have
+        conceived such an assemblage of horrors!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Though I gazed but
+        for a few minutes, in those minutes I felt enough for years. Already
+        did the form of Alethe flit before me through that tumult;—I heard
+        them shout her name;—her shriek fell on my ear; and the very thought
+        so <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page290">[pg 290]</span><a name=
+        "Pg290" id="Pg290" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>palsied me with terror,
+        that I stood fixed and statue-like on the spot.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Recollecting,
+        however, the fearful preciousness of every moment, and that—perhaps,
+        at this very instant—some emissaries of blood might be on their way
+        to the grottos, I rushed wildly out of the Forum, and made my way to
+        the quay.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The streets were
+        now crowded; but I ran headlong through the multitude, and was
+        already under the portico leading down to the river,—already saw the
+        boat that was to bear me to Alethe,—when a Centurion stood sternly in
+        my path, and I was surrounded and arrested by soldiers! It was in
+        vain that I implored, that I struggled with them as for life,
+        assuring them that I was a stranger,—that I was an Athenian,—that I
+        was—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">not</span></span> a Christian. The precipitation
+        of my flight was sufficient evidence against me, and unrelentingly,
+        and by force, they bore me away to the quarters of their
+        Chief.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page291">[pg
+        291]</span><a name="Pg291" id="Pg291" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It was enough to
+        drive me to madness! Two hours, two frightful hours, was I kept
+        waiting the arrival of the Tribune of their Legion<a id="noteref_9"
+        name="noteref_9" href="#note_9"><span class=
+        "tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">9</span></span></a>,—my brain
+        burning with a thousand fears and imaginations, which every passing
+        minute made more likely to be realised. Every thing, too, that I
+        could collect from the conversations around me but added to the
+        agonising apprehensions with which I was racked. Troops, it was said,
+        had been sent in all directions through the neighbourhood, to bring
+        in the rebellious Christians, and make them bow before the Gods of
+        the Empire. With horror, too, I heard of Orcus,—Orcus, the High
+        Priest of Memphis,—as one of the principal instigators of this
+        sanguinary edict, and as here present in Antinoë, animating and
+        directing its execution.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In this state of
+        torture I remained till <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page292">[pg
+        292]</span><a name="Pg292" id="Pg292" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>the
+        arrival of the Tribune. Absorbed in my own thoughts, I had not
+        perceived his entrance;—till, hearing a voice, in a tone of friendly
+        surprise, exclaim, <span class="tei tei-q">“Alciphron!”</span> I
+        looked up, and in this legionary Chief recognised a young Roman of
+        rank, who had held a military command, the year before, at Athens,
+        and was one of the most distinguished visitors of the Garden. It was
+        no time, however, for courtesies;—he was proceeding with cordiality
+        to greet me, but, having heard him order my instant release, I could
+        wait for no more. Acknowledging his kindness but by a grasp of the
+        hand, I flew off, like one frantic, through the streets, and, in a
+        few minutes, was on the river.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My sole hope had
+        been to reach the grottos before any of the detached parties should
+        arrive, and, by a timely flight across the desert, rescue, at least,
+        Alethe from their fury. The ill-fated delay that had occurred
+        rendered this hope almost de<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page293">[pg
+        293]</span><a name="Pg293" id="Pg293" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>sperate; but the tranquillity I found every
+        where as I proceeded down the river, and the fond confidence I still
+        cherished in the sacredness of the Hermit’s retreat, kept my heart
+        from giving way altogether under its terrors.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Between the
+        current and my oars, the boat flew, like wind, along the waters; and
+        I was already near the rocks of the ravine, when I saw, turning out
+        of the canal into the river, a barge crowded with people, and
+        glittering with arms! How did I ever survive the shock of that sight?
+        The oars dropped, as if struck out of my hands, into the water, and I
+        sat, helplessly gazing, as that terrific vision approached. In a few
+        minutes, the current brought us together;—and I saw, on the deck of
+        the barge, Alethe and the Hermit surrounded by soldiers!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">We were already
+        passing each other when, with a desperate effort, I sprang from my
+        boat and lighted upon the edge of their vessel. I knew not what I
+        did, for <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page294">[pg
+        294]</span><a name="Pg294" id="Pg294" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>despair was my only prompter. Snatching at the
+        sword of one of the soldiers, as I stood tottering on the edge, I had
+        succeeded in wresting it out of his hands, when, at the same moment,
+        I received a thrust of a lance from one of his comrades, and fell
+        backward into the river. I can just remember rising again and making
+        a grasp at the side of the vessel;—but the shock, the faintness from
+        my wound, deprived me of all consciousness, and a shriek from Alethe,
+        as I sunk, is all I can recollect of what followed.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Would I had then
+        died!—Yet, no, Almighty Being,—I should have died in darkness, and I
+        have lived to know Thee!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">On returning to my
+        senses, I found myself reclined on a couch, in a splendid apartment,
+        the whole appearance of which being Grecian, I, for a moment, forgot
+        all that had passed, and imagined myself in my own home at Athens.
+        But too soon the whole dreadful certainty flashed upon me; and,
+        starting wildly—disa<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page295">[pg
+        295]</span><a name="Pg295" id="Pg295" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>bled
+        as I was—from my couch, I called loudly, and with the shriek of a
+        maniac, on Alethe.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">I was in the
+        house, I found, of my friend and disciple, the young Tribune, who had
+        made the Governor acquainted with my name and condition, and had
+        received me under his roof, when brought, bleeding and insensible, to
+        Antinoë. From him I now learned at once,—for I could not wait for
+        details,—the sum of all that had happened in that dreadful interval.
+        Melanius was no more,—Alethe, still alive, but in prison!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Take me to her”</span>—I had but time to
+        say—<span class="tei tei-q">“take me to her instantly, and let me die
+        by her side,”</span>—when, nature again failing under such shocks, I
+        relapsed into insensibility. In this state I continued for near an
+        hour, and, on recovering, found the Tribune by my side. The horrors,
+        he said, of the Forum were, for that day, over,—but what the morrow
+        might bring, he shuddered to contemplate. His nature, it was
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page296">[pg 296]</span><a name="Pg296"
+        id="Pg296" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>plain, revolted from the
+        inhuman duties in which he was engaged. Touched by the agonies he saw
+        me suffer, he, in some degree, relieved them, by promising that I
+        should, at night-fall, be conveyed to the prison, and, if possible,
+        through his influence, gain access to Alethe. She might yet, he
+        added, be saved, could I succeed in persuading her to comply with the
+        terms of the edict, and make sacrifice to the Gods.—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Otherwise,”</span> said he, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“there is no hope;—the vindictive Orcus, who has resisted
+        even this short respite of mercy, will, to-morrow, inexorably demand
+        his prey.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He then related to
+        me, at my own request,—though every word was torture,—all the
+        harrowing details of the proceeding before the Tribunal. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“I have seen courage,”</span> said he, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“in its noblest forms, in the field; but the calm
+        intrepidity with which that aged Hermit endured torments—which it was
+        hardly less torment to witness—surpassed all <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page297">[pg 297]</span><a name="Pg297" id="Pg297" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>that I could have conceived of human
+        fortitude!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">My poor Alethe,
+        too,—in describing to me her conduct, the brave man wept like a
+        child. Overwhelmed, he said, at first by her apprehensions for my
+        safety, she had given way to a full burst of womanly weakness. But no
+        sooner was she brought before the Tribunal, and the declaration of
+        her faith was demanded of her, than a spirit almost supernatural
+        seemed to animate her whole form. <span class="tei tei-q">“She raised
+        her eyes,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“calmly, but with
+        fervour, to heaven, while a blush was the only sign of mortal feeling
+        on her features;—and the clear, sweet, and untrembling voice, with
+        which she pronounced her dooming words, <span class="tei tei-q">‘I am
+        a Christian!’</span> sent a thrill of admiration and pity throughout
+        the multitude. Her youth, her loveliness, affected all hearts, and a
+        cry of <span class="tei tei-q">‘Save the young maiden!’</span> was
+        heard in all directions.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The implacable
+        Orcus, however, would <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page298">[pg
+        298]</span><a name="Pg298" id="Pg298" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>not
+        hear of mercy. Resenting, as it appeared, with all his deadliest
+        rancour, not only her own escape from his toils, but the aid with
+        which, so fatally to his views, she had assisted mine, he demanded
+        loudly, and in the name of the insulted sanctuary of Isis, her
+        instant death. It was but by the firm intervention of the Governor,
+        who shared the general sympathy in her fate, that the delay of
+        another day was accorded, to give a chance to the young maiden of yet
+        recalling her confession, and thus affording some pretext for saving
+        her.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Even in yielding
+        reluctantly to this brief respite, the inhuman Priest would accompany
+        it with some mark of his vengeance. Whether for the pleasure
+        (observed the Tribune) of mingling mockery with his cruelty, or as a
+        warning to her of the doom she must ultimately expect, he gave orders
+        that there should be tied round her brow one of those chaplets of
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page299">[pg 299]</span><a name="Pg299"
+        id="Pg299" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>coral<a id="noteref_10" name=
+        "noteref_10" href="#note_10"><span class=
+        "tei tei-noteref"><span style=
+        "font-size: 60%; vertical-align: super">10</span></span></a>, with
+        which it is the custom of young Christian maidens to array themselves
+        on the day of their martyrdom;—<span class="tei tei-q">“and, thus
+        fearfully adorned,”</span> said he, <span class="tei tei-q">“she was
+        led away, amid the gaze of the pitying multitude, to
+        prison.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">With these details
+        the short interval till night-fall,—every minute of which seemed an
+        age,—was occupied. As soon as it grew dark, I was placed upon a
+        litter,—my wound, though not dangerous, requiring such a
+        conveyance,—and conducted, under the guidance of my friend, to the
+        prison. Through his interest with the guard, we were without
+        difficulty admitted, and I was borne into the chamber where the
+        maiden lay immured. Even the veteran guardian of the place seemed
+        touched with compassion for his prisoner, and supposing her to be
+        asleep, had the litter placed gently near her.</p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page300">[pg 300]</span><a name="Pg300" id="Pg300"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She was half
+        reclining, with her face hid in her hands, upon a couch,—at the foot
+        of which stood an idol, over whose hideous features a lamp of naptha,
+        hanging from the ceiling, shed a wild and ghastly glare. On a table
+        before the image stood a censer, with a small vessel of incense
+        beside it,—one grain of which, thrown voluntarily into the flame,
+        would, even now, save that precious life. So strange, so fearful was
+        the whole scene, that I almost doubted its reality. Alethe! my own,
+        happy Alethe! <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">can</span></span> it, I thought, be thou that I
+        look upon?</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She now, slowly
+        and with difficulty, raised her head from the couch; on observing
+        which, the kind Tribune withdrew, and we were left alone. There was a
+        paleness, as of death, over her features; and those eyes, which when
+        last I saw them, were but too bright, too happy for this world,
+        looked dim and sunken. In raising herself up, she put her hand, as if
+        from pain, to her forehead, whose <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page301">[pg 301]</span><a name="Pg301" id="Pg301" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>marble hue but appeared more death-like from
+        those red bands that lay so awfully across it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">After wandering
+        vaguely for a minute, her eyes rested upon me,—and, with a shriek,
+        half terror, half joy, she sprung from the couch, and sunk upon her
+        knees by my side. She had believed me dead; and, even now, scarcely
+        trusted her senses. <span class="tei tei-q">“My husband! my
+        love!”</span> she exclaimed; <span class="tei tei-q">“oh, if thou
+        comest to call me from this world, behold I am ready!”</span> In
+        saying thus, she pointed wildly to that ominous wreath, and then
+        dropped her head down upon my knee, as if an arrow had pierced
+        it.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Alethe!”</span>—I cried, terrified to the very soul by
+        that mysterious pang,—and the sound of my voice seemed to reanimate
+        her;—she looked up, with a faint smile, in my face. Her thoughts,
+        which had evidently been wandering, became collected; and in her joy
+        at my safety, her sorrow at my suffering, she <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page302">[pg 302]</span><a name="Pg302" id="Pg302"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>forgot wholly the fate that impended over
+        herself. Love, innocent love, alone occupied all her thoughts; and
+        the tenderness with which she spoke,—oh, at any other moment, how I
+        would have listened, have lingered upon, have blessed every word!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">But the time flew
+        fast—the dreadful morrow was approaching. Already I saw her writhing
+        in the hands of the torturer,—the flames, the racks, the wheels were
+        before my eyes! Half frantic with the fear that her resolution was
+        fixed, I flung myself from the litter, in an agony of weeping, and
+        supplicated her, by the love she bore me, by the happiness that
+        awaited us, by her own merciful God, who was too good to require such
+        a sacrifice,—by all that the most passionate anxiety could dictate, I
+        implored that she would avert from us the doom that was coming,
+        and—but for once—comply with the vain ceremony demanded of her.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Shrinking from me,
+        as I spoke,—but with a look more of sorrow than reproach,<span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page303">[pg 303]</span><a name="Pg303" id="Pg303"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“What, thou,
+        too!”</span> she said mournfully,—<span class="tei tei-q">“thou, into
+        whose spirit I had fondly hoped the same heavenly truth had descended
+        as into my own! Oh, be not thou leagued with those who would tempt me
+        to <span class="tei tei-q">‘make shipwreck of my faith!’</span> Thou,
+        who couldst alone bind me to life, use not thy power; but let me die,
+        as He I serve hath commanded,—die for the Truth. Remember the holy
+        lessons we heard on those nights, those happy nights, when both the
+        Present and Future smiled upon us,—when even the gift of eternal life
+        came more welcome to my soul, from the blessed conviction that thou
+        wert to be a sharer in it;—shall I forfeit now that divine privilege?
+        shall I deny the true God, whom we then learned to love?</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“No, my own betrothed,”</span> she continued,—pointing to
+        the two rings on her finger,—<span class="tei tei-q">“behold these
+        pledges,—they are both sacred. I should have been as true to thee as
+        I am now to heaven,—<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page304">[pg
+        304]</span><a name="Pg304" id="Pg304" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>nor
+        in that life to which I am hastening shall our love be forgotten.
+        Should the baptism of fire, through which I shall pass to-morrow,
+        make me worthy to be heard before the Throne of Grace, I will
+        intercede for thy soul—I will pray that it may yet share with mine
+        that <span class="tei tei-q">‘inheritance, immortal and
+        undefiled,’</span> which Mercy offers, and that thou,—my dear
+        mother,—and I—”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">She here dropped
+        her voice; the momentary animation, with which devotion and affection
+        had inspired her, vanished;—and a darkness overspread all her
+        features, a livid darkness,—like the coming of death—that made me
+        shudder through every limb. Seizing my hand convulsively, and looking
+        at me with a fearful eagerness, as if anxious to hear some consoling
+        assurance from my own lips,—<span class="tei tei-q">“Believe
+        me,”</span> she continued, <span class="tei tei-q">“not all the
+        torments they are preparing for me,—not even this deep, burning pain
+        in my brow, which they will hardly equal,—could be half so
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page305">[pg 305]</span><a name="Pg305"
+        id="Pg305" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>dreadful to me, as the thought
+        that I leave thee—”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Here, her voice
+        again failed; her head sunk upon my arm, and—merciful God, let me
+        forget what I then felt,—I saw that she was dying! Whether I uttered
+        any cry, I know not;—but the Tribune came rushing into the chamber,
+        and, looking on the maiden, said, with a face full of horror,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“It is but too true!”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">He then told me in
+        a low voice, what he had just learned from the guardian of the
+        prison, that the band round the young Christian’s brow was—oh
+        horrible cruelty!—a compound of the most deadly poison,—the hellish
+        invention of Orcus, to satiate his vengeance, and make the fate of
+        his poor victim secure. My first movement was to untie that fatal
+        wreath,—but it would not come away—it would not come away!</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Roused by the
+        pain, she again looked in my face; but, unable to speak, took hastily
+        from her bosom the small silver cross <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page306">[pg 306]</span><a name="Pg306" id="Pg306" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>which she had brought with her from my cave.
+        Having prest it to her own lips, she held it anxiously to mine, and
+        seeing me kiss the holy symbol with fervour, looked happy, and
+        smiled. The agony of death seemed to have passed away;—there came
+        suddenly over her features a heavenly light, some share of which I
+        felt descending into my own soul, and, in a few minutes more, she
+        expired in my arms.</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-tb">
+          <hr style="width: 50%" />
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Here ends the
+        Manuscript; but, on the outer cover there is, in the hand-writing of
+        a much later period, the following Notice, extracted, as it appears,
+        from some Egyptian martyrology:—</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Alciphron,—an Epicurean philosopher, converted to
+        Christianity <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-size: 75%">A.&nbsp;D.</span></span> 257, by a young Egyptian
+        maiden, who suffered martyrdom in that year. Immediately upon her
+        death he betook himself to the desert, and lived a life, it is said,
+        of much <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page307">[pg 307]</span><a name=
+        "Pg307" id="Pg307" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>holiness and penitence.
+        During the persecution under Dioclesian, his sufferings for the faith
+        were most exemplary; and, being at length, at an advanced age,
+        condemned to hard labour, for refusing to comply with an Imperial
+        edict, he died at the brass mines of Palestine, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-size: 75%">A.&nbsp;D.</span></span>
+        297.—</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“As Alciphron held the opinions maintained since by
+        Arius, his memory has not been spared by Athanasian writers, who,
+        among other charges, accuse him of having been addicted to the
+        superstitions of Egypt. For this calumny, however, there appears to
+        be no better foundation than a circumstance, recorded by one of his
+        brother monks, that there was found, after his death, a small metal
+        mirror, like those used in the ceremonies of Isis, suspended round
+        his neck.”</span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page308">[pg
+        308]</span><a name="Pg308" id="Pg308" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <hr class="doublepage" />
+
+    <div class="tei tei-back" style=
+    "margin-bottom: 2.00em; margin-top: 6.00em">
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-bottom: 5.00em; margin-top: 5.00em">
+        <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page309">[pg 309]</span><a name="Pg309"
+        id="Pg309" class="tei tei-anchor"></a> <a name="toc41" id=
+        "toc41"></a><a name="pdf42" id="pdf42"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-top: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">NOTES.</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg017"
+        class="tei tei-ref">Page 17</a>.—For the importance attached to
+        dreams by the ancients, see <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Jortin</span></span>, Remarks on Ecclesiastical
+        History, vol. 1. p. 90.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg022" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 22</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Pillar of
+        Pillars</span></span>”</span>—more properly, perhaps, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“the column of the pillars.”</span> v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Abdallatif</span></span>, Relation de l’Egypte,
+        and the notes of <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">M. de Sacy</span></span>. The great portico
+        round this column (formerly designated Pompey’s, but now known to
+        have been erected in honour of Dioclesian) was still standing, M. de
+        Sacy says, in the time of Saladin. v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lord Valentia’s
+        Travels</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg023" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 23</a>.—Ammianus thus speaks of the state of
+        Alexandria in his time, which was, I believe, as late as the end of
+        the fourth century:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ne nunc quidem in eadem
+        urbe Doctrinæ variæ silent, non apud nos exaruit Musica nec Harmonia
+        conticuit.”</span> Lib. 22.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg025" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 25</a>.—From the character of the features of the
+        Sphinx, and a passage in Herodotus, describing the Egyptians as
+        <span lang="grc" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc"><span style=
+        "font-style: normal">μελαγχροες και ουλοτρικες</span></span>, Volney,
+        Bruce, and a few others, have concluded that the ancient inhabitants
+        of Egypt were negroes. But this opinion is contradicted by a host of
+        authorities. See <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Castera</span></span>’s notes upon <span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page310">[pg 310]</span><a name="Pg310" id="Pg310"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Browne’s Travels</span></span>, for the result
+        of Blumenbach’s dissection of a variety of mummies. Denon, speaking
+        of the character of the heads represented in the ancient sculpture
+        and painting of Egypt, says, <span class="tei tei-q">“Celle des
+        femmes ressemble encore à la figure des jolies femmes d’aujourd’hui:
+        de la rondeur, de la volupté, le nez petit, les yeux longs, peu
+        ouverts,”</span> &amp;c. &amp;c. He could judge, too, he says, from
+        the female mummies, <span class="tei tei-q">“que leurs cheveux
+        étoient longs et lisses, que le caractère de tête de la plupart
+        tenoit du beau style”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Je
+        raportai,”</span> he adds, <span class="tei tei-q">“une tête de
+        vieille femme qui étoit aussi belle que celles de Michel Ange, et
+        leur ressembloit beaucoup.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In a <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Description générale de
+        Thèbes</span></span>”</span> by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Messrs. Jollois et Desvilliers</span></span>,
+        they say, <span class="tei tei-q">“Toutes les sculptures Egyptiennes,
+        depuis les plus grands colosses de Thèbes jusqu’aux plus petites
+        idoles, ne rappellent en aucune manière les traits de la figure des
+        nègres; outre que les têtes des momies des catacombs de Thèbes
+        presentent des profils droits.”</span> See also <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">M.
+        Jomard</span></span>’s <span class="tei tei-q">“Description of Syene
+        and the Cataracts,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Baron Larrey</span></span>, on the <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“conformation physique”</span> of the Egyptians,
+        &amp;c.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">De Pauw, the great
+        depreciator of every thing Egyptian, has, on the authority of a
+        passage in Ælian, presumed to affix to the countrywomen of Cleopatra
+        the stigma of complete and unredeemed ugliness. The following line of
+        Euripides, however, is an answer to such charges:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            <span lang="grc" class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"
+            xml:lang="grc"><span style="font-style: normal">Νειλου μεν αἱδε
+            καλλιπαρθενοι ροαι.</span></span>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In addition to the
+        celebrated instances of Cleopatra, Rhodope, &amp;c. we are told, on
+        the authority of Manetho (as given by Zoega from Georgius Syncellus),
+        of a beautiful queen of Memphis, Nitocris, of the sixth dynasty, who,
+        in addition to other charms and perfections, was (rather
+        inconsistently with the negro hypothesis) <span lang="grc" class=
+        "tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc"><span style=
+        "font-style: normal">ξανθη την χροιαν</span></span>.</p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page311">[pg 311]</span><a name="Pg311" id="Pg311"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See, for a tribute
+        to the beauty of the Egyptian women, Montesquieu’s Temple de
+        Gnide.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg035" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 35</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Among beds of lotus
+        flowers.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Strabo</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg036" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 36</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Isle of the golden
+        Venus.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“On trouve une
+        île appelée Venus-Dorée, ou le champ d’or, avant de remonter jusqu’à
+        Memphis.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Voyages de Pythagore.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg039" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 39</a>.—For an account of the Table of Emerald, v.
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Lettres sur
+        l’Origine des Dieux d’Egypte</span></span>. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">De Pauw</span></span>
+        supposes it to be a modern fiction of the Arabs. Many writers have
+        fancied that the art of making gold was the great secret that lay hid
+        under the forms of Egyptian theology. <span class="tei tei-q">“La
+        science Hermétique,”</span> says the Benedictine, Pernetz,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“l’art sacerdotal étoit la source de toutes
+        les richesses des Rois d’Egypte, et l’objet de ces mystères si cachés
+        sous le voile du leur pretendu Religion.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fables
+        Egyptiennes.</span></span> The hieroglyphs, that formerly covered the
+        Pyramids, are supposed by some of these writers to relate to the same
+        art. See <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Mutus liber, Rupellæ</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg040" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 40</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“By reflecting the
+        sun’s rays,”</span> says <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Clarke</span></span>, speaking of the Pyramids,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“they appeared white as snow.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg041" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 41</a>.—For Bubastis, the Diana of the Egyptians,
+        v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Jablonski</span></span>, lib. 3. c. 4.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg043" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 43</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The light
+        coracle</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Amuilhon</span></span>,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Histoire de la Navigation et du Commerce des
+        Egyptiens sous les Ptolemées</span></span>.”</span> See also, for a
+        description of the various kinds of boats used on the Nile,
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maillet</span></span>, tom. i. p. 98.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg044" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 44</a>.—v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maurice</span></span>, Appendix to <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Ruins of Ba<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page312">[pg
+        312]</span><a name="Pg312" id="Pg312" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>bylon.”</span> Another reason, he says, for
+        their worship of the Ibis, <span class="tei tei-q">“founded on their
+        love of geometry, was (according to Plutarch) that the space between
+        its legs, when parted asunder, as it walks, together with its beak,
+        forms a complete equilateral triangle.”</span> From the examination
+        of the embalmed birds, found in the Catacombs of Saccara, there seems
+        to be no doubt that the Ibis was the same kind of bird as that
+        described by Bruce, under the Arabian name of Abou Hannes.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg044" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The
+        sistrum</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Isis est genius,”</span> says <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Servius</span></span>,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“Ægypti, qui per sistri motum, quod gerit in
+        dextra, Nili accessus recessusque significat.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg048" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 48</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The ivy encircled
+        it</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—The ivy was consecrated to
+        Osiris. v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Diodor. Sic.</span></span> 1. 10.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg048" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The small
+        mirror.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Quelques
+        unes,”</span> says <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dupuis</span></span>, describing the processions
+        of Isis, <span class="tei tei-q">“portoient des miroirs attachés à
+        leurs épaules, afin de multiplier et de porter dans tous les sens les
+        images de la Déesse.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Origine des Cultes</span></span>, tom. 8. p.
+        847. A mirror, it appears, was also one of the emblems in the
+        mysteries of Bacchus.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg049" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 49</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><a name="corr312" id="corr312" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a><span class="tei tei-corr"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">There</span></span> <span style=
+        "font-style: italic">is, to the north of
+        Memphis</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Tout prouve que la territoire de Sakkarah étoit la
+        Necropolis au sud de Memphis, et le faubourg opposé à celui-ci, où
+        sont les pyramides de Gizeh, une autre Ville des Morts, qui terminoit
+        Memphis au nord.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Denon.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">There is nothing
+        known with certainty as to the site of Memphis, but it will be
+        perceived that the description of its position given by the Epicurean
+        corresponds, in almost every particular, with that which M. Maillet
+        (the French consul, for many years, at Cairo) has left us. It must be
+        always borne in mind, too, that of the dis<span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page313">[pg 313]</span><a name="Pg313" id="Pg313" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>tances between the respective places here
+        mentioned, we have no longer any accurate means of judging.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg051" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 49</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pyramid beyond
+        pyramid.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Multas olim
+        pyramidas fuisse e ruinis arguitur.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Zoega.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Vansleb</span></span>,
+        who visited more than ten of the small pyramids, is of opinion that
+        there must have originally been a hundred in this place.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See, for the lake
+        to the northward of Memphis, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Shaw’s Travels</span></span>, p. 302.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg057" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 57</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Theban
+        beetle.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“On voit en
+        Egypte, après la retraite du Nil et la fécondation des terres, le
+        limon couvert d’une multitude de scarabées. Un pareil phénomène a dû
+        sembler aux Egyptiens le plus propre à peindre une nouvelle
+        existence.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">M. Jomard.</span></span>—Partly for the same
+        reason, and partly for another, still more fanciful, the early
+        Christians used to apply this emblem to Christ. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Bonus ille scarabæus meus,”</span> says St. Augustine
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“non eâ tantum de causâ quod unigenitus, quod
+        ipsemet sui auctor mortalium speciem induerit, sed quod in hac nostrâ
+        fæce sese volutaverit et ex hac ipsa nasci voluerit.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg057" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Enshrined within a case
+        of crystal.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Les
+        Egyptiens ont fait aussi, pour conserver leurs morts, des caisses de
+        verre.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">De Pauw.</span></span>—He mentions, in another
+        place, a sort of transparent substance, which the Ethiopians used for
+        the same purpose, and which was frequently mistaken by the Greeks for
+        glass.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg058" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 58</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Among the emblems of
+        death.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Un prêtre, qui
+        brise la tige d’une fleur, des oiseaux qui <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page314">[pg 314]</span><a name="Pg314" id="Pg314" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>s’envolent sont les emblemes de la morte et de
+        l’âme qui se sépare du corps.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Denon.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Theseus employs
+        the same image in the Phædra:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            <span lang="grc" class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"
+            xml:lang="grc"><span style="font-style: normal">Ορνις γαρ ὡς τις
+            εκ χερων αφαντος ει</span></span>
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            <span lang="grc" class="tei tei-foreign" style="text-align: left"
+            xml:lang="grc"><span style="font-style: normal">Πηδημ’ ες ἁδου
+            πικρον ὁρμησασα μοι.</span></span>
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg059" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 59</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“The singular
+        appearance of a Cross so frequently recurring among the hieroglyphics
+        of Egypt, had excited the curiosity of the Christians at a very early
+        period of ecclesiastical history; and as some of the Priests, who
+        were acquainted with the meaning of the hieroglyphics, became
+        converted to Christianity the secret transpired. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">‘The converted heathens,’</span> says Socrates
+        Scholasticus, <span class="tei tei-q">‘explained the symbol, and
+        declared that it signified Life to Come.’</span> ”</span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Clarke.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Lipsius,
+        therefore, erroneously supposes the Cross to have been an emblem
+        peculiar to the Christians. See, on this subject, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">L’Histoire des
+        Juifs</span></span>, liv. 9. c. 16.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">It is singular
+        enough that while the Cross was held sacred among the Egyptians, not
+        only the custom of marking the forehead with the sign of the Cross,
+        but Baptism and the consecration of the bread in the Eucharist were
+        imitated in the mysterious ceremonies of Mithra. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Tertull. de
+        Proscriptione Hereticorum.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Zoega is of
+        opinion that the Cross found (for the first time, it is said) on the
+        destruction of the temple of Serapis, by the Christians, could have
+        not been the crux ansata; as nothing is more common than this emblem
+        on all the Egyptian monuments.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg062" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 62</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Stood
+        shadowless.</span></span>”</span>—It was an idea entertained among
+        the ancients that the Pyramids were so constructed (<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“mecanicâ constructione,”</span> says <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ammianus
+        Marcellinus</span></span>) as never to cast any
+        shadow.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page315">[pg
+        315]</span><a name="Pg315" id="Pg315" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg064" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 64</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Rhodope.</span></span>”</span>—From the story of
+        Rhodope, Zoega thinks, <span class="tei tei-q">“videntur Arabes ansam
+        arripuisse ut in una ex pyramidibus, genii loco, habitare dicerent
+        mulierem nudam insignis pulchritudinis quæ aspectu suo homines
+        insanire faciat.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">De Usu Obeliscorum.</span></span> See also
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">L’Egypte de
+        Murtadi par Vattier</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg066" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 66</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Gates of
+        Oblivion.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Apud Memphim
+        æneas quasdam portas, quæ Lethes et Cocyti (hoc est oblivionis et
+        lamentationis) appellenter aperiri, gravem asperumque edentes
+        sonum.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Zoega.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg069" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 69</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A pile of lifeless
+        bodies.</span></span>”</span>—See, for the custom of burying the dead
+        upright (<span class="tei tei-q">“post funus stantia busto
+        corpora,”</span> as Statius describes it), Dr. Clarke’s preface to
+        the 2d section of his fifth volume. They used to insert precious
+        stones in the place of the eyes. <span class="tei tei-q">“Les yeux
+        étoient formés d’émeraudes, de turquoises,”</span> &amp;c.—v.
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Masoudy</span></span>, quoted by <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Quatremere</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg072" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 72</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It seemed as if every
+        echo.</span></span>”</span>—See, for the echoes in the pyramids,
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Plutarch,
+        de Placitis Philosoph.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg074" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 74</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pale phantom-like
+        shapes.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ce moment
+        heureux (de l’Autopsie) étoit preparé par des scènes effrayantes, par
+        des alternatives de crainte et de joie, de lumière et des ténèbres,
+        par la lueur des éclairs, par le bruit terrible de la foudre, qu’on
+        imitoit, et par des apparitions de spectres, des illusions magiques,
+        qui frappoient les yeux et les oreilles tout ensemble.”</span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dupuis.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg077" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 77</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Serpents of
+        fire.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Ces
+        considérations me portent à penser que, dans les mystères, ces
+        phéno<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page316">[pg 316]</span><a name=
+        "Pg316" id="Pg316" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>mènes étoient beaucoup
+        mieux exécutées et sans comparison plus terribles à l’aide de quelque
+        composition pyrique, qui est restée cachée, comme celle du feu
+        Grégeois.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">De Pauw.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg078" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 78</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The burning of the
+        reed-beds of Ethiopia.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Il n’y a point d’autre moyen que de porter le feu dans
+        ces forêts de roseaux, qui répandent alors dans tout le païs une
+        lumière aussi considérable que celle du jour même.”</span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maillet</span></span>, tom. 1. p. 63.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg079" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 79</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The sound of
+        torrents.</span></span>”</span>—The Nile, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pliny</span></span>
+        tells us, was admitted into the Pyramid.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg081" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 81</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I had almost given
+        myself up.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“On
+        exerçoit,”</span> says <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dupuis</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“les recipiendaires, pendant plusieurs jours, à
+        traverser, à la nage, une grande étendue d’eau. On les y jettoit et
+        ce n’étoit que avec peine qu’ ils s’en retiroient. On appliquoit le
+        fer et le feu sur leurs membres. On les faisoit passer à travers les
+        flammes.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">The aspirants were
+        often in considerable danger, and Pythagoras, we are told, nearly
+        lost his life in the trials. v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Recherches sur les Initiations, par
+        Robin</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg090" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 90</a>.—For the two cups used in the mysteries,
+        see <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">L’Histoire des Juifs</span></span>, liv. 9. c.
+        16.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg090" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Osiris.</span></span>”</span>—Osiris, under the
+        name of Serapis, was supposed to rule over the subterranean world;
+        and performed the office of Pluto, in the mythology of the Egyptians.
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“They believed,”</span> says Dr. Pritchard,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“that Serapis presided over the region of
+        departed souls, during the period of their absence, when languishing
+        without bodies, and that the dead were deposited in his
+        palace.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Analysis of the Egyptian
+        Mythology.</span></span></p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page317">[pg
+        317]</span><a name="Pg317" id="Pg317" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg090" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">To cool the lips of the
+        dead.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Frigidam illam
+        aquam post mortem, tanquam Hebes poculum, expetitam.”</span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Zoega.</span></span>—The Lethe of the Egyptians
+        was called Ameles. See <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dupuis</span></span>, tom. 8. p. 651.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg091" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 90</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A draught
+        divine.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Diodor. Sicul.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg093" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 93</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Grasshopper, symbol of
+        initiation.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Hor.
+        Apoll.</span></span>—The grasshopper was also consecrated to the sun
+        as being musical.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg094" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 94</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Isle of
+        gardens.</span></span>”</span>—The isle Antirrhodus near Alexandria.
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maillet.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg094" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Vineyard at
+        Anthylla.</span></span>”</span>—See <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Athen.
+        Deipnos.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg097" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 97</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">We can see those
+        stars.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“On voyoit en
+        plein jour par ces ouvertures les étoiles, et même quelques planètes
+        en leur plus grande latitude septentrionale; et les prêtres avoient
+        bientôt profité de ce phénomène pour observer à diverses heures la
+        passage des étoiles.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Séthos.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Strabo</span></span>
+        mentions certain caves or pits, constructed for the purpose of
+        astronomical observations, which lay in the Zelopolitan prefecture,
+        beyond Heliopolis.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg098" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 98</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A
+        plantain.</span></span>”</span>—This tree was dedicated to the Genii
+        of the Shades, from its being an emblem of repose and cooling airs.
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“Cui imminet musæ folium, quod ab Iside
+        infera geniisque ei addictis manu geri solitum, umbram requiemque et
+        auras frigidas subindigitare videtur.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Zoega.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg107" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 107</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">He spoke of the
+        preexistence of the soul</span></span>,”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—For a full account of the
+        doctrines which are here represented as having been taught to the
+        initiated <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page318">[pg
+        318]</span><a name="Pg318" id="Pg318" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>in
+        the Egyptian mysteries, the reader may consult <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Dupuis</span></span>,
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pritchard’s
+        Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology</span></span>, &amp;c. &amp;c.
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“L’on découvroit l’origine de l’ame, sa chute
+        sur la terre, à travers les sphères et les élémens, et son retour au
+        lieu de sa origine ... c’étoit ici la partie la plus métaphysique, et
+        que ne pourroit guère entendre le commun des Initiés, mais dont on
+        lui donnoit le spectacle par des figures et des spectres
+        allégoriques.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dupuis.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg108" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 108</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Those fields of
+        radiance.</span></span>”</span>—See <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Beausobre</span></span>, liv. 3. c. 4. for the
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“terre bienheureuse et lumineuse”</span>
+        which the Manicheans supposed God to inhabit. Plato, too, speaks (in
+        Phæd.) of a <span class="tei tei-q">“pure land lying in the pure sky
+        (<span lang="grc" class="tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc"><span style=
+        "font-style: normal">την γην καθαραν εν καθαρω κεισθαι
+        ουρανω</span></span>), the abode of divinity, of innocence, and of
+        life.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg110" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 110</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Tracing it from the
+        first moment of earthward desire.</span></span>”</span>—In the
+        original construction of this work, there was an episode introduced
+        here, (which I have since published in another form,) illustrating
+        the doctrine of the fall of the soul by the Oriental fable of the
+        Loves of the Angels.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg111" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 111</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Restoring her lost
+        wings.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Damascius</span></span> in his Life of Isidorus,
+        says, <span class="tei tei-q">“Ex antiquissimis Philosophis
+        Pythagoram et Platonem Isidorus ut Deos coluit, et <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">eorum animas alatas
+        esse</span></span> dixit quas in locum supercœlestem inque campum
+        veritatis et pratum elevatas, divinis putavit ideis pasci.”</span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Apud Phot.
+        Bibliothec.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg112" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 112</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A pale, moonlike
+        meteor.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Apuleius</span></span>, in describing the
+        miraculous appearances exhibited in the mysteries, says, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Nocte mediâ vidi solem candido coruscantem
+        lumine.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Metamorphos.</span></span> lib.
+        11.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page319">[pg 319]</span><a name=
+        "Pg319" id="Pg319" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg113" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 113</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">So entirely did the
+        illusion of the scene</span></span>,”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—In tracing the early
+        connection of spectacles with the ceremonies of religion, Voltaire
+        says, <span class="tei tei-q">“Il y a bien plus; les véritables
+        grandes tragédies, les representations imposantes et terribles,
+        étoient les mystères sacrés, qu’on célébroit dans les plus vastes
+        temples du monde, en présence des seuls Initiés; c’étoit là que les
+        habits, les décorations, les machines étoient propres au sujet; et le
+        sujet étoit la vie présente et la vie future.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Des divers changemens
+        arrivés à l’art tragique.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">To these scenic
+        representations in the Egyptian mysteries, there is evidently an
+        allusion in the vision of Ezekiel, where the spirit shows him the
+        abominations which the Israelites learned in Egypt:—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Then said he unto me, <span class="tei tei-q">‘Son of
+        man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in
+        the dark, every man in <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">the chambers of his
+        imagery</span></span>.’</span> ”</span> Chap. 8.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg118" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 118</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The seven tables of
+        stone.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Bernard, Comte
+        de la Marche Trévisane, instruit par la lecture des livres anciens,
+        dit qu’ Hermes trouva sept tables dans la vallée d’Hebron, sur
+        lesquelles étoient gravés les principes des arts liberaux.”</span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fables
+        Egyptiennes.</span></span> See <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Jablonski de stelis Herm.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg119" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 119</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Beside the goat of
+        Mendes.</span></span>”</span>—For an account of the animal worship of
+        the Egyptians, see <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">De Pauw</span></span>, tom. 2.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg119" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Isiac
+        serpents.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“On auguroit
+        bien des serpens Isiaques, lorsqu’ils goutoient l’offrande et se
+        trainoient lentement autour de l’autel.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">De
+        Pauw.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg121" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 121</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Hence the festivals and
+        hymns</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—For an account of the
+        various festivals at the different periods <span class="tei tei-pb"
+        id="page320">[pg 320]</span><a name="Pg320" id="Pg320" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>of the sun’s progress, in the spring, and in the
+        autumn, see <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dupuis</span></span> and <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Pritchard</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg121" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The mysteries of the
+        night.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Athenag. Leg. pro Christ.</span></span> p.
+        133.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg125" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 125</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A peal like that of
+        thunder.</span></span>”</span>—See, for some curious remarks on the
+        mode of imitating thunder and lightning in the ancient mysteries,
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">De
+        Pauw</span></span>, tom. 1. p. 323. The machine with which these
+        effects were produced on the stage was called a ceraunoscope.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg131" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 131</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Windings, capriciously
+        intricate.</span></span>”</span>—In addition to the accounts which
+        the ancients have left us of the prodigious excavations in all parts
+        of Egypt,—the fifteen hundred chambers under the Labyrinth—the
+        subterranean stables of the Thebaïd, containing a thousand horses—the
+        crypts of Upper Egypt passing under the bed of the Nile, &amp;c.
+        &amp;c.—the stories and traditions current among the Arabs still
+        preserve the memory of those wonderful substructions. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Un Arabe,”</span> says Paul Lucas, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“qui étoit avec nous, m’assura qu’étant entré autrefois
+        dans le Labyrinthe, il avoit marché dans les chambres souterraines
+        jusqu’en un lieu où il y avoit une grande place environnée de
+        plusieurs niches qui ressembloit à de petites boutiques, d’où l’on
+        entroit dans d’autres allées et dans des chambres, sans pouvoir en
+        trouver la fin.”</span> In speaking, too, of the arcades along the
+        Nile, near Cosseir, <span class="tei tei-q">“Ils me dirent même que
+        ces souterrains étoient si profondes qu’il y en avoient qui alloient
+        à trois journées de là, et qu’ils conduisoient dans un pays où l’on
+        voyoit de beaux jardins, qu’on y trouvoit de belles maisons,”</span>
+        &amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">See also in
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">M.
+        Quatremere’s Memoires sur l’Egypte</span></span>, tom. 1. p. 142., an
+        account of a subterranean reservoir, <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page321">[pg 321]</span><a name="Pg321" id="Pg321" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>said to have been discovered at Kaïs, and of the
+        expedition undertaken by a party of persons, in a long narrow boat,
+        for the purpose of exploring it. <span class="tei tei-q">“Leur voyage
+        avoit été de six jours, dont les quatre premiers furent employés à
+        pénétrer les bords; les deux autres à revenir au lieu d’où ils
+        étoient partis: Pendant tout cet intervalle ils ne purent atteindre
+        l’extrémité du bassin. L’émir Ala-eddin-Tamboga, gouverneur de
+        Behnesa, écrivit ces détails au sultan, qui en fut extrêmement
+        surpris.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg136" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 136</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A small island in the
+        centre of Lake Mœris.</span></span>”</span>—The position here given
+        to Lake Mœris, in making it the immediate boundary of the city of
+        Memphis to the south, corresponds exactly with the site assigned to
+        it by Maillet:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Memphis avoit encore à son
+        midi un vaste reservoir, par où tout ce qui peut servir à la
+        commodité et à l’agrément de la vie lui étoit voituré abondamment de
+        toutes les parties de l’Egypte. Ce lac qui la terminoit de ce
+        côté-là,”</span> &amp;c. &amp;c. Tom. 2. p. 7.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg136" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ruins rising blackly
+        above the wave.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“On
+        voit sur la rive orientale des antiquités qui sont presque
+        entièrement sous les eaux.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Belzoni.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg137" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 137</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Its thundering
+        portals.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Quorundam
+        autem domorum (in Labyrintho) talis est situs, ut adaperientibus
+        foris tonitru intus terribile existat.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Pliny.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg138" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 138</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Leaves that serve as
+        cups.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Strabo.</span></span> According to the French
+        translator of Strabo, it was the fruit of the <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">faba
+        Ægyptiaca</span></span>, not the leaf, that was used for this
+        purpose. <span class="tei tei-q">“Le <span lang="grc" class=
+        "tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc"><span style=
+        "font-style: normal">κιβωριον</span></span>,”</span> he says,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“devoit s’entendre de la capsule ou fruit de
+        cette plante, dont les Egyptiens <span class="tei tei-pb" id=
+        "page322">[pg 322]</span><a name="Pg322" id="Pg322" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>se servoient comme d’un vase, imaginant que
+        l’eau du Nil y devenoit delicieuse.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg142" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 142</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The fish of these
+        waters</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ælian</span></span>,
+        lib. 6. 32.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg142" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pleasure boats or
+        yachts.</span></span>”</span>—Called Thalamages, from the pavilion on
+        the deck. v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Strabo</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg144" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 144</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Covered with beds of
+        those pale, sweet roses.</span></span>”</span>—As April is the season
+        for gathering these roses (See <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Malte-brun’s Economical Calendar</span></span>),
+        the Epicurean could not, of course, mean to say that he saw them
+        actually in flower.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg146" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 146</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The lizards upon the
+        bank.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“L’or et l’azur
+        brillent en bandes longitudinales sur leur corps entier, et leur
+        queue est du plus beau bleu celeste.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Sonnini.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg147" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 147</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The canal through which
+        we now sailed.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Un
+        canal,”</span> says <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maillet</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“très profond et très large y voituroit les eaux du
+        Nil.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg150" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 150</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">For a draught of whose
+        flood</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Anciennement on portoit les eaux du Nil jusqu’au des
+        contrées fort éloignées, et surtout chez les princesses du sang des
+        Ptolomées, mariées dans des families étrangères.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">De
+        Pauw.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg154" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 154</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Bearing each the name
+        of its owner.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Le nom
+        du maître y étoit écrit, pendant la nuit en lettres de feu.”</span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maillet.</span></span></p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page323">[pg 323]</span><a name="Pg323" id="Pg323"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg155" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 155</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Cups of that frail
+        crystal</span></span>”</span>—called Alassontes. For their
+        brittleness <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Martial</span></span> is an authority:—</p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-top: 1.00em; margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Tolle, puer, calices, tepidique toreumata Nili,
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Et mihi securâ pocula trade manu.
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg155" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Bracelets of the black
+        beans of Abyssinia.</span></span>”</span>—The bean of the Glycyne,
+        which is so beautiful as to be strung into necklaces and bracelets,
+        is generally known by the name of the black bean of Abyssinia.
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Niebhur.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg155" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sweet lotus-wood
+        flute.</span></span>”</span>—See <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">M. Villoteau on the
+        musical instruments of the Egyptians</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg156" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 156</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Shine like the brow of
+        Mount Atlas at night.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Solinus</span></span>
+        speaks of the snowy summit of Mount Atlas glittering with flames at
+        night. In the account of the Periplus of Hanno, as well as in that of
+        Eudoxus, we read that as those navigators were coasting this part of
+        Africa, torrents of light were seen to fall on the sea.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg158" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 158</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The tears of
+        Isis.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Per lacrymas,
+        vero, Isidis intelligo effluvia quædam Lunæ, quibus tantam vim
+        videntur tribuisse Ægypti.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Jablonski.</span></span>—He is of opinion that
+        the superstition of the <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Nucta</span></span>, or miraculous drop, is of a
+        relic of the veneration paid to the dews, as the tears of Isis.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg158" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 158</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The rustling of the
+        acacias</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Travels of Captain
+        Mangles.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg158" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Supposed to rest in the
+        valley of the moon.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Plutarch.</span></span>
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dupuis</span></span>, tom. 10. The Manicheans
+        held the same belief. See <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Beausobre</span></span>, p. 565.</p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page324">[pg 324]</span><a name="Pg324" id="Pg324"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg160" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 160</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sothis, the fair star
+        of the waters.</span></span>”</span>—<span lang="grc" class=
+        "tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc"><span style=
+        "font-style: normal">ὑδραγωγον</span></span> is the epithet applied
+        to this star by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Plutarch</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">de
+        Isid.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg160" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Was its
+        birth-star.</span></span>”</span>—<span lang="grc" class=
+        "tei tei-foreign" xml:lang="grc"><span style="font-style: normal">Ἡ
+        Σωθεως ανατολη γενεσεως καταρχουσα της εις τον κοσμον</span></span>.
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Porphyr. de
+        Antro Nymph.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg168" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 168</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Golden
+        Mountains.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Wilford on Egypt and
+        the Nile</span></span>, Asiatic Researches.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg168" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Sweet-smelling
+        wood.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“’A l’époque de
+        la crue le Nil Vert charie les planches d’un bois qui a une odeur
+        semblable à celle de l’encens.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Quatremere.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg169" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 169</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Barges full of
+        bees.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maillet.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg170" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 170</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Such a profusion of the
+        white flowers</span></span>,”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“On les voit comme jadis cueillir dans les champs des
+        tiges du lotus, signes du débordement et présages de l’abondance; ils
+        s’enveloppent les bras et le corps avec les longues tiges fleuries,
+        et parcourent les rues,”</span> &amp;c. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Description des
+        Tombeaux des Rois, par M. Costaz.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg173" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 173</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">While composing his
+        commentary on the scriptures.</span></span>”</span>—It was during the
+        composition of his great critical work, the Hexapla, that Origen
+        employed these female scribes.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg176" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 176</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">That rich
+        tapestry</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span></p>
+
+        <div class="tei tei-lg" style=
+        "margin-left: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Non ego prætulerim Babylonica picta superbè
+          </div>
+
+          <div class="tei tei-l" style="text-align: left">
+            Texta, Semiramiâ quæ variantur acu.
+          </div>
+        </div>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; text-align: right"><span class="tei tei-hi"
+        style="text-align: right"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Martial.</span></span></p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page325">[pg 325]</span><a name="Pg325" id="Pg325"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg200" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 200</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Place of
+        Weeping.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Wilford</span></span>,
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Asiatic
+        Researches</span></span>, vol. 3. p. 340.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg210" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 210</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">We had long since left
+        this mountain behind.</span></span>”</span>—The voyages on the Nile
+        are, under favourable circumstances, performed with considerable
+        rapidity. <span class="tei tei-q">“En cinq ou six jours,”</span> says
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Maillet</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“on pourroit aisément remonter de l’embouchure du Nil à
+        ses cataractes, ou descendre des cataractes jusqu’à la mer.”</span>
+        The great uncertainty of the navigation is proved by what
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Belzoni</span></span> tells us:—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Nous ne mîmes cette fois que deux jours et demi pour
+        faire le trajet du Caire à Melawi, auquel, dans notre second voyage,
+        nous avions employés dix-huit jours.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg212" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 212</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Those mighty statues,
+        that fling their shadows.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Elles out près de vingt mètres (61 pieds) d’élévation;
+        et au lever du soleil, leurs ombres immenses s’étendent au loin sur
+        la chaine Libyen.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Description générale de Thèbes, par Messrs.
+        Jollois et Desvilliers.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg212" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Those cool
+        alcoves.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Paul Lucas.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg219" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 219</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Whose waters are half
+        sweet, half bitter.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Paul
+        Lucas.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg224" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 224</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The Mountain of the
+        Birds.</span></span>”</span>—There has been much controversy among
+        the Arabian writers, with respect to the site of this mountain, for
+        which see <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Quatremere</span></span>, tom. 1. art.
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Amoun</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg230" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 230</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The hand of labour had
+        succeeded</span></span>,”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—The
+        monks of Mount Sinai (<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Shaw</span></span> says) have covered over near
+        four acres of the naked rocks with fruitful gardens and
+        orchards.</p><span class="tei tei-pb" id="page326">[pg
+        326]</span><a name="Pg326" id="Pg326" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg233" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 233</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The image of a
+        head.</span></span>”</span>—There was usually, Tertullian tells us,
+        the image of Christ on the communion-cups.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg233" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Kissed her
+        forehead.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“We are
+        rather disposed to infer,”</span> says the present Bishop of Lincoln,
+        in his very sensible work on Tertullian, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“that, at the conclusion of all their meetings for the
+        purpose of devotion, the early Christians were accustomed to give the
+        kiss of peace, in token of the brotherly love subsisting between
+        them.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg237" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 237</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">In the middle of the
+        seven valleys.</span></span>”</span>—See Macrizy’s account of these
+        valleys, given by Quatremere, tom. 1. p. 450.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg237" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Red lakes of
+        Nitria.</span></span>”</span>—For a striking description of this
+        region, see <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Rameses</span></span>,”</span>—a work which,
+        though, in general, too technical and elaborate, shows, in many
+        passages, to what picturesque effects the scenery and mythology of
+        Egypt may be made subservient.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg238" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 238</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">In the neighbourhood of
+        Antinoë.</span></span>”</span>—From the position assigned to Antinoë
+        in this work, we should conclude that it extended much farther to the
+        north, than these few ruins of it that remain would seem to indicate;
+        so as to render the distance between the city and the Mountain of the
+        Birds considerably less than what it appears to be at present.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg243" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 243</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">When Isis, the pure
+        star of lovers.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Plutarch de
+        Isid.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg243" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Ere she again embrace
+        her bridegroom sun.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Conjunctio solis cum luna, quod est veluti utriusque
+        connubium.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Jablonski.</span></span></p><span class=
+        "tei tei-pb" id="page327">[pg 327]</span><a name="Pg327" id="Pg327"
+        class="tei tei-anchor"></a>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg247" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 247</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Of his walks a lion is
+        the companion.</span></span>”</span>—M. Chateaubriand has introduced
+        Paul and his lion into the <span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Martyrs</span></span>,”</span> liv. 11.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg235" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 235</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Come thus secretly
+        before day-break.</span></span>”</span>—It was among the accusations
+        of Celsus against the Christians, that they held their assemblies
+        privately and contrary to law; and one of the speakers in the curious
+        work of Minucius Felix calls the Christians <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“latebrosa et lucifugax natio.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg256" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 256</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">A
+        swallow</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Je vis dans le desert des hirondelles d’un gris clair
+        comme le sable sur lequel elles volent.”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Denon.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg257" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 257</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The comet that once
+        desolated this world.</span></span>”</span>—In alluding to Whiston’s
+        idea of a comet having caused the deluge, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">M.
+        Girard</span></span>, having remarked that the word Typhon means a
+        deluge, adds, <span class="tei tei-q">“On ne peut entendre par le
+        tems du règne de Typhon que celui pendant lequel le déluge inonda la
+        terre, tems pendant lequel on dût observer la comète qui
+        l’occasionna, et dont l’apparition fut, non seulement pour les
+        peuples de l’Egypte, et de l’Ethiopie, mais encore pour tous les
+        peuples le présage funeste de leur destruction presque
+        totale.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Description de la Vallée de
+        l’E’garement.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg259" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 259</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">In which the spirit of
+        my dream</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Many people,”</span> said <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Origen</span></span>,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“have been brought over to Christianity by
+        the Spirit of God giving a sudden turn to their minds, and offering
+        visions to them either by day or night.”</span> On this <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Jortin</span></span>
+        remarks:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Why should it be thought improbable
+        that Pagans of good dispositions, but not free from prejudices,
+        should have been <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page328">[pg
+        328]</span><a name="Pg328" id="Pg328" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>called by divine admonitions, by dreams or
+        visions, which might be a support to Christianity in those days of
+        distress.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg263" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 263</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">One of those earthen
+        cups.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Palladius</span></span>, who lived some time in
+        Egypt, describes the monk Ptolemæus, who inhabited the desert of
+        Scete, as collecting in earthen cups the abundant dew from the
+        rocks.—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Bibliothec. Pat.</span></span> tom. 13.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg264" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 264</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">It was to preserve, he
+        said</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—The brief sketch here
+        given of the Jewish dispensation agrees very much with the view taken
+        of it by Dr. Sumner, the present Bishop of Llandaff, in the first
+        chapters of his eloquent and luminous work, the <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Records of the Creation.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg266" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 266</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">In vain did I seek the
+        promise of immortality.</span></span>”</span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“It is impossible to deny,”</span> says the Bishop of
+        Llandaff, <span class="tei tei-q">“that the sanctions of the Mosaic
+        Law are altogether temporal.... It is, indeed, one of the facts that
+        can only be explained by acknowledging that he really acted under a
+        divine commission, promulgating a temporary law for a peculiar
+        purpose,”</span>—a much more candid and sensible way of treating this
+        very difficult point, than by either endeavouring, like Warburton, to
+        escape from it into a paradox, or still worse, contriving, like Dr.
+        Graves, to increase its difficulty by explanation. v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">On the Pentateuch</span></span>.”</span> See
+        also <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Horne’s Introduction</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>
+        vol. I. p. 226.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg268" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 268</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">All are of the
+        dust</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—While Voltaire, Volney,
+        &amp;c. refer to the Ecclesiastes, as abounding with tenets of
+        materialism and Epicurism, Mr. Des Voeux and others find in it strong
+        proofs of belief in a future state. The chief difficulty lies in the
+        chapter from <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page329">[pg
+        329]</span><a name="Pg329" id="Pg329" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>which this text is quoted; and the mode of
+        construction by which some writers attempt to get rid of it,—namely,
+        by putting these texts into the mouth of a foolish reasoner,—appears
+        forced and gratuitous. v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Dr. Hales’s Analysis</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg270" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 270</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The noblest and
+        first-created</span></span>,”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—This opinion of the Hermit
+        may be supposed to have been derived from his master, Origen; but it
+        is not easy to ascertain the exact doctrine of Origen on this
+        subject. In the Treatise on Prayer attributed to him, he asserts that
+        God the Father alone should be invoked,—which, says Bayle, is
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“encherir sur les Hérésies des
+        Sociniens.”</span> Notwithstanding this, however, and some other
+        indications of, what was afterwards called, Arianism, (such as the
+        opinion of the divinity being received by <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">communication</span></span>, which <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Milner</span></span>
+        asserts to have been held by this Father,) Origen was one of the
+        authorities quoted by Athanasius in support of his high doctrines of
+        co-eternity and co-essentiality. What Priestley says is, perhaps, the
+        best solution of these inconsistencies;—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Origen, as well as Clemens Alexandrinus, has been
+        thought to favour the Arian principle; but he did it only in words
+        and not in ideas.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Early Opinions</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>
+        Whatever uncertainty, however, there may exist with respect to the
+        opinion of Origen himself on this subject, there is no doubt that the
+        doctrines of his immediate followers were, at least, Anti-Athanasian.
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“So many Bishops of Africa,”</span> says
+        Priestley, <span class="tei tei-q">“were, at this period (between the
+        years 255 and 258), Unitarians, that Athanasius says, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">‘The Son of God,’</span>—meaning his
+        divinity,—<span class="tei tei-q">‘was scarcely any longer preached
+        in the churches.’</span> ”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg271" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 271</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The restoration of the
+        whole human race to purity and happiness.</span></span>”</span>—This
+        benevolent doc<span class="tei tei-pb" id="page330">[pg
+        330]</span><a name="Pg330" id="Pg330" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>trine,—which not only goes far to solve the
+        great problem of moral and physical evil, but which would, if
+        received more generally, tend to soften the spirit of
+        uncharitableness, so fatally prevalent among Christian sects,—was
+        maintained by that great light of the early Church, Origen, and has
+        not wanted supporters among more modern Theologians. That Tillotson
+        was inclined to the opinion appears from his sermon preached before
+        the queen. Paley is supposed to have held the same amiable doctrine;
+        and Newton (the author of the work on the Prophecies) is also among
+        the supporters of it. For a full account of the arguments in favour
+        of this opinion, derived both from reason and the express language of
+        Scripture, see Dr. Southwood Smith’s very interesting work,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“On the Divine Government.”</span> See also
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Magee on
+        the Atonement</span></span>, where the doctrine of the advocates of
+        Universal Restoration is thus briefly and fairly
+        explained:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Beginning with the existence of
+        an infinitely powerful, wise, and good Being, as the first and
+        fundamental principle of rational religion, they pronounce the
+        essence of this Being to be <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">love</span></span>, and from this infer, as a
+        demonstrable consequence, that none of the creatures formed by such a
+        Being will ever be made eternally miserable.... Since God (they say)
+        would act unjustly in inflicting eternal misery for temporary crimes,
+        the sufferings of the wicked can be but remedial, and will terminate
+        in a complete purification from moral disorder, and in their ultimate
+        restoration to virtue and happiness.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg273" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 273</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Fruit of the desert
+        shrub.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Hamilton’s Ægyptiaca</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg278" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 278</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The white garment she
+        wore, and the ring of gold on her finger.</span></span>”</span>—See,
+        for the custom among the early Christians of wearing white for a few
+        days after <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page331">[pg
+        331]</span><a name="Pg331" id="Pg331" class=
+        "tei tei-anchor"></a>baptism, <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Ambros. de Myst.</span></span>—With respect to
+        the ring, the Bishop of Lincoln says, in his work on Tertullian,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“The natural inference from these words
+        (<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Tertull.
+        de Pudicitiâ</span></span>) appears to be that a ring used to be
+        given in baptism; but I have found no other trace of such a
+        custom.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg280" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 280</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Pebbles of
+        jasper.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Clarke</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg280" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Ib.</a>—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Stunted
+        marigold</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—<span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“Les <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum</span></span> et
+        <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Zygophyllum
+        coccineum</span></span>, plantes grasses des déserts, rejetées à
+        cause de leur âcreté par les chameaux, les chèvres, et les
+        gazelles.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">M. Delile upon the plants of
+        Egypt.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg281" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 281</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Antinoë.</span></span>”</span>—v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Savary</span></span>
+        and <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Quatremere</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg286" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 286</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">I have observed in my
+        walks.</span></span>”</span>—<span class="tei tei-q">“Je remarquai
+        avec une réflexion triste, qu’un animal de proie accompagne presque
+        toujours les pas de ce joli et frêle individu.”</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 2.00em; margin-bottom: 1.00em"><a href="#Pg272" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 272</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Glistened over its
+        silver letters.</span></span>”</span>—The Codex Cottonianus of the
+        New Testament is written in silver letters on a purple ground. The
+        Codex Cottonianus of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament is
+        supposed to be the identical copy that belonged to Origen.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg289" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 289</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Some denier of
+        Christ.</span></span>”</span>—Those Christians who sacrificed to
+        idols to save themselves were called by various names, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Thurificati</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Sacrificati</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Mittentes</span></span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Negatores</span></span>, &amp;c. Baronius
+        mentions a bishop of this period (253), Marcellinus, who, yielding to
+        the threats <span class="tei tei-pb" id="page332">[pg
+        332]</span><a name="Pg332" id="Pg332" class="tei tei-anchor"></a>of
+        the Gentiles, threw incense upon the altar. v. <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Arnob. contra
+        Gent.</span></span> lib. 7.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg297" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 297</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The clear voice with
+        which</span></span>,”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">&amp;c.</span></span>—The merit of the
+        confession <span class="tei tei-q">“Christianus sum,”</span> or
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“Christiana sum,”</span> was considerably
+        enhanced by the clearness and distinctness with which it was
+        pronounced. <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Eusebius</span></span> mentions the martyr
+        Vetius as making it <span lang="grc" class="tei tei-foreign"
+        xml:lang="grc"><span style="font-style: normal">λαμπροτατη
+        φωνη</span></span>.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 2.00em"><a href="#Pg304" class=
+        "tei tei-ref">Page 304</a>.—<span class="tei tei-q">“<span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">The band round the
+        young Christian’s brow.</span></span>”</span>—We find poisonous
+        crowns mentioned by <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Pliny</span></span>, under the designation of
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“coronæ ferales.”</span> <span class=
+        "tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">Paschalius</span></span>, too, gives the
+        following account of these <span class="tei tei-q">“deadly
+        garlands,”</span> as he calls them:—<span class="tei tei-q">“Sed
+        mirum est tam salutare inventum humanam nequitiam reperisse, quomodo
+        ad nefarios usus traducent. Nempe, repertæ sunt nefandæ coronæ harum,
+        quas dixi, tam salubrium per nomen quidem et speciem imitatrices, at
+        re et effectu ferales, atque adeo capitis, cui imponuntur,
+        interfectrices.”</span> <span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+        "font-style: italic">De Coronis.</span></span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "margin-top: 4.50em; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em">
+        <span style="font-size: 90%">THE END.</span></p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style=
+        "text-align: center; margin-bottom: 0.90em; margin-top: 4.50em">
+        <span class="tei tei-hi" style="text-align: center"><span style=
+        "font-size: 90%; font-variant: small-caps">London</span></span><span style="font-size: 90%">:</span><br />
+
+        <span style="font-size: 90%">Printed by A. &amp; R.
+        Spottiswoode,</span><br />
+        <span style="font-size: 90%">New-Street-Square.</span></p>
+      </div>
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <hr class="doublepage" />
+
+        <div id="footnotes" class="tei tei-div" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em">
+          <a name="toc43" id="toc43"></a>
+
+          <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+          "margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-top: 3.46em">
+          <span style="font-size: 173%">Footnotes</span></h1>
+
+          <dl class="tei tei-list-footnotes">
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_1" name="note_1" href=
+            "#noteref_1">1.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">The description, here alluded to,
+            may also be found, copied <span lang="la" class="tei tei-foreign"
+            xml:lang="la"><span style=
+            "font-style: italic">verbatim</span></span> from Sethos, in the
+            <span class="tei tei-q">“Voyages d’Anténor.”</span>—<span class=
+            "tei tei-q">“In that philosophical romance, called <span class=
+            "tei tei-q">‘La Vie de Séthos,’</span> ”</span> says Warburton,
+            <span class="tei tei-q">“we find a much juster account of old
+            Egyptian wisdom, than in all the pretended <span class=
+            "tei tei-q">‘Histoire du Ciel.’</span> ”</span> <span class=
+            "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Div.
+            Leg.</span></span> book 4. sect. 14.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_2" name="note_2" href=
+            "#noteref_2">2.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">A cross was, among the Egyptians,
+            the emblem of a future life.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_3" name="note_3" href=
+            "#noteref_3">3.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext"><span class="tei tei-q">“On s’étoit
+            même avisé, depuis la première construction de ces demeures, de
+            percer en plusieurs endroits jusq’au haut les terres qui les
+            couvroient; non pas, à la vérité, pour tirer un jour qui n’auroit
+            jamais été suffisant, mais pour recevoir un air salutaire,
+            &amp;c.”</span>—<span class="tei tei-hi"><span style=
+            "font-style: italic">Sethos.</span></span></dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_4" name="note_4" href=
+            "#noteref_4">4.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">Osiris.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_5" name="note_5" href=
+            "#noteref_5">5.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">In the language of Plato, Hierocles,
+            &amp;c. to <span class="tei tei-q">“restore to the soul its
+            wings,”</span> is the main object both of religion and
+            philosophy.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_6" name="note_6" href=
+            "#noteref_6">6.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">See an account of this sensitive
+            tree, which bends down its branches to those who approach it, in
+            M. Jomard’s Description of Syene and the Cataracts.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_7" name="note_7" href=
+            "#noteref_7">7.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">The province of Arsinoë, now
+            Fioum.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_8" name="note_8" href=
+            "#noteref_8">8.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">In the original the discourses of
+            the Hermit are given much more at length.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_9" name="note_9" href=
+            "#noteref_9">9.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext">A rank, resembling that of
+            Colonel.</dd>
+
+            <dt class="tei tei-notelabel"><a id="note_10" name="note_10"
+            href="#noteref_10">10.</a></dt>
+
+            <dd class="tei tei-notetext"><span class="tei tei-q">“Une de ces
+            couronnes de grain de corail, dont les vierges martyres ornoient
+            leurs cheveaux en allant à la mort.”</span> <span class=
+            "tei tei-hi"><span style="font-style: italic">Les
+            Martyrs.</span></span></dd>
+          </dl>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="doublepage" />
+
+      <div class="boxed tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <a name="pdf44" id="pdf44"></a><a name="toc45" id="toc45"></a>
+
+        <h1 class="tei tei-head" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 3.46em; text-align: center; margin-top: 3.46em">
+        <span style="font-size: 173%">Transcriber’s Note</span></h1>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Variations in
+        hyphenation (e.g. <span class="tei tei-q">“daybreak”</span>,
+        <span class="tei tei-q">“day-break”</span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“overhead”</span>, <span class=
+        "tei tei-q">“over-head”</span>) have not been changed.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">In the notes, some
+        references are to the wrong pages or out of sequence.</p>
+
+        <p class="tei tei-p" style="margin-bottom: 1.00em">Other changes,
+        which have been made to the text:</p>
+
+        <table summary="This is a list." class="tei tei-list" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 1.00em; margin-top: 1.00em">
+          <tbody>
+            <tr class="tei tei-labelitem">
+              <th class="tei tei-label"></th>
+
+              <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr032" class=
+              "tei tei-ref">page 32</a>, <span class="tei tei-q">“alrea
+              d”</span> changed to <span class=
+              "tei tei-q">“already”</span></td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr class="tei tei-labelitem">
+              <th class="tei tei-label"></th>
+
+              <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr081" class=
+              "tei tei-ref">page 81</a>, <span class=
+              "tei tei-q">“stirke”</span> changed to <span class=
+              "tei tei-q">“strike”</span></td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr class="tei tei-labelitem">
+              <th class="tei tei-label"></th>
+
+              <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr093" class=
+              "tei tei-ref">page 93</a>, <span class=
+              "tei tei-q">“grashopper”</span> changed to <span class=
+              "tei tei-q">“grasshopper”</span></td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr class="tei tei-labelitem">
+              <th class="tei tei-label"></th>
+
+              <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr188" class=
+              "tei tei-ref">page 188</a>, quote mark added before
+              <span class="tei tei-q">“The state of misery”</span></td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr class="tei tei-labelitem">
+              <th class="tei tei-label"></th>
+
+              <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr194" class=
+              "tei tei-ref">page 194</a>, <span class=
+              "tei tei-q">“decome”</span> changed to <span class=
+              "tei tei-q">“become”</span></td>
+            </tr>
+
+            <tr class="tei tei-labelitem">
+              <th class="tei tei-label"></th>
+
+              <td class="tei tei-item"><a href="#corr312" class=
+              "tei tei-ref">page 312</a>, quote mark added before
+              <span class="tei tei-q">“There is, to the north of
+              Memphis”</span></td>
+            </tr>
+          </tbody>
+        </table>
+      </div>
+      <hr class="doublepage" />
+
+      <div class="tei tei-div" style=
+      "margin-top: 5.00em; margin-bottom: 5.00em">
+        <div id="pgfooter" class="tei tei-div" style=
+        "margin-bottom: 4.00em; margin-top: 4.00em">
+          <pre class="pre tei tei-div" style=
+          "margin-bottom: 3.00em; margin-top: 3.00em">
+***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EPICUREAN***
+</pre>
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+
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+
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+                <title>The Epicurean</title>
+                <author><name reg="Moore, Thomas">Thomas Moore</name></author>
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+                <publisher>Project Gutenberg</publisher>
+                <date value="2015-06-29">June 29, 2015</date>
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+<title>The Epicurean</title>
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+<imprint>
+<pubPlace>London</pubPlace>
+<publisher>Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green</publisher>
+<date>1827</date>
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+<pb/>
+<docTitle>
+  <titlePart type="main"><hi rend="font-size: x-large">THE</hi><lb/><lb/>
+<hi rend="font-size: xx-large">EPICUREAN,</hi></titlePart>
+<lb/><lb/>
+<titlePart type="sub"><hi rend="font-size: large">A TALE.</hi></titlePart>
+</docTitle>
+<lb/><lb/>
+<byline>BY<lb/><lb/>
+<docAuthor><hi rend="font-size: x-large">THOMAS MOORE.</hi></docAuthor></byline>
+<lb/><lb/>
+<docEdition><hi rend="bold">Second Edition.</hi></docEdition>
+<lb/><lb/>
+<docImprint><pubPlace><hi rend="font-size: large">LONDON:</hi></pubPlace><lb/>
+<publisher><hi rend="font-size: small">PRINTED FOR</hi><lb/>
+LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN,<lb/>
+<hi rend="font-size: small">PATERNOSTER-ROW.</hi></publisher><lb/>
+<docDate><hi rend="font-size: large">1827.</hi></docDate></docImprint>
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+<pb/>
+
+<p rend="font-size: small">
+The Publishers beg to inform the Composers of Music, and
+Music Sellers, that <hi rend="smallcaps">Mr. James Power</hi>, of the Strand, Music
+Seller, is the only person authorized by them to publish the <hi rend="smallcaps">Songs</hi> or
+<hi rend="smallcaps">Verses</hi> in this Work connected with Music.
+</p>
+</div>
+<div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb/>
+<p rend="center">
+TO<lb/>
+<hi rend="font-size: x-large">LORD JOHN RUSSELL</hi><lb/>
+<hi rend="italic">THIS VOLUME</hi><lb/>
+IS INSCRIBED<lb/>
+BY ONE WHO ADMIRES HIS CHARACTER<lb/>
+AND TALENTS,<lb/>
+AND IS PROUD OF HIS FRIENDSHIP.
+</p>
+<pb/>
+</div>
+<div rend="page-break-before: right">
+<pb n="v"/>
+<head>A<lb/>
+LETTER TO THE TRANSLATOR,</head>
+<byline rend="center"><hi rend="font-size: small">FROM</hi><lb/>
+——, <hi rend="smallcaps">Esq.</hi></byline>
+
+<dateline rend="italic">Cairo, June 19. 1800.</dateline>
+
+<salute>My dear Sir,</salute>
+
+<p>
+In a visit I lately paid to the monastery
+of St. Macarius,—which is situated,
+as you know, in the Valley of the Lakes
+of Natron,—I was lucky enough to obtain
+possession of a curious Greek manuscript,
+which, in the hope that you may
+be induced to translate it, I herewith
+send you. Observing one of the monks
+very busily occupied in tearing up, into
+a variety of fantastic shapes, some papers
+<pb n="vi"/>which had the appearance of being the
+leaves of old books, I enquired of him
+the meaning of his task, and received the
+following explanation:—
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Arabs, it seems, who are as fond
+of pigeons as the ancient Egyptians, have
+a superstitious notion that, if they place
+in their pigeon-houses small scraps of
+paper, written over with learned characters,
+the birds are always sure to thrive
+the better for the charm; and the monks,
+who are never slow in profiting by superstition,
+have, at all times, a supply of such
+amulets for purchasers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In general, the holy fathers have been
+in the habit of scribbling these mystic
+fragments, themselves; but a discovery,
+which they have lately made, saves them
+this trouble. Having dug up (as my informant
+stated) a chest of old manuscripts,
+which, being chiefly on the subject of alchemy,
+must have been buried in the time
+of Dioclesian, <q>we thought we could
+not,</q> added the monk, <q>employ such
+<pb n="vii"/>rubbish more properly, than in tearing
+it up, as you see, for the pigeon-houses
+of the Arabs.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On my expressing a wish to rescue
+some part of these treasures from the fate
+to which his indolent fraternity had consigned
+them, he produced the manuscript
+which I have now the pleasure of sending
+you,—the only one, he said, remaining
+entire,—and I very readily paid him the
+price he demanded for it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+You will find the story, I think, not
+altogether uninteresting; and the coincidence,
+in many respects, of the curious
+details in Chap. VI. with the description
+of the same ceremonies in the Romance
+of <hi rend="italic">Sethos</hi><note place="foot">The description, here alluded to, may also be
+found, copied <foreign lang="la" rend="italic">verbatim</foreign> from Sethos, in the <q>Voyages
+d’Anténor.</q>—<q>In that philosophical romance,
+called <q>La Vie de Séthos,</q></q> says Warburton,
+<q>we find a much juster account of old Egyptian
+wisdom, than in all the pretended <q>Histoire du
+Ciel.</q></q> <hi rend="italic">Div. Leg.</hi> book 4. sect. 14.</note>, will, I have no doubt, strike
+<pb n="viii"/>you. Hoping that you may be tempted
+to give a translation of this Tale to the
+world,
+</p>
+
+<signed>I am, my dear Sir,<lb/>
+Very truly yours,<lb/>
+——</signed>
+
+</div>
+</front>
+<body rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="1"/><anchor id="Pg001"/>
+
+<p rend="font-size: xx-large; center">
+THE EPICUREAN.
+</p>
+
+<div>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAPTER I.</head>
+
+<p>
+It was in the fourth year of the reign of
+the late Emperor Valerian, that the followers
+of Epicurus, who were at that time
+numerous in Athens, proceeded to the
+election of a person to fill the vacant chair
+of their sect;—and, by the unanimous voice
+of the School, I was the individual chosen
+for their Chief. I was just then entering
+on my twenty-fourth year, and no
+instance had ever before occurred, of a
+person so young being selected for that
+office. Youth, however, and the personal
+advantages that adorn it, were not, it may
+be supposed, among the least valid recommendations,
+to a sect that included within
+its circle all the beauty as well as wit of
+Athens, and which, though dignifying its
+<pb n="2"/><anchor id="Pg002"/>pursuits with the name of philosophy,
+was little else than a pretext for the more
+refined cultivation of pleasure.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The character of the sect had, indeed,
+much changed, since the time of its wise
+and virtuous founder, who, while he asserted
+that Pleasure is the only Good, inculcated
+also that Good is the only source of Pleasure.
+The purer part of this doctrine
+had long evaporated, and the temperate
+Epicurus would have as little recognised
+his own sect in the assemblage of
+refined voluptuaries who now usurped its
+name, as he would have known his own
+quiet Garden in the luxurious groves and
+bowers among which the meetings of the
+School were now held.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Many causes, besides the attractiveness
+of its doctrines, concurred, at this period,
+to render our school the most popular of
+any that still survived the glory of Greece.
+It may generally be observed, that the prevalence,
+in one half of a community, of very
+rigid notions on the subject of religion,
+<pb n="3"/><anchor id="Pg003"/>produces the opposite extreme of laxity
+and infidelity in the other; and this kind
+of re-action it was that now mainly contributed
+to render the doctrines of the
+Garden the most fashionable philosophy
+of the day. The rapid progress of the
+Christian faith had alarmed all those, who,
+either from piety or worldliness, were interested
+in the continuance of the old
+established creed—all who believed in
+the Deities of Olympus, and all who
+lived by them. The consequence was,
+a considerable increase of zeal and activity,
+throughout the constituted authorities
+and priesthood of the whole Heathen
+world. What was wanting in sincerity of
+belief was made up in rigour;—the weakest
+parts of the Mythology were those, of
+course, most angrily defended, and any
+reflections, tending to bring Saturn, or his
+wife Ops, into contempt, were punished
+with the utmost severity of the law.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In this state of affairs, between the
+alarmed bigotry of the declining Faith,
+<pb n="4"/><anchor id="Pg004"/>and the simple, sublime austerity of her
+rival, it was not wonderful that those lovers
+of ease and pleasure, who had no interest,
+reversionary or otherwise, in the old religion,
+and were too indolent to enquire into
+the sanctions of the new, should take refuge
+from the severities of both under the shelter
+of a luxurious philosophy, which, leaving
+to others the task of disputing about the
+future, centered all its wisdom in the full
+enjoyment of the present.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The sectaries of the Garden had, ever
+since the death of their founder, been
+accustomed to dedicate to his memory
+the twentieth day of every month. To
+these monthly rites had, for some time,
+been added a grand annual Festival, in
+commemoration of his birth. The feasts,
+given on this occasion by my predecessors
+in the Chair, had been invariably distinguished
+for their taste and splendour; and
+it was my ambition, not merely to imitate
+this example, but even to render the anniversary,
+now celebrated under my auspices,
+<pb n="5"/><anchor id="Pg005"/>so brilliant, as to efface the recollection of
+all that went before it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Seldom, indeed, had Athens witnessed
+such a scene. The grounds that formed
+the original site of the Garden had, from
+time to time, received considerable additions;
+and the whole extent was laid out
+with that perfect taste, which knows how
+to wed Nature to Art, without sacrificing
+her simplicity to the alliance. Walks,
+leading through wildernesses of shade
+and fragrance—glades, opening, as if to
+afford a play-ground for the sunshine—temples,
+rising on the very spots where
+imagination herself would have called them
+up, and fountains and lakes, in alternate
+motion and repose, either wantonly courting
+the verdure, or calmly sleeping in its
+embrace,—such was the variety of feature
+that diversified these fair gardens;
+and, animated as they were on this occasion,
+by all the living wit and loveliness of
+Athens, it afforded a scene such as my
+own youthful fancy, rich as it was then in
+<pb n="6"/><anchor id="Pg006"/>images of luxury and beauty, could hardly
+have anticipated.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The ceremonies of the day began with
+the very dawn, when, according to the form
+of simpler and better times, those among
+the disciples who had apartments within
+the Garden, bore the image of our Founder
+in procession from chamber to chamber,
+chanting verses in praise of—what had
+long ceased to be objects of our imitation—his
+frugality and temperance.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Round a beautiful lake, in the centre of
+the garden, stood four white Doric temples,
+in one of which was collected a library
+containing all the flowers of Grecian
+literature; while, in the remaining three,
+Conversation, the Song, and the Dance,
+held, uninterrupted by each other, their
+respective rites. In the Library stood
+busts of all the most illustrious Epicureans,
+both of Rome and Greece—Horace,
+Atticus, Pliny the elder, the poet
+Lucretius, Lucian, and the biographer of
+the Philosophers, lately lost to us,
+Dio<pb n="7"/><anchor id="Pg007"/>genes Laertius. There were also the portraits,
+in marble, of all the eminent female
+votaries of the school—Leontium and her
+fair daughter Danae, Themista, Philænis,
+and others.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was here that, in my capacity of
+Heresiarch, on the morning of the Festival,
+I received the felicitations of the day from
+some of the fairest lips of Athens; and, in
+pronouncing the customary oration to the
+memory of our Master (in which it was
+usual to dwell on the doctrines he inculcated)
+endeavoured to attain that art, so
+useful before such an audience, of diffusing
+over the gravest subjects a charm, which
+secures them listeners even among the
+simplest and most volatile.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Though study, as may easily be supposed,
+engrossed but little of the mornings
+of the Garden, yet the lighter part of
+learning,—that portion of its attic honey,
+for which the bee is not obliged to go very
+deep into the flower—was zealously cultivated.
+Even here, however, the student
+<pb n="8"/><anchor id="Pg008"/>had to encounter distractions, which are,
+of all others, least favourable to composure
+of thought; and, with more than one of my
+fair disciples, there used to occur such
+scenes as the following, which a poet of the
+Garden, taking his picture from the life,
+described:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“As o’er the lake, in evening’s glow,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">That temple threw its lengthening shade,</l>
+<l>Upon the marble steps below,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">There sate a fair Corinthian maid,</l>
+<l>Gracefully o’er some volume bending;</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">While, by her side, the youthful Sage</l>
+<l>Held back her ringlets, lest, descending,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">They should o’er-shadow all the page.”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+But it was for the evening of that
+day, that the richest of our luxuries were
+reserved. Every part of the Garden was
+illuminated, with the most skilful variety of
+lustre; while over the Lake of the Temples
+were scattered wreaths of flowers, through
+which boats, filled with beautiful children,
+floated, as through a liquid parterre.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Between two of these boats a perpetual
+combat was maintained;—their respective
+<pb n="9"/><anchor id="Pg009"/>commanders, two blooming youths, being
+habited to represent Eros and Anteros; the
+former, the Celestial Love of the Platonists,
+and the latter, that more earthly spirit, which
+usurps the name of Love among the Epicureans.
+Throughout the evening their
+conflict was carried on with various success;
+the timid distance at which Eros kept from
+his more lively antagonist being his only
+safeguard against those darts of fire, with
+showers of which the other continually
+assailed him, but which, luckily falling
+short of their mark upon the lake, only
+scorched the flowers upon which they
+fell, and were extinguished.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In another part of the gardens, on a
+wide verdant glade, lighted only by the
+moon, an imitation of the torch-race of
+the Panathenæa was performed, by young
+boys chosen for their fleetness, and arrayed
+with wings, like Cupids; while, not far off, a
+group of seven nymphs, with each a star on
+her forehead, represented the movements
+of the planetary choir, and embodied the
+<pb n="10"/><anchor id="Pg010"/>dream of Pythagoras into real motion and
+song.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At every turning some new enchantment
+broke upon the ear or eye. Sometimes,
+from the depth of a grove, from which a
+fountain at the same time issued, there
+came a strain of music, which, mingling
+with the murmur of the water, seemed like
+the voice of the spirit that presided over its
+flow;—while sometimes the strain rose
+breathing from among flowers; and, again,
+would appear to come suddenly from under
+ground, as if the foot had just touched
+some spring that set it in motion.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It seems strange that I should now dwell
+upon these minute descriptions; but every
+thing connected with that memorable night—even
+its long-repented follies—must for
+ever live sacredly in my memory. The
+festival concluded with a banquet, at which
+I, of course, presided; and, feeling myself
+to be the ascendant spirit of the whole
+scene, gave life to all around me, and saw
+my own happiness reflected in that of
+others.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="11"/><anchor id="Pg011"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. II.</head>
+
+<p>
+The festival was over;—the sounds of
+the song and dance had ceased, and I
+was now left in those luxurious gardens,
+alone. Though so ardent and active a
+votary of pleasure, I had, by nature,
+a disposition full of melancholy;—an
+imagination that presented sad thoughts,
+even in the midst of mirth and happiness,
+and threw the shadow of the future
+over the gayest illusions of the present.
+Melancholy was, indeed, twin-born in my
+soul with Passion; and, not even in the
+fullest fervour of the latter, were they
+separated. From the first moment that I
+was conscious of thought and feeling,
+the same dark thread had run across
+the web; and images of death and annihilation
+mingled themselves with the most
+smiling scenes through which my career
+of enjoyment led me. My very passion
+for pleasure but deepened these gloomy
+<pb n="12"/><anchor id="Pg012"/>fancies. For, shut out, as I was by my
+creed, from a future life, and having no hope
+beyond the narrow horizon of this, every
+minute of delight assumed a mournful
+preciousness in my eyes, and pleasure,
+like the flower of the cemetery, grew but
+more luxuriant from the neighbourhood of
+death.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This very night my triumph, my happiness
+had seemed complete. I had been the
+presiding genius of that voluptuous scene.
+Both my ambition and my love of pleasure
+had drunk deep of the cup for which they
+thirsted. Looked up to by the learned,
+and loved by the beautiful and the young,
+I had seen, in every eye that met mine,
+either the acknowledgment of triumphs
+already won, or the promise of others,
+still brighter, that awaited me. Yet, even
+in the midst of all this, the same dark
+thoughts had presented themselves;—the
+perishableness of myself and all around
+me every instant recurred to my mind.
+Those hands I had prest—those eyes, in
+<pb n="13"/><anchor id="Pg013"/>which I had seen sparkling, a spirit of
+light and life that should never die—those
+voices, that had talked of eternal love—all,
+all, I felt, were but a mockery of the
+moment, and would leave nothing eternal
+but the silence of their dust!
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>Oh, were it not for this sad voice,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Stealing amid our mirth to say,</l>
+<l>That all, in which we most rejoice,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Ere night may be the earth-worm’s prey;—</l>
+<l><hi rend="italic">But</hi> for this bitter—only this—</l>
+<l>Full as the world is brimm’d with bliss,</l>
+<l>And capable as feels my soul</l>
+<l>Of draining to its depth the whole,</l>
+<l>I should turn earth to heaven, and be,</l>
+<l>If bliss made gods, a deity!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+Such was the description I gave of my
+own feelings, in one of those wild, passionate
+songs, to which this ferment of my
+spirits, between mirth and melancholy,
+gave birth.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Seldom had my heart more fully abandoned
+itself to such vague sadness than at
+the present moment, when, as I paced
+<pb n="14"/><anchor id="Pg014"/>thoughtfully among the fading lights
+and flowers of the banquet, the echo of
+my own step was all that sounded, where
+so many gay forms had lately been revelling.
+The moon was still up, the morning
+had not yet glimmered, and the calm
+glories of night still rested on all around.
+Unconscious whither my pathway led, I
+wandered along, till I, at length, found
+myself before that fair statue of Venus,
+with which the chisel of Alcamenes had
+embellished our Garden;—that image of
+deified woman, the only idol to which I
+had ever bent the knee. Leaning against
+the pedestal, I raised my eyes to heaven,
+and fixing them sadly and intently on the
+ever-burning stars, as if I sought to read
+the mournful secret in their light, asked,
+wherefore was it that Man alone must
+perish, while they, less wonderful, less
+glorious than he, lived on in light unchangeable
+and for ever!—<q>Oh, that
+there were some spell, some talisman,</q> I
+exclaimed, <q>to make the spirit within us
+<pb n="15"/><anchor id="Pg015"/>deathless as those stars, and open to its
+desires a career like theirs, burning and
+boundless throughout all time!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+While I gave myself up to this train of
+thought, that lassitude which earthly pleasure,
+however sweet, leaves behind,—as
+if to show how earthly it is,—came
+drowsily over me, and I sunk at the base
+of the statue to sleep.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Even in sleep, however, my fancy was
+still busy; and a dream, so vivid as to
+leave behind it the impression of reality,
+thus passed through my mind. I thought
+myself transported to a wide desert plain,
+where nothing seemed to breathe, or move,
+or live. The very sky above it looked pale
+and extinct, giving the idea, not of darkness,
+but of light that had died; and, had
+that region been the remains of some older
+world, left broken up and sunless, it could
+not have looked more dead and desolate.
+The only thing that bespoke life, in this
+melancholy waste, was a small moving
+spark, that at first glimmered in the
+dis<pb n="16"/><anchor id="Pg016"/>tance, but, at length, slowly approached
+the spot where I stood. As it drew
+nearer, I could perceive that its feeble
+gleam was from a taper in the hand of a
+pale venerable man, who now stood, like a
+messenger from the grave, before me.
+After a few moments of awful silence,
+during which he looked at me with a sadness
+that thrilled my very soul, he said,—<q>Thou,
+who seekest eternal life, go
+unto the shores of the dark Nile—go
+unto the shores of the dark Nile, and thou
+wilt find the eternal life thou seekest!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+No sooner had he said these words than
+the death-like hue of his cheek brightened
+into a smile of more than human promise.
+The small torch that he held sent forth a
+radiance, by which suddenly the whole
+surface of the desert was illuminated, even
+to the far horizon’s edge, along whose
+line were now seen gardens, palaces, and
+spires, all bright and golden, like the
+architecture of the clouds at sunset. Sweet
+music, too, was heard every where, floating
+<pb n="17"/><anchor id="Pg017"/>around, and, from all sides, such varieties
+of splendour poured, that, with the excess
+both of harmony and of light, I woke.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+That infidels should be superstitious is
+an anomaly neither unusual nor strange.
+A belief in superhuman agency seems
+natural and necessary to the mind; and,
+if not suffered to flow in the obvious channels,
+it will find a vent in some other.
+Hence, many who have doubted the existence
+of a God, have yet implicitly placed
+themselves under the patronage of Fate or
+the stars. Much the same inconsistency
+I was conscious of in my own feelings.
+Though rejecting all belief in a Divine Providence,
+I had yet a faith in dreams, that
+all my philosophy could not conquer. Nor
+was experience wanting to confirm me in
+my delusion; for, by some of those accidental
+coincidences, which make the fortune
+of soothsayers and prophets, dreams,
+more than once, had been to me
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>Oracles, truer far than oak,</l>
+<l>Or dove, or tripod, ever spoke.</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="18"/><anchor id="Pg018"/>
+
+<p>
+It was not wonderful, therefore, that the
+vision of that night, touching, as it did,
+a chord so ready to vibrate, should have
+affected me with more than ordinary power,
+and sunk deeper into my memory with
+every effort I made to forget it. In vain
+did I mock at my own weakness;—such
+self-derision is seldom sincere. In vain
+did I pursue my accustomed pleasures.
+Their zest was, as usual, for ever new; but
+still came the saddening consciousness of
+mortality, and, with it, the recollection of
+this visionary promise, to which my fancy,
+in defiance of my reason, still clung.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Sometimes indulging in reveries, that
+were little else than a continuation of my
+dream, I even contemplated the possible
+existence of some secret, by which youth
+might be, if not perpetuated, at least prolonged,
+and that dreadful vicinity of death,
+within whose circle love pines and pleasure
+sickens, might be for a while averted.
+<q>Who knows,</q> I would ask, <q>but that in
+Egypt, that land of wonders, where Mystery
+<pb n="19"/><anchor id="Pg019"/>hath yet unfolded but half her treasures,—where
+so many dark secrets of the antediluvian
+world still remain, undeciphered,
+upon the pillars of Seth—who knows but
+some charm, some amulet, may lie hid,
+whose discovery, as this phantom hath
+promised, but waits my coming—some
+compound of the same pure atoms, that
+scintillate in the eternal stars, and whose
+infusion into the frame of man might make
+him, too, fadeless and immortal!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thus did I fondly speculate, in those
+rambling moods, when the life of excitement
+which I led, acting upon a warm
+heart and vivid fancy, produced an intoxication
+of spirit, during which I was not
+wholly myself. This bewilderment, too,
+was not a little increased by the constant
+struggle between my own natural feelings,
+and the cold, mortal creed of my sect, in
+endeavouring to escape from whose deadening
+bondage I but broke loose into the
+realms of romance and fantasy.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Even, however, in my calmest and soberest
+moments, that strange vision
+per<pb n="20"/><anchor id="Pg020"/>petually haunted me. In vain were all
+my efforts to chase it from my mind; and
+the deliberate conclusion to which I came
+at last, was, that without, at least, a visit to
+Egypt, I could not rest, nor, till convinced
+of my folly by disappointment, be reasonable.
+I, therefore, announced without
+delay to my associates of the Garden, the
+intention which I had formed to pay a visit
+to the land of Pyramids. To none of
+them did I dare to confess the vague, visionary
+impulse that actuated me. Knowledge
+was the object that I alleged, while
+Pleasure was that for which they gave me
+credit. The interests of the School, it was
+apprehended, would suffer by my absence;
+and there were some tenderer ties, which
+had still more to fear from separation. But
+for the former inconvenience a temporary
+remedy was provided; while the latter a
+skilful distribution of vows and sighs alleviated.
+Being furnished with recommendatory
+letters to all parts of Egypt, in the
+summer of the year 257, A.D. I set sail for
+Alexandria.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="21"/><anchor id="Pg021"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. III.</head>
+
+<p>
+To one, who extracted such sweets from
+every moment on land, a sea-voyage, however
+smooth and favourable, appeared the
+least agreeable mode of losing time that
+could be devised. Often did my imagination,
+in passing some isle of those seas,
+people it with fair forms and kind hearts,
+to whom most willingly, if I might, would I
+have paused to pay homage. But the wind
+blew direct towards the land of Mystery;
+and, still more, I heard a voice within me,
+whispering for ever <q>On.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As we approached the coast of Egypt,
+our course became less prosperous; and
+we had a specimen of the benevolence of
+the divinities of the Nile, in the shape of a
+storm, or rather whirlwind, which had
+nearly sunk our vessel, and which, the
+Egyptians on board said, was the work of
+their God, Typhon. After a day and night
+<pb n="22"/><anchor id="Pg022"/>of danger, during which we were driven
+out of our course to the eastward, some
+benigner influence prevailed above; and,
+at length, as the morning freshly broke,
+we saw the beautiful city of Alexandria
+rising from the sea, with its Palace of
+Kings, its portico of four hundred columns,
+and the fair Pillar of Pillars, towering up
+to heaven in the midst.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After passing in review this splendid
+vision, we shot rapidly round the Rock of
+Pharos, and, in a few minutes, found ourselves
+in the harbour of Eunostus. The
+sun had risen, but the light on the Great
+Tower of the Rock was still burning; and
+there was a languor in the first waking
+movements of that voluptuous city—whose
+houses and temples lay shining in silence
+round the harbour—that sufficiently attested
+the festivities of the preceding night.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We were soon landed on the quay; and,
+as I walked, through a line of palaces and
+shrines, up the street which leads from the
+sea to the Gate of Canopus, fresh as I was
+<pb n="23"/><anchor id="Pg023"/>from the contemplation of my own lovely
+Athens, I felt a glow of admiration at the
+scene around me, which its novelty, even
+more than its magnificence, inspired. Nor
+were the luxuries and delights, which such
+a city promised, among the least of the
+considerations on which my fancy, at that
+moment, dwelt. On the contrary, every
+thing around seemed prophetic of future
+pleasure. The very forms of the architecture,
+to my Epicurean imagination, appeared
+to call up images of living grace;
+and even the dim seclusion of the temples
+and groves spoke only of tender mysteries
+to my mind. As the whole bright scene
+grew animated around me, I felt that
+though Egypt might not enable me to
+lengthen life, she could teach the next best
+art,—that of multiplying its enjoyments.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The population of Alexandria, at this
+period, consisted of the most motley miscellany
+of nations, religions, and sects, that
+had ever been brought together in one
+city. Beside the school of the Grecian
+<pb n="24"/><anchor id="Pg024"/>Platonist was seen the oratory of the
+cabalistic Jew; while the church of the
+Christian stood, undisturbed, over the
+crypts of the Egyptian Hierophant. Here,
+the adorer of Fire, from the east, laughed
+at the superstition of the worshipper of
+cats, from the west. Here Christianity,
+too, unluckily, had learned to emulate
+the vagaries of Paganism; and while,
+on one side, her Ophite professor was
+seen kneeling down gravely before his serpent,
+on the other, a Nicosian was, as
+gravely, contending that there was no
+chance of salvation out of the pale of the
+Greek alphabet. Still worse, the uncharitableness
+of Christian schism was already
+distinguishing itself with equal vigour; and
+I heard of nothing, on my arrival, but the
+rancour and hate, with which the Greek
+and Latin churchmen persecuted each
+other, because, forsooth, the one fasted on
+the seventh day of the week, and the
+others fasted upon the fourth and sixth!
+</p>
+
+<pb n="25"/><anchor id="Pg025"/>
+
+<p>
+To none of those religions or sects, however,
+except for purposes of ridicule, did
+I pay much attention. I was now in the
+most luxurious city of the universe, and
+gave way, without reserve, to the seductions
+that surrounded me. My reputation,
+as a philosopher and a man of pleasure,
+had preceded me; and Alexandria, the
+second Athens of the world, welcomed me
+as her own. My celebrity, indeed, was as
+a talisman, that opened hearts and doors
+at my approach. The usual noviciate of
+acquaintance was dispensed with in my
+favour, and not only intimacies, but loves
+and friendships, ripened in my path, as
+rapidly as vegetation springs up where the
+Nile has flowed. The dark beauty of the
+Egyptian women had a novelty in my eyes
+that enhanced its other charms; and that
+hue of the sun on their rounded cheeks
+was but an earnest of the ardour he had
+kindled in their hearts—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>Th’ imbrowning of the fruit, that tells</l>
+<l>How rich within the soul of sweetness dwells.</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="26"/><anchor id="Pg026"/>
+
+<p>
+Some weeks rolled on in such perpetual
+and ever-changing pleasures, that even the
+melancholy voice in my heart, though it
+still spoke, was but seldom listened to, and
+soon died away in the sound of the siren
+songs that surrounded me. At length,
+however, as the novelty of these scenes
+wore off, the same gloomy bodings began
+to mingle with all my joys; and an incident
+that occurred, during one of my gayest
+revels, conduced still more to deepen their
+gloom.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The celebration of the annual festival
+of Serapis took place during my stay, and
+I was, more than once, induced to mingle
+with the gay multitudes, that crowded to
+his shrine at Canopus on the occasion.
+Day and night, while this festival lasted,
+the canal, which led from Alexandria to
+Canopus, was covered with boats full of
+pilgrims of both sexes, all hastening to avail
+themselves of this pious licence, which lent
+the zest of a religious sanction to pleasure,
+and gave a holiday to the passions of earth,
+in honour of heaven.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="27"/><anchor id="Pg027"/>
+
+<p>
+I was returning, one lovely night, to
+Alexandria. The north wind, that welcome
+visitor, freshened the air, while the
+banks, on either side, sent forth, from
+groves of orange and henna, the most
+delicious odours. As I had left all the
+crowd behind me at Canopus, there was
+not a boat to be seen on the canal but
+my own; and I was just yielding to the
+thoughts which solitude at such an hour
+inspires, when my reveries were broken
+by the sound of some female voices, coming,
+mingled with laughter and screams, from
+the garden of a pavilion, that stood, brilliantly
+illuminated, upon the bank of the
+canal.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On rowing nearer, I perceived that
+both the mirth and the alarm had been
+caused by the efforts of some playful girls to
+reach a hedge of jasmin which grew near the
+water, and in bending towards which they
+had nearly fallen into the stream. Hastening
+to proffer my assistance, I soon recognised
+the voice of one of my fair Alexandrian
+<pb n="28"/><anchor id="Pg028"/>friends, and, springing on the bank, was
+surrounded by the whole group, who insisted
+on my joining their party in the
+pavilion, and flinging the tendrils of jasmin,
+which they had just plucked, around
+me, led me, no unwilling captive, to the
+banquet-room.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I found here an assemblage of the very
+flower of Alexandrian society. The unexpectedness
+of the meeting gave it an additional
+zest on both sides; and seldom had
+I felt more enlivened myself, or contributed
+more successfully to circulate life
+among others.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Among the company were some Greek
+women, who, according to the fashion of
+their country, wore veils; but, as usual,
+rather to set off than conceal their beauty,
+some gleams of which were continually
+escaping from under the cloud. There
+was, however, one female, who particularly
+attracted my attention, on whose head was
+a chaplet of dark-coloured flowers, and
+who sat veiled and silent during the whole
+<pb n="29"/><anchor id="Pg029"/>of the banquet. She took no share, I observed,
+in what was passing around: the
+viands and the wine went by her untouched,
+nor did a word that was spoken seem
+addressed to her ear. This abstraction
+from a scene so sparkling with gaiety,
+though apparently unnoticed by any one
+but myself, struck me as mysterious and
+strange. I inquired of my fair neighbour
+the cause of it, but she looked grave and
+was silent.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the mean time, the lyre and the cup
+went round; and a young maid from Athens,
+as if inspired by the presence of her countryman,
+took her lute, and sung to it some
+of the songs of Greece, with a feeling that
+bore me back to the banks of the Ilissus,
+and, even in the bosom of present pleasure,
+drew a sigh from my heart for that
+which had passed away. It was daybreak
+ere our delighted party rose, and unwillingly
+re-embarked to return to the city.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Scarcely were we afloat, when it was
+discovered that the lute of the young
+<pb n="30"/><anchor id="Pg030"/>Athenian had been left behind; and, with
+my heart still full of its sweet sounds,
+I most readily sprung on shore to seek it.
+I hastened to the banquet-room, which was
+now dim and solitary, except that—there, to
+my astonishment, still sat that silent figure,
+which had awakened my curiosity so
+strongly during the night. A vague feeling
+of awe came over me, as I now slowly
+approached it. There was no motion,
+no sound of breathing in that form;—not
+a leaf of the dark chaplet on its brow
+stirred. By the light of a dying lamp
+which stood before the figure, I raised,
+with a hesitating hand, the veil, and saw—what
+my fancy had already anticipated—that
+the shape underneath was lifeless, was
+a skeleton! Startled and shocked, I hurried
+back with the lute to the boat, and
+was almost as silent as that shape for the
+remainder of the voyage.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This custom among the Egyptians of
+placing a mummy, or skeleton, at the
+banquet-table, had been for some time
+disused, except at particular ceremonies;
+<pb n="31"/><anchor id="Pg031"/>and, even on such occasions, it had been
+the practice of the luxurious Alexandrians
+to disguise this memorial of mortality in the
+manner just described. But to me, who
+was wholly unprepared for such a spectacle,
+it gave a shock from which my
+imagination did not speedily recover. This
+silent and ghastly witness of mirth seemed
+to embody, as it were, the shadow in my
+own heart. The features of the grave
+were now stamped on the idea that haunted
+me, and this picture of what I <hi rend="italic">was to be</hi>
+mingled itself with the sunniest aspect of
+what I <hi rend="italic">was</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The memory of the dream now recurred
+to me more livelily than ever. The bright
+assuring smile of that venerable Spirit,
+and his words, <q>Go to the shores of the
+dark Nile, and thou wilt find the eternal
+life thou seekest,</q> were for ever before my
+mind. But as yet, alas, I had done nothing
+towards realising this splendid promise.
+Alexandria was not Egypt;—the very soil
+on which it stood was not in existence,
+<pb n="32"/><anchor id="Pg032"/>when Thebes and Memphis <anchor id="corr032"/><corr sic="alrea d">already</corr> counted
+ages of glory.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>It is beneath the Pyramids of Memphis,</q>
+I exclaimed, <q>or in the mystic Halls
+of the Labyrinth, that I must seek those
+holy arcana of science, of which the antediluvian
+world has made Egypt its heir, and
+among which—blest thought!—the key to
+eternal life may lie.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having formed my determination, I took
+leave of my many Alexandrian friends,
+and departed for Memphis.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="33"/><anchor id="Pg033"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. IV.</head>
+
+<p>
+Egypt was the country, of all others,
+from that mixture of the melancholy and
+the voluptuous, which marked the character
+of her people, her religion, and her
+scenery, to affect deeply a temperament
+and fancy like mine, and keep tremblingly
+alive the sensibilities of both. Wherever
+I turned, I saw the desert and the garden,
+mingling their bloom and desolation together.
+I saw the love-bower and the
+tomb standing side by side, and pleasure
+and death keeping hourly watch upon each
+other. In the very luxury of the climate
+there was the same saddening influence.
+The monotonous splendour of the days,
+the solemn radiance of the nights—all
+tended to cherish that ardent melancholy,
+the offspring of passion and of thought,
+which had so long been the inmate of my
+soul.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="34"/><anchor id="Pg034"/>
+
+<p>
+When I sailed from Alexandria, the inundation
+of the Nile was at its full. The
+whole valley of Egypt lay covered by its
+flood; and, as I saw around me, in the
+light of the setting sun, shrines, palaces,
+and monuments, encircled by the waters, I
+could almost fancy that I beheld the sinking
+island of Atalantis, on the last evening its
+temples were visible above the wave.
+Such varieties, too, of animation as presented
+themselves on every side!—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>While, far as sight can reach, beneath as clear</l>
+<l>And blue a heaven as ever bless’d this sphere,</l>
+<l>Gardens, and pillar’d streets, and porphyry domes,</l>
+<l>And high-built temples, fit to be the homes</l>
+<l>Of mighty gods, and pyramids, whose hour</l>
+<l>Outlasts all time, above the waters tower!</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>Then, too, the scenes of pomp and joy, that make</l>
+<l>One theatre of this vast, peopled lake,</l>
+<l>Where all that Love, Religion, Commerce gives</l>
+<l>Of life and motion, ever moves and lives.</l>
+<l>Here, up the steps of temples, from the wave</l>
+<l>Ascending, in procession slow and grave,</l>
+<l>Priests, in white garments, go, with sacred wands</l>
+<l>And silver cymbals gleaming in their hands:</l>
+<pb n="35"/><anchor id="Pg035"/><l>While, there, rich barks—fresh from those sunny tracts</l>
+<l>Far off, beyond the sounding cataracts—</l>
+<l>Glide with their precious lading to the sea,</l>
+<l>Plumes of bright birds, rhinoceros’ ivory,</l>
+<l>Gems from the isle of Meröe, and those grains</l>
+<l>Of gold, wash’d down by Abyssinian rains.</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>Here, where the waters wind into a bay</l>
+<l>Shadowy and cool, some pilgrims, on their way</l>
+<l>To Saïs or Bubastus, among beds</l>
+<l>Of lotus-flowers, that close above their heads,</l>
+<l>Push their light barks, and hid, as in a bower,</l>
+<l>Sing, talk, or sleep away the sultry hour;</l>
+<l>While haply, not far off, beneath a bank</l>
+<l>Of blossoming acacias, many a prank</l>
+<l>Is play’d in the cool current by a train</l>
+<l>Of laughing nymphs, lovely as she, whose chain</l>
+<l>Around two conquerors of the world was cast,</l>
+<l>But, for a third too feeble, broke at last!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+Enchanted with the whole scene, I lingered
+on my voyage, visiting all those luxurious
+and venerable places, whose names
+have been consecrated by the wonder of
+ages. At Saïs I was present during her
+Festival of Lamps, and read, by the blaze
+of innumerable lights, those sublime words
+<pb n="36"/><anchor id="Pg036"/>on the temple of Neitha: <q>I am all that
+has been, that is, and that will be, and no
+man hath ever lifted my veil.</q> I wandered
+among the prostrate obelisks of Heliopolis,
+and saw, not without a sigh, the sun smiling
+over her ruins, as if in mockery of the mass
+of perishable grandeur, that had once called
+itself, in its pride, <q>The City of the Sun.</q>
+But to the Isle of the Golden Venus was
+my fondest pilgrimage;—and as I explored
+its shades, where bowers are the
+only temples, I felt how far more fit to form
+the shrine of a Deity are the ever-living
+stems of the garden and the grove, than
+the most precious columns that the inanimate
+quarry can supply.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Every where new pleasures, new interests
+awaited me; and though Melancholy,
+as usual, stood always near, her shadow
+fell but half-way over my vagrant path,
+and left the rest more welcomely brilliant
+from the contrast. To relate my various
+adventures, during this short voyage, would
+only detain me from events, far, far more
+<pb n="37"/><anchor id="Pg037"/>worthy of record. Amidst such endless variety
+of attractions, the great object of my
+journey was forgotten;—the mysteries of
+this land of the sun were, to me, as much
+mysteries as ever, and I had as yet been
+initiated in nothing but its pleasures.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was not till that evening, when I first
+stood before the Pyramids of Memphis,
+and saw them towering aloft, like the
+watch-towers of Time, from whose summit,
+when he expires, he will look his last,—it
+was not till this moment that the
+great secret, of which I had dreamed,
+again rose, in all its inscrutable darkness,
+upon my thoughts. There was a solemnity
+in the sunshine that rested upon those
+monuments—a stillness, as of reverence,
+in the air around them, that stole, like the
+music of past times, into my heart. I
+thought what myriads of the wise, the
+beautiful, and the brave, had sunk into
+dust since earth first beheld those wonders;
+and, in the sadness of my soul, I exclaimed,—<q>Must
+man alone, then, perish? must
+<pb n="38"/><anchor id="Pg038"/>minds and hearts be annihilated, while pyramids
+endure? Death, Death, even on these
+everlasting tablets,—the only approach to
+immortality that kings themselves could
+purchase,—thou hast written our doom,
+saying, awfully and intelligibly, <q>There
+is, for man, no eternal mansion, but the
+tomb!</q></q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+My heart sunk at the thought; and,
+for the moment, I yielded to that desolate
+feeling, which overspreads the soul that
+hath no light from the future. But again
+the buoyancy of my nature prevailed, and
+again, the willing dupe of vain dreams, I deluded
+myself into the belief of all that I most
+wished, with that happy facility which
+makes imagination stand in place of
+happiness. <q>Yes,</q> I cried, <q>immortality
+<hi rend="italic">must</hi> be within man’s reach; and, as
+wisdom alone is worthy of such a blessing,
+to the wise alone must the secret have
+been revealed. Deep, it is said, under
+yonder pyramid, has for ages lain concealed
+the Table of Emerald, on which
+<pb n="39"/><anchor id="Pg039"/>the Thrice-Great Hermes engraved, before
+the flood, the secret of Alchemy, that
+gives gold at will. Why may not the
+mightier, the more god-like secret, that
+gives life at will, be recorded there also?
+It was by the power of gold, of endless
+gold, that the kings, who repose in those
+massy structures, scooped earth to the
+centre, and raised quarries into the air, to
+provide themselves with tombs that might
+outstand the world. Who can tell but that
+the gift of immortality was also theirs?
+who knows but that they themselves, triumphant
+over decay, still live—those mansions,
+which we call tombs, being rich and
+everlasting palaces, within whose depths,
+concealed from this withering world, they
+still wander, with the few who are sharers
+of their gift, through a sunless, but illuminated,
+elysium of their own? Else,
+wherefore those structures? wherefore
+that subterraneous realm, by which the
+whole valley of Egypt is undermined?
+Why, else, those labyrinths, which none
+<pb n="40"/><anchor id="Pg040"/>of earth hath ever beheld—which none of
+heaven, except that God, with the finger
+on his hushed lip, hath trodden!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+While I indulged in these dreams, the
+sun, half sunk beneath the horizon, was
+taking, calmly and gloriously, his leave of
+the Pyramids,—as he had done, evening
+after evening, for ages, till they had become
+familiar to him as the earth itself. On the
+side turned to his ray they now presented
+a front of dazzling whiteness, while, on
+the other, their great shadows, lengthening
+to the eastward, looked like the first
+steps of Night, hastening to envelope the
+hills of Araby in her shade.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+No sooner had the last gleam of the sun
+disappeared, than, on every house-top in
+Memphis, gay, gilded banners were seen
+waving aloft, to proclaim his setting,—while
+a full burst of harmony pealed from
+all the temples along the shores.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Startled from my musing by these
+sounds, I at once recollected, that, on that
+very evening, the great festival of the Moon
+<pb n="41"/><anchor id="Pg041"/>was to be celebrated. On a little island,
+half-way over between the gardens of
+Memphis and the eastern shore, stood the
+temple of that goddess,
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l rend="margin-left: 15">Whose beams</l>
+<l>Bring the sweet time of night-flowers and dreams.</l>
+<l><hi rend="italic">Not</hi> the cold Dian of the North, who chains</l>
+<l>In vestal ice the current of young veins;</l>
+<l>But she, who haunts the gay, Bubastian grove,</l>
+<l>And owns she sees, from her bright heav’n above,</l>
+<l>Nothing on earth, to match that heav’n, but love!</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+Thus did I exclaim, in the words of one
+of their own Egyptian poets, as, anticipating
+the various delights of the festival, I cast
+away from my mind all gloomy thoughts,
+and, hastening to my little bark, in which
+I now lived, like a Nile-bird, on the waters,
+steered my course to the island-temple of
+the Moon.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="42"/><anchor id="Pg042"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. V.</head>
+
+<p>
+The rising of the Moon, slow and majestic,
+as if conscious of the honours that awaited
+her upon earth, was welcomed with a loud
+acclaim from every eminence, where multitudes
+stood watching for her first light.
+And seldom had she risen upon a scene
+more beautiful. Memphis,—still grand,
+though no longer the unrivalled Memphis,
+that had borne away from Thebes the
+crown of supremacy, and worn it undisputed
+through so many centuries,—now,
+softened by the moonlight that harmonised
+with her decline, shone forth among her
+lakes, her pyramids, and her shrines, like
+a dream of glory that was soon to pass
+away. Ruin, even now, was but too visible
+around her. The sands of the Libyan desert
+gained upon her like a sea; and, among
+solitary columns and sphinxes, already half
+sunk from sight, Time seemed to stand
+<pb n="43"/><anchor id="Pg043"/>waiting, till all, that now flourished around,
+should fall beneath his desolating hand,
+like the rest.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On the waters all was life and gaiety.
+As far as eye could reach, the lights of innumerable
+boats were seen, studding, like
+rubies, the surface of the stream. Vessels
+of all kinds,—from the light coracle, built
+for shooting down the cataracts, to the
+large yacht that glides to the sound of
+flutes,—all were afloat for this sacred
+festival, filled with crowds of the young
+and the gay, not only from Memphis
+and Babylon, but from cities still farther
+removed from the scene.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As I approached the island, I could see,
+glittering through the trees on the bank,
+the lamps of the pilgrims hastening to
+the ceremony. Landing in the direction
+which those lights pointed out, I soon
+joined the crowd; and, passing through a
+long alley of sphinxes, whose spangling
+marble shone out from the dark sycamores
+around them, in a short time reached
+<pb n="44"/><anchor id="Pg044"/>the grand vestibule of the temple, where
+I found the ceremonies of the evening
+already commenced.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In this vast hall, which was surrounded
+by a double range of columns, and lay
+open over-head to the stars of heaven, I
+saw a group of young maidens, moving in
+a sort of measured step, between walk and
+dance, round a small shrine, upon which
+stood one of those sacred birds, that, on
+account of the variegated colour of their
+wings, are dedicated to the moon. The
+vestibule was dimly lighted,—there being
+but one lamp of naptha on each of the
+great pillars that encircled it. But, having
+taken my station beside one of those pillars,
+I had a distinct view of the young dancers,
+as in succession they passed me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Their long, graceful drapery was as white
+as snow; and each wore loosely, beneath
+the rounded bosom, a dark-blue zone, or
+bandelet, studded, like the skies at midnight,
+with little silver stars. Through
+their dark locks was wreathed the white
+<pb n="45"/><anchor id="Pg045"/>lily of the Nile,—that flower being accounted
+as welcome to the moon, as the
+golden blossoms of the bean-flower are to
+the sun. As they passed under the lamp,
+a gleam of light flashed from their bosoms,
+which, I could perceive, was the reflection
+of a small mirror, that, in the manner of
+the women of the East, each wore beneath
+her left shoulder.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There was no music to regulate their
+steps; but, as they gracefully went round
+the bird on the shrine, some, by the beat
+of the castanet, some, by the shrill ring
+of the sistrum,—which they held uplifted
+in the attitude of their own divine
+Isis,—harmoniously timed the cadence of
+their feet; while others, at every step,
+shook a small chain of silver, whose sound,
+mingling with those of the castanets and
+sistrums, produced a wild, but not an unpleasing
+harmony.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+They seemed all lovely; but there was
+one—whose face the light had not yet
+reached, so downcast she held it,—who
+<pb n="46"/><anchor id="Pg046"/>attracted, and, at length, riveted all my
+attention. I knew not why, but there was
+a something in those half-seen features,—a
+charm in the very shadow, that hung
+over their imagined beauty,—which took
+me more than all the out-shining loveliness
+of her companions. So enchained
+was my fancy by this coy mystery, that
+her alone, of all the group, could I either
+see or think of—her alone I watched, as,
+with the same downcast brow, she glided
+round the altar, gently and aërially, as if
+her presence, like that of a spirit, was
+something to be felt, not seen.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Suddenly, while I gazed, the loud crash
+of a thousand cymbals was heard;—the
+massy gates of the Temple flew open, as
+if by magic, and a flood of radiance from
+the illuminated aisle filled the whole vestibule;
+while, at the same instant, as if the
+light and the sounds were born together,
+a peal of rich harmony came mingling
+with the radiance.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was then,—by that light, which shone
+<pb n="47"/><anchor id="Pg047"/>full upon the young maiden’s features, as,
+starting at the blaze, she raised her eyes to
+the portal, and, as suddenly, let fall their
+lids again,—it was then I beheld, what
+even my own ardent imagination, in its
+most vivid dreams of beauty, had never pictured.
+Not Psyche herself, when pausing
+on the threshold of heaven, while its
+first glories fell on her dazzled lids, could
+have looked more beautiful, or blushed
+with a more innocent shame. Often as I
+had felt the power of looks, none had ever
+entered into my soul so far. It was a new
+feeling—a new sense—coming as suddenly
+as that radiance into the vestibule,
+and, at once, filling my whole being;—and
+had that vision but lingered another moment
+before my eyes, I should have wholly
+forgotten who I was and where, and thrown
+myself, in prostrate adoration, at her feet.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But scarcely had that gush of harmony
+been heard, when the sacred bird, which
+had, till now, stood motionless as an image,
+expanded his wings, and flew into the
+Tem<pb n="48"/><anchor id="Pg048"/>ple; while his graceful young worshippers,
+with a fleetness like his own, followed,—and
+she, who had left a dream in my
+heart never to be forgotten, vanished with
+the rest. As she went rapidly past the
+pillar against which I leaned, the ivy
+that encircled it caught in her drapery,
+and disengaged some ornament which fell
+to the ground. It was the small mirror
+which I had seen shining on her bosom.
+Hastily and tremulously I picked it up,
+and hurried to restore it;—but she was
+already lost to my eyes in the crowd.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In vain I tried to follow;—the aisles
+were already filled, and numbers of eager
+pilgrims pressed towards the portal. But
+the servants of the Temple prevented all
+further entrance, and still, as I presented
+myself, their white wands barred the
+way. Perplexed and irritated amid that
+crowd of faces, regarding all as enemies
+that impeded my progress, I stood
+on tiptoe, gazing into the busy aisles, and
+with a heart beating as I caught, from
+<pb n="49"/><anchor id="Pg049"/>time to time, a glimpse of some spangled
+zone, or lotus wreath, which led me to
+fancy that I had discovered the object of
+my search. But it was all in vain;—in
+every direction, files of sacred nymphs
+were moving, but nowhere could I see her,
+whom alone I sought.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In this state of breathless agitation did
+I stand for some time,—bewildered with
+the confusion of faces and lights, as well
+as with the clouds of incense that rolled
+around me,—till, fevered and impatient, I
+could endure it no longer. Forcing my
+way out of the vestibule into the cool air,
+I hurried back through the alley of
+sphinxes to the shore, and flung myself
+into my boat.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There is, to the north of Memphis, a
+solitary lake (which, at this season of the
+year, mingles with the rest of the waters,)
+upon whose shores stands the Necropolis,
+or City of the Dead—a place of melancholy
+grandeur, covered over with shrines and pyramids,
+where many a kingly head, proud
+<pb n="50"/><anchor id="Pg050"/>even in death, has for ages awaited the
+resurrection of its glories. Through a range
+of sepulchral grots underneath, the humbler
+denizens of the tomb are deposited,—looking
+out on each successive generation
+that visits them, with the same face and
+features they wore centuries ago. Every
+plant and tree, that is consecrated to death,
+from the asphodel-flower to the mystic
+plantain, lends its sweetness or shadow to
+this place of tombs; and the only noise
+that disturbs its eternal calm, is the low
+humming sound of the priests at prayer,
+when a new inhabitant is added to the
+silent city.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was towards this place of death that,
+in a mood of mind, as usual, half bright,
+half gloomy, I now, almost unconsciously,
+directed my bark. The form of the young
+Priestess was continually before me. That
+one bright look of hers, the very memory
+of which was worth all the actual smiles of
+others, never left my mind. Absorbed in
+such thoughts, I rowed on, scarce knowing
+<pb n="51"/><anchor id="Pg051"/>whither I went, till, startled by finding
+myself within the shadow of the City of
+the Dead, I looked up, and saw, rising in
+succession before me, pyramid beyond pyramid,
+each towering more loftily than
+the other,—while all were out-topped in
+grandeur by one, upon whose summit the
+moon seemed to rest, as on a pedestal.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Drawing near to the shore, which was sufficiently
+elevated to raise this city of monuments
+above the level of the inundation, I
+lifted my oar, and let the boat rock idly on
+the water, while my thoughts, left equally
+without direction, fluctuated as idly.
+How various and vague were the dreams
+that then passed through my mind—that
+bright vision of the temple mingling itself
+with all! Sometimes she stood before
+me, like an aërial spirit, as pure as if that
+element of music and light, into which
+I had seen her vanish, was her only dwelling.
+Sometimes, animated with passion,
+and kindling into a creature of earth, she
+seemed to lean towards me with looks of
+<pb n="52"/><anchor id="Pg052"/>tenderness, which it were worth worlds, but
+for one instant, to inspire; and again—as
+the dark fancies, that ever haunted me,
+recurred—I saw her cold, parched, and
+blackening, amid the gloom of those eternal
+sepulchres before me!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Turning away, with a shudder, from
+the cemetery at this thought, I heard the
+sound of an oar plying swiftly through
+the water, and, in a few moments, saw,
+shooting past me towards the shore, a
+small boat in which sat two female figures,
+muffled up and veiled. Having landed
+them not far from the spot where I lay,—concealed
+by the shadow of a monument
+on the bank,—the boat again departed,
+with the same fleetness, over the
+flood.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Never had the prospect of an adventure
+come more welcome than at this moment,
+when my fancy was weaving such chains
+for my heart, as threatened a bondage,
+of all others, the most difficult to break.
+To become enamoured thus of a creature of
+<pb n="53"/><anchor id="Pg053"/>my own imagination, was the worst, because
+the most lasting, of follies. Reality
+alone gives a chance of dissolving such
+spells, and the idol I was now creating to
+myself must for ever remain ideal. Any
+pursuit, therefore, that seemed likely to
+divert me from such thoughts—to bring
+back my imagination to earth and reality,
+from the vague region in which it was
+wandering, was a relief too seasonable not
+to be welcomed with eagerness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I had watched the course which the two
+figures took, and, having hastily fastened
+my boat to the bank, stepped gently on
+shore, and, at a little distance, followed
+them. The windings through which they
+led were intricate; but, by the bright light
+of the moon, I was enabled to keep their
+forms in view, as, with rapid step, they
+glided among the monuments. At length,
+in the shade of a small pyramid, whose
+peak barely surmounted the plane-trees
+that grew nigh, they vanished from my
+sight. I hastened to the spot, but there
+<pb n="54"/><anchor id="Pg054"/>was not a sign of life around; and had my
+creed extended to another world, I might
+have fancied that these forms were spirits,
+sent from thence to mock me,—so instantaneously
+they disappeared. I searched
+through the neighbouring grove, but all
+there was still as death. At length, in examining
+one of the sides of the pyramid,
+which, for a few feet from the ground, was
+furnished with steps, I found, midway between
+peak and base, a part of the surface,
+which, though presenting an appearance of
+smoothness to the eye, gave to the touch, I
+thought, indications of a concealed opening.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After a variety of efforts and experiments,
+I, at last, more by accident than
+skill, pressed the spring that commanded
+this mysterious aperture. In an instant
+the portal slid aside, and disclosed a narrow
+stair-way within, the two or three first
+steps of which were discernible by the
+moonlight, while the rest were lost in utter
+darkness. Though it was difficult to conceive
+that the persons whom I had followed
+<pb n="55"/><anchor id="Pg055"/>would have ventured to pass through this
+gloomy opening, yet to account for their
+disappearance otherwise was still more difficult.
+At all events, my curiosity was now
+too eager in the chase to relinquish it;—the
+spirit of adventure, once raised, could
+not be so easily laid. Accordingly, having
+sent up a gay prayer to that bliss-loving
+Queen whose eye alone was upon me, I
+passed through the portal and descended
+into the pyramid.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="56"/><anchor id="Pg056"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. VI.</head>
+
+<p>
+At the bottom of the stair-way I found
+myself in a low, narrow passage, through
+which, without stooping almost to earth,
+it was impossible to proceed. Though
+leading through a multiplicity of dark
+windings, this way seemed but little to
+advance my progress,—its course, I perceived,
+being chiefly circular, and gathering,
+at every turn, but a deeper intensity
+of darkness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Can this,</q> I thought, <q>be the sojourn
+of any thing human?</q>—and had scarcely
+asked myself the question, when the path
+opened into a long gallery, at the farthest
+end of which a gleam of light was visible.
+This welcome glimmer appeared to come
+from some cell or alcove, in which the
+right-hand wall of the gallery terminated,
+<pb n="57"/><anchor id="Pg057"/>and, breathless with expectation, I stole
+gently towards it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Arrived at the end of the gallery, a scene
+presented itself to my eyes, for which my
+fondest expectations of adventure could not
+have prepared me. The place from which
+the light proceeded was a small chapel, of
+whose interior, from the dark recess in
+which I stood, I had, unseen myself, a full
+and distinct view. Over the walls of this
+oratory were painted some of those various
+symbols, by which the mystic wisdom of
+the Egyptians loves to shadow out the
+History of the Soul—the winged globe
+with a serpent,—the rays descending from
+above, like a glory, and the Theban beetle,
+as he comes forth, after the waters have
+passed away, and the first sunbeam falls
+on his regenerated wings.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the middle of the chapel stood a low
+altar of granite, on which lay a lifeless
+female form, enshrined within a case of
+crystal,—as they preserve their dead in
+Ethiopia,—and looking as freshly beautiful
+<pb n="58"/><anchor id="Pg058"/>as if the soul had but a few hours departed.
+Among the emblems of death, on the front
+of the altar, were a slender lotus-branch,
+broken in two, and a bird, just winging
+its flight from the spray.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To these memorials of the dead, however,
+I but little attended; for there was
+a living object there upon which my eyes
+were most intently fixed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The lamp, by which the whole of the
+chapel was illuminated, was placed at the
+head of the pale image in the shrine; and,
+between its light and me, stood a female
+form, bending over the monument, as if to
+gaze upon the silent features within. The
+position in which this figure was placed, intercepting
+a strong light, afforded me, at
+first, but an imperfect and shadowy view of
+it. Yet even at this mere outline my heart
+beat high,—and memory, as it proved, had
+as much share in this feeling as imagination.
+For, on the head changing its position,
+so as to let a gleam fall on the features,
+I saw with a transport, which had almost
+<pb n="59"/><anchor id="Pg059"/>led me to betray my lurking-place, that it
+was she—the young worshipper of Isis—the
+same, the very same, whom I had seen,
+brightening the holy place where she stood,
+and looking like an inhabitant of some
+purer world.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The movement, by which she had now
+given me an opportunity of recognising
+her, was made in raising from the shrine a
+small cross<note place="foot">A cross was, among the Egyptians, the emblem
+of a future life.</note> of silver, which lay directly
+over the bosom of the lifeless figure.
+Bringing it close to her lips, she kissed it
+with a religious fervour; then, turning her
+eyes mournfully upwards, held them fixed
+with an inspired earnestness, as if, at that
+moment, in direct communion with heaven,
+they saw neither roof, nor any other earthly
+barrier between them and the skies.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+What a power hath innocence, whose
+very helplessness is its safeguard—in
+whose presence even Passion himself
+<pb n="60"/><anchor id="Pg060"/>stands abashed, and turns worshipper at
+the altar which he came to despoil. She,
+who, but a short hour before, had presented
+herself to my imagination, as something
+I could have risked immortality to
+win—she, whom gladly, from the floor of
+her own lighted temple, in the very face
+of its proud ministers, I would have borne
+away in triumph, and defied all punishments,
+both human and sacred, to make
+her mine,—she was now before me,
+thrown, as if by fate itself, into my power—standing
+there, beautiful and alone,
+with nothing but her innocence for her
+guard! Yet, no—so touching was the
+purity of the whole scene, so calm and august
+that protection which the dead seemed
+to extend over the living, that every
+earthlier feeling was forgotten as I gazed,
+and love itself became exalted into reverence.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Entranced, indeed, as I felt in witnessing
+such a scene, thus to enjoy it by stealth,
+seemed a wrong, a sacrilege—and, rather
+<pb n="61"/><anchor id="Pg061"/>than let her eyes meet the flash of mine,
+or disturb, by a whisper, that sacred silence,
+in which Youth and Death held communion
+through Love, I would have let my
+heart break, without a murmur, where
+I stood. Gently, as if life depended upon
+every movement, I stole away from
+that tranquil and holy scene—leaving
+it still tranquil and holy as I found it—and,
+gliding back through the same
+passages and windings by which I had
+entered, regained the narrow stair-way,
+and again ascended into light.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The sun had just risen, and, from
+the summit of the Arabian hills, was
+pouring down his beams into that vast
+valley of waters,—as if proud of the
+homage that had been paid to his own
+Isis, now fading away in the superior
+light of her Lord. My first impulse
+was to fly from this dangerous spot,
+and in new loves and pleasures seek forgetfulness
+of the scene which I had witnessed.
+<q>Once out of the circle of this
+<pb n="62"/><anchor id="Pg062"/>enchantment,</q> I exclaimed, <q>I know my
+own susceptibility to new impressions too
+well, to doubt that I shall soon break
+the spell that is around me.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But vain were my efforts and resolves.
+Even while I swore to fly, my steps were
+still lingering round the pyramid—my
+eyes still turned towards the secret portal,
+which severed this enchantress from the
+world of the living. Hour after hour did
+I wander through that City of Silence,—till,
+already, it was noon, and, under the
+sun’s meridian eye, the mighty pyramid of
+pyramids stood, like a great spirit, shadowless.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Again did those wild and passionate feelings,
+which had, for a moment, been subdued
+into reverence by her presence, return
+to kindle up my imagination and senses.
+I even reproached myself for the awe,
+that had held me spell-bound before her.
+<q>What would my companions of the
+Garden say, did they know that their
+chief,—he, whose path Love had strewed
+<pb n="63"/><anchor id="Pg063"/>with trophies—was now pining for a
+simple Egyptian girl, in whose presence
+he had not dared to give utterance to a
+sigh, and who had vanquished the victor,
+without even knowing her triumph!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A blush came over my cheek at the
+humiliating thought, and my determination
+was fixed to await her coming.
+That she should be an inmate of those
+gloomy caverns seemed inconceivable;
+nor did there appear to be any issue
+from their depths but by the pyramid.
+Again, therefore, like a sentinel of the
+dead, did I pace up and down among
+these tombs, contrasting, in many a
+mournful reflection, the burning fever
+within my own veins with the cold quiet
+of those who slept around.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At length the fierce glow of the sun
+over my head, and, still more, that
+ever restless agitation in my heart, were
+too much for even strength like mine to
+bear. Exhausted, I lay down at the base
+of the pyramid—placing myself directly
+<pb n="64"/><anchor id="Pg064"/>under the portal, where, even should
+slumber surprise me, my heart, if not
+my ear, might still be on the watch, and
+her footstep, light as it was, could not fail
+to awake me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After many an ineffectual struggle against
+drowsiness, I at length sunk into sleep—but
+not into forgetfulness. The same
+image still haunted me, in every variety of
+shape, with which imagination, assisted by
+memory, could invest it. Now, like Neïtha,
+upon her throne at Saïs, she seemed to
+sit, with the veil just raised from that brow,
+which mortal had never, till then, beheld,—and
+now, like the beautiful enchantress
+Rhodope, I saw her rise out of the
+pyramid in which she had dwelt for
+ages,—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“Fair Rhodope, as story tells,</l>
+<l>The bright, unearthly nymph, who dwells</l>
+<l>Mid sunless gold and jewels hid,</l>
+<l>The Lady of the Pyramid!”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+So long, amid that unbroken silence,
+did my sleep continue, that I found the
+<pb n="65"/><anchor id="Pg065"/>moon again shining above the horizon,
+when I awoke. All around was silent and
+lifeless as before, nor did a print upon the
+herbage betray that any foot had passed it
+since my own. Refreshed by rest, and with
+a fancy still more excited by the mystic
+wonders of which I had been dreaming, I
+now resolved to revisit the chapel in the
+pyramid, and put an end, if possible, to this
+illusion that haunted me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having learned from the experience of
+the preceding night, the inconvenience of
+encountering those labyrinths without a
+light, I now hastened to provide myself with
+a lamp from my boat. Tracking my way
+back with some difficulty to the shore, I
+there found, not only my lamp, but some
+dates and dried fruits, with a store of
+which, for my roving life upon the waters,
+I was always supplied,—and which now,
+after so many hours of abstinence, were a
+welcome and necessary relief.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thus prepared, I again ascended the
+pyramid, and was proceeding to search
+<pb n="66"/><anchor id="Pg066"/>out the secret spring, when a loud, dismal
+noise was heard at a distance, to which all
+the echoes of the cemetery answered. It
+came, I knew, from the Great Temple on
+the shore of the Lake, and was the shriek
+which its gates—the Gates of Oblivion, as
+they were called—sent forth from their
+hinges, in opening at night, to receive
+within their precincts the newly-landed
+dead.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I had heard that sound before, and
+always with sadness; but, at this moment,
+it thrilled through me, like a voice of ill
+omen, and I almost doubted whether I
+should not abandon my enterprise. The
+hesitation, however, was but momentary;—even
+while it passed through my mind,
+I had touched the spring of the portal.
+In a few seconds more, I was again in the
+passage beneath the pyramid, and being
+enabled by my lamp to follow the windings
+of the way more rapidly, soon found
+myself at the door of the small chapel in
+the gallery.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="67"/><anchor id="Pg067"/>
+
+<p>
+I entered, still awed, though there was
+now nothing living within. The young
+Priestess had fled—had vanished, like a
+spirit, into the darkness. All the rest was
+as I had left it on the preceding night.
+The lamp still stood burning upon the
+crystal shrine—the cross lay where the
+hands of the young mourner had placed
+it, and the cold image beneath wore the
+same tranquil look, as if resigned to the
+solitude of death—of all lone things the
+loneliest. Remembering the lips that I
+had seen kiss that cross, and kindling with
+the recollection, I raised it passionately to
+my own;—but, at the same moment, I
+fancied the dead eyes met mine, and,
+saddened in the midst of my ardour, I replaced
+the cross upon the shrine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I had now lost all clue to the object
+of my pursuit, and was preparing slowly
+to retrace my steps to earth, with that
+gloomy satisfaction which certainty, even
+when unwelcome, brings,—when, as I held
+forth my lamp, on leaving the chapel, I
+<pb n="68"/><anchor id="Pg068"/>could perceive that the gallery, instead of
+terminating here, took a sudden bend to
+the left, which had before eluded my eye,
+and which gave a promise of leading still
+further into those recesses. Re-animated
+by this discovery, which opened a new
+source of hope to my heart, I cast but one
+hesitating look at my lamp, as if to ask
+whether it would be faithful through the
+gloom I was about to encounter, and,
+without further thought, rushed eagerly
+forward.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="69"/><anchor id="Pg069"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. VII.</head>
+
+<p>
+The path led, for some time, through the
+same sort of narrow windings as those
+which I had encountered in descending
+the stair-way; and at length opened, in a
+similar manner, into a straight and steep
+gallery, along each side of which stood,
+closely ranged and upright, a file of lifeless
+bodies, whose glassy eyes threw a preternatural
+glare upon me as I passed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Arrived at the end of this gallery, I
+found my hopes a second time vanish.
+The path, I perceived, extended no further.
+The only object that I could discern,
+by the glimmering of my lamp, which now,
+every minute, burned fainter and fainter,
+was the mouth of a huge well, that lay
+gaping before me—a reservoir of darkness,
+black and unfathomable. It now crossed
+my memory that I had heard of such wells,
+as being used occasionally for passages
+<pb n="70"/><anchor id="Pg070"/>by the Priests. Leaning down, therefore,
+over the edge, I looked anxiously within,
+to discover whether it was possible to
+descend into the chasm; but the sides
+were hard and smooth as glass, being
+varnished all over with that dark pitch,
+which the Dead Sea throws out on its slimy
+shore.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After a more attentive scrutiny, however,
+I observed, at the depth of a few
+feet, a sort of iron step, projecting dimly
+from the side, and, below it, another, which,
+though hardly perceptible, was just sufficient
+to encourage an adventurous foot to
+the trial. Though all hope of tracing the
+young Priestess was at an end,—it being
+impossible that female foot should have
+dared this descent,—yet, as I had so far
+engaged in the adventure, and there was,
+at least, a mystery to be unravelled, I determined,
+at all hazards, to explore the
+chasm. Placing my lamp (which was hollowed
+at the bottom, so as to fit like a
+helmet) firmly on my head, and having
+<pb n="71"/><anchor id="Pg071"/>thus both hands at liberty for exertion, I
+set my foot cautiously on the iron step, and
+descended into the well.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I found the same footing, at regular intervals,
+to a considerable depth; and had
+already counted near a hundred of these
+steps, when the ladder altogether ceased,
+and I could descend no farther. In vain
+did I stretch down my foot in search of
+support—the hard, slippery sides were
+all that it encountered. At length, stooping
+my head, so as to let the light fall
+below, I observed an opening or window
+directly above the step on which I stood,
+and, taking for granted that the way must
+lie in that direction, with some little difficulty
+clambered through the aperture.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I now found myself on a rude and narrow
+stair-way, the steps of which were cut
+out of the living rock, and wound spirally
+downward in the same direction as the well.
+Almost dizzy with the descent, which
+seemed as if it would never end, I, at last,
+reached the bottom, where a pair of massy
+<pb n="72"/><anchor id="Pg072"/>iron gates closed directly across my path,
+as if to forbid any further progress. Massy,
+however, and gigantic as they were, I
+found, to my surprise, that the hand of
+an infant might have opened them with
+ease—so readily did their great folds give
+way to my touch,
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“Light as a lime-bush, that receives</l>
+<l>Some wandering bird among its leaves.”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+No sooner, however, had I passed through,
+than the din, with which the gates clashed
+together again, was such as might have
+awakened death itself. It seemed as if every
+echo, throughout that vast, subterranean
+world, from the Catacombs of Alexandria
+to Thebes’s Valley of Kings, had
+caught up and repeated the thundering
+sound.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Startled, however, as I was, not even this
+supernatural clangour could divert my attention
+from the light that now broke upon
+me—soft, warm, and welcome as are the
+stars of his own South to the mariner
+<pb n="73"/><anchor id="Pg073"/>who has been wandering through the seas
+of the north. Looking for the source of
+this splendour, I saw, through an archway
+opposite, a long illuminated alley,
+stretching away as far as the eye could
+reach, and fenced, on one side, with
+thickets of odoriferous shrubs, while,
+along the other, extended a line of lofty
+arcades, from which the light, that filled
+the whole area, issued. As soon, too,
+as the din of the deep echoes had subsided,
+there stole gradually on my ear
+a strain of choral music, which appeared
+to come, mellowed and sweetened in its
+passage, through many a spacious hall
+within those shining arcades. Among the
+voices I could distinguish some female
+tones, towering high and clear over
+all the rest, and forming the spire, as it
+were, into which the harmony tapered, as
+it rose.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+So excited was my fancy by this sudden
+enchantment, that—though never had I
+caught a sound from the young Egyptian’s
+<pb n="74"/><anchor id="Pg074"/>lips,—I yet persuaded myself that the voice
+I now heard was hers, sounding highest
+and most heavenly of all that choir, and
+calling to me, like a distant spirit out of its
+sphere. Animated by this thought, I flew
+forward to the archway, but found, to my
+mortification, that it was guarded by a
+trellis-work, whose bars, though invisible
+at a distance, resisted all my efforts to
+force them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+While occupied in these ineffectual
+struggles, I perceived, to the left of the
+archway, a dark, cavernous opening, which
+seemed to lead in a direction parallel to
+the lighted arcades. Notwithstanding my
+impatience, however, the aspect of this passage,
+as I looked shudderingly into it, chilled
+my very blood. It was not so much darkness,
+as a sort of livid and ghastly twilight,
+from which a damp, like that of death-vaults,
+exhaled, and through which, if
+my eyes did not deceive me, pale, phantom-like
+shapes were, at that very moment,
+hovering.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="75"/><anchor id="Pg075"/>
+
+<p>
+Looking anxiously round, to discover
+some less formidable outlet, I saw, over
+the vast folding-gates through which I
+had just passed, a blue, tremulous flame,
+which, after playing for a few seconds
+over the dark ground of the pediment,
+settled gradually into characters of light,
+and formed the following words:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>You, who would try</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Yon terrible track,</l>
+<l>To live, or to die,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">But ne’er to look back—</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>You, who aspire</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">To be purified there,</l>
+<l>By the terrors of Fire,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Of Water, and Air,—</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>If danger, and pain,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">And death you despise,</l>
+<l>On—for again</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Into light you shall rise;</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>Rise into light</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">With that Secret Divine,</l>
+<l>Now shrouded from sight</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">By the Veils of the Shrine!</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>But if——</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="76"/><anchor id="Pg076"/>
+
+<p>
+Here the letters faded away into a dead
+blank, more awfully intelligible than the
+most eloquent words.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A new hope now flashed across me.
+The dream of the Garden, which had
+been for some time almost forgotten, returned
+to my mind. <q>Am I then,</q> I
+exclaimed, <q>in the path to the promised
+mystery? and shall the great secret of
+Eternal Life <hi rend="italic">indeed</hi> be mine?</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Yes!</q> seemed to answer, out of the
+air, that spirit-voice, which still was heard
+crowning the choir with its single sweetness.
+I hailed the omen with transport.
+Love and Immortality, both beckoning
+me onward—who could give a thought
+to fear, with two such bright hopes in
+view? Having invoked and blessed
+that unknown enchantress, whose steps
+had led me to this abode of mystery and
+knowledge, I plunged into the chasm.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Instead of that vague, spectral twilight
+which had at first met my eye, I now
+found, as I entered, a thick darkness,
+<pb n="77"/><anchor id="Pg077"/>which, though far less horrible, was,
+at this moment, still more disconcerting,
+as my lamp, which had been, for
+some time, almost useless, was fast expiring.
+Resolved, however, to make the
+most of its last gleam, I hastened, with
+rapid step, through this gloomy region,
+which seemed wider and more open to
+the air than any that I had yet passed.
+Nor was it long before the appearance
+of a bright blaze in the distance announced
+to me that my first great Trial
+was at hand. As I drew nearer, the
+flames burst high and wide on all sides;—and
+the spectacle that now presented itself
+was such as might have appalled even
+hearts more habituated to dangers than
+mine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There lay before me, extending completely
+across my path, a thicket, or grove
+of the most combustible trees of Egypt—tamarind,
+pine, and Arabian balm.
+Around their stems and branches were
+coiled serpents of fire, which, twisting
+<pb n="78"/><anchor id="Pg078"/>themselves rapidly from bough to bough,
+spread their own wild-fire as they went,
+and involved tree after tree in one general
+blaze. It was, indeed, rapid as the burning
+of those reed-beds of Ethiopia, whose
+light brightens, at night, the distant cataracts
+of the Nile.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Through the middle of this blazing
+grove, I perceived, my only pathway lay.
+There was not a moment to be lost—the
+conflagration gained rapidly on either side,
+and already the narrowing path between
+was strewed with fire. Casting away my
+now useless lamp, and holding my robe
+as some protection over my head, with a
+tremor, I own, in every limb, I ventured
+through the blaze.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Instantly, as if my presence had given
+new life to the flames, a fresh outbreak
+of combustion arose on all sides. The
+trees clustered into a bower of fire above
+my head, while the serpents, that hung
+hissing from the red branches, shot showers
+of sparkles down upon me, as I passed.
+<pb n="79"/><anchor id="Pg079"/>Never were decision and activity more serviceable;—one
+minute later, and I must
+have perished. The narrow opening, of
+which I had so promptly availed myself,
+closed instantly behind me; and, as I
+looked back, to contemplate the ordeal
+which I had passed, I saw that the whole
+grove was already one mass of fire.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Happy at having escaped this first trial,
+I plucked from one of the pine-trees a
+bough that was but just kindled, and, with
+this for my only guide, hastened breathlessly
+forward. I had gone but a few
+paces, when the path turned suddenly off,—leading
+downwards, as I could see by
+the glimmer of my brand, into a more
+confined space, through which a chilling
+air, as if from some neighbouring waters,
+blew over my brow. Nor had I proceeded
+very far, when the sound of torrents
+fell on my ear,—mingled, as I thought,
+from time to time, with shrill wailings,
+like the cries of persons in danger or
+<pb n="80"/><anchor id="Pg080"/>distress. At every step the noise of the
+dashing waters increased, and I now perceived
+that I had entered an immense
+rocky cavern, through the middle of
+which, headlong as a winter-torrent, the
+flood, to whose roar I had been listening,
+rushed. Upon its surface, too, there
+floated strange, spectre-like shapes, which,
+as they went by, sent forth those dismal
+shrieks, as if in fear of some precipice to
+whose brink they were hurrying.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I saw too plainly that my course must
+be across that torrent. It was fearful; but
+in courage lay my only hope. What
+awaited me on the opposite shore, I knew
+not; for all there was wrapped in impenetrable
+gloom, nor could the weak
+light I held reach half so far. Dismissing,
+however, all thoughts but that of
+pressing onward, I sprung from the rock
+on which I stood into the flood,—trusting
+that, with my right hand, I should be
+able to buffet the current, while, with
+the other, I might contrive to hold my
+<pb n="81"/><anchor id="Pg081"/>brand aloft, as long as a glimmer of it
+remained, to guide me to the shore.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Long and formidable was the struggle
+I had to maintain. More than once,
+overpowered by the rush of the waters, I
+had almost given myself up, as destined to
+follow those apparitions, that still passed
+me, hurrying, with mournful cries, to their
+doom in some invisible gulf before them.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At length, just as my strength was
+nearly exhausted, and the last remains of
+the pine-branch were falling from my hand,
+I saw, outstretching towards me into the
+water, a light double balustrade, with a
+flight of steps between, ascending, almost
+perpendicularly, from the wave, till they
+seemed lost in a dense mass of clouds
+above. This glimpse—for it was no
+more, as my light expired in giving it—lent
+new spring to my courage. Having
+now both hands at liberty, so desperate
+were my efforts, that after a few
+minutes’ struggle, I felt my brow <anchor id="corr081"/><corr sic="stirke">strike</corr>
+<pb n="82"/><anchor id="Pg082"/>against the stairway, and, in an instant
+more, my feet were on the steps.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Rejoiced at my rescue from that perilous
+flood, though I knew not whither the
+stairway led, I promptly ascended it.
+But this feeling of confidence was of short
+duration. I had not mounted far, when,
+to my horror, I perceived, that each successive
+step, as my foot left it, broke away
+from beneath me,—leaving me in midair,
+with no other alternative than that of
+mounting still by the same momentary
+footing, and with the dreadful doubt whether
+it would even endure my tread.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And thus did I, for a few seconds,
+continue to ascend, with nothing beneath
+me but that awful river, in which—so
+tranquil it had become—I could hear
+the plash of the falling fragments, as every
+step in succession gave way under my feet.
+It was a trying moment, but still worse
+remained. I now found the balustrade,
+by which I had held during my ascent,
+and which had hitherto seemed firm,
+<pb n="83"/><anchor id="Pg083"/>grow tremulous in my hand,—while the
+step to which I was about to trust myself,
+tottered under my foot. Just then,
+a momentary flash, as if of lightning,
+broke around, and I saw, hanging out
+of the clouds, within my reach, a huge
+brazen ring. Instinctively I stretched forth
+my arm to seize it, and, at the same instant,
+both balustrade and steps gave way
+beneath me, and I was left swinging by
+my hands in the dark void. As if, too,
+this massy ring, which I grasped, was by
+some magic power linked with all the
+winds in heaven, no sooner had I seized
+it than, like the touching of a spring,
+it seemed to give loose to every variety of
+gusts and tempests, that ever strewed the
+sea-shore with wrecks or dead; and, as I
+swung about, the sport of this elemental
+strife, each new burst of its fury threatened
+to shiver me, like a storm-sail, to atoms!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Nor was even this the worst;—still
+holding, I know not how, by the ring, I
+felt myself caught up, as if by a thousand
+<pb n="84"/><anchor id="Pg084"/>whirlwinds, and round and round, like a
+stone-shot in a sling, whirled in the midst
+of all this deafening chaos, till my brain
+grew dizzy, and my recollection confused,
+and I almost fancied myself on that wheel
+of the infernal world, whose rotations, it
+is said, Eternity alone can number!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Human strength could no longer sustain
+such a trial. I was on the point,
+at last, of loosing my hold, when suddenly
+the violence of the storm moderated;—my
+whirl through the air gradually ceased,
+and I felt the ring slowly descend with
+me, till—happy as a shipwrecked mariner
+at the first touch of land—I found
+my feet once more upon firm ground.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the same moment, a light of the
+most delicious softness filled the whole air.
+Music, such as is heard in dreams, came
+floating at a distance; and, as my eyes gradually
+recovered their powers of vision,
+a scene of glory was revealed to them,
+almost too bright for imagination, and
+yet living and real. As far as the sight
+<pb n="85"/><anchor id="Pg085"/>could reach, enchanting gardens were
+seen, opening away through long tracts
+of light and verdure, and sparkling every
+where with fountains, that circulated, like
+streams of life, among the flowers. Not
+a charm was here wanting, that the imagination
+of poet or prophet, in their pictures
+of Elysium, ever yet dreamed or
+promised. Vistas, opening into scenes of
+indistinct grandeur,—streams, shining out
+at intervals, in their shadowy course,—and
+labyrinths of flowers, leading, by
+mysterious windings, to green, spacious
+glades, full of splendour and repose. Over
+all this, too, there fell a light, from some
+unseen source, resembling nothing that
+illumines our upper world—a sort of
+golden moonlight, mingling the warm radiance
+of day with the calm and melancholy
+lustre of night.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Nor were there wanting inhabitants for
+this sunless Paradise. Through all the
+bright gardens were wandering, with the
+serene air and step of happy spirits, groups
+<pb n="86"/><anchor id="Pg086"/>both of young and old, of venerable and of
+lovely forms, bearing, most of them, the
+Nile’s white flowers on their heads, and
+branches of the eternal palm in their
+hands; while, over the verdant turf, fair
+children and maidens went dancing to
+aërial music, whose source was, like that
+of the light, invisible, but which filled
+the whole air with its mystic sweetness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Exhausted as I was by the trials I had
+undergone, no sooner did I perceive those
+fair groups in the distance, than my weariness,
+both of frame and spirit, was forgotten.
+A thought crossed me that she,
+whom I sought, might be among them;
+and, notwithstanding the awe, with which
+that unearthly scene inspired me, I was
+about to fly, on the instant, to ascertain my
+hope. But in the act of making the effort,
+I felt my robe gently pulled, and turning,
+beheld an aged man before me, whom, by
+the sacred hue of his garb, I knew to be
+a Hierophant. Placing a branch of the
+consecrated palm in my hand, he said,
+<pb n="87"/><anchor id="Pg087"/>in a solemn voice, <q>Aspirant of the Mysteries,
+welcome!</q>—then, regarding me
+for a few seconds with grave attention,
+added, in a tone of courteousness and interest,
+<q>The victory over the body hath
+been gained!—Follow me, young Greek,
+to thy resting place.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I obeyed in silence,—and the Priest,
+turning away from this scene of splendour,
+into a secluded path, where the light faded
+away, as we advanced, conducted me to a
+small pavilion, by the side of a whispering
+stream, where the very spirit of slumber
+seemed to preside, and, pointing to
+a bed of dried poppy-leaves within it, left
+me to repose.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="88"/><anchor id="Pg088"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. VIII.</head>
+
+<p>
+Though the sight of that splendid scene
+which opened upon me, like a momentary
+glimpse into another world, had, for an instant,
+re-animated my strength and spirit,
+so completely had fatigue overmastered my
+whole frame, that, even had the form of
+the young Priestess stood before me, my
+limbs would have sunk in the effort to
+reach her. No sooner had I fallen on my
+leafy couch, than sleep, like a sudden
+death, came over me; and I lay, for hours,
+in the deep, and motionless rest, which not
+even a shadow of life disturbs.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On awaking I saw, beside me, the same
+venerable personage, who had welcomed
+me to this subterranean world on the preceding
+night. At the foot of my couch stood
+a statue, of Grecian workmanship, representing
+a boy, with wings, seated gracefully
+<pb n="89"/><anchor id="Pg089"/>on a lotus-flower, and having the forefinger
+of his right hand pressed to his lips.
+This action, together with the glory round
+his brows, denoted, as I already knew,
+the God of Silence and Light.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Impatient to know what further trials
+awaited me, I was about to speak, when
+the Priest exclaimed, anxiously, <q>Hush!</q>—and
+pointing to this statue at the foot
+of the couch, said—<q>Let the spell of that
+Spirit be on thy lips, young stranger, till
+the wisdom of thy instructors shall think
+fit to remove it. Not unaptly doth the same
+god preside over Silence and Light; since
+it is only out of the depth of contemplative
+silence, that the great light of the soul,
+Truth, arises!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Little used to the language of dictation
+or instruction, I was now preparing to rise,
+when the priest again restrained me; and,
+at the same moment, two boys, beautiful as
+the young Genii of the stars, entered the
+pavilion. They were habited in long
+garments of the purest white, and bore
+<pb n="90"/><anchor id="Pg090"/>each a small golden chalice in his hand.
+Advancing towards me, they stopped on
+opposite sides of the couch, and one of
+them, presenting to me his chalice of gold,
+said, in a tone between singing and speaking,—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“Drink of this cup—Osiris sips</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">The same in his halls below;</l>
+<l>And the same he gives, to cool the lips</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Of the Dead, who downward go.</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>“Drink of this cup—the water within</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Is fresh from Lethe’s stream;</l>
+<l>’Twill make the past with all its sin,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">And all its pain and sorrows, seem</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Like a long-forgotten dream!</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>“The pleasure, whose charms</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Are steep’d in woe;</l>
+<l>The knowledge, that harms</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">The soul to know;</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>“The hope, that, bright</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">As the lake of the waste,</l>
+<l>Allures the sight,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">But mocks the taste;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="91"/><anchor id="Pg091"/>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“The love, that binds</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Its innocent wreath,</l>
+<l>Where the serpent winds,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">In venom, beneath;—</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>“All that, of evil or false, by thee</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Hath ever been known or seen,</l>
+<l>Shall melt away in this cup, and be</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Forgot, as it never had been!”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+Unwilling to throw a slight on this
+strange ceremony, I leaned forward, with
+all due gravity, and tasted the cup;
+which I had no sooner done than the
+young cup-bearer, on the other side,
+invited my attention, and, in his turn,
+presenting the chalice which he held,
+sung, with a voice still sweeter than that
+of his companion, the following strain:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“Drink of this cup—when Isis led</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Her boy, of old, to the beaming sky,</l>
+<l>She mingled a draught divine, and said—</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">‘Drink of this cup, thou’lt never die!’</l>
+</lg>
+<lg>
+<l>“Thus do I say and sing to thee,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Heir of that boundless heav’n on high,</l>
+<l>Though frail, and fall’n, and lost thou be,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Drink of this cup, thou’lt never die!”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="92"/><anchor id="Pg092"/>
+
+<p>
+Much as I had endeavoured to keep my
+philosophy on its guard, against the illusions
+with which, I knew, this region
+abounded, the young cup-bearer had here
+touched a spring of imagination, over
+which, as has been seen, my philosophy
+had but little controul. No sooner had
+the words, <q>thou shalt never die,</q> struck
+on my ear, than the dream of the Garden
+came fully to my mind, and, starting half-way
+from the couch, I stretched forth my
+hands to the cup. Recollecting myself,
+however, and fearful of having betrayed
+to others a weakness only fit for my own
+secret indulgence, with an affected smile
+of indifference I sunk back again on my
+couch,—while the young minstrel, but
+little interrupted by my movement, still
+continued his strain, of which I heard but
+the concluding words:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“And Memory, too, with her dreams shall come,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Dreams of a former, happier day,</l>
+<l>When Heaven was still the Spirit’s home,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">And her wings had not yet fallen away;</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="93"/><anchor id="Pg093"/>
+
+<lg>
+<l>“Glimpses of glory, ne’er forgot,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">That tell, like gleams on a sunset sea,</l>
+<l>What once hath been, what now is not,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">But, oh, what again shall brightly be!”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+Though the assurances of immortality,
+contained in these verses, would, at any
+other moment,—vain and visionary as I
+thought them,—have sent my fancy wandering
+into reveries of the future, the
+effort of self-control I had just made enabled
+me to hear them with indifference.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having gone through the form of tasting
+this second cup, I again looked anxiously
+to the Hierophant, to ascertain whether I
+might be permitted to rise. His assent
+having been given, the young pages brought
+to my couch a robe and tunic, which, like
+their own, were of linen of the purest
+white; and having assisted to clothe me in
+this sacred garb, they then placed upon
+my head a chaplet of myrtle, in which the
+symbol of Initiation, a golden <anchor id="corr093"/><corr sic="grashopper">grasshopper</corr>,
+was seen shining out from among the dark
+leaves.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="94"/><anchor id="Pg094"/>
+
+<p>
+Though sleep had done much to refresh
+my frame, something more was still wanting
+to restore its strength; and it was not
+without a smile at my own reveries I
+reflected, how much more welcome than
+the young page’s cup of immortality was
+the unpretending, but real, repast now set
+before me,—fresh fruits from the Isle of
+Gardens in the Nile, the delicate flesh of
+the desert antelope, and wine from the
+Vineyard of the Queens at Anthylla,
+fanned by one of the pages with a palm-leaf,
+to keep it cool.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having done justice to these dainties, it
+was with pleasure I heard the proposal of
+the Priest, that we should now walk forth
+together, and meditate among the scenes
+without. I had not forgotten the elysium
+that welcomed me last night,—those enchanted
+gardens, that mysterious music,
+and light, and the fair forms I saw wandering
+about,—as if, in the very midst of happiness,
+still seeking it. The hope, which
+had then occurred to me, that, perhaps,
+<pb n="95"/><anchor id="Pg095"/>among those sparkling groups, might be
+the maiden I sought, now returned with
+increased strength. I had little doubt that
+my guide was about to lead to the same
+Elysian scene, and that the form, so fit to
+inhabit it, would again appear before my
+eyes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But far different was the region to which
+he conducted me; nor could the whole
+world produce a scene more gloomy, or
+more strange. It had the appearance of
+a small, solitary valley, inclosed, on every
+side, by rocks, which seemed to rise, almost
+perpendicularly, to the very sky;—for
+it was, indeed, the blue sky that I saw
+shining between their summits, and whose
+light, dimmed and half lost, in its descent
+thus far, formed the melancholy daylight
+of this nether world.<note place="foot"><q>On s’étoit même avisé, depuis la première
+construction de ces demeures, de percer en plusieurs
+endroits jusq’au haut les terres qui les couvroient;
+non pas, à la vérité, pour tirer un jour qui
+n’auroit jamais été suffisant, mais pour recevoir un
+air salutaire, &amp;c.</q>—<hi rend="italic">Sethos.</hi></note> Down the side of
+<pb n="96"/><anchor id="Pg096"/>these rocky walls fell a cataract, whose
+source was upon earth, and on whose
+waters, as they rolled glassily over the
+edge above, a gleam of radiance rested,
+that showed how brilliant was the sunshine
+they left. From thence, gradually
+darkening, and broken, in its long descent,
+by alternate chasms and projections,
+the stream fell, at last, in a pale and thin
+mist—the phantom of what it had been
+on earth—into a small lake that lay at
+the base of the rock to receive it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Nothing could be more bleak and saddening
+than the appearance of this lake.
+The usual ornaments of the waters of
+Egypt were not wanting: the lotus here uplifted
+her silvery flowers, and the crimson
+flamingo floated over the tide. But they
+were, neither of them, the same as in the
+upper world;—the flower had exchanged
+its whiteness for a livid hue, and the wings
+of the bird hung heavy and colourless.
+Every thing wore the same half-living
+aspect; and the only sounds that
+dis<pb n="97"/><anchor id="Pg097"/>turbed the mournful stillness were the
+wailing cry of a heron among the sedges,
+and that din of the waters, in their midway
+struggle, above.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There was an unearthly sadness in the
+whole scene, of which no heart, however
+light, could resist the influence. Perceiving
+how I was affected by it, <q>Such
+scenes,</q> said the Priest, <q>are best suited to
+that solemn complexion of mind, which
+becomes him who approaches the Great
+Secret of futurity. Behold,</q>—and, in
+saying thus, he pointed to the opening over
+our heads, through which I could perceive
+a star or two twinkling in the heavens,
+though the sun had but a short time passed
+his meridian,—<q>as from this gloomy depth
+we can see those stars, which are now
+invisible to the dwellers upon the bright
+earth, even so, to the sad and self-humbled
+spirit, doth many a mystery of heaven
+reveal itself, of which they, who walk in
+the light of the proud world, know not!</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="98"/><anchor id="Pg098"/>
+
+<p>
+He now led me towards a rustic seat or
+alcove, beside which stood an image of
+that dark Deity, that God without a smile,
+who presides over the kingdom of the
+Dead.<note place="foot">Osiris.</note> The same livid and lifeless hue
+was upon his features, that hung over every
+thing in this dim valley; and, with his
+right hand, he pointed directly downwards,
+to denote that his melancholy
+kingdom lay there. A plantain—that
+favourite tree of the genii of Death—stood
+behind the statue, and spread its
+branches over the alcove, in which the
+Priest now, seating himself, signified that
+I should take my place by his side.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After a long pause, as if of thought and
+preparation,—<q>Nobly,</q> said he, <q>young
+Greek, hast thou sustained the first trials
+of Initiation. What remains, though of
+vital import to the soul, brings with it
+neither pain nor peril to the body. Having
+now proved and chastened thy mortal
+frame, by the three ordeals of Fire, of
+<pb n="99"/><anchor id="Pg099"/>Water, and of Air, the next task to which
+we are called is the purification of thy
+spirit,—the cleansing of that inward and
+immortal part, so as to render it fit for the
+reception of the last luminous revealment,
+when the Veils of the Sanctuary shall be
+thrown aside, and the Great Secret of
+Secrets unfolded to thee!—Towards this
+object, the primary and most essential step
+is, instruction. What the three purifying
+elements, through which thou hast passed,
+have done for thy body, instruction will
+effect for——</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>But that lovely maiden!</q> I exclaimed,
+bursting from my silence, having fallen,
+during his speech, into a deep revery, in
+which I had forgotten him, myself, the
+Great Secret, every thing—but her.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Startled by this profane interruption, he
+cast a look of alarm towards the statue, as if
+fearful lest the God should have heard my
+words. Then, turning to me, in a tone of
+mild solemnity, <q>It is but too plain,</q>
+said he, <q>that thoughts of the upper
+<pb n="100"/><anchor id="Pg100"/>world, and of its vain delights, still engross
+thee too much, to let the lessons of
+Truth sink profitably into thy heart. A
+few hours of meditation amid this solemn
+scenery—of that wholesome meditation,
+which purifies, by saddening—may
+haply dispose thee to receive, with reverence,
+the holy and immortal knowledge
+that is in store for thee. With this hope,
+I now leave thee to thy own thoughts, and
+to that God, before whose calm and
+mournful eye the vanities of the world,
+from which thou comest, wither!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thus saying, he turned slowly away,
+and passing behind the statue, towards
+which he had pointed during the last sentence,
+suddenly, and as if by enchantment,
+disappeared from my sight.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="101"/><anchor id="Pg101"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. IX.</head>
+
+<p>
+Being left to my own solitary thoughts,
+I had now leisure to reflect, with coolness,
+on the inconveniences, if not dangers, of
+the situation into which my love of adventure
+had hurried me. However ready my
+imagination was to kindle, in its own ideal
+sphere, I have ever found that, when
+brought into contact with reality, it as
+suddenly cooled;—like those meteors,
+that seem stars in the air, but, the moment
+they touch earth, are extinguished.
+Such was the disenchantment that now
+succeeded to the dreams in which I had
+been indulging. As long as Fancy had
+the field of the future to herself, even immortality
+did not seem too distant a race
+for her. But when human instruments
+interposed, the illusion vanished. From
+mortal lips the promise of immortality
+<pb n="102"/><anchor id="Pg102"/>seemed a mockery, and imagination herself
+had no wings that could carry beyond
+the grave.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Nor was this disappointment the only
+feeling that occupied me;—the imprudence
+of the step, which I had taken, now
+appeared in its full extent before my eyes.
+I had thrown myself into the power of
+the most artful priesthood in the world,
+without a chance of being able to escape
+from their toils, or to resist any machinations
+with which they might beset me. It
+seemed evident, from the state of preparation
+in which I had found all that wonderful
+apparatus, by which the terrors and splendours
+of Initiation are produced, that my
+descent into the pyramid was not unexpected.
+Numerous, indeed, and active as
+were the spies of the Sacred College of
+Memphis, there could be but little doubt
+that all my movements, since my arrival,
+had been tracked; and the many hours
+I had passed in watching and wandering
+round the pyramid, betrayed a curiosity
+<pb n="103"/><anchor id="Pg103"/>which might well inspire these wily priests
+with the hope of drawing an Epicurean
+into their superstitious toils.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I well knew their hatred to the sect
+of which I was Chief;—that they considered
+the Epicureans as, next to the
+Christians, the most formidable enemies
+of their craft and power. <q>How thoughtless,
+then,</q> I exclaimed, <q>to have placed
+myself in a situation, where I am equally
+helpless against their fraud and violence,
+and must either seem to be the dupe of
+their impostures, or submit to become
+the victim of their vengeance.</q> Of these
+alternatives, bitter as they were, the latter
+appeared by far the more welcome. I
+blushed even to think of the mockeries
+to which I already had yielded; and the
+prospect of being put through still further
+ceremonials, and of being tutored and
+preached to by hypocrites I despised,
+appeared to me, in my present temper,
+a trial of patience, to which the flames
+<pb n="104"/><anchor id="Pg104"/>and the whirlwinds I had already encountered
+were pastime.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Often and impatiently did I look up,
+between those rocky walls, to the bright
+sky that appeared to rest upon their summits,
+as, round and round, through every
+part of the valley, I endeavoured to find an
+outlet from its gloomy precincts. But in
+vain I endeavoured;—that rocky barrier,
+which seemed to end but in heaven, interposed
+itself every where. Neither did the
+image of the young maiden, though constantly
+in my mind, now bring with it the
+least consolation or hope. Of what avail
+was it that she, perhaps, was an inhabitant
+of this region, if I could neither see
+her smile, nor catch the sound of her voice,—if,
+while among preaching priests I
+wasted away my hours, her presence
+diffused its enchantment elsewhere.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At length exhausted, I lay down by the
+brink of the lake, and gave myself up to
+all the melancholy of my fancy. The
+<pb n="105"/><anchor id="Pg105"/>pale semblance of daylight, which had
+hitherto shone around, grew, every moment,
+more dim and dismal. Even the
+rich gleam, at the summit of the cascade,
+had faded; and the sunshine, like the
+water, exhausted in its descent, had now
+dwindled into a ghostly glimmer, far
+worse than darkness. The birds upon the
+lake, as if about to die with the dying
+light, sunk down their heads; and, as I
+looked to the statue, the deepening shadows
+gave an expression to its mournful features
+that chilled my very soul.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The thought of death, ever ready to
+present itself to my imagination, now came,
+with a disheartening weight, such as I had
+never before felt. I almost fancied myself
+already in the dark vestibule of the grave,—separated,
+for ever, from the world
+above, and with nothing but the blank of
+an eternal sleep before me. It had often, I
+knew, happened that the visitants of this
+mysterious realm were, after their descent
+<pb n="106"/><anchor id="Pg106"/>from earth, never seen or heard of;—being
+condemned, for some failure in their
+initiatory trials, to pine away their lives in
+the dark dungeons, with which, as well as
+with altars, this region abounded. Such,
+I shuddered to think, might probably
+be my destiny; and so appalling was the
+thought, that even the spirit of defiance
+died within me, and I was already giving
+myself up to helplessness and despair.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At length, after some hours of this
+gloomy musing, I heard a rustling in the
+sacred grove behind the statue; and,
+soon after, the sound of the Priest’s voice—more
+welcome than I had ever thought
+such voice could be—brought the assurance
+that I was not yet, at least,
+wholly abandoned. Finding his way to
+me through the gloom, he now led me to
+the same spot, on which we had parted so
+many hours before; and, in a voice that
+retained no trace of displeasure, bespoke
+my attention, while he should reveal to
+me some of those divine truths, by whose
+<pb n="107"/><anchor id="Pg107"/>infusion, he said, into the soul of man, its
+purification can alone be effected.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The valley had now become so wholly
+dark, that we could no longer discern each
+other’s faces, as we sat. There was a
+melancholy in the voice of my instructor
+that well accorded with the gloom around
+us; and, saddened and subdued, I now
+listened with resignation, if not with interest,
+to those sublime, but, alas, I
+thought, vain tenets, which, with the
+warmth of a believer, this Hierophant
+expounded to me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He spoke of the pre-existence of the
+soul,—of its abode, from all eternity, in
+a place of bliss, of which all that we have
+most beautiful in our conceptions here is but
+a dim transcript, a clouded remembrance.
+In the blue depths of ether, he said, lay that
+<q>Country of the Soul,</q>—its boundary
+alone visible in the line of milky light, that
+separates it, as by a barrier of stars, from
+the dark earth. <q>Oh, realm of purity!
+<pb n="108"/><anchor id="Pg108"/>Home of the yet unfallen Spirit!—where,
+in the days of her primal innocence, she
+wandered, ere her beauty was soiled by
+the touch of earth, or her resplendent wings
+had withered away. Methinks,</q> he cried,
+<q>I see, at this moment, those fields of
+radiance,—I look back, through the mists
+of life, into that luminous world, where
+the souls that have never lost their high,
+heavenly rank, still soar, without a stain,
+above the shadowless stars, and dwell together
+in infinite perfection and bliss!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As he spoke these words, a burst of
+pure, brilliant light, like a sudden opening
+of heaven, broke through the valley; and,
+as soon as my eyes were able to endure
+the splendour, such a vision of loveliness
+and glory opened upon them, as took
+even my sceptical spirit by surprise, and
+made it yield, at once, to the potency
+of the spell.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Suspended, as I thought, in air, and
+occupying the whole of the opposite region
+of the valley, there appeared an immense
+<pb n="109"/><anchor id="Pg109"/>orb of light, within which, through a haze
+of radiance, I could see distinctly groups
+of young female spirits, who, in silent, but
+harmonious movement, like that of the
+stars, wound slowly through a variety of
+fanciful evolutions; and, as they linked
+and unlinked each other’s arms, formed
+a living labyrinth of beauty and grace.
+Though their feet seemed to tread along a
+field of light, they had also wings, of the
+richest hue, which, like rainbows over
+waterfalls, when played with by the breeze,
+at every moment reflected a new variety
+of glory.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As I stood, gazing with wonder, the
+orb, with all its ethereal inmates, gradually
+receded into the dark void, lessening, as
+it went, and growing more bright, as it lessened;—till,
+at length, distant, apparently,
+as a retiring comet, this little world of
+Spirits, in one small point of intense radiance,
+shone its last and vanished. <q>Go,</q>
+exclaimed the rapt Priest, <q>ye happy
+souls, of whose dwelling a glimpse is thus
+<pb n="110"/><anchor id="Pg110"/>given to our eyes, go, wander, in your orb,
+through the boundless heaven, nor ever
+let a thought of this perishable world come
+to mingle its dross with your divine nature,
+or tempt you to that earthward fall, by
+which spirits, as bright, have been ruined!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A pause ensued, during which, still
+under the influence of wonder, I sent my
+fancy wandering after the inhabitants of
+that orb,—almost wishing myself credulous
+enough to believe in a heaven, of
+which creatures, so like all that I most
+loved on earth, were inmates.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At length, the Priest, with a sigh at the
+contrast he was about to draw, between
+the happy spirits we had just seen and the
+fallen ones of earth, resumed his melancholy
+History of the Soul. Tracing it,
+from the first moment of earthward desire,
+to its final eclipse in the shadows of this
+world, he dwelt upon every stage of its
+darkening descent, with a pathos that sent
+sadness into the very depths of the heart.
+The first downward look of the Spirit
+to<pb n="111"/><anchor id="Pg111"/>wards earth—the tremble of her wings
+on the edge of Heaven—the giddy slide,
+at length, down that fatal descent, and the
+Lethæan cup, midway in the sky, of which
+when she has once tasted, Heaven is forgot,—through
+all these gradations he mournfully
+traced her fall, to the last stage of darkness,
+when, wholly immersed in this world,
+her celestial nature is changed, she can no
+longer rise above earth, nor remembers
+her home, but by glimpses so vague, that,
+mistaking for hope what is only memory,
+she believes them to be a light from the
+Future, not the Past.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>To retrieve this ruin of the once blessed
+Soul—to clear away, from around her,
+the clouds of earth, and, restoring her lost
+wings<note place="foot">In the language of Plato, Hierocles, &amp;c. to
+<q>restore to the soul its wings,</q> is the main object
+both of religion and philosophy.</note>, facilitate their return to Heaven—such,</q>
+said the reverend man, <q>is the
+great task of our religion, and such the
+triumph of those divine Mysteries, in
+<pb n="112"/><anchor id="Pg112"/>which the life and essence of our religion
+lie. However sunk and changed and
+clouded may be the Spirit, as long as a
+single trace of her original light remains,
+there is yet hope that——</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Here his voice was interrupted by a
+strain of mournful music, of which the
+low, distant breathings had been, for some
+minutes, heard, but which now gained
+upon the ear too thrillingly to let it
+listen to any more earthly sound. A
+faint light, too, at that instant broke
+through the valley,—and I could perceive,
+not far from the spot where we
+sat, a female figure, veiled, and crouching
+to earth, as if subdued by sorrow, or
+under the influence of shame.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The light, by which I saw her, was
+from a pale, moon-like meteor, which had
+formed itself in the air as the music approached,
+and shed over the rocks and the
+lake a glimmer as cold as that by which
+the Dead, in their own realm, gaze on each
+other. The music, too, which appeared
+<pb n="113"/><anchor id="Pg113"/>to rise directly out of the lake, and to come
+full of the breath of its dark waters, spoke
+a despondency in every note which no
+language could express;—and, as I listened
+to its tones, and looked upon that
+fallen Spirit, (for such, the holy man
+whispered, was the form before us,) so
+entirely did the illusion of the scene take
+possession of me, that, with breathless
+anxiety, I waited the result.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Nor had I gazed long before that
+form rose slowly from its drooping position;—the
+air around it grew bright, and
+the pale meteor overhead assumed a more
+cheerful and living light. The veil, which
+had before shrouded the face of the figure,
+became gradually transparent, and the
+features, one by one, disclosed themselves
+through it. Having tremblingly watched
+the progress of the apparition, I now
+started from my seat, and half exclaimed,
+<q>It is she!</q> In another minute, this veil
+had, like a thin mist, melted away, and
+the young Priestess of the Moon stood,
+<pb n="114"/><anchor id="Pg114"/>for the third time, revealed before my
+eyes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To rush instantly towards her was my
+first impulse—but the arm of the Priest
+held me firmly back. The fresh light,
+which had begun to flow in from all sides,
+collected itself in a glory round the spot
+where she stood. Instead of melancholy
+music, strains of the most exalted rapture
+were heard; and the young maiden, buoyant
+as the inhabitants of the fairy orb,
+amid a blaze of light like that which fell
+upon her in the Temple, ascended into the
+air.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Stay, beautiful vision, stay!</q> I exclaimed,
+as, breaking from the hold of the
+Priest, I flung myself prostrate on the
+ground,—the only mode by which I could
+express the admiration, even to worship,
+with which I was filled. But the vanishing
+spirit heard me not:—receding into the
+darkness, like that orb, whose track she
+seemed to follow, her form lessened away,
+till she was seen no more. Gazing, till
+<pb n="115"/><anchor id="Pg115"/>the last luminous speck had disappeared,
+I suffered myself unconsciously to be led
+away by my reverend guide, who, placing
+me once more on my bed of poppy-leaves,
+left me to such repose as it was
+possible, after such a scene, to enjoy.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="116"/><anchor id="Pg116"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. X.</head>
+
+<p>
+The apparition with which I had been
+blessed in that Valley of Visions—as the
+place where I had witnessed these wonders
+was called—brought back to my
+heart all the hopes and fancies, in which
+I had indulged during my descent from
+earth. I had now seen once more that
+matchless creature, who had been my
+guiding star into this mysterious world;
+and that she was, in some way, connected
+with the further revelations that awaited
+me, I saw no reason to doubt. There
+was a sublimity, too, in the doctrines of
+my reverend teacher, and even a hope in
+the promises of immortality held out by
+him, which, in spite of reason, won insensibly
+both upon my fancy and my pride.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The Future, however, was now but of
+secondary consideration;—the Present,
+<pb n="117"/><anchor id="Pg117"/>and that deity of the Present, woman, were
+the objects that engrossed my whole soul.
+For the sake, indeed, of such beings alone
+did I think immortality desirable, nor,
+without them, would eternal life have appeared
+to me worth a prayer. To every
+further trial of my patience and faith, I
+now made up my mind to submit without
+a murmur. Some propitious chance, I
+fondly persuaded myself, might yet bring
+me nearer to the object of my adoration,
+and enable me to address, as mortal woman,
+her who had hitherto been to me but
+as a vision, a shade.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The period of my probation, however,
+was nearly at an end. Both frame and
+spirit had now been tried; and, as the
+crowning test of the purification of the
+latter was that power of seeing into the
+world of spirits, with which, in the Valley
+of Visions, I had proved myself to be endowed,
+there remained now, to perfect
+my Initiation, but this one night more,
+<pb n="118"/><anchor id="Pg118"/>when, in the Temple of Isis, and in the
+presence of her unveiled image, the last
+grand revelation of the Secret of Secrets
+was to open upon me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I passed the morning of this day in
+company with the same venerable personage,
+who had, from the first, presided
+over the ceremonies of my instruction; and
+who, to inspire me with due reverence for
+the power and magnificence of his religion,
+now conducted me through the long range
+of illuminated galleries and shrines, that
+extend under the site upon which Memphis
+and the Pyramids stand, and form
+a counterpart under ground to that mighty
+city of temples upon earth.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He then descended with me, still lower,
+into those winding crypts, where lay the
+Seven Tables of stone, found by Hermes
+in the valley of Hebron. <q>On these
+tables,</q> said he, <q rend="post: none">is written all the knowledge
+of the antediluvian race,—the
+decrees of the stars from the beginning
+of time, the annals of a still earlier world,
+<pb n="119"/><anchor id="Pg119"/>and all the marvellous secrets, both of
+heaven and earth, which would have been,</q>
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l rend="margin-left: 8">“<hi rend="italic">but</hi> for this key,</l>
+<l>Lost in the Universal Sea.”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+Returning to the region, from which we
+had descended, we next visited, in succession,
+a series of small shrines, representing
+the various objects of adoration through
+Egypt, and thus furnishing to the Priest
+an occasion for explaining the mysterious
+nature of animal worship, and the refined
+doctrines of theology that lay veiled
+under its forms. Every shrine was consecrated
+to a particular faith, and contained
+a living image of the deity which it
+adored. Beside the goat of Mendes, with
+his refulgent star upon his breast, I saw
+the crocodile, as presented to the eyes of its
+idolaters at Arsinoë, with costly gems in its
+loathsome ears, and rich bracelets of gold
+encircling its feet. Here, floating through
+a tank in the centre of a temple, the sacred
+carp of Lepidotum exhibited its silvery
+<pb n="120"/><anchor id="Pg120"/>scales; while, there, the Isiac serpents
+trailed languidly over the altar, with that
+movement which most inspires the hopes of
+their votaries. In one of the small chapels
+we found a beautiful child, feeding and
+watching over those golden beetles, which
+are adored for their brightness, as emblems
+of the sun; while, in another, stood a
+sacred ibis upon its pedestal, so like, in
+plumage and attitude, to the bird of the
+young Priestess, that I could gladly have
+knelt down and worshipped it for her
+sake.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After visiting these various shrines, and
+listening to the reflections which they suggested,
+I was next led by my guide to the
+Great Hall of the Zodiac, on whose
+ceiling, in bright and undying colours,
+was delineated the map of the firmament,
+as it appeared at the first dawn of time.
+Here, in pointing out the track of the sun,
+among the spheres, he spoke eloquently of
+the analogy that exists between moral and
+physical darkness—of the sympathy with
+<pb n="121"/><anchor id="Pg121"/>which all spiritual creatures regard the
+sun, so as to sadden and droop when he
+sinks into his wintry hemisphere, and to
+rejoice when he resumes his own empire
+of light. Hence, the festivals and
+hymns, with which most of the nations of
+the earth are wont to welcome the resurrection
+of his orb in spring, as an emblem
+and pledge of the re-ascent of the soul
+to heaven. Hence, the songs of sorrow,
+the mournful ceremonies,—like those
+Mysteries of the Night, upon the Lake of
+Saïs,—in which they brood over his
+autumnal descent into the shades, as a
+type of the Spirit’s fall into this world of
+death.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In discourses such as these the hours
+passed away; and though there was nothing
+in the light of this sunless region to
+mark to the eye the decline of day, my
+own feelings told me that the night drew
+near;—nor, in spite of my incredulity,
+could I refrain from a flutter of hope, as
+<pb n="122"/><anchor id="Pg122"/>that promised moment of revelation approached,
+when the Mystery of Mysteries
+was to be made all my own. This consummation,
+however, was less near than I
+expected. My patience had still further
+trials to encounter. It was necessary, I
+now found, that I should keep watch, during
+the greater part of the night, in the
+Sanctuary of the Temple, alone and in
+darkness,—and thus prepare myself, by
+meditation, for the awful moment, when
+the irradiation from behind the sacred
+Veils was to burst upon me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the appointed hour, we left the Hall
+of the Zodiac, and proceeded through
+a line of long marble galleries, where the
+lamps were more thinly scattered as we advanced,
+till, at length, we found ourselves
+in total darkness. Here the Priest, taking
+me by the hand, and leading me down a
+flight of steps, into a place where the same
+deep gloom prevailed, said, with a voice
+trembling, as if from excess of awe,—<q>Thou
+art now in the Sanctuary of our
+<pb n="123"/><anchor id="Pg123"/>goddess, Isis, and the dark veils, that hang
+over her image, are before thee!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After exhorting me earnestly to that
+train of thought, which best accorded with
+the spirit of the place where I stood, and,
+above all, to that full and unhesitating
+faith, with which alone, he said, the manifestation
+of such mysteries should be approached,
+the holy man took leave of me,
+and re-ascended the steps;—while, so
+spell-bound did I feel by that deep darkness,
+that the last sound of his footsteps
+died upon my ear, before I ventured to stir
+a limb from the position in which he had
+left me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The prospect of the long watch, now
+before me, was dreadful. Even danger
+itself, in an active form, would have been
+preferable to this sort of safe, but dull,
+probation, by which patience was the
+only virtue put to the proof. Having
+ascertained how far the space around me
+was free from obstacles, I endeavoured
+<pb n="124"/><anchor id="Pg124"/>to beguile the time by pacing up and
+down within those limits, till I became
+tired of the echoes of my own tread.
+Finding my way, then, to what I felt to
+be a massive pillar, and, leaning wearily
+against it, I surrendered myself to a train
+of thoughts and feelings, far different
+from those with which the Hierophant
+had hoped to inspire me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Why,</q> I again asked, <q>if these
+priests possess the secret of life, why are
+they themselves the victims of death?
+why sink into the grave with the cup of
+immortality in their hands? But no, safe
+boasters, the eternity they so lavishly promise
+is reserved for <hi rend="italic">another</hi>, a future
+world—that ready resource of all priestly
+promises—that depository of the airy
+pledges of all creeds. Another world!—alas,
+where does it lie? or, what spirit
+hath ever come to say that Life is there?</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The conclusion, to which, half sadly,
+half passionately, I arrived, was that,
+life being but a dream of the moment,
+<pb n="125"/><anchor id="Pg125"/>never to come again, every bliss that is
+promised for hereafter should be secured
+by the wise man here. And, as no
+heaven I had ever heard of from these
+visionary priests opened half such certainty
+of happiness as that smile which I
+beheld last night,—<q>Let me,</q> I exclaimed,
+impatiently, striking the massy
+pillar, till it rung, <q>let me but make that
+beautiful Priestess my own, and I here
+willingly exchange for her every chance
+of immortality, that the combined wisdom
+of Egypt’s Twelve Temples can
+offer me!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+No sooner had I uttered these words,
+than a tremendous peal, like that of
+thunder, rolled over the Sanctuary, and
+seemed to shake its walls. On every
+side, too, a succession of blue, vivid
+flashes pierced, like so many lances of
+light, through the gloom, revealing to
+me, at intervals, the mighty dome in
+which I stood—its ceiling of azure, studded
+with stars, its colossal columns,
+<pb n="126"/><anchor id="Pg126"/>towering aloft, and those dark, mysterious
+veils, which hung, in massy drapery, from
+the roof to the floor, and covered the rich
+glories of the Shrine under their folds.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+So weary had I grown of my tedious
+watch, that this stormy and fitful illumination,
+during which the Sanctuary seemed
+to rock to its base, was by no means an
+unwelcome interruption of the monotony
+under which my impatience suffered.
+After a short interval, however, the flashes
+ceased;—the sounds died away, like exhausted
+thunder, through the abyss, and
+darkness and silence, like that of the
+grave, succeeded.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Resting my back once more against the
+pillar, and fixing my eyes upon that side
+of the Sanctuary, from which the promised
+irradiation was to burst, I now
+resolved to await the awful moment in
+patience. Resigned and immovable, I
+had remained thus, for nearly another
+hour, when, suddenly, along the edges
+of the mighty Veils, I perceived a thin rim
+<pb n="127"/><anchor id="Pg127"/>of light, as if from some brilliant object
+under them;—like that border which
+encircles a cloud at sunset, when the
+radiance, from behind, is escaping at its
+edges.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This indication of concealed glories
+grew every instant more strong; till, at
+last, vividly marked as it was upon the
+darkness, the narrow fringe of lustre almost
+pained the eye, giving promise of a
+splendour too bright to be endured. My
+expectations were now wound to the highest
+pitch, and all the scepticism, into
+which I had been cooling down my mind,
+was forgotten. The wonders that had
+been presented to me since my descent
+from earth—that glimpse into Elysium
+on the first night of my coming—those
+visitants from the Land of Spirits in the
+mysterious valley,—all led me to expect,
+in this last and brightest revelation, such
+visions of glory and knowledge as might
+transcend even fancy itself, nor leave
+<pb n="128"/><anchor id="Pg128"/>a doubt that they belonged less to earth
+than heaven.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+While, with an imagination thus excited,
+I stood waiting the result, an increased
+gush of light still more awakened my attention;
+and I saw, with an intenseness of
+interest, which made my heart beat aloud,
+one of the corners of the mighty Veil slowly
+raised up. I now felt that the Great
+Secret—whatever it might be—was at
+hand. A vague hope even crossed my mind—so
+wholly had imagination resumed her
+empire—that the splendid promise of
+my dream was on the point of being
+realised!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+With surprise, however, and—for a
+moment—with disappointment, I perceived,
+that the massy corner of the Veil
+was but raised sufficiently to allow a female
+figure to emerge from under it,—and
+then fell again, over its mystic splendours,
+as dark as before. By the strong light,
+too, that issued when the drapery was
+lifted, and illuminated the profile of the
+<pb n="129"/><anchor id="Pg129"/>emerging figure, I either saw, or fancied
+that I saw, the same bright features,
+that had already mocked me so often with
+their momentary charm, and seemed destined
+to haunt my heart as unavailingly as
+the fond, vain dream of Immortality itself.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Dazzled as I had been by that short
+gush of splendour, and distrusting even my
+senses, when under the influence of a
+fancy so excited, I had hardly time to
+question myself as to the reality of my
+impression, when I heard the sounds of
+light footsteps approaching me through
+the gloom. In a second or two more, the
+figure stopped before me, and, placing the
+end of a riband gently in my hand, said,
+in a tremulous whisper, <q>Follow, and be
+silent.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+So sudden and strange was the adventure,
+that, for a moment, I hesitated,—fearful
+lest my eyes should have been deceived
+as to the object they had seen. Casting a
+look towards the Veil, which seemed bursting
+with its luminous secret, I was almost
+<pb n="130"/><anchor id="Pg130"/>doubting to which of the two chances
+I should commit myself, when I felt the
+riband in my hand pulled softly at the
+other extremity. This movement, at
+once, like a touch of magic, decided
+me. Without further deliberation, I
+yielded to the silent summons, and following
+my guide, who was already at
+some distance before me, found myself
+led up the same flight of marble steps,
+by which the Priest had conducted me
+into the Sanctuary. Arrived at their
+summit, I felt the pace of my conductress
+quicken, and, giving one more look to
+the Veiled Shrine, whose glories we left
+burning ineffectually behind us, hastened
+into the gloom, full of confidence
+in the belief, that she, who now held the
+other end of that clue, was one whom I
+could follow devotedly through the world.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="131"/><anchor id="Pg131"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XI.</head>
+
+<p>
+So rapidly was I hurried along by my
+unseen conductress, full of wonder at the
+speed with which she ventured through
+these labyrinths, that I had but little time
+to reflect upon the strangeness of the
+adventure to which I had committed myself.
+My knowledge of the character of
+the priests, as well as the fearful rumours
+that had reached me, of the fate that often
+attended unbelievers in their hands, waked
+a momentary suspicion of treachery in my
+mind. But, when I recalled the face of
+my guide, as I had seen it in the chapel,
+with that divine look, the very memory
+of which brought purity into the
+heart, this suspicion all vanished, and I
+felt shame at having harboured it but an
+instant.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the mean while, our course continued
+uninterrupted, through windings more
+<pb n="132"/><anchor id="Pg132"/>capriciously intricate than any that I had
+yet passed, and whose darkness seemed
+never to have been disturbed by a single
+glimmer. My conductress still continued
+at some distance before me, and the clue,
+to which I clung as if it were the thread
+of Destiny herself, was still kept, by her
+speed, at full stretch between us. At
+length, suddenly stopping, she said, in
+a breathless whisper, <q>Seat thyself here,</q>
+and, at the same moment, led me by the
+hand to a sort of low car, in which I lost
+not a moment in placing myself, as desired,
+while the maiden, as promptly, took her
+seat by my side.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A sudden click, like the touching of
+a spring, was then heard, and the car,—which,
+as I had felt in entering it, leaned
+half-way over a steep descent,—on being
+loosed from its station, shot down, almost
+perpendicularly, into the darkness,
+with a rapidity which, at first, nearly
+deprived me of breath. The wheels slid
+smoothly and noiselessly in grooves, and
+<pb n="133"/><anchor id="Pg133"/>the impetus, which the car acquired in
+descending, was sufficient, I perceived, to
+carry it up an eminence that succeeded,—from
+the summit of which it again
+rushed down another declivity, even still
+more long and precipitous than the former.
+In this manner we proceeded, by
+alternate falls and rises, till, at length,
+from the last and steepest elevation, the
+car descended upon a level of deep sand,
+where, after running for a few yards, it
+by degrees lost its motion and stopped.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Here, the maiden alighting, again placed
+the riband in my hands,—and again I
+followed her, though with more slowness
+and difficulty than before, as our way led
+up a flight of damp and time-worn steps,
+whose ascent seemed to the weary and
+insecure foot interminable. Perceiving
+with what languor my guide now advanced,
+I was on the point of making
+an effort to assist her progress, when
+the creak of an opening door above,
+and a faint gleam of light which, at the
+<pb n="134"/><anchor id="Pg134"/>same moment, shone upon her figure,
+apprised me that we were arrived within
+reach of sunshine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Joyfully I followed through this opening,
+and, by the dim light, could discern,
+that we were now in the sanctuary of a
+vast, ruined temple,—having entered by
+a passage under the lofty pedestal, upon
+which an image of the idol of the place
+once stood. The first movement of the
+maiden, after replacing the portal under
+the pedestal, was, without even a look
+towards me, to cast herself down on her
+knees, with her hands clasped and uplifted,
+as if for the purpose of thanksgiving
+or prayer. But she was unable to
+sustain herself in this position;—her
+strength could hold out no longer. Overcome
+by agitation and fatigue, she sunk
+senseless upon the pavement.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Bewildered as I was, myself, by the
+events of the night, I stood for some
+minutes looking upon her in a state of
+helplessness and alarm. But, reminded,
+<pb n="135"/><anchor id="Pg135"/>by my own feverish sensations, of the
+reviving effects of the air, I raised her
+gently in my arms, and crossing the corridor
+that surrounded the sanctuary, found
+my way to the outer vestibule of the temple.
+Here, shading her eyes from the sun,
+I placed her, reclining, upon the steps,
+where the cool wind, then blowing freshly
+from the north, might play, with free
+draught, between the pillars over her brow.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was, indeed,—I now saw, with certainty,—the
+same beautiful and mysterious
+girl, who had been the cause of
+my descent into that subterranean world,
+and who now, under such strange and
+unaccountable circumstances, was my
+guide back again to the realms of day.
+I looked round, to discover where we
+were, and beheld such a scene of grandeur,
+as—could my eyes have wandered
+to any other object from the pale form
+reclining at my side—might well have
+won them to dwell on its splendid beauties.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I was now standing, I found, on the
+<pb n="136"/><anchor id="Pg136"/>small island in the centre of Lake Mœris;
+and that sanctuary, where we had emerged
+from darkness, formed part of the ruins of
+a temple, which (as I have since learned)
+was, in the grander days of Memphis, a
+place of pilgrimage for worshippers from
+all parts of Egypt. The fair Lake, itself,
+out of whose waters once rose pavilions,
+palaces, and even lofty pyramids, was still,
+though divested of many of these wonders,
+a scene of interest and splendour such as
+the whole world could not equal. While
+the shores still sparkled with mansions
+and temples, that bore testimony to the
+luxury of a living race, the voice of the
+Past, speaking out of unnumbered ruins,
+whose summits, here and there, rose
+blackly above the wave, told of times long
+fled and generations long swept away,
+before whose giant remains all the glory
+of the present stood humbled. Over the
+southern bank of the Lake hung the dark
+relics of the Labyrinth;—its twelve
+Royal Palaces, like the mansions of the
+<pb n="137"/><anchor id="Pg137"/>Zodiac,—its thundering portals and constellated
+halls, having left nothing behind
+but a few frowning ruins, which, contrasted
+with the soft groves of olive and acacia
+around them, seemed to rebuke the luxuriant
+smiles of nature, and threw a melancholy
+grandeur over the whole scene.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The effects of the air, in re-animating
+the young Priestess, were less speedy
+than I had expected;—her eyes were
+still closed, and she remained pale and
+insensible. Alarmed, I now rested her
+head (which had been, for some time,
+supported by my arm,) against the base
+of a column, with my cloak for its
+pillow, while I hastened to procure
+some water from the Lake. The temple
+stood high, and the descent to the shore
+was precipitous. But, my Epicurean habits
+having but little impaired my activity,
+I soon descended, with the lightness
+of a desert deer, to the bottom. Here,
+plucking from a lofty bean-tree, whose
+flowers stood, shining like gold, above the
+<pb n="138"/><anchor id="Pg138"/>water, one of those large hollowed leaves
+that serve as cups for the Hebes of the
+Nile, I filled it from the Lake, and hurried
+back with the cool draught to the temple.
+It was not without some difficulty and
+delay that I succeeded, in bearing my
+rustic chalice steadily up the steep; more
+than once did an unlucky slip waste its
+contents, and as often did I impatiently
+return to refill it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During this time, the young maiden
+was fast recovering her animation and
+consciousness; and, at the moment when
+I appeared above the edge of the steep,
+was just rising from the steps, with her hand
+pressed to her forehead, as if confusedly
+recalling the recollection of what had occurred.
+No sooner did she observe me,
+than a short cry of alarm broke from her
+lips. Looking anxiously round, as though
+she sought for protection, and half audibly
+uttering the words, <q>Where is he?</q> she
+made an effort, as I approached, to retreat
+into the temple.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="139"/><anchor id="Pg139"/>
+
+<p>
+Already, however, I was by her side,
+and taking her hand gently, as she turned
+away, <q>Whom dost thou seek, fair
+Priestess?</q> I asked,—for the first time
+breaking through the silence she had enjoined,
+and in a tone that might have
+re-assured the most timid spirit. But
+my words had no effect in calming her
+apprehension. Trembling, and with her
+eyes still averted towards the Temple,
+she continued in a voice of suppressed
+alarm,—<q>Where <hi rend="italic">can</hi> he be?—that
+venerable Athenian, that philosopher,
+who——</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Here, here,</q> I exclaimed, anxiously
+interrupting her,—<q>behold him still by
+thy side—the same, the very same who
+saw thee steal from under the lighted
+Veils of the Sanctuary, whom thou hast
+guided by a clue through those labyrinths
+below, and who now but waits his
+command from those lips, to devote himself
+through life and death to thy service.</q>
+As I spoke these words, she turned
+<pb n="140"/><anchor id="Pg140"/>slowly round, and looking timidly in my
+face, while her own burned with blushes,
+said, in a tone of doubt and wonder,
+<q>Thou!</q> and hid her eyes in her
+hands.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I knew not how to interpret a reception
+so unexpected. That some mistake or
+disappointment had occurred was evident;
+but so inexplicable did the whole adventure
+appear, that it was in vain to think
+of unravelling any part of it. Weak and
+agitated, she now tottered to the steps
+of the temple, and there seating herself,
+with her forehead against the cold marble,
+seemed for some moments absorbed in the
+most anxious thought,—while silent and
+watchful I waited her decision, with a
+prophetic feeling, however, that my destiny
+would be henceforth linked with hers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The inward struggle by which she
+was agitated, though violent, was not
+of long continuance. Starting suddenly
+from her seat, with a look of terror
+towards the temple, as if the fear of
+<pb n="141"/><anchor id="Pg141"/>immediate pursuit had alone decided her,
+she pointed eagerly towards the East, and
+exclaimed, <q>To the Nile, without delay!</q>—clasping
+her hands, when she had
+spoken, with the most suppliant fervour,
+as if to soften the abruptness of the mandate
+she had given, and appealing to me
+with a look that would have taught Stoics
+tenderness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I lost no time in obeying the welcome
+command. While a thousand wild hopes
+and wishes crowded upon my fancy, at
+the prospect which a voyage, under such
+auspices, presented, I descended rapidly
+to the shore, and hailing one of the numerous
+boats that ply upon the Lake for
+hire, arranged speedily for a passage down
+the canal to the Nile. Having learned,
+too, from the boatmen, a more easy path
+up the rock, I hastened back to the
+Temple for my fair charge; and without
+a word, a look, that could alarm, even
+by its kindness, or disturb that innocent
+confidence which she now placed in me,
+<pb n="142"/><anchor id="Pg142"/>led her down by the winding path to the
+boat.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Every thing looked smiling around us
+as we embarked. The morning was
+now in its first freshness, and the path
+of the breeze might be traced over the
+Lake, wakening up its waters from their
+sleep of the night. The gay, golden-winged
+birds that haunt these shores,
+were, in every direction, skimming along
+the lake; while, with a graver consciousness
+of beauty, the swan and the pelican
+were seen dressing their white plumage
+in the mirror of its wave. To add to the
+animation of the scene, a sweet tinkling
+of musical instruments came, at intervals,
+on the breeze, from boats at a distance,
+employed thus early in pursuing the fish of
+these waters, that suffer themselves to be
+decoyed into the nets by music.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The vessel which I selected for our
+voyage was one of those small pleasure-boats
+or yachts,—so much in use among
+the luxurious navigators of the
+Nile,—<pb n="143"/><anchor id="Pg143"/>in the centre of which rises a pavilion of
+cedar or cypress wood, gilded gorgeously,
+without, with religious emblems, and fitted
+up, within, for all the purposes of feasting
+and repose. To the door of this pavilion
+I now led my companion, and, after a few
+words of kindness—tempered with as
+much respectful reserve as the deep tenderness
+which I felt would admit of—left
+her in solitude to court that restoring rest,
+which the agitation of her spirits but too
+much required.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For myself, though repose was hardly
+less necessary to me, the ferment in which
+my thoughts had been kept seemed to
+render it hopeless. Throwing myself
+upon the deck, under an awning which
+the sailors had raised for me, I continued,
+for some hours, in a sort of vague
+day-dream,—sometimes passing in review
+the scenes of that subterranean drama,
+and sometimes, with my eyes fixed in
+drowsy vacancy, receiving passively the
+<pb n="144"/><anchor id="Pg144"/>impressions of the bright scenery through
+which we passed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The banks of the canal were then luxuriantly
+wooded. Under the tufts of the light
+and towering palm were seen the orange
+and the citron, interlacing their boughs;
+while, here and there, huge tamarisks
+thickened the shade, and, at the very edge
+of the bank, the willow of Babylon stood
+bending its graceful branches into the water.
+Occasionally, out of the depth of
+these groves, there shone a small temple or
+pleasure-house;—while, now and then, an
+opening in their line of foliage allowed the
+eye to wander over extensive fields, all
+covered with beds of those pale, sweet
+roses, for which this district of Egypt is
+so celebrated.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The activity of the morning hour was
+visible every where. Flights of doves
+and lapwings were fluttering among the
+leaves, and the white heron, which had
+roosted all night in some date-tree, now
+<pb n="145"/><anchor id="Pg145"/>stood sunning its wings upon the green
+bank, or floated, like living silver, over
+the flood. The flowers, too, both of
+land and water, looked freshly awakened;—and,
+most of all, the superb lotus, which
+had risen with the sun from the wave, and
+was now holding up her chalice for a full
+draught of his light.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Such were the scenes that now passed
+before my eyes, and mingled with the
+reveries that floated through my mind, as
+our boat, with its high, capacious sail,
+swept over the flood. Though the occurrences
+of the last few days appeared to
+me one series of wonders, yet by far the
+most miraculous wonder of all was, that
+she, whose first look had sent wild-fire
+into my heart,—whom I had thought of
+ever since with a restlessness of passion,
+that would have dared any thing on earth
+to obtain its object,—was now sleeping sacredly
+in that small pavilion, while guarding
+her, even from myself, I lay calmly at
+its threshold.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="146"/><anchor id="Pg146"/>
+
+<p>
+Meanwhile, the sun had reached his
+meridian. The busy hum of the morning
+had died gradually away, and all around
+was sleeping in the hot stillness of noon.
+The Nile-goose, folding her splendid
+wings, was lying motionless on the shadow
+of the sycamores in the water. Even the
+nimble lizards upon the bank seemed to
+move more languidly, as the light fell
+upon their gold and azure hues. Overcome
+as I was with watching, and weary
+with thought, it was not long before I
+yielded to the becalming influence of the
+hour. Looking fixedly at the pavilion,—as
+if once more to assure my senses, that
+I was not already in a dream, but that
+the young Egyptian was really there,—I
+felt my eyes close as I looked, and in
+a few minutes sunk into a profound sleep.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="147"/><anchor id="Pg147"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XII.</head>
+
+<p>
+It was by the canal through which we
+now sailed, that, in the more prosperous
+days of Memphis, the commerce of Upper
+Egypt and Nubia was transported to her
+magnificent Lake, and from thence, having
+paid tribute to the queen of cities, was
+poured out again, through the Nile, into
+the ocean. The course of this canal to
+the river was not direct, but ascending in a
+south-easterly direction towards the Saïd;
+and in calms, or with adverse winds,
+the passage was tedious. But as the breeze
+was now blowing freshly from the north,
+there was every prospect of our reaching
+the river before night-fall. Rapidly, too,
+as our galley swept along the flood, its
+motion was so smooth as to be hardly
+felt; and the quiet gurgle of the waters
+underneath, and the drowsy song of the
+<pb n="148"/><anchor id="Pg148"/>boatman at the prow, alone disturbed the
+deep silence that prevailed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The sun, indeed, had nearly sunk behind
+the Libyan hills, before the sleep,
+in which these sounds lulled me, was
+broken; and the first object, on which my
+eyes rested, in waking, was that fair young
+Priestess,—seated under a porch by which
+the door of the pavilion was shaded, and
+bending intently over a small volume that
+lay unrolled on her lap.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Her face was but half turned towards
+me, and as, once or twice, she raised her
+eyes to the warm sky, whose light fell,
+softened through the trellis, over her
+cheek, I found every feeling of reverence,
+with which she had inspired me in the
+chapel, return. There was even a purer
+and holier charm around her countenance,
+thus seen by the natural light of day, than
+in those dim and unhallowed regions below.
+She could now, too, look direct to
+the glorious sky, and that heaven and her
+eyes, so worthy of each other, met.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="149"/><anchor id="Pg149"/>
+
+<p>
+After contemplating her for a few moments,
+with little less than adoration, I
+rose gently from my resting-place, and
+approached the pavilion. But the mere
+movement had startled her from her devotion,
+and, blushing and confused, she
+covered the volume with the folds of her
+robe.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the art of winning upon female confidence,
+I had long been schooled; and,
+now that to the lessons of gallantry the
+inspiration of love was added, my ambition
+to please and to interest could hardly, it
+may be supposed, fail of success. I
+soon found, however, how much less
+fluent is the heart than the fancy, and
+how very distinct are the operations of
+making love and feeling it. In the few
+words of greeting now exchanged between
+us, it was evident that the gay, the enterprising
+Epicurean was little less embarrassed
+than the secluded Priestess;—and,
+after one or two ineffectual efforts to
+<pb n="150"/><anchor id="Pg150"/>bring our voices acquainted with each
+other, the eyes of both turned bashfully
+away, and we relapsed into silence.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From this situation—the result of
+timidity on one side, and of a feeling
+altogether new, on the other—we
+were, at length, after an interval of estrangement,
+relieved, by the boatmen
+announcing that the Nile was in sight.
+The countenance of the young Egyptian
+brightened at this intelligence; and the
+smile with which I congratulated her on
+the speed of our voyage was answered
+by another, so full of gratitude, that
+already an instinctive sympathy seemed
+established between us.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We were now on the point of entering
+that sacred river, of whose sweet waters
+the exile drinks in his dreams,—for a
+draught of whose flood the daughters of
+the Ptolemies, when wedded to foreign
+kings, sighed in the midst of their splendour.
+As our boat, with slackened sail,
+<pb n="151"/><anchor id="Pg151"/>glided into the current, an enquiry from
+the boatmen, whether they should anchor
+for the night in the Nile, first reminded
+me of the ignorance, in which I still remained,
+with respect to either the motive
+or destination of our voyage. Embarrassed
+by their question I directed my eyes
+towards the Priestess, whom I saw waiting
+for my answer with a look of anxiety,
+which this silent reference to her wishes
+at once dispelled. Eagerly unfolding the
+volume with which I had seen her occupied,
+she took from its folds a small leaf
+of papyrus, on which there appeared to
+be some faint lines of drawing, and after
+thoughtfully looking upon it, herself, for a
+moment, placed it, with an agitated hand,
+in mine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the mean time, the boatmen had
+taken in their sail, and the yacht drove
+slowly down the river with the current,
+while, by a light which had been kindled at
+sunset on the deck, I stood examining the
+leaf that the Priestess had given me,—her
+<pb n="152"/><anchor id="Pg152"/>dark eyes fixed anxiously on my countenance
+all the while. The lines traced upon
+the papyrus were so faint as to be almost
+invisible, and I was for some time at a loss
+to divine their import. At length, I could
+perceive that they were the outlines, or
+map—traced slightly and unsteadily with
+a Memphian reed—of a part of that mountainous
+ridge by which Upper Egypt is
+bounded to the east, together with the
+names, or rather emblems, of the chief
+towns in the neighbourhood.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was thither, I could not doubt, that the
+young Priestess wished to pursue her course.
+Without a moment’s delay, therefore, I
+gave orders to the boatmen to set our
+yacht before the wind and ascend the current.
+My command was promptly obeyed:
+the white sail again rose into the region
+of the breeze, and the satisfaction that
+beamed in every feature of the fair Egyptian
+showed that the quickness with which
+I had obeyed her wishes was not unfelt by
+her. The moon had now risen; and
+<pb n="153"/><anchor id="Pg153"/>though the current was against us, the
+Etesian wind of the season blew strongly
+up the river, and we were soon floating
+before it, through the rich plains and
+groves of the Saïd.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The love, with which this simple girl
+had inspired me, was—possibly from
+the mystic scenes and situations in which
+I had seen her—not unmingled with a
+tinge of superstitious awe, under the influence
+of which I felt the buoyancy of my
+spirit checked. The few words that had
+passed between us on the subject of our
+route had somewhat loosened this spell;
+and what I wanted of vivacity and confidence
+was more than made up by the
+tone of deep sensibility which love had
+awakened in their place.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We had not proceeded far before the
+glittering of lights at a distance, and the
+shooting up of fireworks, at intervals, into
+the air, apprised us that we were approaching
+one of those night-fairs, or marts,
+which it is the custom, at this season, to
+<pb n="154"/><anchor id="Pg154"/>hold upon the Nile. To me the scene
+was familiar; but to my young companion
+it was evidently a new world; and the
+mixture of alarm and delight with which
+she gazed, from under her veil, upon the
+busy scene into which we now sailed, gave
+an air of innocence to her beauty, which
+still more heightened its every charm.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was one of the widest parts of the
+river; and the whole surface, from one
+bank to the other, was covered with boats.
+Along the banks of a green island, in the
+middle of the stream, lay anchored the
+galleys of the principal traders,—large
+floating bazaars, bearing each the name of
+its owner, emblazoned in letters of flame,
+upon the stern. Over their decks were
+spread out, in gay confusion, the products
+of the loom and needle of Egypt,—rich
+carpets of Memphis, and those variegated
+veils, for which the female embroiderers of
+the Nile are so celebrated, and to which
+the name of Cleopatra lends a traditional
+value. In each of the other galleys was
+<pb n="155"/><anchor id="Pg155"/>exhibited some branch of Egyptian workmanship,—vases
+of the fragrant porcelain
+of On,—cups of that frail crystal, whose
+hues change like those of the pigeon’s
+plumage,—enamelled amulets graven with
+the head of Anubis, and necklaces and
+bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+While Commerce thus displayed her
+luxuries in one quarter, in every other
+direction Pleasure, multiplied into her
+thousand shapes, swarmed over the waters.
+Nor was the festivity confined to the river
+only. All along the banks of the island
+and on the shores, lighted up mansions
+were seen through the trees, from which
+sounds of music and merriment came. In
+some of the boats were bands of minstrels,
+who, from time to time, answered each
+other, like echoes, across the wave; and
+the notes of the lyre, the flageolet, and
+the sweet lotus-wood flute, were heard,
+in the pauses of revelry, dying along the
+waters.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Meanwhile, from other boats stationed
+<pb n="156"/><anchor id="Pg156"/>in the least lighted places, the workers of
+fire sent forth their wonders into the air.
+Bursting out from time to time, as if in
+the very exuberance of joy, these sallies of
+flame seemed to reach the sky, and there
+breaking into a shower of sparkles, shed
+such a splendour round, as brightened
+even the white Arabian hills,—making
+them shine like the brow of Mount Atlas
+at night, when the fire from his own
+bosom is playing around its snows.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The opportunity which this luxurious
+mart afforded us, of providing ourselves
+with other and less remarkable habiliments
+than those in which we had escaped from
+that nether world, was too seasonable not
+to be gladly taken advantage of by both.
+For myself, the strange mystic garb that I
+wore was sufficiently concealed by my
+Grecian mantle, which I had luckily
+thrown round me on the night of my
+watch. But the thin veil of my companion
+was a far less efficient disguise.
+She had, indeed, flung away the golden
+<pb n="157"/><anchor id="Pg157"/>beetles from her hair; but the sacred
+robe of her order was still too visible,
+and the stars of the bandelet shone
+brightly through her veil.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Most gladly, therefore, did she avail
+herself of this opportunity of a change;
+and, as she took from a casket—which,
+with the volume I had seen her reading,
+appeared to be her only treasure—a
+small jewel, to exchange for the simple
+garments she had chosen, there fell out,
+at the same time, the very cross of silver,
+which I had seen her kiss, as may be
+remembered, in the monumental chapel,
+and which was afterwards pressed to my
+own lips. This link (for such it appeared
+to my imagination) between us, now revived
+in my heart all the burning feelings
+of that moment;—and, had I not abruptly
+turned away, my agitation would, but too
+plainly, have betrayed itself.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The object, for which we had delayed
+in this gay scene, being accomplished, the
+sail was again spread, and we proceeded
+<pb n="158"/><anchor id="Pg158"/>on our course up the river. The sounds
+and the lights we left behind died gradually
+away, and we now floated along
+in moonlight and silence once more.
+Sweet dews, worthy of being called <q>the
+tears of Isis,</q> fell through the air, and
+every plant and flower sent its fragrance
+to meet them. The wind, just strong
+enough to bear us smoothly against the
+current, scarcely stirred the shadow of the
+tamarisks on the water. As the inhabitants
+from all quarters were collected at
+the night-fair, the Nile was more than
+usually still and solitary. Such a silence,
+indeed, prevailed, that, as we glided near
+the shore, we could hear the rustling
+of the acacias, as the chameleons ran up
+their stems. It was, altogether, a night
+such as only the clime of Egypt can boast,
+when every thing lies lulled in that sort of
+bright tranquillity, which, we may imagine,
+shines over the sleep of those happy
+spirits, who are supposed to rest in the
+Valley of the Moon, on their way to
+heaven.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="159"/><anchor id="Pg159"/>
+
+<p>
+By such a light, and at such an hour,
+seated, side by side, on the deck of that
+bark, did we pursue our course up the
+lonely Nile—each a mystery to the
+other—our thoughts, our objects, our
+very names a secret;—separated, too,
+till now, by destinies so different, the
+one, a gay voluptuary of the Garden of
+Athens, the other, a secluded Priestess of
+the Temples of Memphis;—and the only
+relation yet established between us being
+that dangerous one of love, passionate
+love, on one side, and the most feminine
+and confiding dependence on the other.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The passing adventure of the night-fair
+had not only dispelled still more
+our mutual reserve, but had supplied
+us with a subject on which we could
+converse without embarrassment. From
+this topic I took care to lead on, without
+interruption, to others,—fearful lest
+our former silence should return, and
+the music of her voice again be lost
+to me. It was, indeed, only by thus
+<pb n="160"/><anchor id="Pg160"/>indirectly unburdening my heart that I
+was enabled to refrain from the full utterance
+of all I thought and felt; and the
+restless rapidity with which I flew from
+subject to subject was but an effort to
+escape from the only one in which my
+heart was interested.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>How bright and happy,</q> said I,—pointing
+up to Sothis, the fair Star of the
+Waters, which was just then sparkling
+brilliantly over our heads,—<q>How
+bright and happy this world ought to
+be, if—as your Egyptian sages assert—yon
+pure and beautiful luminary was
+its birth-star!</q> Then, still leaning back,
+and letting my eyes wander over the
+firmament, as if seeking to disengage
+them from the fascination which they
+dreaded—<q>To the study (I said), for
+ages, of skies like this, may the pensive
+and mystic character of your nation be
+traced. That mixture of pride and melancholy
+which naturally arises, at the sight
+of those eternal lights shining out of
+dark<pb n="161"/><anchor id="Pg161"/>ness;—that sublime, but saddened, anticipation
+of a Future, which comes over the
+soul in the silence of such an hour, when,
+though Death seems to reign in the repose
+of earth, there are those beacons of Immortality
+burning in the sky—</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Pausing, as I uttered the word <q>immortality,</q>
+with a sigh to think how little
+my heart echoed to my lips, I looked
+in the face of the maiden, and saw that it
+had lighted up, as I spoke, into a glow of
+holy animation, such as Faith alone gives—such
+as Hope herself wears, when she is
+dreaming of heaven. Touched by the
+contrast, and gazing upon her with mournful
+tenderness, I found my arms half
+opened, to clasp her to my heart, while
+the words died away inaudibly upon my
+lips,—<q>thou, too, beautiful maiden! must
+thou, too, die for ever?</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+My self-command, I felt, had nearly
+deserted me. Rising abruptly from my
+seat, I walked to the middle of the deck,
+and stood, for some moments,
+uncon<pb n="162"/><anchor id="Pg162"/>sciously gazing upon one of those fires,
+which,—as is the custom of all who travel
+by night upon the Nile,—our boatmen had
+just kindled, to scare away the crocodiles
+from the vessel. But it was in vain that I
+endeavoured to compose my spirit. Every
+effort I made but more deeply convinced
+me, that, till the mystery which hung round
+that maiden should be solved—till the
+secret, with which my own bosom laboured,
+should be disclosed—it was fruitless to
+attempt even a semblance of tranquillity.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+My resolution was therefore taken;—to
+lay open, at least, my own heart, as far
+as such a revelation might be risked,
+without startling the timid innocence of
+my companion. Thus resolved, I returned,
+with more composure, to my seat by
+her side, and taking from my bosom the
+small mirror which she had dropped in
+the Temple, and which I had ever since
+worn suspended round my neck, with a
+trembling hand presented it to her view.
+The boatmen had just kindled one of their
+<pb n="163"/><anchor id="Pg163"/>night-fires near us, and its light, as she
+leaned forward towards the mirror, fell
+on her face.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The quick blush of surprise with which
+she recognised it to be hers, and her look
+of bashful, yet eager, inquiry, in raising
+her eyes to mine, were appeals to which
+I was not, of course, slow in answering.
+Beginning with the first moment when
+I saw her in the Temple, and passing
+hastily, but with words that burned as
+they went, over the impression which she
+had then left upon my heart and fancy,
+I proceeded to describe the particulars of
+my descent into the pyramid—my surprise
+and adoration at the door of the
+chapel—my encounter with the Trials of
+Initiation, so mysteriously prepared for
+me, and all the various visionary wonders
+I had witnessed in that region, till the
+moment when I had seen her stealing from
+under the Veils to approach me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Though, in detailing these events, I had
+said but little of the feelings they had
+<pb n="164"/><anchor id="Pg164"/>awakened in me,—though my lips had
+sent back many a sentence, unuttered,
+there was still enough that could neither
+be subdued or disguised, and which, like
+that light from under the veils of her own
+Isis, glowed through every word that I
+spoke. When I told of the scene in the
+chapel,—of the silent interview which I
+had witnessed between the dead and the
+living,—the maiden leaned down her head
+and wept, as from a heart full of tears.
+It seemed a pleasure to her, however,
+to listen; and, when she looked at me
+again, there was an earnest and affectionate
+cordiality in her eyes, as if the
+knowledge of my having been present at
+that mournful scene had opened a new
+source of sympathy and intelligence between
+us. So neighbouring are the fountains
+of Love and of Sorrow, and so
+imperceptibly do they often mingle their
+streams.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Little, indeed, as I was guided by art
+or design, in my manner and conduct to
+<pb n="165"/><anchor id="Pg165"/>this innocent girl, not all the most experienced
+gallantry of the Garden could
+have dictated a policy half so seductive as
+that which my new master, Love, now
+taught me. The ardour which, shown
+at once, and without reserve, might have
+startled a heart so little prepared for it,
+thus checked and softened by the timidity
+of real love, won its way without
+alarm, and, when most diffident of success,
+most triumphed. Like one whose
+sleep is gradually broken by music, the
+maiden’s heart was awakened without being
+disturbed. She followed the charm,
+unconscious whither it led, nor was aware
+of the flame she had lighted in another’s
+bosom, till she perceived the reflection of
+it glimmering in her own.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Impatient as I was to appeal to her
+generosity and sympathy, for a similar
+proof of confidence to that which I had
+just given, the night was now too far
+advanced for me to impose such a task
+upon her. After exchanging a few words,
+<pb n="166"/><anchor id="Pg166"/>in which, though little was said, there
+was a tone and manner that spoke far
+more than language, we took a lingering
+leave of each other for the night, with
+every prospect of still being together in
+our dreams.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="167"/><anchor id="Pg167"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XIII.</head>
+
+<p>
+It was so near the dawn of day when we
+parted, that we again found the sun sinking
+westward when we rejoined each
+other. The smile with which she met me,—so
+frankly cordial,—might have been
+taken for the greeting of a long mellowed
+friendship, did not the blush and the castdown
+eyelid, that followed, give symptoms
+of a feeling newer and less calm. For
+myself, lightened as I was, in some degree,
+by the confession which I had made, I
+was yet too conscious of the new aspect
+thus given to our intercourse, to feel altogether
+unembarrassed at the prospect
+of returning to the theme. It was, therefore,
+willingly we both suffered our attention
+to be diverted, by the variety of
+objects that presented themselves on the
+way, from a subject that both equally
+trembled to approach.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="168"/><anchor id="Pg168"/>
+
+<p>
+The river was now full of life and
+motion. Every moment we met with
+boats descending the current, so independent
+of aid from sail or oar, that the
+sailors sat idly upon the deck as they shot
+along, singing or playing upon their
+double-reeded pipes. Of these boats,
+the greater number came loaded with
+merchandise from Coptos,—some with
+those large emeralds, from the mine in
+the desert, whose colours, it is said, are
+brightest at the full of the moon, and
+some laden with frankincense from the
+acacia-groves near the Red Sea. On the
+decks of others, that had been to the Golden
+Mountains beyond Syene, were heaped
+blocks and fragments of that sweet-smelling
+wood, which the Green Nile of Nubia
+washes down in the season of the floods.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Our companions up the stream were
+far less numerous. Occasionally a boat,
+returning lightened from the fair of last
+night, with those high sails that catch
+every breeze from over the hills, shot past
+<pb n="169"/><anchor id="Pg169"/>us;—while, now and then, we overtook
+one of those barges full of bees, that at
+this season of the year, are sent to colonise
+the gardens of the south, and take
+advantage of the first flowers after the
+inundation has passed away.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+By these various objects we were, for
+a short time, enabled to divert the conversation
+from lighting and settling upon the
+one subject, round which it continually
+hovered. But the effort, as might be expected,
+was not long successful. As evening
+advanced, the whole scene became
+more solitary. We less frequently ventured
+to look upon each other, and our intervals
+of silence grew more long.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was near sunset, when, in passing a
+small temple on the shore, whose porticoes
+were now full of the evening light,
+we saw, issuing from a thicket of acanthus
+near it, a train of young maids
+linked together in the dance by lotus-stems,
+held at arms’ length between
+them. Their tresses were also wreathed
+<pb n="170"/><anchor id="Pg170"/>with this emblem of the season, and such a
+profusion of the white flowers were twisted
+round their waists and arms, that they
+might have been taken, as they gracefully
+bounded along the bank, for Nymphs of
+the Nile, risen freshly from their gardens
+under the wave.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After looking for a few moments at
+this sacred dance, the maid turned away
+her eyes, with a look of pain, as if the remembrances
+it recalled were of no welcome
+nature. This momentary retrospect, this
+glimpse into the past, seemed to offer
+a sort of clue to the secret for which I
+panted;—and, gradually and delicately
+as my impatience would allow, I availed
+myself of it. Her frankness, however,
+saved me the embarrassment of much
+questioning. She even seemed to feel
+that the confidence I sought was due to
+me, and beyond the natural hesitation of
+maidenly modesty, not a shade of reserve
+or evasion appeared.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To attempt to repeat, in her own
+<pb n="171"/><anchor id="Pg171"/>touching words, the simple story which
+she now related to me, would be like endeavouring
+to note down some strain
+of unpremeditated music, with those fugitive
+graces, those felicities of the moment,
+which no art can restore, as they
+first met the ear. From a feeling, too, of
+humility, she had omitted in her narrative
+some particulars relating to herself,
+which I afterwards learned;—while others,
+not less important, she but slightly passed
+over, from a fear of wounding the prejudices
+of her heathen hearer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I shall, therefore, give her story, as the
+outline which she, herself, sketched was
+afterwards filled up by a pious and venerable
+hand,—far, far more worthy than
+mine of being associated with the memory
+of such purity.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="172"/><anchor id="Pg172"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf" level1="STORY OF ALETHE"/>
+<head>STORY OF ALĒTHE.</head>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The mother of this maiden was the
+beautiful Theora of Alexandria, who,
+though a native of that city, was descended
+from Grecian parents. When very young,
+Theora was one of the seven maidens
+selected, to note down the discourses of
+the eloquent Origen, who, at that period,
+presided over the School of Alexandria,
+and was in all the fulness of his fame, both
+among Pagans and Christians. Endowed
+richly with the learning of both creeds,
+he brought the natural light of philosophy
+to elucidate the mysteries of faith, and
+was only proud of his knowledge of the
+wisdom of this world, inasmuch as it ministered
+to the triumph of divine truth.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Though he had courted in vain the
+crown of martyrdom, it was held, throughout
+his life, suspended over his head, and in
+more than one persecution, he had evinced
+his readiness to die for that faith which he
+<pb n="173"/><anchor id="Pg173"/>lived but to testify and adorn. On one of
+these occasions, his tormentors, having habited
+him like an Egyptian priest, placed
+him upon the steps of the Temple of Serapis,
+and commanded that he should, in the
+manner of the Pagan ministers, present
+palm-branches to the multitude who went
+up to the shrine. But the courageous
+Christian disappointed their views. Holding
+forth the branches with an unshrinking
+hand, he cried aloud, <q>Come hither and
+take the branch, not of an Idol Temple,
+but of Christ.</q></q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">So indefatigable was this learned
+Father in his studies, that, while composing
+his Commentary on the Scriptures, he
+was attended by seven scribes or notaries,
+who relieved each other in taking down the
+dictates of his eloquent tongue; while the
+same number of young females, selected
+for the beauty of their penmanship, were
+employed in arranging and transcribing
+the precious leaves.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Among the scribes so selected, was the
+<pb n="174"/><anchor id="Pg174"/>fair young Theora, whose parents, though
+attached to the Pagan worship, were not
+unwilling to profit by the accomplishments
+of their daughter, thus devoted to a task
+which they considered purely mechanical.
+To the maid herself, however, her task
+brought far other feelings and consequences.
+She read anxiously as she wrote,
+and the divine truths, so eloquently illustrated,
+found their way, by degrees, from the
+page to her heart. Deeply, too, as the written
+words affected her, the discourses from
+the lips of the great teacher himself, which
+she had frequent opportunities of hearing,
+sunk still more deeply into her mind.
+There was, at once, a sublimity and gentleness
+in his views of religion, which, to the
+tender hearts and lively imaginations of
+women, never failed to appeal with convincing
+power. Accordingly, the list of
+his female pupils was numerous; and the
+names of Barbara, Juliana, Heraïs, and
+others, bear honourable testimony to his
+influence over that sex.</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="175"/><anchor id="Pg175"/>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">To Theora the feeling, with which his
+discourses inspired her, was like a new soul,—a
+consciousness of spiritual existence,
+unfelt before. By the eloquence of the
+comment she was awakened into admiration
+of the text; and when, by the kindness of
+a Catechumen of the school, who had been
+struck by her innocent zeal, she, for the
+first time, became possessor of a copy of
+the Scriptures, she could not sleep for
+thinking of her sacred treasure. With
+a mixture of pleasure and fear she hid
+it from all eyes, and was like one who had
+received a divine guest under her roof,
+and felt fearful of betraying its divinity to
+the world.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">A heart so awake would have been
+easily secured to the faith, had her opportunities
+of hearing the sacred word continued.
+But circumstances arose to deprive
+her of this advantage. The mild
+Origen, long harassed and thwarted in
+his labours by the tyranny of the Bishop
+of Alexandria, Demetrius, was obliged to
+<pb n="176"/><anchor id="Pg176"/>relinquish his school and fly from Egypt.
+The occupation of the fair scribe was,
+therefore, at an end: her intercourse with
+the followers of the new faith ceased; and
+the growing enthusiasm of her heart gave
+way to more worldly impressions.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Love, among the rest, had its share
+in alienating her thoughts from religion.
+While still very young, she became the
+wife of a Greek adventurer, who had
+come to Egypt as a purchaser of that rich
+tapestry, in which the needles of Persia are
+rivalled by the looms of the Nile. Having
+taken his young bride to Memphis, which
+was still the great mart of this merchandise,
+he there, in the midst of his speculations,
+died,—leaving his widow on the
+point of becoming a mother, while, as yet,
+but in her nineteenth year.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">For single and unprotected females, it
+has been, at all times, a favourite resource,
+to seek admission into the service of some of
+those great temples, which absorb so much
+of the wealth and power of Egypt. In most
+<pb n="177"/><anchor id="Pg177"/>of these institutions there exists an order of
+Priestesses, which, though not hereditary,
+like that of the Priests, is provided for by
+ample endowments, and confers that rank
+and station, with which, in a government
+so theocratic, Religion is sure to invest
+even her humblest handmaids. From the
+general policy of the Sacred College of
+Memphis, it may be concluded, that an
+accomplished female, like Theora, found
+but little difficulty in being chosen one of
+the Priestesses of Isis; and it was in the
+service of the subterranean shrines that
+her ministry chiefly lay.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Here, a month or two after her admission,
+she gave birth to Alethe, who first
+opened her eyes among the unholy pomps
+and specious miracles of this mysterious
+region. Though Theora, as we have
+seen, had been diverted by other feelings
+from her first enthusiasm for the Christian
+faith, she had never wholly forgot the
+impression then made upon her. The
+sacred volume, which the pious
+Catechu<pb n="178"/><anchor id="Pg178"/>men had given her, was still treasured
+with care; and, though she seldom opened
+its pages, there was an idea of sanctity associated
+with it in her memory, and often
+would she sit to look upon it with reverential
+pleasure, recalling the happiness she
+felt when it was first made her own.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The leisure of her new retreat, and
+the lone melancholy of widowhood, led
+her still more frequently to indulge in
+such thoughts, and to recur to those consoling
+truths which she had heard in
+the school of Alexandria. She now began
+to peruse eagerly the sacred book, drinking
+deep of the fountain of which she before
+but tasted, and feeling—what thousands
+of mourners, since her, have felt—that
+Christianity is the true religion of the
+sorrowful.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">This study of her secret hours became
+still more dear to her, from the peril with
+which, at that period, it was attended, and
+the necessity she was under of concealing
+from those around her the precious light
+<pb n="179"/><anchor id="Pg179"/>that had been kindled in her heart. Too
+timid to encounter the fierce persecution,
+which awaited all who were suspected of a
+leaning to Christianity, she continued to
+officiate in the pomps and ceremonies of
+the Temple;—though, often, with such
+remorse of soul, that she would pause, in
+the midst of the rites, and pray inwardly
+to God, that he would forgive this profanation
+of his Spirit.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">In the mean time her daughter, the
+young Alethe, grew up still lovelier
+than herself, and added, every hour, to
+her happiness and her fears. When arrived
+at a sufficient age, she was taught,
+like the other children of the priestesses,
+to take a share in the service and ceremonies
+of the shrines. The duty of some
+of these young servitors was to look after
+the flowers for the altar;—of others, to
+take care that the sacred vases were filled
+every day with fresh water from the Nile.
+The task of some was to preserve, in perfect
+polish, those silver images of the moon
+<pb n="180"/><anchor id="Pg180"/>which the priests carried in processions;
+while others were, as we have seen, employed
+in feeding the consecrated animals,
+and in keeping their plumes and scales
+bright, for the admiring eyes of their worshippers.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The office allotted to Alethe—the
+most honourable of these minor ministries—was
+to wait upon the sacred birds of
+the Moon, to feed them with those eggs
+from the Nile which they loved, and provide
+for their use that purest water, which
+alone these delicate birds will touch.
+This employment was the delight of her
+childish hours; and that ibis, which Alciphron
+(the Epicurean) saw her dance
+round in the Temple, was her favourite,
+of all the sacred flock, and had been daily
+fondled and fed by her from infancy.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Music, as being one of the chief spells
+of this enchanted region, was an accomplishment
+required of all its ministrants;
+and the harp, the lyre, and the sacred
+flute, sounded nowhere so sweetly as that
+<pb n="181"/><anchor id="Pg181"/>through these subterranean gardens. The
+chief object, indeed, in the education of
+the youth of the Temple, was to fit them,
+by every grace of art and nature, to give
+effect to the illusion of those shows and
+phantasms, in which the whole charm and
+secret of Initiation lay.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Among the means employed to support
+the old system of superstition, against
+the infidelity and, still more, the new
+Faith that menaced it, was an increased
+display of splendour and marvels in those
+Mysteries for which Egypt has so long
+been celebrated. Of these ceremonies so
+many imitations had, under various names,
+been multiplied through Europe, that the
+parent superstition ran a risk of being
+eclipsed by its progeny; and, in order
+still to retain their rank of the first Priesthood
+in the world, those of Egypt found
+it necessary to continue still the best impostors.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Accordingly, every contrivance that
+art could devise, or labour execute—every
+<pb n="182"/><anchor id="Pg182"/>resource that the wonderful knowledge of
+the Priests, in pyrotechny, mechanics, and
+dioptrics, could command, was brought
+into action to heighten the effect of their
+Mysteries, and give an air of enchantment
+to every thing connected with them.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The final scene of beatification—the
+Elysium, into which the Initiate was received,—formed,
+of course, the leading
+attraction of these ceremonies; and to
+render it captivating alike to the senses of
+the man of pleasure, and the imagination
+of the spiritualist, was the object to which
+the whole skill and attention of the Sacred
+College were devoted. By the influence
+of the Priests of Memphis over those of
+the other Temples they had succeeded in
+extending their subterranean frontier, both
+to the north and south, so as to include,
+within their ever-lighted Paradise, some
+of the gardens excavated for the use of the
+other Twelve Shrines.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The beauty of the young Alethe, the
+touching sweetness of her voice, and the
+<pb n="183"/><anchor id="Pg183"/>sensibility that breathed throughout her
+every look and movement, rendered her
+a powerful auxiliary in such appeals to the
+imagination. She was, accordingly, from
+her childhood, selected from among her fair
+companions, as the most worthy representative
+of spiritual loveliness, in those pictures
+of Elysium—those scenes of another
+world—by which not only the fancy, but
+the reason, of the excited Aspirants was
+dazzled.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">To the innocent child herself these
+shows were pastime. But to Theora, who
+knew too well the imposition to which they
+were subservient, this profanation of all
+that she loved was a perpetual source of
+horror and remorse. Often would she—when
+Alethe stood smiling before her,
+arrayed, perhaps, as a spirit of the Elysian
+world,—turn away, with a shudder, from
+the happy child, almost fancying that she
+already saw the shadows of sin descending
+over that innocent brow, as she gazed
+on it.</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="184"/><anchor id="Pg184"/>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">As the intellect of the young maid
+became more active and inquiring, the apprehensions
+and difficulties of the mother
+increased. Afraid to communicate her
+own precious secret, lest she should involve
+her child in the dangers that encompassed
+it, she yet felt it to be no less
+a cruelty than a crime to leave her wholly
+immersed in the darkness of Paganism.
+In this dilemma, the only resource that
+remained to her was to select, and disengage
+from the dross that surrounded
+them, those pure particles of truth which
+lie at the bottom of all religions;—those
+feelings, rather than doctrines, which God
+has never left his creatures without, and
+which, in all ages, have furnished, to those
+who sought it, some clue to his glory.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The unity and perfect goodness of the
+Creator; the fall of the human soul into
+corruption; its struggles with the darkness
+of this world, and its final redemption
+and re-ascent to the source of all spirit;—these
+natural solutions of the problem of
+<pb n="185"/><anchor id="Pg185"/>our existence, these elementary grounds
+of all religion and virtue, which Theora
+had heard illustrated by her Christian
+teacher, lay also, she knew, veiled under the
+theology of Egypt; and to impress them,
+in all their abstract purity, upon the mind
+of her susceptible pupil, was, in default of
+more heavenly lights, her sole ambition
+and care.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">It was their habit, after devoting their
+mornings to the service of the Temple, to
+pass their evenings and nights in one of those
+small mansions above ground, allotted to
+some of the most favoured Priestesses,
+in the precincts of the Sacred College.
+Here, out of the reach of those gross superstitions,
+which pursued them, at every
+step, below, she endeavoured to inform,
+as far as she might, the mind of her beloved
+girl; and found it lean as naturally
+and instinctively to truth, as plants that
+have been long shut up in darkness will,
+when light is let in, incline themselves to
+its ray.</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="186"/><anchor id="Pg186"/>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Frequently, as they sat together on the
+terrace at night, contemplating that assembly
+of glorious stars, whose beauty
+first misled mankind into idolatry, she
+would explain to the young listener by
+what gradations it was that the worship,
+thus transferred from the Creator to the
+creature, sunk lower and lower in the
+scale of being, till man, at length, presumed
+to deify man, and by the most
+monstrous of inversions, heaven was made
+the mirror of earth, reflecting all its most
+earthly features.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Even in the Temple itself, the anxious
+mother would endeavour to interpose her
+purer lessons among the idolatrous ceremonies
+in which they were engaged. When
+the favourite ibis of Alethe took its station
+on the shrine, and the young maiden was
+seen approaching, with all the gravity of
+worship, the very bird which she had played
+with but an hour before,—when the acacia-bough,
+which she herself had plucked,
+seemed to acquire a sudden sacredness in
+<pb n="187"/><anchor id="Pg187"/>her eyes, as soon as the priest had breathed
+on it,—on all such occasions Theora,
+though with fear and trembling, would
+venture to suggest to the youthful worshipper
+the distinction that should be
+drawn between the sensible object of adoration,
+and that spiritual, unseen Deity, of
+which it was but the remembrancer or
+type.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">With sorrow, however, she soon discovered
+that, in thus but partially enlightening
+a mind too ardent to be satisfied
+with such glimmerings, she only bewildered
+the heart that she meant to guide,
+and cut down the hope round which its
+faith twined, without substituting any
+other support in its place. As the beauty,
+too, of Alethe began to attract all eyes,
+new fears crowded upon the mother’s
+heart;—fears, in which she was but too
+much justified by the characters of some
+of those around her.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">In this sacred abode, as may easily
+be conceived, morality did not always
+<pb n="188"/><anchor id="Pg188"/>go hand in hand with religion. The hypocritical
+and ambitious Orcus, who was,
+at this period, High Priest of Memphis,
+was a man, in every respect, qualified to
+preside over a system of such splendid
+fraud. He had reached that effective
+time of life, when enough of the warmth
+of youth remains to give animation to the
+counsels of age. But, in his instance,
+youth had only the baser passions to bequeath,
+while age but contributed a more
+refined maturity of mischief. The advantages
+of a faith appealing so wholly to the
+senses, were well understood by him; nor
+was he ignorant that the only way of making
+religion subservient to his own interests
+was by shaping it adroitly to the passions
+of others.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none"><anchor id="corr188"/><corr sic="(quote mark missing)">The</corr> state of misery and remorse in
+which the mind of Theora was kept by
+the scenes, however veiled by hypocrisy,
+which she witnessed around her, became
+at length intolerable. No perils that the
+cause of truth could bring with it would
+<pb n="189"/><anchor id="Pg189"/>be half so dreadful as this endurance
+of sinfulness and deceit. Her child was,
+as yet, pure and innocent;—but, without
+that sentinel of the soul, Religion, how
+long might she continue so?</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">This thought at once decided her;—all
+other fears vanished before it. She
+resolved instantly to lay open to Alethe the
+whole secret of her soul; to make her,
+who was her only hope on earth, the
+sharer of all her hopes in heaven, and
+then fly with her, as soon as possible, from
+this unhallowed place, to the desert—to
+the mountains—to any place, however
+desolate, where God and the consciousness
+of innocence might be with them.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The promptitude with which her
+young pupil caught from her the divine
+truths, was even beyond what she expected.
+It was like the lighting of one torch at
+another,—so prepared was Alethe’s mind
+for the illumination. Amply was the
+mother now repaid for all her misery, by
+this perfect communion of love and faith,
+<pb n="190"/><anchor id="Pg190"/>and by the delight with which she saw
+her beloved child—like the young antelope,
+when first led by her dam to the
+well,—drink thirstily by her side, at the
+source of all life and truth.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">But such happiness was not long to
+last. The anxieties that Theora had
+suffered preyed upon her health. She
+felt her strength daily decline; and the
+thoughts of leaving, alone and unguarded
+in the world, that treasure which she had
+just devoted to heaven, gave her a feeling
+of despair which but hastened the ebb of
+life. Had she put in practice her resolution
+of flying from this place, her child
+might have been now beyond the reach
+of all she dreaded, and in the solitude
+of the wilderness would have found at
+least safety from wrong. But the very
+happiness she had felt in her new task
+diverted her from this project;—and it
+was now too late, for she was already
+dying.</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="191"/><anchor id="Pg191"/>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">She concealed, however, her state from
+the tender and sanguine girl, who, though
+she saw the traces of disease on her mother’s
+cheek, little knew that they were the
+hastening footsteps of death, nor thought
+even of the possibility of losing what was
+so dear to her. Too soon, however,
+the moment of separation arrived; and
+while the anguish and dismay of Alethe
+were in proportion to the security in
+which she had indulged, Theora, too,
+felt, with bitter regret, that she had sacrificed
+to her fond consideration much precious
+time, and that there now remained
+but a few brief and painful moments, for
+the communication of all those wishes and
+instructions, on which the future destiny
+of the young orphan depended.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">She had, indeed, time for little more
+than to place the sacred volume solemnly
+in her hands, to implore that she would,
+at all risks, fly from this unholy place,
+and, pointing in the direction of the mountains
+of the Saïd, to name, with her last
+<pb n="192"/><anchor id="Pg192"/>breath, the holy man, to whom, under
+heaven, she trusted for the protection and
+salvation of her child.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The first violence of feeling to which
+Alethe gave way was succeeded by a fixed
+and tearless grief, which rendered her insensible,
+for some time, to the dangers of
+her situation. Her only comfort was in
+visiting that monumental chapel, where the
+beautiful remains of Theora lay. There,
+night after night, in contemplation of
+those placid features, and in prayers for
+the peace of the departed spirit, did she
+pass her lonely, and—sad as they were—happiest
+hours. Though the mystic
+emblems that decorated that chapel were
+but ill suited to the slumber of a Christian
+saint, there was one among them, the Cross,
+which, by a remarkable coincidence, is an
+emblem common alike to the Gentile and
+the Christian,—being, to the former, a
+shadowy type of that immortality, of
+which, to the latter, it is a substantial and
+assuring pledge.</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="193"/><anchor id="Pg193"/>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Nightly, upon this cross, which she
+had often seen her lost mother kiss, did she
+breathe forth a solemn and heartfelt vow,
+never to abandon the faith which that
+departed spirit had bequeathed to her.
+To such enthusiasm, indeed, did her heart
+at such moments rise, that, but for the
+last injunctions from those pallid lips, she
+would, at once, have avowed her perilous
+secret, and spoken out the words, <q>I
+am a Christian,</q> among those benighted
+shrines!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">But the will of her, to whom she owed
+more than life, was to be obeyed. To
+escape from this haunt of superstition
+must now, she felt, be her first object;
+and, in devising the means of effecting it,
+her mind, day and night, was employed.
+It was with a loathing not to be concealed
+she now found herself compelled
+to resume her idolatrous services at the
+shrine. To some of the offices of Theora
+she succeeded, as is the custom, by inheritance;
+and in the performance of
+these<pb n="194"/><anchor id="Pg194"/>—sanctified as they were in her eyes by
+the pure spirit she had seen engaged in
+them—there was a sort of melancholy
+pleasure in which her sorrow found relief.
+But the part she was again forced
+to take, in the scenic shows of the Mysteries,
+brought with it a sense of wrong
+and degradation which she could no
+longer bear.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">She had already formed, in her own
+mind, a plan of escape, in which her
+knowledge of all the windings of this
+subterranean realm gave her confidence,
+when the reception of Alciphron, as an
+Initiate, took place.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">From the first moment of the landing
+of that philosopher at Alexandria, he had
+<anchor id="corr194"/><corr sic="decome">become</corr> an object of suspicion and watchfulness
+to the inquisitorial Orcus, whom
+philosophy, in any shape, naturally alarmed,
+but to whom the sect over which the
+young Athenian presided was particularly
+obnoxious. The accomplishments of
+Alciphron, his popularity, wherever he
+<pb n="195"/><anchor id="Pg195"/>went, and the freedom with which he
+indulged his wit at the expense of religion,
+was all faithfully reported to the
+High Priest by his spies, and stirred up
+within him no kindly feelings towards
+the stranger. In dealing with an infidel,
+such a personage as Orcus could know
+no alternative but that of either converting
+or destroying him; and though his spite,
+as a man, would have been more gratified
+by the latter proceeding, his pride, as
+a priest, led him to prefer the triumph of
+the former.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">The first descent of the Epicurean into
+the pyramid was speedily known, and the
+alarm immediately given to the Priests
+below. As soon as it was discovered that
+the young philosopher of Athens was the
+intruder, and that he still continued to
+linger round the pyramid, looking often
+and wistfully towards the portal, it was
+concluded that his curiosity would impel
+him to try a second descent; and Orcus,
+blessing the good chance which had thus
+<pb n="196"/><anchor id="Pg196"/>brought the wild bird to his net, determined
+not to allow an opportunity so
+precious to be wasted.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Instantly, the whole of that wonderful
+machinery, by which the phantasms and
+illusions of Initiation are produced, were
+put in active preparation throughout that
+subterranean realm; and the increased
+stir and watchfulness excited among
+its inmates, by this more than ordinary
+display of all the resources of priestcraft,
+rendered the accomplishment of Alethe’s
+design, at such a moment, peculiarly difficult.
+Wholly ignorant of the share
+which had fallen to herself in attracting
+the young philosopher down to this region,
+she but heard of him vaguely, as
+the Chief of a great Grecian sect, who had
+been led, by either curiosity or accident,
+to expose himself to the first trials of Initiation,
+and whom the priests, she saw,
+were endeavouring to ensnare in their
+toils, by every art and skill with which
+their science of darkness had gifted them.</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="197"/><anchor id="Pg197"/>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">To her mind, the image of a philosopher,
+such as Alciphron had been represented
+to her, came associated with
+ideas of age and reverence; and, more
+than once, the possibility of his being
+made instrumental to her deliverance
+flashed a hope across her heart in which
+she could not help indulging. Often had
+she been told by Theora of the many
+Gentile sages, who had laid their wisdom
+down humbly at the foot of the Cross;
+and though this Initiate, she feared, could
+hardly be among the number, yet the rumours
+which she had gathered from the
+servants of the Temple, of his undisguised
+contempt for the errors of heathenism,
+led her to hope she might find
+tolerance, if not sympathy, in her appeal
+to him.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Nor was it solely with a view to her
+own chance of deliverance that she thus
+connected him in her thoughts with the
+plan which she meditated. The look of
+<pb n="198"/><anchor id="Pg198"/>proud and self-gratulating malice, with
+which the High Priest had mentioned
+this <q>infidel,</q> as he styled him, when instructing
+her in the scene she was to
+enact before the philosopher in the valley,
+but too plainly informed her of the destiny
+that hung over him. She knew how
+many were the hapless candidates for
+Initiation, who had been doomed to a
+durance worse than that of the grave, for
+but a word, a whisper breathed against
+the sacred absurdities which they witnessed;
+and it was evident to her that
+the venerable Greek (for such her fancy
+represented Alciphron) was no less interested
+in escaping from this region than
+herself.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Her own resolution was, at all events,
+fixed. That visionary scene, in which she
+had appeared before Alciphron,—little
+knowing how ardent were the heart and
+imagination, over which her beauty, at that
+moment, shed its whole influence,—was,
+she solemnly resolved, the very last
+un<pb n="199"/><anchor id="Pg199"/>holy service, that superstition or imposture
+should ever command of her.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">On the following night the Aspirant
+was to watch in the Great Temple of
+Isis. Such an opportunity of approaching
+and addressing him might never come
+again. Should he, from compassion for
+her situation, or a sense of the danger of
+his own, consent to lend his aid to her
+flight, most gladly would she accept it,—assured
+that no danger or treachery she
+might risk could be half so dreadful as
+those she left behind. Should he, on
+the contrary, refuse, her determination
+was equally fixed—to trust to that God,
+who watches over the innocent, and go
+forth alone.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">To reach the island in Lake Mœris
+was her first object, and there occurred
+luckily, at this time, a mode of accomplishing
+it, by which the difficulty and
+dangers of the attempt would be, in a
+great degree, diminished. The day of
+<pb n="200"/><anchor id="Pg200"/>the annual visitation of the High Priest
+to the Place of Weeping—as that island
+in the centre of the lake is called—was
+now fast approaching; and Alethe well
+knew that the self-moving car, by which
+the High Priest and one of the Hierophants
+are conveyed to the chambers
+under the lake, stood waiting in readiness.
+By availing herself of this expedient, she
+would gain the double advantage both
+of facilitating her own flight and retarding
+the speed of her pursuers.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Having paid a last visit to the tomb of
+her beloved mother, and wept there, long
+and passionately, till her heart almost
+failed in the struggle,—having paused, too,
+to give a kiss to her favourite ibis, which,
+though too much a Christian to worship,
+she was still child enough to love,—with
+a trembling step she went early to
+the Sanctuary, and hid herself in one
+of the recesses of the Shrine. Her
+intention was to steal out from thence to
+Alciphron, while it was yet dark, and
+be<pb n="201"/><anchor id="Pg201"/>fore the illumination of the great Statue
+behind the Veils had begun. But her
+fears delayed her till it was almost too
+late;—already was the image lighted up,
+and still she remained trembling in her
+hiding place.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">In a few minutes more the mighty Veils
+would have been withdrawn, and the
+glories of that scene of enchantment laid
+open,—when, at length, summoning up
+courage, and taking advantage of a momentary
+absence of those employed in the
+preparations of this splendid mockery, she
+stole from under the Veil and found her
+way, through the gloom, to the Epicurean.
+There was then no time for
+explanation;—she had but to trust to
+the simple words, <q>Follow, and be silent;</q>
+and the implicit readiness with which she
+found them obeyed filled her with no less
+surprise than the philosopher himself felt
+in hearing them.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>In a second or two they were on their
+way through the subterranean windings,
+<pb n="202"/><anchor id="Pg202"/>leaving the ministers of Isis to waste their
+splendours on vacancy, through a long
+series of miracles and visions which they
+now exhibited,—unconscious that he,
+whom they took such pains to dazzle,
+was already, under the guidance of the
+young Christian, removed beyond the
+reach of their spells.</q>
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="203"/><anchor id="Pg203"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XIV.</head>
+
+<p>
+Such was the story, of which this innocent
+girl gave me, in her own touching language,
+the outline.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The sun was just rising as she finished
+her narrative. Fearful of encountering
+the expression of those feelings with which,
+she could not but observe, I was affected
+by her recital, scarcely had she concluded
+the last sentence, when, rising abruptly
+from her seat, she hurried into the pavilion,
+leaving me with the words already
+crowding for utterance to my lips.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Oppressed by the various emotions, thus
+sent back upon my heart, I lay down
+on the deck in a state of agitation, that
+defied even the most distant approaches
+of sleep. While every word she had
+<pb n="204"/><anchor id="Pg204"/>uttered, every feeling she expressed, but
+ministered new fuel to that flame within
+me, to describe which, passion is too weak
+a word, there was also much of her recital
+that disheartened, that alarmed me. To
+find a Christian thus under the garb of
+a Memphian Priestess, was a discovery
+that, had my heart been less deeply interested,
+would but have more powerfully
+stimulated my imagination and pride.
+But, when I recollected the austerity of
+the faith she had embraced,—the tender
+and sacred tie, associated with it in her
+memory, and the devotion of woman’s
+heart to objects thus consecrated,—her
+very perfections but widened the distance
+between us, and all that most kindled my
+passion at the same time chilled my hopes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Were we left to each other, as on this
+silent river, in this undisturbed communion
+of thoughts and feelings, I knew too well,
+I thought, both her sex’s nature and my
+own, to feel a doubt that love would
+ultimately triumph. But the severity of
+<pb n="205"/><anchor id="Pg205"/>the guardianship to which I must resign
+her,—some monk of the desert, some
+stern Solitary,—the influence such a
+monitor would gain over her mind, and
+the horror with which, ere long, she would
+be taught to regard the reprobate infidel
+on whom she now smiled,—in all this
+prospect I saw nothing but despair. After
+a few short hours, my happiness would be
+at an end, and such a dark chasm open
+between our fates, as must sever them, far
+as earth is from heaven, asunder.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was true, she was now wholly in my
+power. I feared no witnesses but those of
+earth, and the solitude of the desert was at
+hand. But though I acknowledged not a
+heaven, I worshipped her who was, to me,
+its type and substitute. If, at any moment,
+a single thought of wrong or deceit,
+towards a creature so sacred, arose in my
+mind, one look from her innocent eyes
+averted the sacrilege. Even passion itself
+felt a holy fear in her
+presence,—<pb n="206"/><anchor id="Pg206"/>like the flame trembling in the breeze of
+the sanctuary,—and Love, pure Love,
+stood in place of Religion.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As long as I knew not her story, I might
+indulge, at least, in dreams of the future.
+But, now—what hope, what prospect remained?
+My sole chance of happiness lay
+in the feeble hope of beguiling away her
+thoughts from the plan which she meditated;
+of weaning her, by persuasion,
+from that austere faith, which I had before
+hated and now feared, and of—attaching
+her, perhaps, alone and unlinked as she
+was in the world, to my own fortunes for
+ever!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the agitation of these thoughts, I
+had started from my resting-place, and
+continued to pace up and down, under a
+burning sun, till, exhausted both by thought
+and feeling, I sunk down, amid its blaze,
+into a sleep, which, to my fevered brain,
+seemed a sleep of fire.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On awaking, I found the veil of Alethe
+<pb n="207"/><anchor id="Pg207"/>laid carefully over my brow, while she,
+herself, sat near me, under the shadow of
+the sail, looking anxiously at that leaf,
+which her mother had given her, and
+apparently employed in comparing its outlines
+with the course of the river and
+the forms of the rocky hills by which
+we passed. She looked pale and troubled,
+and rose eagerly to meet me, as if she
+had long and impatiently waited for my
+waking.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Her heart, it was plain, had been disturbed
+from its security, and was beginning
+to take alarm at its own feelings.
+But, though vaguely conscious of the peril
+to which she was exposed, her reliance, as
+is usually the case, increased with her danger,
+and on me, far more than on herself,
+did she depend for saving her from it.
+To reach, as soon as possible, her asylum
+in the desert, was now the urgent object
+of her entreaties and wishes; and the self-reproach
+she expressed at having permitted
+her thoughts to be diverted, for a single
+<pb n="208"/><anchor id="Pg208"/>moment, from this sacred purpose, not only
+revealed the truth, that she had forgotten
+it, but betrayed even a glimmering consciousness
+of the cause.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Her sleep, she said, had been broken
+by ill-omened dreams. Every moment
+the shade of her mother had stood before
+her, rebuking her, with mournful
+looks, for her delay, and pointing, as she
+had done in death, to the eastern hills.
+Bursting into tears at this accusing recollection,
+she hastily placed the leaf, which
+she had been examining, in my hands, and
+implored that I would ascertain, without a
+moment’s delay, what portion of our voyage
+was still unperformed, and in what space
+of time we might hope to accomplish it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I had, still less than herself, taken note
+of either place or distance; and, had we
+been left to glide on in this dream of happiness,
+should never have thought of pausing
+to ask where it would end. But such
+confidence, I felt, was too sacred to be
+deceived. Reluctant as I was, naturally, to
+<pb n="209"/><anchor id="Pg209"/>enter on an inquiry, which might so soon
+dissipate even my last hope, her wish was
+sufficient to supersede even the selfishness
+of love, and on the instant I proceeded
+to obey her will.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There is, on the eastern bank of the
+Nile, to the north of Antinöe, a high and
+steep rock, impending over the flood,
+which for ages, from a prodigy connected
+with it, has borne the name of the Mountain
+of the Birds. Yearly, it is said, at
+a certain season and hour, large flocks of
+birds assemble in the ravine, of which this
+rocky mountain forms one of the sides,
+and are there observed to go through the
+mysterious ceremony of inserting each its
+beak into a particular cleft of the rock,
+till the cleft closes upon one of their number,
+when the rest, taking wing, leave
+the selected victim to die.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Through the ravine where this charm—for
+such the multitude consider it—is
+worked, there ran, in ancient times, a
+canal from the Nile, to some great and
+<pb n="210"/><anchor id="Pg210"/>forgotten city that now lies buried in the
+desert. To a short distance from the
+river this canal still exists, but, soon after
+having passed through the defile, its
+scanty waters disappear altogether, and
+are lost under the sands.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was in the neighbourhood of this
+place, as I could collect from the delineations
+on the leaf,—where a flight of
+birds represented the name of the mountain,—that
+the dwelling of the Solitary,
+to whom Alethe was bequeathed, lay.
+Imperfect as was my knowledge of the
+geography of Egypt, it at once struck me,
+that we had long since left this mountain
+behind; and, on inquiring of our boatmen,
+I found my conjecture confirmed.
+We had, indeed, passed it, as appeared,
+on the preceding night; and, as the wind
+had, ever since, blown strongly from the
+north, and the sun was already declining
+towards the horizon, we must now be, at
+least, an ordinary day’s sail to the southward
+of the spot.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="211"/><anchor id="Pg211"/>
+
+<p>
+At this discovery, I own, my heart
+felt a joy which I could with difficulty
+conceal. It seemed to me as if fortune
+was conspiring with love, and, by thus
+delaying the moment of our separation,
+afforded me at least a chance of happiness.
+Her look, too, and manner, when
+informed of our mistake, rather encouraged
+than chilled this secret hope. In
+the first moment of astonishment, her
+eyes opened upon me with a suddenness
+of splendour, under which I felt my
+own wink, as if lightning had crossed
+them. But she again, as suddenly, let
+their lids fall, and, after a quiver of her
+lip, which showed the conflict of feeling
+within, crossed her arms upon her bosom,
+and looked silently down upon the deck;—her
+whole countenance sinking into an
+expression, sad, but resigned, as if she felt,
+with me, that fate was on the side of wrong,
+and saw Love already stealing between
+her soul and heaven.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I was not slow in availing myself of
+<pb n="212"/><anchor id="Pg212"/>what I fancied to be the irresolution of
+her mind. But, fearful of exciting alarm
+by any appeal to tenderer feelings, I
+but addressed myself to her imagination,
+and to that love of novelty, which is
+for ever fresh in the youthful breast.
+We were now approaching that region of
+wonders, Thebes. <q>In a day or two,</q>
+said I, <q>we shall see, towering above the
+waters, the colossal Avenue of Sphinxes,
+and the bright Obelisks of the Sun.
+We shall visit the plain of Memnon, and
+those mighty statues, that fling their shadows
+at sunrise over the Libyan hills.
+We shall hear the image of the Son of
+the Morning answering to the first touch
+of light. From thence, in a few hours,
+a breeze like this will transport us to
+those sunny islands near the cataracts;
+there, to wander, among the sacred palm-groves
+of Philæ, or sit, at noon-tide hour,
+in those cool alcoves, which the waterfall
+of Syene shadows under its arch. Oh,
+who, with such scenes of loveliness within
+<pb n="213"/><anchor id="Pg213"/>reach, would turn coldly away to the bleak
+desert, and leave this fair world, with all
+its enchantments, shining behind them,
+unseen and unenjoyed? At least,</q>—I
+added, tenderly taking her by the hand,—<q>at
+least, let a few more days be
+stolen from the dreary fate to which thou
+hast devoted thyself, and then——</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+She had heard but the last few words;—the
+rest had been lost upon her. Startled by
+the tone of tenderness, into which, in spite
+of all my resolves, my voice had softened,
+she looked for an instant in my face, with
+passionate earnestness;—then, dropping
+upon her knees with her clasped hands
+upraised, exclaimed—<q>Tempt me not,
+in the name of God I implore thee,
+tempt me not to swerve from my sacred
+duty. Oh, take me instantly to that desert
+mountain, and I will bless thee for
+ever.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This appeal, I felt, <hi rend="italic">could not</hi> be resisted,—though
+my heart were to break for it.
+Having silently expressed my assent to
+<pb n="214"/><anchor id="Pg214"/>her prayer, by a pressure of her hand as
+I raised her from the deck, I hastened,
+as we were still in full career for the
+south, to give orders that our sail should
+be instantly lowered, and not a moment
+lost in retracing our course.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In proceeding, however, to give these
+directions, it, for the first time, occurred
+to me, that, as I had hired this yacht in
+the neighbourhood of Memphis, where it
+was probable that the flight of the young
+fugitive would be most vigilantly tracked,
+we should act imprudently in betraying
+to the boatmen the place of her retreat;—and
+the present seemed the most favourable
+opportunity of evading such a
+danger. Desiring, therefore, that we
+should be landed at a small village on
+the shore, under pretence of paying a
+visit to some shrine in the neighbourhood,
+I there dismissed our barge, and was
+relieved from fear of further observation,
+by seeing it again set sail, and resume its
+course fleetly up the current.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="215"/><anchor id="Pg215"/>
+
+<p>
+From the boats of all descriptions
+that lay idle beside the bank, I now selected
+one, which, in every respect, suited
+my purpose,—being, in its shape and accommodations,
+a miniature of our former
+vessel, but so small and light as to be
+manageable by myself alone, and, with the
+advantage of the current, requiring little
+more than a hand to steer it. This boat
+I succeeded, without much difficulty, in
+purchasing, and, after a short delay, we
+were again afloat down the current;—the
+sun just then sinking, in conscious glory,
+over his own golden shrines in the Libyan
+waste.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The evening was more calm and lovely
+than any that yet had smiled upon
+our voyage; and, as we left the bank,
+there came soothingly over our ears a
+strain of sweet, rustic melody from the
+shore. It was the voice of a young Nubian
+girl, whom we saw kneeling on the bank
+before an acacia, and singing, while her
+companions stood round, the wild song
+<pb n="216"/><anchor id="Pg216"/>of invocation, which, in her country, they
+address to that enchanted tree:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">“Oh! Abyssinian tree,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">We pray, we pray, to thee;</l>
+<l>By the glow of thy golden fruit,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">And the violet hue of thy flower,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">And the greeting mute</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">Of thy bough’s salute</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">To the stranger who seeks thy bower.<note place="foot">See an account of this sensitive tree, which
+bends down its branches to those who approach it,
+in M. Jomard’s Description of Syene and the Cataracts.</note></l>
+</lg>
+
+<lg>
+<head rend="text-align: left">              II.</head>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">“Oh! Abyssinian tree,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">How the traveller blesses thee,</l>
+<l>When the night no moon allows,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">And the sun-set hour is near,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">And thou bend’st thy boughs</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">To kiss his brows,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 2">Saying, ‘Come rest thee here.’</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">Oh! Abyssinian tree,</l>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">Thus bow thy head to me!”</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="217"/><anchor id="Pg217"/>
+
+<p>
+In the burden of this song the companions
+of the young Nubian joined; and we heard
+the words, <q>Oh! Abyssinian tree,</q> dying
+away on the breeze, long after the whole
+group had been lost to our eyes.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Whether, in this new arrangement which
+I had made for our voyage, any motive,
+besides those which I professed, had a
+share, I can scarcely, even myself, so
+bewildered were my feelings, determine.
+But no sooner had the current borne
+us away from all human dwellings, and
+we were alone on the waters, with not
+a soul near, than I felt how closely such
+solitude draws hearts together, and how
+much more we seemed to belong to each
+other, than when there were eyes around.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The same feeling, but without the
+same sense of its danger, was manifest in
+every look and word of Alethe. The
+consciousness of the one great effort
+she had made appeared to have satisfied
+her heart on the score of duty,—while
+the devotedness with which she saw I
+<pb n="218"/><anchor id="Pg218"/>attended to her every wish, was felt with
+all that gratitude which, in woman, is
+the day-spring of love. She was, therefore,
+happy, innocently happy; and the
+confiding, and even affectionate, unreserve
+of her manner, while it rendered my trust
+more sacred, made it also far more difficult.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was only, however, on subjects unconnected
+with our situation or fate, that
+she yielded to such interchange of
+thought, or that her voice ventured to
+answer mine. The moment I alluded to
+the destiny that awaited us, all her cheerfulness
+fled, and she became saddened and
+silent. When I described to her the
+beauty of my own native land—its founts
+of inspiration and fields of glory—her
+eyes sparkled with sympathy, and sometimes
+even softened into fondness. But
+when I ventured to whisper, that, in that
+glorious country, a life full of love and
+liberty awaited her; when I proceeded
+to contrast the adoration and bliss she
+<pb n="219"/><anchor id="Pg219"/>might command, with the gloomy austerities
+of the life to which she was hastening,—it
+was like the coming of a sudden cloud
+over a summer sky. Her head sunk, as
+she listened;—I waited in vain for an
+answer; and when, half playfully reproaching
+her for this silence, I stooped to take
+her hand, I could feel the warm tears fast
+falling over it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But even this—little hope as it held
+out—was happiness. Though it foreboded
+that I should lose her, it also whispered
+that I was loved. Like that lake, in
+the Land of Roses<note place="foot">The province of Arsinoë, now Fioum.</note>, whose waters are
+half sweet, half bitter, I felt my fate to be
+a compound of bliss and pain,—but the
+very pain well worth all ordinary bliss.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+And thus did the hours of that night
+pass along; while every moment shortened
+our happy dream, and the current seemed
+to flow with a swifter pace than any that
+<pb n="220"/><anchor id="Pg220"/>ever yet hurried to the sea. Not a feature
+of the whole scene but is, at this
+moment, freshly in my memory;—the
+broken star-light on the water;—the
+rippling sound of the boat, as, without
+oar or sail, it went, like a thing of enchantment,
+down the stream;—the scented
+fire, burning beside us on the deck, and,
+oh, that face, on which its light fell, still
+revealing, as it turned, some new charm,
+some blush or look, more beautiful than
+the last.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Often, while I sat gazing, forgetful of
+all else in this world, our boat, left wholly
+to itself, would drive from its course, and,
+bearing us to the bank, get entangled in
+the water-flowers, or be caught in some
+eddy, ere I perceived where we were.
+Once, too, when the rustling of my oar
+among the flowers had startled away from
+the bank some wild antelopes, that had
+stolen, at that still hour, to drink of the
+Nile, what an emblem I thought it of the
+<pb n="221"/><anchor id="Pg221"/>young heart beside me,—tasting, for the
+first time, of hope and love, and so soon,
+alas, to be scared from their sweetness
+for ever!
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="222"/><anchor id="Pg222"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XV.</head>
+
+<p>
+The night was now far advanced;—the
+bend of our course towards the left, and
+the closing in of the eastern hills upon the
+river, gave warning of our approach to
+the hermit’s dwelling. Every minute now
+seemed like the last of existence; and I
+felt a sinking of despair at my heart,
+which would have been intolerable, had
+not a resolution that suddenly, and as if
+by inspiration, occurred to me, presented
+a glimpse of hope which, in some degree,
+calmed my feelings.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Much as I had, all my life, despised hypocrisy,—the
+very sect I had embraced
+being chiefly recommended to me by the
+war which they waged on the cant of all
+others,—it was, nevertheless, in hypocrisy
+that I now scrupled not to take refuge
+<pb n="223"/><anchor id="Pg223"/>from, what I dreaded more than shame or
+death, my separation from Alethe. In
+my despair, I adopted the humiliating
+plan—deeply humiliating as I felt it to
+be, even amid the joy with which I welcomed
+it—of offering myself to this
+hermit, as a convert to his faith, and thus
+becoming the fellow-disciple of Alethe
+under his care!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From the moment I resolved upon
+this plan, my spirit felt lightened. Though
+having fully before my eyes the labyrinth
+of imposture into which it would lead me,
+I thought of nothing but the chance of our
+being still together;—in this hope, all
+pride, all philosophy was forgotten, and
+every thing seemed tolerable, but the prospect
+of losing her.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Thus resolved, it was with somewhat
+less reluctant feelings, that I now undertook,
+at the anxious desire of Alethe, to
+ascertain the site of that well-known mountain,
+in the neighbourhood of which the
+dwelling of the anchoret lay. We had
+<pb n="224"/><anchor id="Pg224"/>already passed one or two stupendous
+rocks, which stood, detached, like fortresses,
+over the river’s brink, and which,
+in some degree, corresponded with the
+description on the leaf. So little was
+there of life now stirring along the
+shores, that I had begun almost to despair
+of any assistance from inquiry, when, on
+looking to the western bank, I saw a boatman
+among the sedges, towing his small
+boat, with some difficulty, up the current.
+Hailing him, as we passed, I asked,
+<q>Where stands the Mountain of the
+Birds?</q>—and he had hardly time to
+answer, pointing above our heads, <q>There,</q>
+when we perceived that we were just then
+entering into the shadow, which this
+mighty rock flings across the whole of the
+flood.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In a few moments we had reached
+the mouth of the ravine, of which the
+Mountain of the Birds forms one of
+the sides, and through which the scanty
+canal from the Nile flows. At the sight
+<pb n="225"/><anchor id="Pg225"/>of this chasm, in some of whose gloomy
+recesses—if we had rightly interpreted
+the leaf—the dwelling of the Solitary lay,
+our voices, at once, sunk into a low whisper,
+while Alethe looked round upon me with
+a superstitious fearfulness, as if doubtful
+whether I had not already disappeared from
+her side. A quick movement, however,
+of her hand towards the ravine, told too
+plainly that her purpose was still unchanged.
+With my oars, therefore, checking
+the career of our boat, I succeeded,
+after no small exertion, in turning it out
+of the current of the river, and steering
+into this bleak and stagnant canal.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Our transition from life and bloom
+to the very depth of desolation, was immediate.
+While the water and one side
+of the ravine lay buried in shadow, the
+white, skeleton-like crags of the other
+stood aloft in the pale glare of moonlight.
+The sluggish stream through which we
+moved, yielded sullenly to the oar, and
+the shriek of a few water-birds, which we
+<pb n="226"/><anchor id="Pg226"/>had roused from their fastnesses, was succeeded
+by a silence, so dead and awful,
+that our lips seemed afraid to disturb it by
+a breath; and half-whispered exclamations,
+<q>How dreary!</q>—<q>How dismal!</q>—were
+almost the only words exchanged
+between us.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We had proceeded for some time
+through this gloomy defile, when, at a
+distance before us, among the rocks on
+which the moonlight fell, we perceived,
+upon a ledge but little elevated above the
+canal, a small hut or cave, which, from a
+tree or two planted around it, had some
+appearance of being the abode of a human
+being. <q>This, then,</q> thought I, <q>is
+the home to which Alethe is destined!</q>—A
+chill of despair came again over my
+heart, and the oars, as I gazed, lay motionless
+in my hands.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I found Alethe, too, whose eyes had
+caught the same object, drawing closer to
+my side than she had yet ventured. Laying
+her hand agitatedly upon mine,
+<pb n="227"/><anchor id="Pg227"/><q>We must here,</q> she said, <q>part for
+ever.</q> I turned to her, as she spoke:
+there was a tenderness, a despondency
+in her countenance, that at once saddened
+and inflamed my soul. <q>Part!</q>
+I exclaimed passionately,—<q>No!—the
+same God shall receive us both. Thy
+faith, Alethe, shall, from this hour, be
+mine, and I will live and die in this desert
+with thee!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Her surprise, her delight, at these
+words, was like a momentary delirium.
+The wild, anxious smile, with which she
+looked into my face, as if to ascertain
+whether she had, indeed, heard my words
+aright, bespoke a happiness too much for
+reason to bear. At length the fulness of her
+heart found relief in tears; and, murmuring
+forth an incoherent blessing on my
+name, she let her head fall languidly and
+powerlessly on my arm. The light from
+our boat-fire shone upon her face. I saw
+her eyes, which she had closed for a moment,
+again opening upon me with the
+<pb n="228"/><anchor id="Pg228"/>same tenderness, and—merciful Providence,
+how I remember that moment!—was
+on the point of bending down my lips
+towards hers, when, suddenly, in the air
+above our heads, as if it came from heaven,
+there burst forth a strain from a
+choir of voices, that with its solemn
+sweetness filled the whole valley.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Breaking away from my caress at these
+supernatural sounds, the maiden threw
+herself trembling upon her knees, and,
+not daring to look up, exclaimed wildly,
+<q>My mother, oh my mother!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was the Christian’s morning hymn
+that we heard;—the same, as I learned
+afterwards, that, on their high terrace at
+Memphis, Alethe had been often taught
+by her mother to sing to the rising sun.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Scarcely less startled than my companion,
+I looked up, and, at the very summit
+of the rock above us, saw a light,
+appearing to come from a small opening or
+window, through which also the sounds,
+that had appeared so supernatural, issued.
+<pb n="229"/><anchor id="Pg229"/>There could be no doubt, that we had now
+found—if not the dwelling of the anchoret—at
+least, the haunt of some of the Christian
+brotherhood of these rocks, by whose
+assistance we could not fail to find the
+place of his retreat.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The agitation, into which Alethe had
+been thrown by the first burst of that
+psalmody, soon yielded to the softening
+recollections which it brought back; and
+a calm came over her brow, such as it
+had never before worn, since our meeting.
+She seemed to feel that she had
+now reached her destined haven, and to
+hail, as the voice of heaven itself, those
+sounds by which she was welcomed to it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In her tranquillity, however, I could
+not now sympathize. Impatient to know
+all that awaited her and myself, I pushed
+our boat close to the base of the rock,—directly
+under that lighted window on
+the summit, to find my way up to which
+was my first object. Having hastily
+received my instructions from Alethe,
+<pb n="230"/><anchor id="Pg230"/>and made her repeat again the name of
+the Christian whom we sought, I sprang
+upon the bank, and was not long in discovering
+a sort of rude stair-way, cut
+out of the rock, but leading, I found, by
+easy windings, up the steep.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After ascending for some time, I arrived
+at a level space or ledge, which the hand
+of labour had succeeded in converting
+into a garden, and which was planted,
+here and there, with fig-trees and palms.
+Around it, too, I could perceive, through
+the glimmering light, a number of small
+caves or grottos, into some of which,
+human beings might find entrance, while
+others appeared no larger than the tombs
+of the Sacred Birds round Lake Mœris.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I was still, I found, but half-way up
+the ascent to the summit, nor could perceive
+any further means of continuing
+my course, as the mountain from hence
+rose, almost perpendicularly, like a wall.
+At length, however, on exploring around,
+I discovered behind the shade of a
+syca<pb n="231"/><anchor id="Pg231"/>more a large ladder of wood, resting firmly
+against the rock, and affording an easy
+and secure ascent up the steep.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having ascertained thus far, I again
+descended to the boat for Alethe,—whom
+I found trembling already at her
+short solitude,—and having led her up
+the steps to this quiet garden, left her
+safely lodged, amid its holy silence, while I
+pursued my way upward to the light on
+the rock.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the top of the long ladder I found
+myself on another ledge or platform,
+somewhat smaller than the first, but
+planted in the same manner, with trees,
+and, as I could perceive by the mingled
+light of morning and the moon, embellished
+with flowers. I was now near the
+summit;—there remained but another
+short ascent, and, as a ladder against the
+rock, as before, supplied the means of
+scaling it, I was in a few minutes at the
+opening from which the light issued.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I had ascended gently, as well from
+<pb n="232"/><anchor id="Pg232"/>a feeling of awe at the whole scene, as
+from an unwillingness to disturb too
+rudely the rites on which I intruded. My
+approach was, therefore, unheard, and an
+opportunity, during some moments, afforded
+me of observing the group within,
+before my appearance at the window was
+discovered.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In the middle of the apartment, which
+seemed once to have been a Pagan oratory,
+there was an assembly of seven or eight
+persons, some male, some female, kneeling
+in silence round a small altar;—while,
+among them, as if presiding over their
+ceremony, stood an aged man, who, at
+the moment of my arrival, was presenting
+to one of the female worshippers an
+alabaster cup, which she applied, with
+much reverence, to her lips. On the
+countenance of the venerable minister,
+as he pronounced a short prayer over
+her head, there was an expression of
+profound feeling that showed how wholly
+he was absorbed in that rite; and when
+<pb n="233"/><anchor id="Pg233"/>she had drank of the cup,—which I saw
+had engraven on its side the image of a
+head, with a glory round it,—the holy
+man bent down and kissed her forehead.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After this parting salutation, the whole
+group rose silently from their knees;
+and it was then, for the first time, that, by
+a cry of terror from one of the women,
+the appearance of a stranger at the window
+was discovered. The whole assembly
+seemed startled and alarmed, except him,
+that superior person, who, advancing from
+the altar, with an unmoved look, raised the
+latch of the door, which was adjoining to
+the window, and admitted me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There was, in this old man’s features,
+a mixture of elevation and sweetness, of
+simplicity and energy, which commanded
+at once attachment and homage; and half
+hoping, half fearing to find in him the
+destined guardian of Alethe, I looked
+anxiously in his face, as I entered, and
+pronounced the name <q>Melanius!</q> <q>Melanius
+is my name, young stranger,</q> he
+<pb n="234"/><anchor id="Pg234"/>answered; <q>and whether in friendship or
+in enmity thou comest, Melanius blesses
+thee.</q> Thus saying, he made a sign with
+his right hand above my head, while, with
+involuntary respect, I bowed beneath the
+benediction.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Let this volume,</q> I replied, <q>answer
+for the peacefulness of my mission,</q>—at
+the same time, placing in his hands the
+copy of the Scriptures, which had been
+his own gift to the mother of Alethe,
+and which her child now brought as the
+credential of her claims on his protection.
+At the sight of this sacred pledge, which he
+recognized instantly, the solemnity that had
+marked his first reception of me softened
+into tenderness. Thoughts of other times
+seemed to pass through his mind, and as,
+with a sigh of recollection, he took the book
+from my hands, some words on the outer
+leaf caught his eye. They were few,—but
+contained, perhaps, the last wishes of the
+dying Theora, for as he eagerly read them
+over, I saw the tears in his aged eyes.
+<pb n="235"/><anchor id="Pg235"/><q>The trust,</q> he said, with a faltering
+voice, <q>is sacred, and God will, I hope,
+enable his servant to guard it faithfully.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During this short dialogue, the other
+persons of the assembly had departed—being,
+as I afterwards learned, brethren
+from the neighbouring bank of the Nile,
+who came thus secretly before day-break,
+to join in worshipping God. Fearful lest
+their descent down the rock might alarm
+Alethe, I hurried briefly over the few
+words of explanation that remained, and,
+leaving the venerable Christian to follow
+at his leisure, hastened anxiously down to
+rejoin the maiden.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="236"/><anchor id="Pg236"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XVI.</head>
+
+<p>
+Melanius was among the first of those
+Christians of Egypt, who, after the recent
+example of the hermit, Paul, renouncing
+all the comforts of social existence,
+betook themselves to a life of contemplation
+in the desert. Less selfish, however,
+in his piety, than most of these ascetics,
+Melanius forgot not the world, in leaving
+it. He knew that man was not born
+to live wholly for himself; that his relation
+to human kind was that of the
+link to the chain, and that even his solitude
+should be turned to the advantage
+of others. In flying, therefore, from the
+din and disturbance of life, he sought not
+to place himself beyond the reach of its
+sympathies, but selected a retreat, where
+he could combine the advantage of
+soli<pb n="237"/><anchor id="Pg237"/>tude with those opportunities of serving
+his fellow-men, which a neighbourhood to
+their haunts would afford.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+That taste for the gloom of subterranean
+recesses, which the race of Misraim
+inherit from their Ethiopian ancestors,
+had, by hollowing out all Egypt into
+caverns and crypts, furnished these
+Christian anchorets with a choice of
+retreats. Accordingly, some found a
+shelter in the grottos of Elethya;—others,
+among the royal tombs of the
+Thebaïd. In the middle of the Seven
+Valleys, where the sun rarely shines, a
+few have fixed their dim and melancholy
+retreat, while others have sought the
+neighbourhood of the red Lakes of Nitria,
+and there,—like those Pagan solitaries
+of old, who dwelt among the palm-trees
+near the Dead Sea,—muse amid the
+sterility of nature, and seem to find, in her
+desolation, peace.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was on one of the mountains of
+the Saïd, to the east of the river, that
+<pb n="238"/><anchor id="Pg238"/>Melanius, as we have seen, chose his
+place of seclusion,—between the life and
+fertility of the Nile on the one side, and
+the lone, dismal barrenness of the desert on
+the other. Half-way down this mountain,
+where it impends over the ravine, he
+found a series of caves or grottos dug out
+of the rock, which had, in other times,
+ministered to some purpose of mystery,
+but whose use had been long forgotten,
+and their recesses abandoned.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To this place, after the banishment of
+his great master, Origen, Melanius, with a
+few faithful followers, retired, and, by the
+example of his innocent life, no less than
+by his fervid eloquence, succeeded in
+winning crowds of converts to his faith.
+Placed, as he was, in the neighbourhood
+of the rich city, Antinoë, though he
+mingled not with its multitude, his name
+and his fame were among them, and, to
+all who sought instruction or consolation,
+the cell of the hermit was ever open.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Notwithstanding the rigid abstinence of
+<pb n="239"/><anchor id="Pg239"/>his own habits, he was yet careful to provide
+for the comforts of others. Contented
+with a rude bed of straw, himself,
+for the stranger he had always a less
+homely resting-place. From his grotto,
+the wayfaring and the indigent never went
+unrefreshed; and, with the assistance of
+some of his brethren, he had formed
+gardens along the ledges of the mountain,
+which gave an air of cheerfulness to his
+rocky dwelling, and supplied him with the
+chief necessaries of such a climate, fruit
+and shade.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Though the acquaintance which he had
+formed with the mother of Alethe, during
+the short period of her attendance at the
+school of Origen, was soon interrupted,
+and never afterwards renewed, the interest
+which he had then taken in her fate was
+too lively to be forgotten. He had seen
+the zeal with which her young heart
+welcomed instruction; and the thought
+that such a candidate for heaven should
+have relapsed into idolatry, came often,
+<pb n="240"/><anchor id="Pg240"/>with disquieting apprehension, over his
+mind.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It was, therefore, with true pleasure,
+that, but a year or two before her death,
+he had learned, by a private communication
+from Theora, transmitted through a
+Christian embalmer of Memphis, that <q>not
+only her own heart had taken root in the
+faith, but that a new bud had flowered
+with the same divine hope, and that, ere
+long, he might see them both transplanted
+to the desert.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The coming, therefore, of Alethe was
+far less a surprise to him, than her
+coming thus alone was a shock and a
+sorrow; and the silence of their meeting
+showed how deeply each remembered that
+the tie which had brought them together was
+no longer of this world,—that the hand,
+which should have been joined with theirs,
+was in the tomb. I now saw that not even
+religion was proof against the sadness of
+mortality. For, as the old man put the
+ringlets aside from her forehead, and
+con<pb n="241"/><anchor id="Pg241"/>templated in that clear countenance the
+reflection of what her mother had been,
+there was a mournfulness mingled with
+his piety, as he said, <q>Heaven rest her
+soul!</q> which showed how little even
+the certainty of a heaven for those we love
+can subdue our regret for having lost
+them on earth.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The full light of day had now risen
+upon the desert, and our host, reminded,
+by the faint looks of Alethe, of the many
+anxious hours we had passed without sleep,
+proposed that we should seek, in the
+chambers of the rock, such rest as the
+dwelling of a hermit could offer. Pointing
+to one of the largest openings, as he addressed
+me,—<q>Thou wilt find,</q> he said,
+<q>in that grotto a bed of fresh doum leaves,
+and may the consciousness of having protected
+the orphan sweeten thy sleep!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I felt how dearly this praise had been
+earned, and already almost repented of
+having deserved it. There was a sadness
+in the countenance of Alethe, as I took
+<pb n="242"/><anchor id="Pg242"/>leave of her, to which the forebodings of
+my own heart but too faithfully responded;
+nor could I help fearing, as her hand
+parted lingeringly from mine, that I had,
+by this sacrifice, placed her beyond my
+reach for ever.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Having lighted me a lamp, which, in
+these recesses, even at noon, is necessary,
+the holy man led me to the entrance of
+the grotto;—and here, I blush to say, my
+career of hypocrisy began. With the
+sole view of obtaining another glance at
+Alethe, I turned humbly to solicit the benediction
+of the Christian, and, having conveyed
+to her, as I bent reverently down,
+as much of the deep feeling of my soul as
+looks could express, with a desponding
+spirit I hurried into the cavern.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A short passage led me to the chamber
+within,—the walls of which I found covered,
+like those of the grottos of Lycopolis, with
+paintings, which, though executed long
+ages ago, looked fresh as if their colours
+were but laid on yesterday. They were,
+<pb n="243"/><anchor id="Pg243"/>all of them, representations of rural and
+domestic scenes; and, in the greater number,
+the melancholy imagination of the
+artist had called Death in, as usual, to
+throw his shadow over the picture.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+My attention was particularly drawn to one
+series of subjects, throughout the whole of
+which the same group—a youth, a maiden,
+and two aged persons, who appeared to be
+the father and mother of the girl,—were
+represented in all the details of their daily
+life. The looks and attitudes of the young
+people denoted that they were lovers; and,
+sometimes, they were seen sitting under a
+canopy of flowers, with their eyes fixed
+on each other’s faces, as though they could
+never look away; sometimes, they appeared
+walking along the banks of the Nile,
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l rend="margin-left: 4">——on one of those sweet nights</l>
+<l>When Isis, the pure star of lovers, lights</l>
+<l>Her bridal crescent o’er the holy stream,—</l>
+<l>When wandering youths and maidens watch her beam,</l>
+<l>And number o’er the nights she hath to run,</l>
+<l>Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun.</l>
+</lg>
+
+<pb n="244"/><anchor id="Pg244"/>
+
+<p>
+Through all these scenes of endearment
+the two elder persons stood by;—their
+calm countenances touched with a
+share of that bliss, in whose perfect light
+the young lovers were basking. Thus far,
+all was happiness,—but the sad lesson of
+mortality was to come. In the last picture
+of the series, one of the figures was missing.
+It was that of the young maiden, who had
+disappeared from among them. On the
+brink of a dark lake stood the three who
+remained; while a boat, just departing for
+the City of the Dead, told too plainly the
+end of their dream of happiness.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This memorial of a sorrow of other
+times—of a sorrow, ancient as death
+itself,—was not wanting to deepen the
+melancholy of my mind, or to add to the
+weight of the many bodings that pressed
+on it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After a night, as it seemed, of anxious
+and unsleeping thought, I rose from my
+bed and returned to the garden. I found
+the Christian alone,—seated, under the
+<pb n="245"/><anchor id="Pg245"/>shade of one of his trees, at a small table,
+with a volume unrolled before him, while
+a beautiful antelope lay sleeping at his feet.
+Struck forcibly by the contrast which he
+presented to those haughty priests, whom
+I had seen surrounded by the pomp and
+gorgeousness of temples, <q>Is this, then,</q>
+thought I, <q>the faith, before which the
+world trembles—its temple the desert,
+its treasury a book, and its High Priest
+the solitary dweller of the rock!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He had prepared for me a simple, but
+hospitable, repast, of which fruits from
+his own garden, the white bread of Olyra,
+and the juice of the honey-cane were the
+most costly luxuries. His manner to me
+was even more cordial than before; but
+the absence of Alethe, and, still more, the
+ominous reserve, with which he not only,
+himself, refrained from all mention of her
+name, but eluded the few inquiries, by
+which I sought to lead to it, seemed to
+confirm all the fears I had felt in parting
+from her.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="246"/><anchor id="Pg246"/>
+
+<p>
+She had acquainted him, it was evident,
+with the whole history of our flight. My
+reputation as a philosopher—my desire
+to become a Christian—all was already
+known to the zealous Anchoret, and the
+subject of my conversion was the very first
+on which he entered. O pride of philosophy,
+how wert thou then humbled, and
+with what shame did I stand, casting down
+my eyes, before that venerable man, as,
+with ingenuous trust in the sincerity of my
+intention, he welcomed me to a participation
+of his holy hope, and imprinted the
+Kiss of Charity on my infidel brow!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Embarrassed as I felt by the consciousness
+of hypocrisy, I was even still more
+perplexed by my total ignorance of the
+real tenets of the faith to which I professed
+myself a convert. Abashed and
+confused, and with a heart sick at its own
+deceit, I heard the animated and eloquent
+gratulations of the Christian, as though
+they were words in a dream, without link
+or meaning; nor could disguise but by the
+<pb n="247"/><anchor id="Pg247"/>mockery of a reverential bow, at every
+pause, the entire want of self-possession,
+and even of speech, under which I laboured.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A few minutes more of such trial, and
+I must have avowed my imposture. But
+the holy man saw my embarrassment;—and,
+whether mistaking it for awe, or
+knowing it to be ignorance, relieved me
+from my perplexity by, at once, changing
+the theme. Having gently awakened his
+antelope from its sleep, <q>You have heard,</q>
+he said, <q>I doubt not, of my brother-anchoret,
+Paul, who, from his cave in
+the marble mountains, near the Red Sea,
+sends hourly <q>the sacrifice of thanksgiving</q>
+to heaven. Of <hi rend="italic">his</hi> walks, they tell me, a
+lion is the companion; but, for me,</q> he
+added, with a playful and significant smile,
+<q>who try my powers of taming but on the
+gentler animals, this feeble child of the
+desert is a far fitter play-mate.</q> Then,
+taking his staff, and putting the time-worn
+<pb n="248"/><anchor id="Pg248"/>volume which he had been reading into
+a large goat-skin pouch, that hung by his
+side, <q>I will now,</q> said he, <q>lead thee
+over my rocky kingdom,—that thou
+mayst see in what drear and barren
+places, that <q>fruit of the spirit,</q> Peace,
+may be gathered.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To speak of peace to a heart like mine,
+at that moment, was like talking of some
+distant harbour to the mariner sinking at
+sea. In vain did I look round for some
+sign of Alethe;—in vain make an effort
+even to utter her name. Consciousness
+of my own deceit, as well as a fear of
+awakening in Melanius any suspicion that
+might frustrate my only hope, threw a
+fetter over my spirit and checked my
+tongue. In silence, therefore, I followed,
+while the cheerful old man, with slow,
+but firm, step, ascended the rock, by the
+same ladders which I had mounted on the
+preceding night.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During the time when the Decian Persecution
+was raging, many Christians of
+<pb n="249"/><anchor id="Pg249"/>this neighbourhood, he informed me, had
+taken refuge under his protection, in these
+grottos; and the chapel on the summit,
+where I had found them at prayer, was, in
+those times of danger, their place of retreat,
+where, by drawing up these ladders,
+they were enabled to secure themselves
+from pursuit.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From the top of the rock, the view, on
+either side, embraced the two extremes of
+fertility and desolation; nor could the
+Epicurean and the Anchoret, who now
+gazed from that height, be at any loss to
+indulge their respective tastes, between the
+living luxuriance of the world on one side,
+and the dead repose of the desert on the
+other. When we turned to the river, what
+a picture of animation presented itself!
+Near us, to the south, were the graceful
+colonnades of Antinoë, its proud, populous
+streets, and triumphal monuments. On the
+opposite shore, rich plains, teeming with
+cultivation to the water’s edge, offered up,
+<pb n="250"/><anchor id="Pg250"/>as from verdant altars, their fruits to the
+sun; while, beneath us, the Nile,
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l rend="margin-left: 10">——the glorious stream,</l>
+<l>That late between its banks was seen to glide,—</l>
+<l>With shrines and marble cities, on each side,</l>
+<l>Glittering, like jewels strung along a chain,—</l>
+<l>Had now sent forth its waters, and o’er plain</l>
+<l>And valley, like a giant from his bed</l>
+<l>Rising with outstretch’d limbs, superbly spread.</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+From this scene, on one side of the mountain,
+we had but to turn round our eyes,
+and it was as if nature herself had become
+suddenly extinct;—a wide waste of sands,
+bleak and interminable, wearying out the
+sun with its sameness of desolation;—black,
+burnt-up rocks, that stood as barriers,
+at which life stopped;—while the
+only signs of animation, past or present,
+were the foot-prints, here and there, of an
+antelope or ostrich, or the bones of dead
+camels, as they lay whitening at a distance,
+marking out the track of the caravans over
+the waste.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="251"/><anchor id="Pg251"/>
+
+<p>
+After listening, while he contrasted, in
+a few eloquent words, the two regions of
+life and death on whose confines we stood,
+I again descended with my guide to the
+garden we had left. From thence, turning
+into a path along the mountain-side,
+he conducted me to another row of grottos,
+facing the desert, which had once, he said,
+been the abode of those brethren in Christ,
+who had fled with him to this solitude
+from the crowded world,—but which
+death had, within a few months, rendered
+tenantless. A cross of red stone, and a
+few faded trees, were the only traces these
+solitaries had left behind.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+A silence of some minutes succeeded,
+while we descended to the edge of the
+canal; and I saw opposite, among the
+rocks, that solitary cave, which had so
+chilled me with its aspect on the preceding
+night. By the bank we found
+one of those rustic boats, which the Egyptians
+construct of planks of wild thorn,
+bound rudely together with bands of
+papy<pb n="252"/><anchor id="Pg252"/>rus. Placing ourselves in this boat, and
+rather impelling than rowing it across,
+we made our way through the foul and
+shallow flood, and landed directly under
+the site of the cave.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+This dwelling, as I have already mentioned,
+was situated upon a ledge of the
+rock; and, being provided with a sort of
+window or aperture to admit the light of
+heaven, was accounted, I found, more
+cheerful than the grottos on the other
+side of the ravine. But there was a
+dreariness in the whole region around, to
+which light only lent more horror. The
+dead whiteness of the rocks, as they stood,
+like ghosts, in the sunshine;—that melancholy
+pool, half lost in the sands;—all
+gave me the idea of a wasting world.
+To dwell in such a place seemed to me
+like a living death; and when the Christian,
+as we entered the cave, said, <q>Here
+is to be thy home,</q> prepared as I was
+for the worst, my resolution gave way;—every
+feeling of disappointed passion
+<pb n="253"/><anchor id="Pg253"/>and humbled pride, which had been gathering
+round my heart for the last few
+hours, found a vent at once, and I burst
+into tears!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Well accustomed to human weakness,
+and perhaps guessing at some of the
+sources of mine, the good Hermit, without
+appearing to notice this emotion, expatiated,
+with a cheerful air, on, what he
+called, the many comforts of my dwelling.
+Sheltered, he said, from the dry, burning
+wind of the south, my porch would inhale
+the fresh breeze of the Dog-star. Fruits
+from his own mountain-garden should
+furnish my repast. The well of the neighbouring
+rock would supply my beverage;
+and, <q>here,</q> he continued,—lowering his
+voice into a more solemn tone, as he
+placed upon the table the volume which he
+had brought,—<q>here, my son, is that
+<q>well of living waters,</q> in which alone
+thou wilt find lasting refreshment or
+peace!</q> Thus saying, he descended
+<pb n="254"/><anchor id="Pg254"/>the rock to his boat, and after a few
+plashes of his oar had died upon my ear,
+the solitude and silence around me was
+complete.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="255"/><anchor id="Pg255"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XVII.</head>
+
+<p>
+What a fate was mine!—but a few
+weeks since, presiding over that splendid
+Festival of the Garden, with all the luxuries
+of existence tributary in my train;
+and now,—self-humbled into a solitary
+outcast,—the hypocritical pupil of a
+Christian anchoret,—without even the excuse
+of fanaticism, or of any other madness,
+but that of love, wild love, to extenuate
+my fall! Were there a hope that, by this
+humiliating waste of existence, I might
+purchase but a glimpse, now and then,
+of Alethe, even the depths of the desert,
+with such a chance, would be welcome.
+But to live—and live thus—<hi rend="italic">without</hi> her,
+was a misery which I neither foresaw nor
+could endure.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hating even to look upon the den to
+which I was doomed, I hurried out into
+<pb n="256"/><anchor id="Pg256"/>the air, and found my way, along the
+rocks, to the desert. The sun was going
+down, with that blood-red hue, which he
+so frequently wears, in this clime, at his
+setting. I saw the sands, stretching out,
+like a sea, to the horizon, as if their waste
+extended to the very verge of the world,—and,
+in the bitterness of my feelings, rejoiced
+to see so much of creation rescued, even by
+this barren liberty, from the grasp of man.
+The thought seemed to relieve my wounded
+pride, and, as I wandered over the dim
+and boundless solitude, to be thus free,
+even amid blight and desolation, appeared
+a blessing.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The only living thing I saw was a restless
+swallow, whose wings were of the hue
+of the grey sands over which he fluttered.
+<q>Why may not the mind, like this bird,
+take the colour of the desert, and sympathise
+in its austerity, its freedom, and its
+calm?</q>—thus, between despondence and
+defiance, did I ask myself, endeavouring
+to face with fortitude what yet my heart
+<pb n="257"/><anchor id="Pg257"/>sickened to contemplate. But the effort
+was unavailing. Overcome by that vast
+solitude, whose repose was not the slumber
+of peace, but the sullen and burning
+silence of hate, I felt my spirit give way,
+and even love itself yield to despair.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Seating myself on a fragment of a rock,
+and covering my eyes with my hands, I
+made an effort to shut out the overwhelming
+prospect. But in vain—it was still
+before me, deepened by all that fancy
+could add; and when, again looking
+up, I saw the last red ray of the sun,
+shooting across that melancholy and lifeless
+waste, it seemed to me like the light of
+the comet that once desolated this world,
+shining out luridly over the ruin that it
+had made!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Appalled by my own gloomy imaginations,
+I turned towards the ravine; and,
+notwithstanding the disgust with which I
+had left my dwelling, was not ill pleased
+to find my way, over the rocks, to it again.
+On approaching the cave, to my
+astonish<pb n="258"/><anchor id="Pg258"/>ment, I saw a light within. At such a
+moment, any vestige of life was welcome,
+and I hailed the unexpected appearance
+with pleasure. On entering, however, I
+found the chamber as lonely as I had
+left it. The light came from a lamp that
+burned brightly on the table; beside it
+was unfolded the volume which Melanius
+had brought, and upon the leaves—oh,
+joy and surprise—lay the well-known
+cross of Alethe!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+What hand, but her own, could have
+prepared this reception for me?—The
+very thought sent a hope into my heart,
+before which all despondency fled. Even
+the gloom of the desert was forgotten,
+and my cave at once brightened into a
+bower. She had here reminded me, herself,
+by this sacred memorial, of the vow
+which I had pledged to her under the
+Hermit’s rock; and I now scrupled not
+to reiterate the same daring promise,
+though conscious that through hypocrisy
+alone I could fulfil it.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="259"/><anchor id="Pg259"/>
+
+<p>
+Eager to prepare myself for my task
+of imposture, I sat down to the volume,
+which I now found to be the Hebrew
+Scriptures; and the first sentence, on
+which my eyes fell, was—<q>The Lord
+hath commanded the blessing, even Life
+for evermore!</q> Startled by these words,
+in which the Spirit of my dream seemed
+again to pronounce his assuring prediction, I
+raised my eyes from the page, and repeated
+the sentence over and over, as if to try
+whether the sounds had any charm or spell,
+to reawaken that faded illusion in my soul.
+But, no—the rank frauds of the Memphian
+priesthood had dispelled all my trust in
+the promises of religion. My heart had
+again relapsed into its gloom of scepticism,
+and, to the word of <q>Life,</q> the only answer
+it sent back was, <q>Death!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Impatient, however, to possess myself of
+the elements of a faith, on which,—whatever
+it might promise for hereafter,—I felt that
+my happiness here depended, I turned
+over the pages with an earnestness and
+<pb n="260"/><anchor id="Pg260"/>avidity, such as never even the most favourite
+of my studies had awakened in me.
+Though, like all, who seek but the surface
+of learning, I flew desultorily over the
+leaves, lighting only on the more prominent
+and shining points, I yet found
+myself, even in this undisciplined career,
+arrested, at every page, by the awful, the
+supernatural sublimity, the alternate melancholy
+and grandeur of the images that
+crowded upon me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I had, till now, known the Hebrew
+theology but through the platonising refinements
+of Philo;—as, in like manner,
+for my knowledge of the Christian doctrine
+I was indebted to my brother Epicureans,
+Lucian and Celsus. Little,
+therefore, was I prepared for the simple
+majesty, the high tone of inspiration,—the
+poetry, in short, of heaven that
+breathed throughout these oracles. Could
+admiration have kindled faith, I should,
+that night, have been a believer; so elevated,
+so awed was my imagination by
+<pb n="261"/><anchor id="Pg261"/>that wonderful book,—its warnings of
+woe, its announcements of glory, and its
+unrivalled strains of adoration and sorrow.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Hour after hour, with the same eager
+and desultory curiosity, did I turn over
+the leaves;—and when, at length, I lay
+down to rest, my fancy was still haunted
+by the impressions it had received. I went
+again through the various scenes of which
+I had read; again called up, in sleep, the
+bright images that had charmed me, and,
+when wakened at day-break by the Hymn
+from the chapel, fancied myself still listening
+to the sound of the winds, sighing
+mournfully through the harps of Israel
+on the willows.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Starting from my bed, I hurried out
+upon the rock, with a hope that, among
+the tones of that morning choir, I might
+be able to distinguish the sweet voice of
+Alethe. But the strain had ceased;—I
+caught only the last notes of the Hymn,
+as, echoing up that lonely valley, they
+died away into the silence of the desert.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="262"/><anchor id="Pg262"/>
+
+<p>
+With the first glimpse of light I was
+again at my study, and, notwithstanding
+the distraction both of my thoughts and
+looks towards the half-seen grottos of the
+Anchoret, pursued it perseveringly through
+the day. Still alive, however, but to the
+eloquence, the poetry of what I read, of
+its connection or authenticity, as a history,
+I never paused to consider. My fancy
+being alone interested by it, to fancy I referred
+all it contained; and, passing rapidly
+from annals to prophecy, from narration to
+song, regarded the whole but as a tissue
+of splendid allegories, in which the melancholy
+of Egyptian associations was interwoven
+with the rich imagery of the
+East.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Towards sunset I saw the boat of Melanius
+on its way, across the canal, to my
+cave. Though he had no other companion
+than his graceful antelope, that stood snuffing
+the wild air of the desert, as if scenting
+its home, I felt his visit, even thus,
+to be a most welcome relief. It was the
+<pb n="263"/><anchor id="Pg263"/>hour, he said, of his evening ramble up
+the mountain,—of his accustomed visit to
+those cisterns of the rock, from which he
+nightly drew his most precious beverage.
+While he spoke, I observed in his hand
+one of those earthen cups, in which the
+inhabitants of the wilderness are accustomed
+to collect the fresh dew among the
+rocks. Having proposed that I should accompany
+him in his walk, he led me, in the
+direction of the desert, up the side of the
+mountain that rose above my dwelling, and
+which formed the southern wall or screen
+of the defile.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Near the summit we found a seat, where
+the old man paused to rest. It commanded
+a full view over the desert, and was by the
+side of one of those hollows in the rock,
+those natural reservoirs, in which the dews
+of night are treasured up for the refreshment
+of the dwellers in the wilderness.
+Having learned from me how far I had proceeded
+in my study, <q>In that light,</q> said
+he, pointing to a small cloud in the east,
+<pb n="264"/><anchor id="Pg264"/>which had been formed on the horizon by
+the haze of the desert, and was now faintly
+reflecting the splendours of sunset,—<q>in
+that light stands Mount Sinai, of whose
+glory thou hast read; on whose summit
+was the scene of one of those awful revelations,
+in which the Almighty has, from
+time to time, renewed his communication
+with Man, and kept alive the remembrance
+of his own Providence in this
+world.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After a pause, as if absorbed in the
+immensity of the subject, the holy man
+continued his sublime theme. Looking
+back to the earliest annals of time, he
+showed how constantly every relapse of
+the human race into idolatry has been
+followed by some manifestation of divine
+power, chastening the proud by punishment,
+and winning back the humble by
+love. It was to preserve, he said, unextinguished
+upon earth, that vital truth,—the
+Creation of the world by one Supreme
+Being,—that God chose, from among the
+<pb n="265"/><anchor id="Pg265"/>nations, an humble and enslaved race;—that
+he brought them out of their captivity <q>on
+eagles’ wings,</q> and, surrounding every step
+of their course with miracles, placed them
+before the eyes of all succeeding generations,
+as the depositaries of his will, and
+the ever-during memorials of his power.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Passing, then, in review the long train
+of inspired interpreters, whose pens and
+whose tongues were made the echoes of
+the Divine voice, he traced<note place="foot">In the original the discourses of the Hermit are
+given much more at length.</note>, through the
+events of successive ages, the gradual unfolding
+of the dark scheme of Providence—darkness
+without, but all light and glory
+within. The glimpses of a coming redemption,
+visible even through the wrath of
+heaven;—the long series of prophecy,
+through which this hope runs, burning
+and alive, like a spark through a chain;—the
+merciful preparation of the hearts
+of mankind for the great trial of their
+<pb n="266"/><anchor id="Pg266"/>faith and obedience that was at hand,
+not only by miracles that appealed to
+the living, but by predictions launched
+into futurity to carry conviction to the
+yet unborn;—<q>through all these glorious
+and beneficent gradations we may
+track,</q> said he, <q>the manifest footsteps of
+a Creator, advancing to his grand, ultimate
+end, the salvation of his creatures.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After some hours devoted to these holy
+instructions, we returned to the ravine, and
+Melanius left me at my cave; praying, as
+he parted from me,—with a benevolence
+I but ill, alas! deserved,—that my soul,
+under these lessons, might be <q>as a watered
+garden,</q> and, ere long, bear <q>fruit
+unto life eternal.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Next morning, I was again at my study,
+and even more eager in the task than before.
+With the commentary of the Hermit
+freshly in my memory, I again read through,
+with attention, the Book of the Law. But
+in vain did I seek the promise of immortality
+in its pages. <q>It tells me,</q> said
+<pb n="267"/><anchor id="Pg267"/>I, <q>of a God coming down to earth, but
+of the ascent of Man to heaven it speaks
+not. The rewards, the punishments it
+announces, lie all on this side of the
+grave; nor did even the Omnipotent offer
+to his own chosen servants a hope beyond
+the impassable limits of this world.
+Where, then, is the salvation of which
+the Christian spoke? or, if Death be at
+the root of the faith, can Life spring out
+of it!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Again, in the bitterness of disappointment,
+did I mock at my own willing self-delusion,—again
+rail at the arts of that
+traitress, Fancy, ever ready, like the Delilah
+of this book, to steal upon the slumbers
+of Reason, and deliver him up, shorn
+and powerless, to his foes. If deception—thought
+I, with a sigh—be necessary,
+at least let me not practise it
+on myself;—in the desperate alternative
+before me, let me rather be even hypocrite
+than dupe.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+These self-accusing reflections,
+cheer<pb n="268"/><anchor id="Pg268"/>less as they rendered my task, did not
+abate, for a single moment, my industry in
+pursuing it. I read on and on, with a sort
+of sullen apathy, neither charmed by style,
+nor transported by imagery,—that fatal
+blight in my heart having communicated
+itself to my fancy and taste. The curses
+and the blessings, the glory and the ruin,
+which the historian recorded and the prophet
+predicted, seemed all of this world,—all,
+temporal and earthly. That mortality,
+of which the fountain-head had
+tasted, tinged the whole stream; and when
+I read the words, <q>all are of the dust,
+and all turn to dust again,</q> a feeling, like
+the wind of the desert, came witheringly
+over me. Love, Beauty, Glory, every
+thing most bright upon earth, appeared
+sinking before my eyes, under this dreadful
+doom, into one general mass of corruption
+and silence.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Possessed by the image of desolation I
+had called up, I laid my head on the book,
+in a paroxysm of despair. Death, in all
+<pb n="269"/><anchor id="Pg269"/>his most ghastly varieties, passed before
+me; and I had continued thus for some
+time, as under the influence of a fearful
+vision, when the touch of a hand upon my
+shoulder roused me. Looking up, I saw
+the Anchoret standing by my side;—his
+countenance beaming with that sublime
+tranquillity, which a hope, beyond
+this earth, alone can bestow. How I
+envied him!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We again took our way to the seat upon
+the mountain,—the gloom in my own
+mind making every thing around me
+more gloomy. Forgetting my hypocrisy
+in my feelings, I, at once, avowed to him
+all the doubts and fears which my study
+of the morning had awakened.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Thou art yet, my son,</q> he answered,
+<q>but on the threshold of our faith. Thou
+hast seen but the first rudiments of the
+Divine plan;—its full and consummate
+perfection hath not yet opened upon thee.
+However glorious that manifestation of
+Divinity on Mount Sinai, it was but the
+<pb n="270"/><anchor id="Pg270"/>forerunner of another, still more glorious,
+that, in the fulness of time, was to burst
+upon the world; when all, that had
+seemed dim and incomplete, was to be
+perfected, and the promises, shadowed
+out by the <q>spirit of prophecy,</q> realized;—when
+the silence, that lay, as a seal, on
+the future, was to be broken, and the
+glad tidings of life and immortality proclaimed
+to the world!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Observing my features brighten at these
+words, the pious man continued. Anticipating
+some of the holy knowledge that was in
+store for me, he traced, through all its
+wonders and mercies, the great work of
+Redemption, dwelling on every miraculous
+circumstance connected with it;—the
+exalted nature of the Being, by whose
+ministry it was accomplished, the noblest
+and first created of the Sons of God,
+inferior only to the one, self-existent
+Father;—the mysterious incarnation of
+this heavenly messenger;—the miracles
+that authenticated his divine
+mission;—<pb n="271"/><anchor id="Pg271"/>the example of obedience to God and
+love to man, which he set, as a shining
+light, before the world for ever;—and,
+lastly and chiefly, his death and resurrection,
+by which the covenant of mercy
+was sealed, and <q>life and immortality
+brought to light.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Such,</q> continued the Hermit, <q>was
+the Mediator, promised through all time,
+to <q>make reconciliation for iniquity,</q> to
+change death into life, and bring <q>healing
+on his wings</q> to a darkened world.
+Such was the last crowning dispensation
+of that God of benevolence, in whose
+hands sin and death are but instruments of
+everlasting good, and who, through apparent
+evil and temporary retribution,
+bringing all things <q>out of darkness into
+his marvellous light,</q> proceeds watchfully
+and unchangingly to the great, final object
+of his providence,—the restoration of the
+whole human race to purity and happiness!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+With a mind astonished, if not touched,
+<pb n="272"/><anchor id="Pg272"/>by these discourses, I returned to my cave;
+and found the lamp, as before, ready
+lighted to receive me. The volume which I
+had been reading was replaced by another,
+which lay open upon the table, with a
+branch of fresh palm between its leaves.
+Though I could not have a doubt to whose
+gentle hand I was indebted for this invisible
+superintendence over my studies,
+there was yet a something in it, so like spiritual
+interposition, that it awed me;—and
+never more than at this moment, when,
+on approaching the volume, I saw, as the
+light glistened over its silver letters, that it
+was the very Book of Life of which the
+Hermit had spoken!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The orison of the Christians had sounded
+through the valley, before I raised my
+eyes from that sacred volume; and the
+second hour of the sun found me again
+over its pages.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="273"/><anchor id="Pg273"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XVIII.</head>
+
+<p>
+In this mode of existence did I pass
+some days;—my mornings devoted to
+reading, my nights to listening, under the
+canopy of heaven, to the holy eloquence
+of Melanius. The perseverance with
+which I enquired, and the quickness with
+which I learned, soon succeeded in deceiving
+my benevolent instructor, who
+mistook curiosity for zeal and knowledge
+for belief. Alas! cold, and barren, and
+earthly was that knowledge,—the word,
+without the spirit, the shape, without the
+life. Even when, as a relief from hypocrisy,
+I persuaded myself that I believed,
+it was but a brief delusion, a faith,
+whose hope crumbled at the touch,—like
+the fruit of the desert-shrub, shining
+and empty!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But, though my soul was still dark, the
+<pb n="274"/><anchor id="Pg274"/>good Hermit saw not into its depths. The
+very facility of my belief, which might
+have suggested some doubt of its sincerity,
+was but regarded by his innocent zeal, as
+a more signal triumph of the truth. His
+own ingenuousness led him to a ready
+trust in others; and the examples of such
+conversion as that of the philosopher,
+Justin, who received the light into his soul
+during a walk by the sea-shore, had prepared
+him for illuminations of the spirit,
+even more rapid than mine.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During this time, I neither saw nor
+heard of Alethe;—nor could my patience
+have endured so long a privation, had not
+those mute vestiges of her presence, that
+welcomed me every night on my return,
+made me feel that I was still living under
+her gentle influence, and that her sympathy
+hung round every step of my progress.
+Once, too, when I ventured to speak her
+name to Melanius, though he answered
+not my enquiry, there was a smile, I
+thought, of promise upon his countenance,
+<pb n="275"/><anchor id="Pg275"/>which love, more alive than faith, interpreted
+as it wished.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At length,—it was on the sixth or
+seventh evening of my solitude, when I
+lay resting at the door of my cave, alter
+the study of the day,—I was startled by
+hearing my name called loudly from the
+opposite rocks, and looking up, saw, on
+the cliff near the deserted grottos, Melanius
+and—oh, I could not doubt—my
+Alethe by his side!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Though I had never ceased, since the
+first night of my return from the desert,
+to flatter myself with the fancy that I was
+still living in her presence, the actual sight
+of her again made me feel what an age
+we had been separated. She was clothed
+all in white, and, as she stood in the
+last remains of the sunshine, appeared to
+my too prophetic fancy like a parting
+spirit, whose last footsteps on earth that
+glory encircled.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+With a delight only to be imagined, I
+saw them descend the rocks, and placing
+<pb n="276"/><anchor id="Pg276"/>themselves in the boat, proceed towards
+my cave. To disguise from Melanius
+the feelings with which we met was impossible;—nor
+did Alethe even attempt
+to make a secret of her innocent joy.
+Though blushing at her own happiness,
+she could as little conceal it, as the clear
+waters of Ethiopia can hide their gold.
+Every look, too, every word, spoke a fulness
+of affection, to which, doubtful as I
+was of our tenure of happiness, I knew
+not how to answer.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I was not long, however, left ignorant
+of the bright fate that awaited me; but,
+as we wandered or rested among the
+rocks, learned every thing that had been
+arranged since our parting. She had
+made the Hermit, I found, acquainted
+with all that had passed between us; had
+told him, without reserve, every incident
+of our voyage,—the avowals, the demonstrations
+of affection on one side, and
+the deep sentiment that gratitude had
+awakened on the other. Too wise to
+re<pb n="277"/><anchor id="Pg277"/>gard feelings, so natural, with severity,—knowing
+that they were of heaven, and
+but made evil by man,—the good Hermit
+had heard of our attachment with pleasure;
+and, proved as he thought the
+purity of my views had been, by the
+fidelity with which I had delivered up my
+trust into his hands, saw, in my affection
+for the young orphan, but a providential
+resource against that friendless solitude in
+which his death must soon leave her.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+As I collected these particulars from
+their discourse, I could hardly trust my
+ears. It seemed too much happiness to
+be real; nor can words give an idea of
+the joy—the shame—the wonder with
+which I listened, while the holy man himself
+declared, that he awaited but the moment,
+when he should find me worthy of
+becoming a member of the Christian
+Church, to give me also the hand of Alethe
+in that sacred union, which alone sanctifies
+love, and makes the faith, which it pledges,
+heavenly. It was but yesterday, he added,
+<pb n="278"/><anchor id="Pg278"/>that his young charge, herself, after a preparation
+of prayer and repentance, such
+as even her pure spirit required, had been
+admitted, by the sacred ordinance of baptism,
+into the bosom of the faith;—and
+the white garment she wore, and the ring
+of gold on her finger, <q>were symbols,</q>
+he said, <q>of that New Life into which
+she had been initiated.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I raised my eyes to her as he spoke,
+but withdrew them again, dazzled and
+confused. Even her beauty, to my imagination,
+seemed to have undergone some
+brightening change; and the contrast between
+that open and happy countenance,
+and the unblest brow of the infidel that
+stood before her, abashed me into a sense
+of unworthiness, and almost checked my
+rapture.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To that night, however, I look back, as
+an epoch in my existence. It proved
+that sorrow is not the only awakener of
+devotion, but that joy may sometimes call
+the holy spark into life. Returning to
+<pb n="279"/><anchor id="Pg279"/>my cave, with a heart full, even to oppression,
+of its happiness, I knew no other
+relief to my overcharged feelings than that
+of throwing myself on my knees, and,
+for the first time in my life, uttering a
+prayer, that if, indeed, there were a
+Being who watched over mankind, he
+would send down one ray of his truth into
+my soul, and make it worthy of the blessings,
+both here and hereafter, proffered to
+me!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+My days now rolled on in a perfect
+dream of happiness. Every hour of the
+morning was welcomed as bringing nearer
+and nearer the blest time of sunset, when
+the Hermit and Alethe never failed to pay
+their visit to my now charmed cave, where
+her smile left a light, at each parting, that
+lasted till her return. Then, our rambles,
+by star-light, over the mountain;—our
+pauses, on the way, to contemplate the
+bright wonders of that heaven above us;—our
+repose by the cistern of the rock,
+and our silent listening, through hours
+<pb n="280"/><anchor id="Pg280"/>that seemed minutes, to the holy eloquence
+of our teacher;—all, all was happiness of
+the most heartfelt kind, and such as even
+the doubts, the cold, lingering doubts, that
+still hung, like a mist, around my heart,
+could neither cloud nor chill.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+When the moonlight nights returned,
+we used to venture into the desert; and
+those sands, which but lately had appeared
+to me so desolate, now wore even a
+cheerful and smiling aspect. To the light,
+innocent heart of Alethe every thing was a
+source of enjoyment. For her, even the
+desert had its jewels and flowers; and,
+sometimes, her delight was to search
+among the sands for those beautiful pebbles
+of jasper that abound in them;—sometimes,
+her eyes sparkled on finding, perhaps,
+a stunted marigold, or one of those
+bitter, scarlet flowers, that lend their mockery
+of ornament to the desert. In all these
+pursuits and pleasures the good Hermit
+took a share,—mingling with them occasionally
+the reflections of a benevolent
+<pb n="281"/><anchor id="Pg281"/>piety, that lent its own cheerful hue to all
+the works of creation, and saw the consoling
+truth <q>God is Love,</q> written legibly
+every where.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Such was, for a few weeks, my blissful
+life. Oh mornings of hope, oh nights of
+happiness, with what mournful pleasure do
+I retrace your flight, and how reluctantly
+pass to the sad events that followed!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+During this time, in compliance with the
+wishes of Melanius, who seemed unwilling
+that I should become wholly estranged from
+the world, I occasionally paid a visit to the
+neighbouring city, Antinoë, which, as the
+capital of the Thebaid, is the centre of all
+the luxury of Upper Egypt. Here,—so
+changed was my every feeling by the all-transforming
+passion that possessed me,—I
+wandered, unamused and uninterested
+by either the scenes or the people that surrounded
+me, and, sighing for that rocky solitude
+where Alethe breathed, felt <hi rend="italic">this</hi> to be
+the wilderness, and <hi rend="italic">that</hi>, the world.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Even the thoughts of my own native
+<pb n="282"/><anchor id="Pg282"/>Athens, that were called up, at every step,
+by the light, Grecian architecture of this
+imperial city, did not awaken one single
+regret in my heart—one wish to exchange
+even an hour of my desert for the
+best luxuries and honours that awaited me
+in the Garden. I saw the arches of triumph;—I
+walked under the superb portico, which
+encircles the whole city with its marble
+shade;—I stood in the Circus of the Sun,
+by whose rose-coloured pillars the mysterious
+movements of the Nile are measured;—all
+these bright ornaments of glory and
+art, as well as the gay multitude that enlivened
+them, I saw with an unheeding eye.
+If they awakened in me any thought, it
+was the mournful idea, that, one day, like
+Thebes and Heliopolis, this pageant would
+pass away, leaving nothing behind but a
+few mouldering ruins,—like the sea-shells
+found where the ocean has been,—to tell
+that the great tide of Life was once there!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But, though indifferent thus to all that
+had formerly attracted me, there were
+<pb n="283"/><anchor id="Pg283"/>subjects, once alien to my heart, on which
+it was now most tremblingly alive; and
+some rumours which had reached me, in
+one of my visits to the city, of an expected
+change in the policy of the Emperor towards
+the Christians, filled me with apprehensions
+as new as they were dreadful
+to me.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The peace and even favour which the
+Christians enjoyed, during the first four
+years of the reign of Valerian, had removed
+from them all fear of a renewal of those
+horrors, which they had experienced under
+the rule of his predecessor, Decius. Of
+late, however, some less friendly dispositions
+had manifested themselves. The
+bigots of the court, taking alarm at the
+spread of the new faith, had succeeded
+in filling the mind of the monarch with that
+religious jealousy, which is the ever-ready
+parent of cruelty and injustice. Among
+these counsellors of evil was Macrianus, the
+Prætorian Prefect, who was, by birth, an
+Egyptian, and—so akin is superstition to
+<pb n="284"/><anchor id="Pg284"/>intolerance—had long made himself notorious
+by his addiction to the dark practices
+of demon-worship and magic.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+From this minister, who was now high
+in the favour of Valerian, the expected
+measures of severity against the Christians,
+it was supposed, would emanate. All
+tongues, in all quarters, were busy with
+the news. In the streets, in the public
+gardens, on the steps of the temples, I saw,
+every where, groups of enquirers collected,
+and heard the name of Macrianus upon
+every tongue. It was dreadful, too, to
+observe, in the countenances of those who
+spoke, the variety of feeling with which
+the rumour was discussed, according as
+they desired or dreaded its truth,—according
+as they were likely to be among
+the torturers or the victims.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Alarmed, though still ignorant of the
+whole extent of the danger, I hurried back
+to the ravine, and, going at once to the
+grotto of Melanius, detailed to him every
+particular of the intelligence I had
+col<pb n="285"/><anchor id="Pg285"/>lected. He heard me with a composure,
+which I mistook, alas, for confidence in
+his security; and, naming the hour for our
+evening walk, retired into his grotto.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+At the accustomed time Alethe and he
+were at my cave. It was evident that he
+had not communicated to her the intelligence
+which I had brought, for never did
+brow wear such a happiness as that which
+now played round hers;—it was, alas, <hi rend="italic">not</hi>
+of this earth! Melanius, himself, though
+composed, was thoughtful; and the solemnity,
+almost approaching to melancholy,
+with which he placed the hand of Alethe in
+mine—in the performance, too, of a ceremony
+that <hi rend="italic">ought</hi> to have filled my heart
+with joy—saddened and alarmed me. This
+ceremony was our betrothment,—the plighting
+of our faith to each other,—which we
+now solemnized on the rock before the
+door of my cave, in the face of that sunset
+heaven, with its one star standing as
+witness. After a blessing from the Hermit
+on our spousal pledge, I placed the
+<pb n="286"/><anchor id="Pg286"/>ring,—the earnest of our future union—on
+her finger, and, in the blush, with
+which she surrendered her whole heart to
+me at that instant, forgot every thing but
+my happiness, and felt secure, even against
+fate!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We took our accustomed walk over the
+rocks and on the desert. The moon was
+so bright,—like the daylight, indeed, of
+other climes—that we could see plainly
+the tracks of the wild antelopes in the
+sand; and it was not without a slight
+tremble of feeling in his voice, as if some
+melancholy analogy occurred to him as he
+spoke, that the good Hermit said, <q>I
+have observed in my walks, that where-ever
+the track of that gentle animal is
+seen, there is, almost always, the foot-print
+of a beast of prey near it.</q> He
+regained, however, his usual cheerfulness
+before we parted, and fixed the following
+evening for an excursion, on the other side
+of the ravine, to a point, looking, he said,
+<q>towards that northern region of the desert,
+<pb n="287"/><anchor id="Pg287"/>where the hosts of the Lord encamped in
+their departure out of bondage.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Though, in the presence of Alethe, my
+fears, even for herself, were forgotten in
+that perpetual element of happiness, which
+encircled her like the air that she breathed,
+no sooner was I alone than vague terrors
+and bodings crowded upon me. In vain did
+I try to reason myself out of my fears by
+dwelling on the most cheering circumstances,—the
+reverence with which Melanius
+was regarded, even by the Pagans,
+and the inviolate security with which
+he had lived through the most perilous
+periods, not only safe himself, but affording
+sanctuary in his grottos to others.
+When, somewhat calmed by these considerations,
+I sunk off to sleep, dark, horrible
+dreams took possession of my mind.
+Scenes of death and of torment passed
+confusedly before me, and, when I awoke,
+it was with the fearful impression that all
+these horrors were real.
+</p>
+
+</div><div rend="page-break-before: always">
+<pb n="288"/><anchor id="Pg288"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>CHAP. XIX.</head>
+
+<p>
+At length, the day dawned,—that dreadful
+day. Impatient to be relieved from my
+suspense, I threw myself into my boat,—the
+same in which we had performed our
+happy voyage,—and, as fast as oars could
+speed me, hurried away to the city. I
+found the suburbs silent and solitary, but,
+as I approached the Forum, loud yells,
+like those of barbarians in combat, struck
+on my ear, and, when I entered it,—great
+God, what a spectacle presented itself!
+The imperial edict against the Christians
+had arrived during the night, and already
+the wild fury of bigotry was let loose.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Under a canopy, in the middle of the
+Forum, was the tribunal of the Governor.
+Two statues, one of Apollo, the other of
+Osiris, stood at the bottom of the steps
+that led up to his judgment-seat. Before
+<pb n="289"/><anchor id="Pg289"/>these idols were shrines, to which the devoted
+Christians were dragged from all
+quarters by the soldiers and mob, and there
+compelled to recant, by throwing incense
+into the flame, or, on their refusal, hurried
+away to torture and death. It was an
+appalling scene;—the consternation, the
+cries of some of the victims,—the pale,
+silent resolution of others;—the fierce
+shouts of laughter that broke from the
+multitude, when the frankincense, dropped
+on the altar, proclaimed some denier
+of Christ; and the fiend-like triumph with
+which the courageous Confessors, who
+avowed their faith, were led away to the
+flames;—never could I have conceived
+such an assemblage of horrors!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Though I gazed but for a few minutes,
+in those minutes I felt enough for years.
+Already did the form of Alethe flit
+before me through that tumult;—I
+heard them shout her name;—her shriek
+fell on my ear; and the very thought so
+<pb n="290"/><anchor id="Pg290"/>palsied me with terror, that I stood fixed
+and statue-like on the spot.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Recollecting, however, the fearful preciousness
+of every moment, and that—perhaps,
+at this very instant—some emissaries
+of blood might be on their way to the
+grottos, I rushed wildly out of the Forum,
+and made my way to the quay.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The streets were now crowded; but I
+ran headlong through the multitude, and
+was already under the portico leading
+down to the river,—already saw the boat
+that was to bear me to Alethe,—when a Centurion
+stood sternly in my path, and I was
+surrounded and arrested by soldiers! It
+was in vain that I implored, that I struggled
+with them as for life, assuring them
+that I was a stranger,—that I was an
+Athenian,—that I was—<hi rend="italic">not</hi> a Christian.
+The precipitation of my flight was sufficient
+evidence against me, and unrelentingly,
+and by force, they bore me away to
+the quarters of their Chief.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="291"/><anchor id="Pg291"/>
+
+<p>
+It was enough to drive me to madness!
+Two hours, two frightful hours, was I
+kept waiting the arrival of the Tribune
+of their Legion<note place="foot">A rank, resembling that of Colonel.</note>,—my brain burning
+with a thousand fears and imaginations,
+which every passing minute made more
+likely to be realised. Every thing,
+too, that I could collect from the conversations
+around me but added to the
+agonising apprehensions with which I was
+racked. Troops, it was said, had been
+sent in all directions through the neighbourhood,
+to bring in the rebellious Christians,
+and make them bow before the
+Gods of the Empire. With horror, too,
+I heard of Orcus,—Orcus, the High
+Priest of Memphis,—as one of the
+principal instigators of this sanguinary
+edict, and as here present in Antinoë,
+animating and directing its execution.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In this state of torture I remained till
+<pb n="292"/><anchor id="Pg292"/>the arrival of the Tribune. Absorbed in
+my own thoughts, I had not perceived his
+entrance;—till, hearing a voice, in a tone
+of friendly surprise, exclaim, <q>Alciphron!</q>
+I looked up, and in this legionary Chief
+recognised a young Roman of rank, who
+had held a military command, the year
+before, at Athens, and was one of the
+most distinguished visitors of the Garden.
+It was no time, however, for courtesies;—he
+was proceeding with cordiality
+to greet me, but, having heard him
+order my instant release, I could wait for
+no more. Acknowledging his kindness
+but by a grasp of the hand, I flew off, like
+one frantic, through the streets, and, in
+a few minutes, was on the river.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+My sole hope had been to reach the
+grottos before any of the detached parties
+should arrive, and, by a timely flight across
+the desert, rescue, at least, Alethe from
+their fury. The ill-fated delay that had
+occurred rendered this hope almost
+de<pb n="293"/><anchor id="Pg293"/>sperate; but the tranquillity I found every
+where as I proceeded down the river, and
+the fond confidence I still cherished in the
+sacredness of the Hermit’s retreat, kept
+my heart from giving way altogether under
+its terrors.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Between the current and my oars, the
+boat flew, like wind, along the waters; and
+I was already near the rocks of the ravine,
+when I saw, turning out of the canal into
+the river, a barge crowded with people,
+and glittering with arms! How did I ever
+survive the shock of that sight? The oars
+dropped, as if struck out of my hands, into
+the water, and I sat, helplessly gazing, as
+that terrific vision approached. In a few
+minutes, the current brought us together;—and
+I saw, on the deck of the barge,
+Alethe and the Hermit surrounded by
+soldiers!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+We were already passing each other
+when, with a desperate effort, I sprang
+from my boat and lighted upon the edge
+of their vessel. I knew not what I did, for
+<pb n="294"/><anchor id="Pg294"/>despair was my only prompter. Snatching
+at the sword of one of the soldiers, as
+I stood tottering on the edge, I had succeeded
+in wresting it out of his hands,
+when, at the same moment, I received
+a thrust of a lance from one of his comrades,
+and fell backward into the river.
+I can just remember rising again and
+making a grasp at the side of the vessel;—but
+the shock, the faintness from
+my wound, deprived me of all consciousness,
+and a shriek from Alethe, as I sunk,
+is all I can recollect of what followed.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Would I had then died!—Yet, no,
+Almighty Being,—I should have died in
+darkness, and I have lived to know Thee!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+On returning to my senses, I found
+myself reclined on a couch, in a splendid
+apartment, the whole appearance of which
+being Grecian, I, for a moment, forgot
+all that had passed, and imagined myself
+in my own home at Athens. But too
+soon the whole dreadful certainty flashed
+upon me; and, starting wildly—disa<pb n="295"/><anchor id="Pg295"/>bled as I was—from my couch, I called
+loudly, and with the shriek of a maniac,
+on Alethe.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+I was in the house, I found, of my
+friend and disciple, the young Tribune,
+who had made the Governor acquainted
+with my name and condition, and had received
+me under his roof, when brought,
+bleeding and insensible, to Antinoë. From
+him I now learned at once,—for I could
+not wait for details,—the sum of all that
+had happened in that dreadful interval.
+Melanius was no more,—Alethe, still
+alive, but in prison!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Take me to her</q>—I had but time to
+say—<q>take me to her instantly, and let
+me die by her side,</q>—when, nature again
+failing under such shocks, I relapsed into
+insensibility. In this state I continued for
+near an hour, and, on recovering, found the
+Tribune by my side. The horrors, he said,
+of the Forum were, for that day, over,—but
+what the morrow might bring, he shuddered
+to contemplate. His nature, it was
+<pb n="296"/><anchor id="Pg296"/>plain, revolted from the inhuman duties
+in which he was engaged. Touched
+by the agonies he saw me suffer, he,
+in some degree, relieved them, by promising
+that I should, at night-fall, be conveyed
+to the prison, and, if possible, through
+his influence, gain access to Alethe. She
+might yet, he added, be saved, could I
+succeed in persuading her to comply
+with the terms of the edict, and make
+sacrifice to the Gods.—<q>Otherwise,</q>
+said he, <q>there is no hope;—the vindictive
+Orcus, who has resisted even this
+short respite of mercy, will, to-morrow, inexorably
+demand his prey.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He then related to me, at my own request,—though
+every word was torture,—all
+the harrowing details of the proceeding
+before the Tribunal. <q>I have
+seen courage,</q> said he, <q>in its noblest
+forms, in the field; but the calm intrepidity
+with which that aged Hermit endured
+torments—which it was hardly
+less torment to witness—surpassed all
+<pb n="297"/><anchor id="Pg297"/>that I could have conceived of human
+fortitude!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+My poor Alethe, too,—in describing
+to me her conduct, the brave man wept
+like a child. Overwhelmed, he said, at
+first by her apprehensions for my safety,
+she had given way to a full burst of womanly
+weakness. But no sooner was she
+brought before the Tribunal, and the declaration
+of her faith was demanded of her,
+than a spirit almost supernatural seemed
+to animate her whole form. <q>She raised
+her eyes,</q> said he, <q>calmly, but with fervour,
+to heaven, while a blush was the only
+sign of mortal feeling on her features;—and
+the clear, sweet, and untrembling voice,
+with which she pronounced her dooming
+words, <q>I am a Christian!</q> sent a thrill of
+admiration and pity throughout the multitude.
+Her youth, her loveliness, affected
+all hearts, and a cry of <q>Save the young
+maiden!</q> was heard in all directions.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The implacable Orcus, however, would
+<pb n="298"/><anchor id="Pg298"/>not hear of mercy. Resenting, as it
+appeared, with all his deadliest rancour,
+not only her own escape from his toils,
+but the aid with which, so fatally to his
+views, she had assisted mine, he demanded
+loudly, and in the name of the
+insulted sanctuary of Isis, her instant
+death. It was but by the firm intervention
+of the Governor, who shared the general
+sympathy in her fate, that the delay of
+another day was accorded, to give a chance
+to the young maiden of yet recalling her
+confession, and thus affording some pretext
+for saving her.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Even in yielding reluctantly to this
+brief respite, the inhuman Priest would
+accompany it with some mark of his
+vengeance. Whether for the pleasure
+(observed the Tribune) of mingling mockery
+with his cruelty, or as a warning to her
+of the doom she must ultimately expect,
+he gave orders that there should be tied
+round her brow one of those chaplets of
+<pb n="299"/><anchor id="Pg299"/>coral<note place="foot"><q>Une de ces couronnes de grain de corail, dont
+les vierges martyres ornoient leurs cheveaux en allant
+à la mort.</q> <hi rend="italic">Les Martyrs.</hi></note>, with which it is the custom of
+young Christian maidens to array themselves
+on the day of their martyrdom;—<q>and,
+thus fearfully adorned,</q> said he,
+<q>she was led away, amid the gaze of the
+pitying multitude, to prison.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+With these details the short interval
+till night-fall,—every minute of which
+seemed an age,—was occupied. As soon
+as it grew dark, I was placed upon a
+litter,—my wound, though not dangerous,
+requiring such a conveyance,—and conducted,
+under the guidance of my friend,
+to the prison. Through his interest with
+the guard, we were without difficulty admitted,
+and I was borne into the chamber
+where the maiden lay immured. Even the
+veteran guardian of the place seemed
+touched with compassion for his prisoner,
+and supposing her to be asleep, had the
+litter placed gently near her.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="300"/><anchor id="Pg300"/>
+
+<p>
+She was half reclining, with her face
+hid in her hands, upon a couch,—at the
+foot of which stood an idol, over whose
+hideous features a lamp of naptha, hanging
+from the ceiling, shed a wild and ghastly
+glare. On a table before the image stood
+a censer, with a small vessel of incense
+beside it,—one grain of which, thrown
+voluntarily into the flame, would, even
+now, save that precious life. So strange,
+so fearful was the whole scene, that I
+almost doubted its reality. Alethe! my
+own, happy Alethe! <hi rend="italic">can</hi> it, I thought, be
+thou that I look upon?
+</p>
+
+<p>
+She now, slowly and with difficulty,
+raised her head from the couch; on observing
+which, the kind Tribune withdrew,
+and we were left alone. There was
+a paleness, as of death, over her features;
+and those eyes, which when last I saw
+them, were but too bright, too happy
+for this world, looked dim and sunken.
+In raising herself up, she put her hand,
+as if from pain, to her forehead, whose
+<pb n="301"/><anchor id="Pg301"/>marble hue but appeared more death-like
+from those red bands that lay so awfully
+across it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+After wandering vaguely for a minute,
+her eyes rested upon me,—and, with a
+shriek, half terror, half joy, she sprung
+from the couch, and sunk upon her knees
+by my side. She had believed me dead;
+and, even now, scarcely trusted her
+senses. <q>My husband! my love!</q> she
+exclaimed; <q>oh, if thou comest to call me
+from this world, behold I am ready!</q>
+In saying thus, she pointed wildly to that
+ominous wreath, and then dropped her
+head down upon my knee, as if an arrow
+had pierced it.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>Alethe!</q>—I cried, terrified to the
+very soul by that mysterious pang,—and
+the sound of my voice seemed to reanimate
+her;—she looked up, with a
+faint smile, in my face. Her thoughts,
+which had evidently been wandering, became
+collected; and in her joy at my
+safety, her sorrow at my suffering, she
+<pb n="302"/><anchor id="Pg302"/>forgot wholly the fate that impended over
+herself. Love, innocent love, alone occupied
+all her thoughts; and the tenderness
+with which she spoke,—oh, at any other
+moment, how I would have listened, have
+lingered upon, have blessed every word!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+But the time flew fast—the dreadful
+morrow was approaching. Already I saw
+her writhing in the hands of the torturer,—the
+flames, the racks, the wheels were
+before my eyes! Half frantic with the fear
+that her resolution was fixed, I flung myself
+from the litter, in an agony of weeping, and
+supplicated her, by the love she bore me,
+by the happiness that awaited us, by her
+own merciful God, who was too good to
+require such a sacrifice,—by all that the
+most passionate anxiety could dictate, I
+implored that she would avert from us the
+doom that was coming, and—but for once—comply
+with the vain ceremony demanded
+of her.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Shrinking from me, as I spoke,—but
+with a look more of sorrow than
+reproach,<pb n="303"/><anchor id="Pg303"/>—<q>What, thou, too!</q> she said mournfully,—<q rend="post: none">thou,
+into whose spirit I had
+fondly hoped the same heavenly truth
+had descended as into my own! Oh,
+be not thou leagued with those who
+would tempt me to <q>make shipwreck
+of my faith!</q> Thou, who couldst alone
+bind me to life, use not thy power;
+but let me die, as He I serve hath
+commanded,—die for the Truth. Remember
+the holy lessons we heard on
+those nights, those happy nights, when
+both the Present and Future smiled
+upon us,—when even the gift of eternal
+life came more welcome to my soul, from
+the blessed conviction that thou wert to
+be a sharer in it;—shall I forfeit now
+that divine privilege? shall I deny the
+true God, whom we then learned to love?</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>No, my own betrothed,</q> she continued,—pointing
+to the two rings on
+her finger,—<q>behold these pledges,—they
+are both sacred. I should have been
+as true to thee as I am now to
+heaven,—<pb n="304"/><anchor id="Pg304"/>nor in that life to which I am hastening
+shall our love be forgotten. Should the
+baptism of fire, through which I shall pass
+to-morrow, make me worthy to be heard
+before the Throne of Grace, I will intercede
+for thy soul—I will pray that it
+may yet share with mine that <q>inheritance,
+immortal and undefiled,</q> which
+Mercy offers, and that thou,—my dear
+mother,—and I—</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+She here dropped her voice; the momentary
+animation, with which devotion
+and affection had inspired her, vanished;—and
+a darkness overspread all her features,
+a livid darkness,—like the coming of death—that
+made me shudder through every
+limb. Seizing my hand convulsively, and
+looking at me with a fearful eagerness, as if
+anxious to hear some consoling assurance
+from my own lips,—<q>Believe me,</q> she
+continued, <q>not all the torments they are
+preparing for me,—not even this deep,
+burning pain in my brow, which they
+will hardly equal,—could be half so
+<pb n="305"/><anchor id="Pg305"/>dreadful to me, as the thought that I
+leave thee—</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Here, her voice again failed; her head
+sunk upon my arm, and—merciful God,
+let me forget what I then felt,—I
+saw that she was dying! Whether I
+uttered any cry, I know not;—but the
+Tribune came rushing into the chamber,
+and, looking on the maiden, said, with a
+face full of horror, <q>It is but too true!</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+He then told me in a low voice, what
+he had just learned from the guardian of
+the prison, that the band round the young
+Christian’s brow was—oh horrible cruelty!—a
+compound of the most deadly
+poison,—the hellish invention of Orcus,
+to satiate his vengeance, and make the fate
+of his poor victim secure. My first movement
+was to untie that fatal wreath,—but
+it would not come away—it would not
+come away!
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Roused by the pain, she again looked
+in my face; but, unable to speak, took hastily
+from her bosom the small silver cross
+<pb n="306"/><anchor id="Pg306"/>which she had brought with her from my
+cave. Having prest it to her own lips,
+she held it anxiously to mine, and seeing
+me kiss the holy symbol with fervour,
+looked happy, and smiled. The agony of
+death seemed to have passed away;—there
+came suddenly over her features a
+heavenly light, some share of which I felt
+descending into my own soul, and, in a
+few minutes more, she expired in my
+arms.
+</p>
+
+<milestone unit="tb" rend="rule: 50%"/>
+
+<p>
+<hi rend="italic">Here ends the Manuscript; but, on the
+outer cover there is, in the hand-writing
+of a much later period, the following
+Notice, extracted, as it appears, from
+some Egyptian martyrology:—</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q rend="post: none">Alciphron,—an Epicurean philosopher,
+converted to Christianity <hi rend="small">A. D.</hi> 257,
+by a young Egyptian maiden, who suffered
+martyrdom in that year. Immediately
+upon her death he betook himself to the
+desert, and lived a life, it is said, of much
+<pb n="307"/><anchor id="Pg307"/>holiness and penitence. During the persecution
+under Dioclesian, his sufferings
+for the faith were most exemplary; and,
+being at length, at an advanced age, condemned
+to hard labour, for refusing to
+comply with an Imperial edict, he died
+at the brass mines of Palestine, <hi rend="small">A. D.</hi> 297.—</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+<q>As Alciphron held the opinions maintained
+since by Arius, his memory has not
+been spared by Athanasian writers, who,
+among other charges, accuse him of having
+been addicted to the superstitions of
+Egypt. For this calumny, however, there
+appears to be no better foundation than
+a circumstance, recorded by one of his
+brother monks, that there was found,
+after his death, a small metal mirror, like
+those used in the ceremonies of Isis, suspended
+round his neck.</q>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="308"/><anchor id="Pg308"/>
+
+        </div></body>
+        <back rend="page-break-before: right">
+<div>
+<pb n="309"/><anchor id="Pg309"/>
+<index index="toc"/><index index="pdf"/>
+<head>NOTES.</head>
+
+<p>
+<ref target="Pg017">Page 17</ref>.—For the importance attached to dreams by
+the ancients, see <hi rend="italic">Jortin</hi>, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History,
+vol. 1. p. 90.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg022">Page 22</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The Pillar of Pillars</hi></q>—more properly,
+perhaps, <q>the column of the pillars.</q> v. <hi rend="italic">Abdallatif</hi>, Relation
+de l’Egypte, and the notes of <hi rend="italic">M. de Sacy</hi>. The
+great portico round this column (formerly designated
+Pompey’s, but now known to have been erected in honour
+of Dioclesian) was still standing, M. de Sacy says,
+in the time of Saladin. v. <hi rend="italic">Lord Valentia’s Travels</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg023">Page 23</ref>.—Ammianus thus speaks of the state of
+Alexandria in his time, which was, I believe, as late as
+the end of the fourth century:—<q>Ne nunc quidem in
+eadem urbe Doctrinæ variæ silent, non apud nos exaruit
+Musica nec Harmonia conticuit.</q> Lib. 22.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg025">Page 25</ref>.—From the character of the features of the
+Sphinx, and a passage in Herodotus, describing the
+Egyptians as <foreign lang="grc">μελαγχροες και ουλοτρικες</foreign>, Volney, Bruce,
+and a few others, have concluded that the ancient inhabitants
+of Egypt were negroes. But this opinion is contradicted
+by a host of authorities. See <hi rend="italic">Castera</hi>’s notes upon
+<pb n="310"/><anchor id="Pg310"/><hi rend="italic">Browne’s Travels</hi>, for the result of Blumenbach’s dissection
+of a variety of mummies. Denon, speaking of the
+character of the heads represented in the ancient sculpture
+and painting of Egypt, says, <q>Celle des femmes ressemble
+encore à la figure des jolies femmes d’aujourd’hui:
+de la rondeur, de la volupté, le nez petit, les yeux longs,
+peu ouverts,</q> &amp;c. &amp;c. He could judge, too, he says,
+from the female mummies, <q>que leurs cheveux étoient
+longs et lisses, que le caractère de tête de la plupart
+tenoit du beau style</q>—<q>Je raportai,</q> he adds, <q>une tête
+de vieille femme qui étoit aussi belle que celles de Michel
+Ange, et leur ressembloit beaucoup.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+In a <q><hi rend="italic">Description générale de Thèbes</hi></q> by <hi rend="italic">Messrs.
+Jollois et Desvilliers</hi>, they say, <q>Toutes les sculptures
+Egyptiennes, depuis les plus grands colosses de Thèbes
+jusqu’aux plus petites idoles, ne rappellent en aucune manière
+les traits de la figure des nègres; outre que les têtes
+des momies des catacombs de Thèbes presentent des
+profils droits.</q> See also <hi rend="italic">M. Jomard</hi>’s <q>Description of
+Syene and the Cataracts,</q> <hi rend="italic">Baron Larrey</hi>, on the
+<q>conformation physique</q> of the Egyptians, &amp;c.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+De Pauw, the great depreciator of every thing Egyptian,
+has, on the authority of a passage in Ælian, presumed
+to affix to the countrywomen of Cleopatra the stigma of
+complete and unredeemed ugliness. The following line
+of Euripides, however, is an answer to such charges:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l><foreign lang="grc">Νειλου μεν αἱδε καλλιπαρθενοι ροαι.</foreign></l>
+</lg>
+
+<p>
+In addition to the celebrated instances of Cleopatra,
+Rhodope, &amp;c. we are told, on the authority of Manetho
+(as given by Zoega from Georgius Syncellus), of a beautiful
+queen of Memphis, Nitocris, of the sixth dynasty,
+who, in addition to other charms and perfections, was
+(rather inconsistently with the negro hypothesis) <foreign lang="grc">ξανθη την χροιαν</foreign>.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="311"/><anchor id="Pg311"/>
+
+<p>
+See, for a tribute to the beauty of the Egyptian women,
+Montesquieu’s Temple de Gnide.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg035">Page 35</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Among beds of lotus flowers.</hi></q>—v. <hi rend="italic">Strabo</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg036">Page 36</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Isle of the golden Venus.</hi></q>—<q>On trouve
+une île appelée Venus-Dorée, ou le champ d’or, avant de
+remonter jusqu’à Memphis.</q> <hi rend="italic">Voyages de Pythagore.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg039">Page 39</ref>.—For an account of the Table of Emerald,
+v. <hi rend="italic">Lettres sur l’Origine des Dieux d’Egypte</hi>. <hi rend="italic">De Pauw</hi>
+supposes it to be a modern fiction of the Arabs. Many
+writers have fancied that the art of making gold was
+the great secret that lay hid under the forms of Egyptian
+theology. <q>La science Hermétique,</q> says the Benedictine,
+Pernetz, <q>l’art sacerdotal étoit la source de toutes
+les richesses des Rois d’Egypte, et l’objet de ces mystères
+si cachés sous le voile du leur pretendu Religion.</q>
+<hi rend="italic">Fables Egyptiennes.</hi> The hieroglyphs, that formerly covered
+the Pyramids, are supposed by some of these writers
+to relate to the same art. See <hi rend="italic">Mutus liber, Rupellæ</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg040">Page 40</ref>.—<q>By reflecting the sun’s rays,</q> says <hi rend="italic">Clarke</hi>,
+speaking of the Pyramids, <q>they appeared white as snow.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg041">Page 41</ref>.—For Bubastis, the Diana of the Egyptians,
+v. <hi rend="italic">Jablonski</hi>, lib. 3. c. 4.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg043">Page 43</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The light coracle</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—v. <hi rend="italic">Amuilhon</hi>,
+<q><hi rend="italic">Histoire de la Navigation et du Commerce des Egyptiens
+sous les Ptolemées</hi>.</q> See also, for a description of
+the various kinds of boats used on the Nile, <hi rend="italic">Maillet</hi>,
+tom. i. p. 98.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg044">Page 44</ref>.—v. <hi rend="italic">Maurice</hi>, Appendix to <q>Ruins of
+Ba<pb n="312"/><anchor id="Pg312"/>bylon.</q> Another reason, he says, for their worship of
+the Ibis, <q>founded on their love of geometry, was (according
+to Plutarch) that the space between its legs,
+when parted asunder, as it walks, together with its beak,
+forms a complete equilateral triangle.</q> From the examination
+of the embalmed birds, found in the Catacombs
+of Saccara, there seems to be no doubt that the Ibis
+was the same kind of bird as that described by Bruce,
+under the Arabian name of Abou Hannes.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg044">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">The sistrum</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<q>Isis est genius,</q> says
+<hi rend="italic">Servius</hi>, <q>Ægypti, qui per sistri motum, quod gerit in
+dextra, Nili accessus recessusque significat.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg048">Page 48</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The ivy encircled it</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—The ivy
+was consecrated to Osiris. v. <hi rend="italic">Diodor. Sic.</hi> 1. 10.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg048">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">The small mirror.</hi></q>—<q>Quelques unes,</q> says
+<hi rend="italic">Dupuis</hi>, describing the processions of Isis, <q>portoient
+des miroirs attachés à leurs épaules, afin de multiplier et
+de porter dans tous les sens les images de la Déesse.</q>
+<hi rend="italic">Origine des Cultes</hi>, tom. 8. p. 847. A mirror, it appears,
+was also one of the emblems in the mysteries of Bacchus.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg049">Page 49</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic"><anchor id="corr312"/><corr sic="(quote mark missing)">There</corr> is, to the north of Memphis</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<q>Tout
+prouve que la territoire de Sakkarah étoit la
+Necropolis au sud de Memphis, et le faubourg opposé à
+celui-ci, où sont les pyramides de Gizeh, une autre Ville
+des Morts, qui terminoit Memphis au nord.</q> <hi rend="italic">Denon.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+There is nothing known with certainty as to the site
+of Memphis, but it will be perceived that the description
+of its position given by the Epicurean corresponds, in
+almost every particular, with that which M. Maillet (the
+French consul, for many years, at Cairo) has left us. It
+must be always borne in mind, too, that of the
+dis<pb n="313"/><anchor id="Pg313"/>tances between the respective places here mentioned,
+we have no longer any accurate means of judging.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2"><!-- Verweis auf S. 51! -->
+<ref target="Pg051">Page 49</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Pyramid beyond pyramid.</hi></q>—<q>Multas
+olim pyramidas fuisse e ruinis arguitur.</q> <hi rend="italic">Zoega.</hi>—<hi rend="italic">Vansleb</hi>,
+who visited more than ten of the small pyramids,
+is of opinion that there must have originally been a
+hundred in this place.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+See, for the lake to the northward of Memphis,
+<hi rend="italic">Shaw’s Travels</hi>, p. 302.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg057">Page 57</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The Theban beetle.</hi></q>—<q>On voit en
+Egypte, après la retraite du Nil et la fécondation des
+terres, le limon couvert d’une multitude de scarabées.
+Un pareil phénomène a dû sembler aux Egyptiens le
+plus propre à peindre une nouvelle existence.</q> <hi rend="italic">M.
+Jomard.</hi>—Partly for the same reason, and partly for
+another, still more fanciful, the early Christians used to
+apply this emblem to Christ. <q>Bonus ille scarabæus
+meus,</q> says St. Augustine <q>non eâ tantum de
+causâ quod unigenitus, quod ipsemet sui auctor mortalium
+speciem induerit, sed quod in hac nostrâ fæce
+sese volutaverit et ex hac ipsa nasci voluerit.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg057">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Enshrined within a case of crystal.</hi></q>—<q>Les
+Egyptiens ont fait aussi, pour conserver leurs morts, des
+caisses de verre.</q> <hi rend="italic">De Pauw.</hi>—He mentions, in another
+place, a sort of transparent substance, which the Ethiopians
+used for the same purpose, and which was frequently
+mistaken by the Greeks for glass.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg058">Page 58</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Among the emblems of death.</hi></q>—<q>Un
+prêtre, qui brise la tige d’une fleur, des oiseaux qui
+<pb n="314"/><anchor id="Pg314"/>s’envolent sont les emblemes de la morte et de l’âme qui
+se sépare du corps.</q> <hi rend="italic">Denon.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Theseus employs the same image in the Phædra:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l><foreign lang="grc">Ορνις γαρ ὡς τις εκ χερων αφαντος ει</foreign></l>
+<l><foreign lang="grc">Πηδημ’ ες ἁδου πικρον ὁρμησασα μοι.</foreign></l>
+</lg>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg059">Page 59</ref>.—<q>The singular appearance of a Cross so
+frequently recurring among the hieroglyphics of Egypt,
+had excited the curiosity of the Christians at a very early
+period of ecclesiastical history; and as some of the
+Priests, who were acquainted with the meaning of the
+hieroglyphics, became converted to Christianity the secret
+transpired. <q>The converted heathens,</q> says Socrates
+Scholasticus, <q>explained the symbol, and declared that it
+signified Life to Come.</q></q> <hi rend="italic">Clarke.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Lipsius, therefore, erroneously supposes the Cross to
+have been an emblem peculiar to the Christians. See, on
+this subject, <hi rend="italic">L’Histoire des Juifs</hi>, liv. 9. c. 16.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+It is singular enough that while the Cross was held
+sacred among the Egyptians, not only the custom of
+marking the forehead with the sign of the Cross, but
+Baptism and the consecration of the bread in the Eucharist
+were imitated in the mysterious ceremonies of
+Mithra. <hi rend="italic">Tertull. de Proscriptione Hereticorum.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+Zoega is of opinion that the Cross found (for the first
+time, it is said) on the destruction of the temple of Serapis,
+by the Christians, could have not been the crux ansata;
+as nothing is more common than this emblem on all the
+Egyptian monuments.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg062">Page 62</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Stood shadowless.</hi></q>—It was an idea
+entertained among the ancients that the Pyramids were
+so constructed (<q>mecanicâ constructione,</q> says <hi rend="italic">Ammianus
+Marcellinus</hi>) as never to cast any shadow.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="315"/><anchor id="Pg315"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg064">Page 64</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Rhodope.</hi></q>—From the story of Rhodope,
+Zoega thinks, <q>videntur Arabes ansam arripuisse
+ut in una ex pyramidibus, genii loco, habitare dicerent
+mulierem nudam insignis pulchritudinis quæ aspectu suo
+homines insanire faciat.</q> <hi rend="italic">De Usu Obeliscorum.</hi> See
+also <hi rend="italic">L’Egypte de Murtadi par Vattier</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg066">Page 66</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The Gates of Oblivion.</hi></q>—<q>Apud Memphim
+æneas quasdam portas, quæ Lethes et Cocyti (hoc
+est oblivionis et lamentationis) appellenter aperiri, gravem
+asperumque edentes sonum.</q> <hi rend="italic">Zoega.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg069">Page 69</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">A pile of lifeless bodies.</hi></q>—See, for the
+custom of burying the dead upright (<q>post funus stantia
+busto corpora,</q> as Statius describes it), Dr. Clarke’s preface
+to the 2d section of his fifth volume. They used to
+insert precious stones in the place of the eyes. <q>Les yeux
+étoient formés d’émeraudes, de turquoises,</q> &amp;c.—v.
+<hi rend="italic">Masoudy</hi>, quoted by <hi rend="italic">Quatremere</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg072">Page 72</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">It seemed as if every echo.</hi></q>—See, for
+the echoes in the pyramids, <hi rend="italic">Plutarch, de Placitis Philosoph.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg074">Page 74</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Pale phantom-like shapes.</hi></q>—<q>Ce moment
+heureux (de l’Autopsie) étoit preparé par des scènes
+effrayantes, par des alternatives de crainte et de joie, de
+lumière et des ténèbres, par la lueur des éclairs, par
+le bruit terrible de la foudre, qu’on imitoit, et par des
+apparitions de spectres, des illusions magiques, qui frappoient
+les yeux et les oreilles tout ensemble.</q> <hi rend="italic">Dupuis.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg077">Page 77</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Serpents of fire.</hi></q>—<q>Ces considérations
+me portent à penser que, dans les mystères, ces
+phéno<pb n="316"/><anchor id="Pg316"/>mènes étoient beaucoup mieux exécutées et sans comparison
+plus terribles à l’aide de quelque composition
+pyrique, qui est restée cachée, comme celle du feu
+Grégeois.</q> <hi rend="italic">De Pauw.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg078">Page 78</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The burning of the reed-beds of Ethiopia.</hi></q>—<q>Il
+n’y a point d’autre moyen que de porter le
+feu dans ces forêts de roseaux, qui répandent alors dans
+tout le païs une lumière aussi considérable que celle du
+jour même.</q> <hi rend="italic">Maillet</hi>, tom. 1. p. 63.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg079">Page 79</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The sound of torrents.</hi></q>—The Nile,
+<hi rend="italic">Pliny</hi> tells us, was admitted into the Pyramid.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg081">Page 81</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">I had almost given myself up.</hi></q>—<q>On
+exerçoit,</q> says <hi rend="italic">Dupuis</hi>, <q>les recipiendaires, pendant
+plusieurs jours, à traverser, à la nage, une grande étendue
+d’eau. On les y jettoit et ce n’étoit que avec peine qu’
+ils s’en retiroient. On appliquoit le fer et le feu sur leurs
+membres. On les faisoit passer à travers les flammes.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+The aspirants were often in considerable danger, and
+Pythagoras, we are told, nearly lost his life in the trials.
+v. <hi rend="italic">Recherches sur les Initiations, par Robin</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg090">Page 90</ref>.—For the two cups used in the mysteries,
+see <hi rend="italic">L’Histoire des Juifs</hi>, liv. 9. c. 16.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg090">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Osiris.</hi></q>—Osiris, under the name of Serapis,
+was supposed to rule over the subterranean world; and
+performed the office of Pluto, in the mythology of the
+Egyptians. <q>They believed,</q> says Dr. Pritchard, <q>that
+Serapis presided over the region of departed souls, during
+the period of their absence, when languishing without
+bodies, and that the dead were deposited in his palace.</q>
+<hi rend="italic">Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="317"/><anchor id="Pg317"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg090">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">To cool the lips of the dead.</hi></q>—<q>Frigidam
+illam aquam post mortem, tanquam Hebes poculum, expetitam.</q>
+<hi rend="italic">Zoega.</hi>—The Lethe of the Egyptians was
+called Ameles. See <hi rend="italic">Dupuis</hi>, tom. 8. p. 651.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2"><!-- Verweis auf S. 91 -->
+<ref target="Pg091">Page 90</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">A draught divine.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Diodor. Sicul.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg093">Page 93</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Grasshopper, symbol of initiation.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Hor.
+Apoll.</hi>—The grasshopper was also consecrated
+to the sun as being musical.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg094">Page 94</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Isle of gardens.</hi></q>—The isle Antirrhodus
+near Alexandria. <hi rend="italic">Maillet.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg094">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Vineyard at Anthylla.</hi></q>—See <hi rend="italic">Athen. Deipnos.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg097">Page 97</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">We can see those stars.</hi></q>—<q>On voyoit
+en plein jour par ces ouvertures les étoiles, et même
+quelques planètes en leur plus grande latitude septentrionale;
+et les prêtres avoient bientôt profité de ce phénomène
+pour observer à diverses heures la passage des
+étoiles.</q> <hi rend="italic">Séthos.</hi>—<hi rend="italic">Strabo</hi> mentions certain caves or pits,
+constructed for the purpose of astronomical observations,
+which lay in the Zelopolitan prefecture, beyond Heliopolis.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg098">Page 98</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">A plantain.</hi></q>—This tree was dedicated
+to the Genii of the Shades, from its being an emblem of
+repose and cooling airs. <q>Cui imminet musæ folium,
+quod ab Iside infera geniisque ei addictis manu geri solitum,
+umbram requiemque et auras frigidas subindigitare
+videtur.</q> <hi rend="italic">Zoega.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg107">Page 107</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">He spoke of the preexistence of the soul</hi>,</q>
+<hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—For a full account of the doctrines which are
+here represented as having been taught to the initiated
+<pb n="318"/><anchor id="Pg318"/>in the Egyptian mysteries, the reader may consult <hi rend="italic">Dupuis</hi>,
+<hi rend="italic">Pritchard’s Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology</hi>,
+&amp;c. &amp;c. <q>L’on découvroit l’origine de l’ame, sa chute
+sur la terre, à travers les sphères et les élémens, et son
+retour au lieu de sa origine ... c’étoit ici la partie la
+plus métaphysique, et que ne pourroit guère entendre le
+commun des Initiés, mais dont on lui donnoit le spectacle
+par des figures et des spectres allégoriques.</q> <hi rend="italic">Dupuis.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg108">Page 108</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Those fields of radiance.</hi></q>—See <hi rend="italic">Beausobre</hi>,
+liv. 3. c. 4. for the <q>terre bienheureuse et lumineuse</q>
+which the Manicheans supposed God to inhabit.
+Plato, too, speaks (in Phæd.) of a <q>pure land lying in
+the pure sky (<foreign lang="grc">την γην καθαραν εν καθαρω κεισθαι ουρανω</foreign>),
+the abode of divinity, of innocence, and of life.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg110">Page 110</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Tracing it from the first moment of
+earthward desire.</hi></q>—In the original construction of this
+work, there was an episode introduced here, (which I
+have since published in another form,) illustrating the
+doctrine of the fall of the soul by the Oriental fable of the
+Loves of the Angels.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg111">Page 111</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Restoring her lost wings.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Damascius</hi>
+in his Life of Isidorus, says, <q>Ex antiquissimis Philosophis
+Pythagoram et Platonem Isidorus ut Deos coluit,
+et <hi rend="italic">eorum animas alatas esse</hi> dixit quas in locum supercœlestem
+inque campum veritatis et pratum elevatas, divinis
+putavit ideis pasci.</q> <hi rend="italic">Apud Phot. Bibliothec.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg112">Page 112</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">A pale, moonlike meteor.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Apuleius</hi>,
+in describing the miraculous appearances exhibited in the
+mysteries, says, <q>Nocte mediâ vidi solem candido coruscantem
+lumine.</q> <hi rend="italic">Metamorphos.</hi> lib. 11.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="319"/><anchor id="Pg319"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg113">Page 113</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">So entirely did the illusion of the scene</hi>,</q>
+<hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—In tracing the early connection of spectacles
+with the ceremonies of religion, Voltaire says, <q>Il y a
+bien plus; les véritables grandes tragédies, les representations
+imposantes et terribles, étoient les mystères sacrés,
+qu’on célébroit dans les plus vastes temples du monde, en
+présence des seuls Initiés; c’étoit là que les habits, les
+décorations, les machines étoient propres au sujet; et
+le sujet étoit la vie présente et la vie future.</q> <hi rend="italic">Des
+divers changemens arrivés à l’art tragique.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+To these scenic representations in the Egyptian mysteries,
+there is evidently an allusion in the vision of
+Ezekiel, where the spirit shows him the abominations
+which the Israelites learned in Egypt:—<q>Then said
+he unto me, <q>Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients
+of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man
+in <hi rend="italic">the chambers of his imagery</hi>.</q></q> Chap. 8.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg118">Page 118</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The seven tables of stone.</hi></q>—<q>Bernard,
+Comte de la Marche Trévisane, instruit par la lecture
+des livres anciens, dit qu’ Hermes trouva sept tables dans
+la vallée d’Hebron, sur lesquelles étoient gravés les principes
+des arts liberaux.</q> <hi rend="italic">Fables Egyptiennes.</hi> See <hi rend="italic">Jablonski
+de stelis Herm.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg119">Page 119</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Beside the goat of Mendes.</hi></q>—For an
+account of the animal worship of the Egyptians, see <hi rend="italic">De
+Pauw</hi>, tom. 2.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg119">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">The Isiac serpents.</hi></q>—<q>On auguroit bien
+des serpens Isiaques, lorsqu’ils goutoient l’offrande et se
+trainoient lentement autour de l’autel.</q> <hi rend="italic">De Pauw.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg121">Page 121</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Hence the festivals and hymns</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—For
+an account of the various festivals at the different periods
+<pb n="320"/><anchor id="Pg320"/>of the sun’s progress, in the spring, and in the autumn,
+see <hi rend="italic">Dupuis</hi> and <hi rend="italic">Pritchard</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg121">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">The mysteries of the night.</hi></q>—v. <hi rend="italic">Athenag.
+Leg. pro Christ.</hi> p. 133.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg125">Page 125</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">A peal like that of thunder.</hi></q>—See, for
+some curious remarks on the mode of imitating thunder
+and lightning in the ancient mysteries, <hi rend="italic">De Pauw</hi>, tom. 1.
+p. 323. The machine with which these effects were produced
+on the stage was called a ceraunoscope.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg131">Page 131</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Windings, capriciously intricate.</hi></q>—In
+addition to the accounts which the ancients have left us
+of the prodigious excavations in all parts of Egypt,—the
+fifteen hundred chambers under the Labyrinth—the subterranean
+stables of the Thebaïd, containing a thousand
+horses—the crypts of Upper Egypt passing under the
+bed of the Nile, &amp;c. &amp;c.—the stories and traditions
+current among the Arabs still preserve the memory of
+those wonderful substructions. <q>Un Arabe,</q> says Paul
+Lucas, <q>qui étoit avec nous, m’assura qu’étant entré
+autrefois dans le Labyrinthe, il avoit marché dans les
+chambres souterraines jusqu’en un lieu où il y avoit une
+grande place environnée de plusieurs niches qui ressembloit
+à de petites boutiques, d’où l’on entroit dans d’autres
+allées et dans des chambres, sans pouvoir en trouver la
+fin.</q> In speaking, too, of the arcades along the Nile,
+near Cosseir, <q>Ils me dirent même que ces souterrains
+étoient si profondes qu’il y en avoient qui alloient à trois
+journées de là, et qu’ils conduisoient dans un pays où
+l’on voyoit de beaux jardins, qu’on y trouvoit de belles
+maisons,</q> &amp;c. &amp;c.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+See also in <hi rend="italic">M. Quatremere’s Memoires sur l’Egypte</hi>,
+tom. 1. p. 142., an account of a subterranean reservoir,
+<pb n="321"/><anchor id="Pg321"/>said to have been discovered at Kaïs, and of the expedition
+undertaken by a party of persons, in a long narrow
+boat, for the purpose of exploring it. <q>Leur voyage
+avoit été de six jours, dont les quatre premiers furent
+employés à pénétrer les bords; les deux autres à revenir
+au lieu d’où ils étoient partis: Pendant tout cet intervalle
+ils ne purent atteindre l’extrémité du bassin. L’émir
+Ala-eddin-Tamboga, gouverneur de Behnesa, écrivit ces
+détails au sultan, qui en fut extrêmement surpris.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg136">Page 136</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">A small island in the centre of Lake
+Mœris.</hi></q>—The position here given to Lake Mœris, in
+making it the immediate boundary of the city of Memphis
+to the south, corresponds exactly with the site assigned
+to it by Maillet:—<q>Memphis avoit encore à son
+midi un vaste reservoir, par où tout ce qui peut servir
+à la commodité et à l’agrément de la vie lui étoit voituré
+abondamment de toutes les parties de l’Egypte. Ce lac
+qui la terminoit de ce côté-là,</q> &amp;c. &amp;c. Tom. 2. p. 7.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg136">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Ruins rising blackly above the wave.</hi></q>—<q>On
+voit sur la rive orientale des antiquités qui sont presque
+entièrement sous les eaux.</q> <hi rend="italic">Belzoni.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg137">Page 137</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Its thundering portals.</hi></q>—<q>Quorundam
+autem domorum (in Labyrintho) talis est situs, ut
+adaperientibus foris tonitru intus terribile existat.</q>
+<hi rend="italic">Pliny.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg138">Page 138</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Leaves that serve as cups.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Strabo.</hi>
+According to the French translator of Strabo, it was the
+fruit of the <hi rend="italic">faba Ægyptiaca</hi>, not the leaf, that was used for
+this purpose. <q>Le <foreign lang="grc">κιβωριον</foreign>,</q> he says, <q>devoit s’entendre
+de la capsule ou fruit de cette plante, dont les Egyptiens
+<pb n="322"/><anchor id="Pg322"/>se servoient comme d’un vase, imaginant que l’eau du
+Nil y devenoit delicieuse.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg142">Page 142</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The fish of these waters</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<hi rend="italic">Ælian</hi>,
+lib. 6. 32.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg142">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Pleasure boats or yachts.</hi></q>—Called Thalamages,
+from the pavilion on the deck. v. <hi rend="italic">Strabo</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg144">Page 144</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Covered with beds of those pale, sweet
+roses.</hi></q>—As April is the season for gathering these roses
+(See <hi rend="italic">Malte-brun’s Economical Calendar</hi>), the Epicurean
+could not, of course, mean to say that he saw them
+actually in flower.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg146">Page 146</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The lizards upon the bank.</hi></q>—<q>L’or
+et l’azur brillent en bandes longitudinales sur leur corps
+entier, et leur queue est du plus beau bleu celeste.</q>
+<hi rend="italic">Sonnini.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg147">Page 147</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The canal through which we now sailed.</hi></q>—<q>Un
+canal,</q> says <hi rend="italic">Maillet</hi>, <q>très profond et très large
+y voituroit les eaux du Nil.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg150">Page 150</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">For a draught of whose flood</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<q>Anciennement
+on portoit les eaux du Nil jusqu’au des
+contrées fort éloignées, et surtout chez les princesses du
+sang des Ptolomées, mariées dans des families étrangères.</q>
+<hi rend="italic">De Pauw.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg154">Page 154</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Bearing each the name of its owner.</hi></q>—<q>Le
+nom du maître y étoit écrit, pendant la nuit en
+lettres de feu.</q> <hi rend="italic">Maillet.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="323"/><anchor id="Pg323"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg155">Page 155</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Cups of that frail crystal</hi></q>—called Alassontes.
+For their brittleness <hi rend="italic">Martial</hi> is an authority:—
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>Tolle, puer, calices, tepidique toreumata Nili,</l>
+<l>Et mihi securâ pocula trade manu.</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg155">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia.</hi></q>—The
+bean of the Glycyne, which is so beautiful as to be
+strung into necklaces and bracelets, is generally known by
+the name of the black bean of Abyssinia. <hi rend="italic">Niebhur.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg155">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Sweet lotus-wood flute.</hi></q>—See <hi rend="italic">M. Villoteau on
+the musical instruments of the Egyptians</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg156">Page 156</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at
+night.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Solinus</hi> speaks of the snowy summit of Mount
+Atlas glittering with flames at night. In the account of
+the Periplus of Hanno, as well as in that of Eudoxus, we
+read that as those navigators were coasting this part of
+Africa, torrents of light were seen to fall on the sea.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg158">Page 158</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The tears of Isis.</hi></q>—<q>Per lacrymas,
+vero, Isidis intelligo effluvia quædam Lunæ, quibus tantam
+vim videntur tribuisse Ægypti.</q> <hi rend="italic">Jablonski.</hi>—He is
+of opinion that the superstition of the <hi rend="italic">Nucta</hi>, or miraculous
+drop, is of a relic of the veneration paid to the dews,
+as the tears of Isis.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg158">Page 158</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The rustling of the acacias</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<hi rend="italic">Travels
+of Captain Mangles.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg158">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Supposed to rest in the valley of the moon.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Plutarch.</hi>
+<hi rend="italic">Dupuis</hi>, tom. 10. The Manicheans held the
+same belief. See <hi rend="italic">Beausobre</hi>, p. 565.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="324"/><anchor id="Pg324"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg160">Page 160</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Sothis, the fair star of the waters.</hi></q>—<foreign lang="grc">ὑδραγωγον</foreign>
+is the epithet applied to this star by <hi rend="italic">Plutarch</hi>,
+<hi rend="italic">de Isid.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg160">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Was its birth-star.</hi></q>—<foreign lang="grc">Ἡ Σωθεως ανατολη
+γενεσεως καταρχουσα της εις τον κοσμον</foreign>. <hi rend="italic">Porphyr. de
+Antro Nymph.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg168">Page 168</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Golden Mountains.</hi></q>—v. <hi rend="italic">Wilford on
+Egypt and the Nile</hi>, Asiatic Researches.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg168">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Sweet-smelling wood.</hi></q>—<q>’A l’époque de la
+crue le Nil Vert charie les planches d’un bois qui a une
+odeur semblable à celle de l’encens.</q> <hi rend="italic">Quatremere.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg169">Page 169</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Barges full of bees.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Maillet.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg170">Page 170</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Such a profusion of the white flowers</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<q>On
+les voit comme jadis cueillir dans les champs des
+tiges du lotus, signes du débordement et présages de
+l’abondance; ils s’enveloppent les bras et le corps avec les
+longues tiges fleuries, et parcourent les rues,</q> &amp;c. <hi rend="italic">Description
+des Tombeaux des Rois, par M. Costaz.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg173">Page 173</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">While composing his commentary on
+the scriptures.</hi></q>—It was during the composition of his
+great critical work, the Hexapla, that Origen employed
+these female scribes.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg176">Page 176</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">That rich tapestry</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<lg>
+<l>Non ego prætulerim Babylonica picta superbè</l>
+<l>Texta, Semiramiâ quæ variantur acu.</l>
+</lg>
+
+<p rend="text-align: right"><hi rend="italic">Martial.</hi></p>
+
+<pb n="325"/><anchor id="Pg325"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg200">Page 200</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The Place of Weeping.</hi></q>—v. <hi rend="italic">Wilford</hi>,
+<hi rend="italic">Asiatic Researches</hi>, vol. 3. p. 340.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg210">Page 210</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">We had long since left this mountain behind.</hi></q>—The
+voyages on the Nile are, under favourable
+circumstances, performed with considerable rapidity.
+<q>En cinq ou six jours,</q> says <hi rend="italic">Maillet</hi>, <q>on pourroit aisément
+remonter de l’embouchure du Nil à ses cataractes,
+ou descendre des cataractes jusqu’à la mer.</q> The great
+uncertainty of the navigation is proved by what <hi rend="italic">Belzoni</hi>
+tells us:—<q>Nous ne mîmes cette fois que deux jours
+et demi pour faire le trajet du Caire à Melawi, auquel,
+dans notre second voyage, nous avions employés dix-huit
+jours.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg212">Page 212</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Those mighty statues, that fling their
+shadows.</hi></q>—<q>Elles out près de vingt mètres (61 pieds)
+d’élévation; et au lever du soleil, leurs ombres immenses
+s’étendent au loin sur la chaine Libyen.</q> <hi rend="italic">Description
+générale de Thèbes, par Messrs. Jollois et Desvilliers.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg212">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Those cool alcoves.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Paul Lucas.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg219">Page 219</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Whose waters are half sweet, half bitter.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Paul
+Lucas.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg224">Page 224</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The Mountain of the Birds.</hi></q>—There
+has been much controversy among the Arabian writers,
+with respect to the site of this mountain, for which see
+<hi rend="italic">Quatremere</hi>, tom. 1. art. <hi rend="italic">Amoun</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg230">Page 230</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The hand of labour had succeeded</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—The
+monks of Mount Sinai (<hi rend="italic">Shaw</hi> says) have covered
+over near four acres of the naked rocks with fruitful
+gardens and orchards.
+</p>
+
+<pb n="326"/><anchor id="Pg326"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg233">Page 233</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The image of a head.</hi></q>—There was
+usually, Tertullian tells us, the image of Christ on the
+communion-cups.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg233">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Kissed her forehead.</hi></q>—<q>We are rather disposed
+to infer,</q> says the present Bishop of Lincoln,
+in his very sensible work on Tertullian, <q>that, at the
+conclusion of all their meetings for the purpose of
+devotion, the early Christians were accustomed to give
+the kiss of peace, in token of the brotherly love subsisting
+between them.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg237">Page 237</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">In the middle of the seven valleys.</hi></q>—See
+Macrizy’s account of these valleys, given by Quatremere,
+tom. 1. p. 450.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg237">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Red lakes of Nitria.</hi></q>—For a striking description
+of this region, see <q><hi rend="italic">Rameses</hi>,</q>—a work
+which, though, in general, too technical and elaborate,
+shows, in many passages, to what picturesque effects the
+scenery and mythology of Egypt may be made subservient.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg238">Page 238</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">In the neighbourhood of Antinoë.</hi></q>—From
+the position assigned to Antinoë in this work, we
+should conclude that it extended much farther to the
+north, than these few ruins of it that remain would seem
+to indicate; so as to render the distance between the city
+and the Mountain of the Birds considerably less than
+what it appears to be at present.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg243">Page 243</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">When Isis, the pure star of lovers.</hi></q>—v.
+<hi rend="italic">Plutarch de Isid.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg243">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun.</hi></q>—<q>Conjunctio
+solis cum luna, quod est veluti utriusque
+connubium.</q> <hi rend="italic">Jablonski.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<pb n="327"/><anchor id="Pg327"/>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg247">Page 247</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Of his walks a lion is the companion.</hi></q>—M.
+Chateaubriand has introduced Paul and his lion into
+the <q><hi rend="italic">Martyrs</hi>,</q> liv. 11.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg235">Page 235</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Come thus secretly before day-break.</hi></q>—It
+was among the accusations of Celsus against the
+Christians, that they held their assemblies privately and
+contrary to law; and one of the speakers in the curious
+work of Minucius Felix calls the Christians <q>latebrosa
+et lucifugax natio.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg256">Page 256</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">A swallow</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<q>Je vis dans le
+desert des hirondelles d’un gris clair comme le sable sur
+lequel elles volent.</q>—<hi rend="italic">Denon.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg257">Page 257</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The comet that once desolated this
+world.</hi></q>—In alluding to Whiston’s idea of a comet having
+caused the deluge, <hi rend="italic">M. Girard</hi>, having remarked that
+the word Typhon means a deluge, adds, <q>On ne peut
+entendre par le tems du règne de Typhon que celui
+pendant lequel le déluge inonda la terre, tems pendant
+lequel on dût observer la comète qui l’occasionna, et
+dont l’apparition fut, non seulement pour les peuples
+de l’Egypte, et de l’Ethiopie, mais encore pour tous les
+peuples le présage funeste de leur destruction presque
+totale.</q> <hi rend="italic">Description de la Vallée de l’E’garement.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg259">Page 259</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">In which the spirit of my dream</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<q>Many
+people,</q> said <hi rend="italic">Origen</hi>, <q>have been brought over
+to Christianity by the Spirit of God giving a sudden
+turn to their minds, and offering visions to them either
+by day or night.</q> On this <hi rend="italic">Jortin</hi> remarks:—<q>Why
+should it be thought improbable that Pagans of good dispositions,
+but not free from prejudices, should have been
+<pb n="328"/><anchor id="Pg328"/>called by divine admonitions, by dreams or visions, which
+might be a support to Christianity in those days of distress.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg263">Page 263</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">One of those earthen cups.</hi></q>—<hi rend="italic">Palladius</hi>,
+who lived some time in Egypt, describes the monk
+Ptolemæus, who inhabited the desert of Scete, as collecting
+in earthen cups the abundant dew from the
+rocks.—<hi rend="italic">Bibliothec. Pat.</hi> tom. 13.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg264">Page 264</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">It was to preserve, he said</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—The
+brief sketch here given of the Jewish dispensation agrees
+very much with the view taken of it by Dr. Sumner, the
+present Bishop of Llandaff, in the first chapters of his eloquent
+and luminous work, the <q>Records of the Creation.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg266">Page 266</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">In vain did I seek the promise of immortality.</hi></q>—<q>It
+is impossible to deny,</q> says the Bishop of
+Llandaff, <q>that the sanctions of the Mosaic Law are
+altogether temporal.... It is, indeed, one of the facts
+that can only be explained by acknowledging that he
+really acted under a divine commission, promulgating a
+temporary law for a peculiar purpose,</q>—a much more
+candid and sensible way of treating this very difficult
+point, than by either endeavouring, like Warburton, to
+escape from it into a paradox, or still worse, contriving,
+like Dr. Graves, to increase its difficulty by explanation.
+v. <q><hi rend="italic">On the Pentateuch</hi>.</q> See also <hi rend="italic">Horne’s Introduction</hi>,
+<hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi> vol. I. p. 226.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg268">Page 268</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">All are of the dust</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—While
+Voltaire, Volney, &amp;c. refer to the Ecclesiastes, as abounding
+with tenets of materialism and Epicurism, Mr. Des
+Voeux and others find in it strong proofs of belief in a
+future state. The chief difficulty lies in the chapter from
+<pb n="329"/><anchor id="Pg329"/>which this text is quoted; and the mode of construction by
+which some writers attempt to get rid of it,—namely, by
+putting these texts into the mouth of a foolish reasoner,—appears
+forced and gratuitous. v. <hi rend="italic">Dr. Hales’s Analysis</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg270">Page 270</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The noblest and first-created</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—This
+opinion of the Hermit may be supposed to have
+been derived from his master, Origen; but it is not easy
+to ascertain the exact doctrine of Origen on this subject.
+In the Treatise on Prayer attributed to him, he asserts
+that God the Father alone should be invoked,—which,
+says Bayle, is <q>encherir sur les Hérésies des Sociniens.</q>
+Notwithstanding this, however, and some other
+indications of, what was afterwards called, Arianism,
+(such as the opinion of the divinity being received by
+<hi rend="italic">communication</hi>, which <hi rend="italic">Milner</hi> asserts to have been held
+by this Father,) Origen was one of the authorities
+quoted by Athanasius in support of his high doctrines
+of co-eternity and co-essentiality. What Priestley says
+is, perhaps, the best solution of these inconsistencies;—<q>Origen,
+as well as Clemens Alexandrinus, has
+been thought to favour the Arian principle; but he
+did it only in words and not in ideas.</q> <hi rend="italic">Early Opinions</hi>,
+<hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi> Whatever uncertainty, however, there may
+exist with respect to the opinion of Origen himself
+on this subject, there is no doubt that the doctrines of
+his immediate followers were, at least, Anti-Athanasian.
+<q>So many Bishops of Africa,</q> says Priestley, <q>were, at
+this period (between the years 255 and 258), Unitarians,
+that Athanasius says, <q>The Son of God,</q>—meaning his
+divinity,—<q>was scarcely any longer preached in the
+churches.</q></q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg271">Page 271</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The restoration of the whole human
+race to purity and happiness.</hi></q>—This benevolent
+doc<pb n="330"/><anchor id="Pg330"/>trine,—which not only goes far to solve the great problem
+of moral and physical evil, but which would, if received
+more generally, tend to soften the spirit of uncharitableness,
+so fatally prevalent among Christian sects,—was
+maintained by that great light of the early Church, Origen,
+and has not wanted supporters among more modern
+Theologians. That Tillotson was inclined to the opinion
+appears from his sermon preached before the queen.
+Paley is supposed to have held the same amiable doctrine;
+and Newton (the author of the work on the
+Prophecies) is also among the supporters of it. For a
+full account of the arguments in favour of this opinion,
+derived both from reason and the express language of
+Scripture, see Dr. Southwood Smith’s very interesting
+work, <q>On the Divine Government.</q> See also <hi rend="italic">Magee
+on the Atonement</hi>, where the doctrine of the advocates of
+Universal Restoration is thus briefly and fairly explained:—<q>Beginning
+with the existence of an infinitely powerful,
+wise, and good Being, as the first and fundamental
+principle of rational religion, they pronounce the essence
+of this Being to be <hi rend="italic">love</hi>, and from this infer, as a demonstrable
+consequence, that none of the creatures formed by
+such a Being will ever be made eternally miserable....
+Since God (they say) would act unjustly in inflicting
+eternal misery for temporary crimes, the sufferings of the
+wicked can be but remedial, and will terminate in a complete
+purification from moral disorder, and in their ultimate
+restoration to virtue and happiness.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg273">Page 273</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Fruit of the desert shrub.</hi></q>—v. <hi rend="italic">Hamilton’s
+Ægyptiaca</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg278">Page 278</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The white garment she wore, and the
+ring of gold on her finger.</hi></q>—See, for the custom among
+the early Christians of wearing white for a few days after
+<pb n="331"/><anchor id="Pg331"/>baptism, <hi rend="italic">Ambros. de Myst.</hi>—With respect to the ring,
+the Bishop of Lincoln says, in his work on Tertullian,
+<q>The natural inference from these words (<hi rend="italic">Tertull. de
+Pudicitiâ</hi>) appears to be that a ring used to be given in
+baptism; but I have found no other trace of such a
+custom.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg280">Page 280</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Pebbles of jasper.</hi></q>—v. <hi rend="italic">Clarke</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg280">Ib.</ref>—<q><hi rend="italic">Stunted marigold</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—<q>Les <hi rend="italic">Mesembryanthemum
+nodiflorum</hi> et <hi rend="italic">Zygophyllum coccineum</hi>, plantes
+grasses des déserts, rejetées à cause de leur âcreté par les
+chameaux, les chèvres, et les gazelles.</q> <hi rend="italic">M. Delile upon
+the plants of Egypt.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg281">Page 281</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Antinoë.</hi></q>—v. <hi rend="italic">Savary</hi> and <hi rend="italic">Quatremere</hi>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg286">Page 286</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">I have observed in my walks.</hi></q>—<q>Je
+remarquai avec une réflexion triste, qu’un animal de
+proie accompagne presque toujours les pas de ce joli et
+frêle individu.</q>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg272">Page 272</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Glistened over its silver letters.</hi></q>—The
+Codex Cottonianus of the New Testament is written in
+silver letters on a purple ground. The Codex Cottonianus
+of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament is
+supposed to be the identical copy that belonged to
+Origen.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg289">Page 289</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">Some denier of Christ.</hi></q>—Those
+Christians who sacrificed to idols to save themselves were
+called by various names, <hi rend="italic">Thurificati</hi>, <hi rend="italic">Sacrificati</hi>, <hi rend="italic">Mittentes</hi>,
+<hi rend="italic">Negatores</hi>, &amp;c. Baronius mentions a bishop of this
+period (253), Marcellinus, who, yielding to the threats
+<pb n="332"/><anchor id="Pg332"/>of the Gentiles, threw incense upon the altar. v. <hi rend="italic">Arnob.
+contra Gent.</hi> lib. 7.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg297">Page 297</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The clear voice with which</hi>,</q> <hi rend="italic">&amp;c.</hi>—The
+merit of the confession <q>Christianus sum,</q> or <q>Christiana
+sum,</q> was considerably enhanced by the clearness
+and distinctness with which it was pronounced. <hi rend="italic">Eusebius</hi>
+mentions the martyr Vetius as making it <foreign lang="grc">λαμπροτατη φωνη</foreign>.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 2">
+<ref target="Pg304">Page 304</ref>.—<q><hi rend="italic">The band round the young Christian’s
+brow.</hi></q>—We find poisonous crowns mentioned by <hi rend="italic">Pliny</hi>,
+under the designation of <q>coronæ ferales.</q> <hi rend="italic">Paschalius</hi>,
+too, gives the following account of these <q>deadly garlands,</q>
+as he calls them:—<q>Sed mirum est tam salutare
+inventum humanam nequitiam reperisse, quomodo ad
+nefarios usus traducent. Nempe, repertæ sunt nefandæ
+coronæ harum, quas dixi, tam salubrium per nomen quidem
+et speciem imitatrices, at re et effectu ferales, atque
+adeo capitis, cui imponuntur, interfectrices.</q> <hi rend="italic">De Coronis.</hi>
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 5; center; font-size: small">
+THE END.
+</p>
+
+<p rend="margin-top: 5; center; font-size: small">
+<hi rend="smallcaps">London</hi>:<lb/>
+Printed by A. &amp; R. Spottiswoode,<lb/>
+New-Street-Square.
+</p>
+
+</div>
+<div>
+        <pgIf output="pdf">
+        <then/>
+        <else>
+        <div id="footnotes" rend="page-break-before: right">
+        <index index="toc" level1="Footnotes"/>
+        <head>Footnotes</head>
+        <divGen type="footnotes"/>
+        </div>
+        </else>
+        </pgIf>
+        </div>
+<div rend="page-break-before:right; x-class: boxed">
+        <index index="pdf" level1="Transcriber's Note"/><index index="toc" level1="Transcriber’s Note"/>
+        <head>Transcriber’s Note</head>
+          <p>Variations in hyphenation (e.g. <q>daybreak</q>, <q>day-break</q>, <q>overhead</q>, <q>over-head</q>)
+            have not been changed.</p>
+<p>In the notes, some references are to the wrong pages or out of sequence.</p>
+
+        <p>Other changes, which have been made to the text:</p>
+<list>
+  <item><ref target="corr032">page 32</ref>, <q>alrea d</q> changed to <q>already</q></item>
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+                                   THE
+
+                               EPICUREAN,
+
+                                A TALE.
+
+                                   BY
+
+                              THOMAS MOORE.
+
+
+*Second Edition.*
+
+LONDON:
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+PATERNOSTER-ROW.
+1827.
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+The Publishers beg to inform the Composers of Music, and Music Sellers,
+that MR. JAMES POWER, of the Strand, Music Seller, is the only person
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+with Music.
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+
+                                   TO
+                            LORD JOHN RUSSELL
+                              _THIS VOLUME_
+                              IS INSCRIBED
+                    BY ONE WHO ADMIRES HIS CHARACTER
+                              AND TALENTS,
+                     AND IS PROUD OF HIS FRIENDSHIP.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                    A
+                        LETTER TO THE TRANSLATOR,
+
+
+                                  FROM
+                                 ----, ESQ.
+_Cairo, June 19. 1800._
+My dear Sir,
+
+In a visit I lately paid to the monastery of St. Macarius,--which is
+situated, as you know, in the Valley of the Lakes of Natron,--I was lucky
+enough to obtain possession of a curious Greek manuscript, which, in the
+hope that you may be induced to translate it, I herewith send you.
+Observing one of the monks very busily occupied in tearing up, into a
+variety of fantastic shapes, some papers which had the appearance of being
+the leaves of old books, I enquired of him the meaning of his task, and
+received the following explanation:--
+
+The Arabs, it seems, who are as fond of pigeons as the ancient Egyptians,
+have a superstitious notion that, if they place in their pigeon-houses
+small scraps of paper, written over with learned characters, the birds are
+always sure to thrive the better for the charm; and the monks, who are
+never slow in profiting by superstition, have, at all times, a supply of
+such amulets for purchasers.
+
+In general, the holy fathers have been in the habit of scribbling these
+mystic fragments, themselves; but a discovery, which they have lately
+made, saves them this trouble. Having dug up (as my informant stated) a
+chest of old manuscripts, which, being chiefly on the subject of alchemy,
+must have been buried in the time of Dioclesian, "we thought we could
+not," added the monk, "employ such rubbish more properly, than in tearing
+it up, as you see, for the pigeon-houses of the Arabs."
+
+On my expressing a wish to rescue some part of these treasures from the
+fate to which his indolent fraternity had consigned them, he produced the
+manuscript which I have now the pleasure of sending you,--the only one, he
+said, remaining entire,--and I very readily paid him the price he demanded
+for it.
+
+You will find the story, I think, not altogether uninteresting; and the
+coincidence, in many respects, of the curious details in Chap. VI. with
+the description of the same ceremonies in the Romance of _Sethos_(1),
+will, I have no doubt, strike you. Hoping that you may be tempted to give
+a translation of this Tale to the world,
+
+                                                       I am, my dear Sir,
+                                                        Very truly yours,
+                                                                        ----
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                              THE EPICUREAN.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAPTER I.
+
+
+It was in the fourth year of the reign of the late Emperor Valerian, that
+the followers of Epicurus, who were at that time numerous in Athens,
+proceeded to the election of a person to fill the vacant chair of their
+sect;--and, by the unanimous voice of the School, I was the individual
+chosen for their Chief. I was just then entering on my twenty-fourth year,
+and no instance had ever before occurred, of a person so young being
+selected for that office. Youth, however, and the personal advantages that
+adorn it, were not, it may be supposed, among the least valid
+recommendations, to a sect that included within its circle all the beauty
+as well as wit of Athens, and which, though dignifying its pursuits with
+the name of philosophy, was little else than a pretext for the more
+refined cultivation of pleasure.
+
+The character of the sect had, indeed, much changed, since the time of its
+wise and virtuous founder, who, while he asserted that Pleasure is the
+only Good, inculcated also that Good is the only source of Pleasure. The
+purer part of this doctrine had long evaporated, and the temperate
+Epicurus would have as little recognised his own sect in the assemblage of
+refined voluptuaries who now usurped its name, as he would have known his
+own quiet Garden in the luxurious groves and bowers among which the
+meetings of the School were now held.
+
+Many causes, besides the attractiveness of its doctrines, concurred, at
+this period, to render our school the most popular of any that still
+survived the glory of Greece. It may generally be observed, that the
+prevalence, in one half of a community, of very rigid notions on the
+subject of religion, produces the opposite extreme of laxity and
+infidelity in the other; and this kind of re-action it was that now mainly
+contributed to render the doctrines of the Garden the most fashionable
+philosophy of the day. The rapid progress of the Christian faith had
+alarmed all those, who, either from piety or worldliness, were interested
+in the continuance of the old established creed--all who believed in the
+Deities of Olympus, and all who lived by them. The consequence was, a
+considerable increase of zeal and activity, throughout the constituted
+authorities and priesthood of the whole Heathen world. What was wanting in
+sincerity of belief was made up in rigour;--the weakest parts of the
+Mythology were those, of course, most angrily defended, and any
+reflections, tending to bring Saturn, or his wife Ops, into contempt, were
+punished with the utmost severity of the law.
+
+In this state of affairs, between the alarmed bigotry of the declining
+Faith, and the simple, sublime austerity of her rival, it was not
+wonderful that those lovers of ease and pleasure, who had no interest,
+reversionary or otherwise, in the old religion, and were too indolent to
+enquire into the sanctions of the new, should take refuge from the
+severities of both under the shelter of a luxurious philosophy, which,
+leaving to others the task of disputing about the future, centered all its
+wisdom in the full enjoyment of the present.
+
+The sectaries of the Garden had, ever since the death of their founder,
+been accustomed to dedicate to his memory the twentieth day of every
+month. To these monthly rites had, for some time, been added a grand
+annual Festival, in commemoration of his birth. The feasts, given on this
+occasion by my predecessors in the Chair, had been invariably
+distinguished for their taste and splendour; and it was my ambition, not
+merely to imitate this example, but even to render the anniversary, now
+celebrated under my auspices, so brilliant, as to efface the recollection
+of all that went before it.
+
+Seldom, indeed, had Athens witnessed such a scene. The grounds that formed
+the original site of the Garden had, from time to time, received
+considerable additions; and the whole extent was laid out with that
+perfect taste, which knows how to wed Nature to Art, without sacrificing
+her simplicity to the alliance. Walks, leading through wildernesses of
+shade and fragrance--glades, opening, as if to afford a play-ground for the
+sunshine--temples, rising on the very spots where imagination herself would
+have called them up, and fountains and lakes, in alternate motion and
+repose, either wantonly courting the verdure, or calmly sleeping in its
+embrace,--such was the variety of feature that diversified these fair
+gardens; and, animated as they were on this occasion, by all the living
+wit and loveliness of Athens, it afforded a scene such as my own youthful
+fancy, rich as it was then in images of luxury and beauty, could hardly
+have anticipated.
+
+The ceremonies of the day began with the very dawn, when, according to the
+form of simpler and better times, those among the disciples who had
+apartments within the Garden, bore the image of our Founder in procession
+from chamber to chamber, chanting verses in praise of--what had long ceased
+to be objects of our imitation--his frugality and temperance.
+
+Round a beautiful lake, in the centre of the garden, stood four white
+Doric temples, in one of which was collected a library containing all the
+flowers of Grecian literature; while, in the remaining three,
+Conversation, the Song, and the Dance, held, uninterrupted by each other,
+their respective rites. In the Library stood busts of all the most
+illustrious Epicureans, both of Rome and Greece--Horace, Atticus, Pliny the
+elder, the poet Lucretius, Lucian, and the biographer of the Philosophers,
+lately lost to us, Diogenes Laertius. There were also the portraits, in
+marble, of all the eminent female votaries of the school--Leontium and her
+fair daughter Danae, Themista, Philaenis, and others.
+
+It was here that, in my capacity of Heresiarch, on the morning of the
+Festival, I received the felicitations of the day from some of the fairest
+lips of Athens; and, in pronouncing the customary oration to the memory of
+our Master (in which it was usual to dwell on the doctrines he inculcated)
+endeavoured to attain that art, so useful before such an audience, of
+diffusing over the gravest subjects a charm, which secures them listeners
+even among the simplest and most volatile.
+
+Though study, as may easily be supposed, engrossed but little of the
+mornings of the Garden, yet the lighter part of learning,--that portion of
+its attic honey, for which the bee is not obliged to go very deep into the
+flower--was zealously cultivated. Even here, however, the student had to
+encounter distractions, which are, of all others, least favourable to
+composure of thought; and, with more than one of my fair disciples, there
+used to occur such scenes as the following, which a poet of the Garden,
+taking his picture from the life, described:--
+
+  "As o'er the lake, in evening's glow,
+    That temple threw its lengthening shade,
+  Upon the marble steps below,
+    There sate a fair Corinthian maid,
+  Gracefully o'er some volume bending;
+    While, by her side, the youthful Sage
+  Held back her ringlets, lest, descending,
+    They should o'er-shadow all the page."
+
+But it was for the evening of that day, that the richest of our luxuries
+were reserved. Every part of the Garden was illuminated, with the most
+skilful variety of lustre; while over the Lake of the Temples were
+scattered wreaths of flowers, through which boats, filled with beautiful
+children, floated, as through a liquid parterre.
+
+Between two of these boats a perpetual combat was maintained;--their
+respective commanders, two blooming youths, being habited to represent
+Eros and Anteros; the former, the Celestial Love of the Platonists, and
+the latter, that more earthly spirit, which usurps the name of Love among
+the Epicureans. Throughout the evening their conflict was carried on with
+various success; the timid distance at which Eros kept from his more
+lively antagonist being his only safeguard against those darts of fire,
+with showers of which the other continually assailed him, but which,
+luckily falling short of their mark upon the lake, only scorched the
+flowers upon which they fell, and were extinguished.
+
+In another part of the gardens, on a wide verdant glade, lighted only by
+the moon, an imitation of the torch-race of the Panathenaea was performed,
+by young boys chosen for their fleetness, and arrayed with wings, like
+Cupids; while, not far off, a group of seven nymphs, with each a star on
+her forehead, represented the movements of the planetary choir, and
+embodied the dream of Pythagoras into real motion and song.
+
+At every turning some new enchantment broke upon the ear or eye.
+Sometimes, from the depth of a grove, from which a fountain at the same
+time issued, there came a strain of music, which, mingling with the murmur
+of the water, seemed like the voice of the spirit that presided over its
+flow;--while sometimes the strain rose breathing from among flowers; and,
+again, would appear to come suddenly from under ground, as if the foot had
+just touched some spring that set it in motion.
+
+It seems strange that I should now dwell upon these minute descriptions;
+but every thing connected with that memorable night--even its long-repented
+follies--must for ever live sacredly in my memory. The festival concluded
+with a banquet, at which I, of course, presided; and, feeling myself to be
+the ascendant spirit of the whole scene, gave life to all around me, and
+saw my own happiness reflected in that of others.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. II.
+
+
+The festival was over;--the sounds of the song and dance had ceased, and I
+was now left in those luxurious gardens, alone. Though so ardent and
+active a votary of pleasure, I had, by nature, a disposition full of
+melancholy;--an imagination that presented sad thoughts, even in the midst
+of mirth and happiness, and threw the shadow of the future over the gayest
+illusions of the present. Melancholy was, indeed, twin-born in my soul
+with Passion; and, not even in the fullest fervour of the latter, were
+they separated. From the first moment that I was conscious of thought and
+feeling, the same dark thread had run across the web; and images of death
+and annihilation mingled themselves with the most smiling scenes through
+which my career of enjoyment led me. My very passion for pleasure but
+deepened these gloomy fancies. For, shut out, as I was by my creed, from a
+future life, and having no hope beyond the narrow horizon of this, every
+minute of delight assumed a mournful preciousness in my eyes, and
+pleasure, like the flower of the cemetery, grew but more luxuriant from
+the neighbourhood of death.
+
+This very night my triumph, my happiness had seemed complete. I had been
+the presiding genius of that voluptuous scene. Both my ambition and my
+love of pleasure had drunk deep of the cup for which they thirsted. Looked
+up to by the learned, and loved by the beautiful and the young, I had
+seen, in every eye that met mine, either the acknowledgment of triumphs
+already won, or the promise of others, still brighter, that awaited me.
+Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented
+themselves;--the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant
+recurred to my mind. Those hands I had prest--those eyes, in which I had
+seen sparkling, a spirit of light and life that should never die--those
+voices, that had talked of eternal love--all, all, I felt, were but a
+mockery of the moment, and would leave nothing eternal but the silence of
+their dust!
+
+  Oh, were it not for this sad voice,
+    Stealing amid our mirth to say,
+  That all, in which we most rejoice,
+    Ere night may be the earth-worm's prey;--
+  _But_ for this bitter--only this--
+  Full as the world is brimm'd with bliss,
+  And capable as feels my soul
+  Of draining to its depth the whole,
+  I should turn earth to heaven, and be,
+  If bliss made gods, a deity!
+
+Such was the description I gave of my own feelings, in one of those wild,
+passionate songs, to which this ferment of my spirits, between mirth and
+melancholy, gave birth.
+
+Seldom had my heart more fully abandoned itself to such vague sadness than
+at the present moment, when, as I paced thoughtfully among the fading
+lights and flowers of the banquet, the echo of my own step was all that
+sounded, where so many gay forms had lately been revelling. The moon was
+still up, the morning had not yet glimmered, and the calm glories of night
+still rested on all around. Unconscious whither my pathway led, I wandered
+along, till I, at length, found myself before that fair statue of Venus,
+with which the chisel of Alcamenes had embellished our Garden;--that image
+of deified woman, the only idol to which I had ever bent the knee. Leaning
+against the pedestal, I raised my eyes to heaven, and fixing them sadly
+and intently on the ever-burning stars, as if I sought to read the
+mournful secret in their light, asked, wherefore was it that Man alone
+must perish, while they, less wonderful, less glorious than he, lived on
+in light unchangeable and for ever!--"Oh, that there were some spell, some
+talisman," I exclaimed, "to make the spirit within us deathless as those
+stars, and open to its desires a career like theirs, burning and boundless
+throughout all time!"
+
+While I gave myself up to this train of thought, that lassitude which
+earthly pleasure, however sweet, leaves behind,--as if to show how earthly
+it is,--came drowsily over me, and I sunk at the base of the statue to
+sleep.
+
+Even in sleep, however, my fancy was still busy; and a dream, so vivid as
+to leave behind it the impression of reality, thus passed through my mind.
+I thought myself transported to a wide desert plain, where nothing seemed
+to breathe, or move, or live. The very sky above it looked pale and
+extinct, giving the idea, not of darkness, but of light that had died;
+and, had that region been the remains of some older world, left broken up
+and sunless, it could not have looked more dead and desolate. The only
+thing that bespoke life, in this melancholy waste, was a small moving
+spark, that at first glimmered in the distance, but, at length, slowly
+approached the spot where I stood. As it drew nearer, I could perceive
+that its feeble gleam was from a taper in the hand of a pale venerable
+man, who now stood, like a messenger from the grave, before me. After a
+few moments of awful silence, during which he looked at me with a sadness
+that thrilled my very soul, he said,--"Thou, who seekest eternal life, go
+unto the shores of the dark Nile--go unto the shores of the dark Nile, and
+thou wilt find the eternal life thou seekest!"
+
+No sooner had he said these words than the death-like hue of his cheek
+brightened into a smile of more than human promise. The small torch that
+he held sent forth a radiance, by which suddenly the whole surface of the
+desert was illuminated, even to the far horizon's edge, along whose line
+were now seen gardens, palaces, and spires, all bright and golden, like
+the architecture of the clouds at sunset. Sweet music, too, was heard
+every where, floating around, and, from all sides, such varieties of
+splendour poured, that, with the excess both of harmony and of light, I
+woke.
+
+That infidels should be superstitious is an anomaly neither unusual nor
+strange. A belief in superhuman agency seems natural and necessary to the
+mind; and, if not suffered to flow in the obvious channels, it will find a
+vent in some other. Hence, many who have doubted the existence of a God,
+have yet implicitly placed themselves under the patronage of Fate or the
+stars. Much the same inconsistency I was conscious of in my own feelings.
+Though rejecting all belief in a Divine Providence, I had yet a faith in
+dreams, that all my philosophy could not conquer. Nor was experience
+wanting to confirm me in my delusion; for, by some of those accidental
+coincidences, which make the fortune of soothsayers and prophets, dreams,
+more than once, had been to me
+
+  Oracles, truer far than oak,
+  Or dove, or tripod, ever spoke.
+
+It was not wonderful, therefore, that the vision of that night, touching,
+as it did, a chord so ready to vibrate, should have affected me with more
+than ordinary power, and sunk deeper into my memory with every effort I
+made to forget it. In vain did I mock at my own weakness;--such self-
+derision is seldom sincere. In vain did I pursue my accustomed pleasures.
+Their zest was, as usual, for ever new; but still came the saddening
+consciousness of mortality, and, with it, the recollection of this
+visionary promise, to which my fancy, in defiance of my reason, still
+clung.
+
+Sometimes indulging in reveries, that were little else than a continuation
+of my dream, I even contemplated the possible existence of some secret, by
+which youth might be, if not perpetuated, at least prolonged, and that
+dreadful vicinity of death, within whose circle love pines and pleasure
+sickens, might be for a while averted. "Who knows," I would ask, "but that
+in Egypt, that land of wonders, where Mystery hath yet unfolded but half
+her treasures,--where so many dark secrets of the antediluvian world still
+remain, undeciphered, upon the pillars of Seth--who knows but some charm,
+some amulet, may lie hid, whose discovery, as this phantom hath promised,
+but waits my coming--some compound of the same pure atoms, that scintillate
+in the eternal stars, and whose infusion into the frame of man might make
+him, too, fadeless and immortal!"
+
+Thus did I fondly speculate, in those rambling moods, when the life of
+excitement which I led, acting upon a warm heart and vivid fancy, produced
+an intoxication of spirit, during which I was not wholly myself. This
+bewilderment, too, was not a little increased by the constant struggle
+between my own natural feelings, and the cold, mortal creed of my sect, in
+endeavouring to escape from whose deadening bondage I but broke loose into
+the realms of romance and fantasy.
+
+Even, however, in my calmest and soberest moments, that strange vision
+perpetually haunted me. In vain were all my efforts to chase it from my
+mind; and the deliberate conclusion to which I came at last, was, that
+without, at least, a visit to Egypt, I could not rest, nor, till convinced
+of my folly by disappointment, be reasonable. I, therefore, announced
+without delay to my associates of the Garden, the intention which I had
+formed to pay a visit to the land of Pyramids. To none of them did I dare
+to confess the vague, visionary impulse that actuated me. Knowledge was
+the object that I alleged, while Pleasure was that for which they gave me
+credit. The interests of the School, it was apprehended, would suffer by
+my absence; and there were some tenderer ties, which had still more to
+fear from separation. But for the former inconvenience a temporary remedy
+was provided; while the latter a skilful distribution of vows and sighs
+alleviated. Being furnished with recommendatory letters to all parts of
+Egypt, in the summer of the year 257, A.D. I set sail for Alexandria.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. III.
+
+
+To one, who extracted such sweets from every moment on land, a sea-voyage,
+however smooth and favourable, appeared the least agreeable mode of losing
+time that could be devised. Often did my imagination, in passing some isle
+of those seas, people it with fair forms and kind hearts, to whom most
+willingly, if I might, would I have paused to pay homage. But the wind
+blew direct towards the land of Mystery; and, still more, I heard a voice
+within me, whispering for ever "On."
+
+As we approached the coast of Egypt, our course became less prosperous;
+and we had a specimen of the benevolence of the divinities of the Nile, in
+the shape of a storm, or rather whirlwind, which had nearly sunk our
+vessel, and which, the Egyptians on board said, was the work of their God,
+Typhon. After a day and night of danger, during which we were driven out
+of our course to the eastward, some benigner influence prevailed above;
+and, at length, as the morning freshly broke, we saw the beautiful city of
+Alexandria rising from the sea, with its Palace of Kings, its portico of
+four hundred columns, and the fair Pillar of Pillars, towering up to
+heaven in the midst.
+
+After passing in review this splendid vision, we shot rapidly round the
+Rock of Pharos, and, in a few minutes, found ourselves in the harbour of
+Eunostus. The sun had risen, but the light on the Great Tower of the Rock
+was still burning; and there was a languor in the first waking movements
+of that voluptuous city--whose houses and temples lay shining in silence
+round the harbour--that sufficiently attested the festivities of the
+preceding night.
+
+We were soon landed on the quay; and, as I walked, through a line of
+palaces and shrines, up the street which leads from the sea to the Gate of
+Canopus, fresh as I was from the contemplation of my own lovely Athens, I
+felt a glow of admiration at the scene around me, which its novelty, even
+more than its magnificence, inspired. Nor were the luxuries and delights,
+which such a city promised, among the least of the considerations on which
+my fancy, at that moment, dwelt. On the contrary, every thing around
+seemed prophetic of future pleasure. The very forms of the architecture,
+to my Epicurean imagination, appeared to call up images of living grace;
+and even the dim seclusion of the temples and groves spoke only of tender
+mysteries to my mind. As the whole bright scene grew animated around me, I
+felt that though Egypt might not enable me to lengthen life, she could
+teach the next best art,--that of multiplying its enjoyments.
+
+The population of Alexandria, at this period, consisted of the most motley
+miscellany of nations, religions, and sects, that had ever been brought
+together in one city. Beside the school of the Grecian Platonist was seen
+the oratory of the cabalistic Jew; while the church of the Christian
+stood, undisturbed, over the crypts of the Egyptian Hierophant. Here, the
+adorer of Fire, from the east, laughed at the superstition of the
+worshipper of cats, from the west. Here Christianity, too, unluckily, had
+learned to emulate the vagaries of Paganism; and while, on one side, her
+Ophite professor was seen kneeling down gravely before his serpent, on the
+other, a Nicosian was, as gravely, contending that there was no chance of
+salvation out of the pale of the Greek alphabet. Still worse, the
+uncharitableness of Christian schism was already distinguishing itself
+with equal vigour; and I heard of nothing, on my arrival, but the rancour
+and hate, with which the Greek and Latin churchmen persecuted each other,
+because, forsooth, the one fasted on the seventh day of the week, and the
+others fasted upon the fourth and sixth!
+
+To none of those religions or sects, however, except for purposes of
+ridicule, did I pay much attention. I was now in the most luxurious city
+of the universe, and gave way, without reserve, to the seductions that
+surrounded me. My reputation, as a philosopher and a man of pleasure, had
+preceded me; and Alexandria, the second Athens of the world, welcomed me
+as her own. My celebrity, indeed, was as a talisman, that opened hearts
+and doors at my approach. The usual noviciate of acquaintance was
+dispensed with in my favour, and not only intimacies, but loves and
+friendships, ripened in my path, as rapidly as vegetation springs up where
+the Nile has flowed. The dark beauty of the Egyptian women had a novelty
+in my eyes that enhanced its other charms; and that hue of the sun on
+their rounded cheeks was but an earnest of the ardour he had kindled in
+their hearts--
+
+  Th' imbrowning of the fruit, that tells
+  How rich within the soul of sweetness dwells.
+
+Some weeks rolled on in such perpetual and ever-changing pleasures, that
+even the melancholy voice in my heart, though it still spoke, was but
+seldom listened to, and soon died away in the sound of the siren songs
+that surrounded me. At length, however, as the novelty of these scenes
+wore off, the same gloomy bodings began to mingle with all my joys; and an
+incident that occurred, during one of my gayest revels, conduced still
+more to deepen their gloom.
+
+The celebration of the annual festival of Serapis took place during my
+stay, and I was, more than once, induced to mingle with the gay
+multitudes, that crowded to his shrine at Canopus on the occasion. Day and
+night, while this festival lasted, the canal, which led from Alexandria to
+Canopus, was covered with boats full of pilgrims of both sexes, all
+hastening to avail themselves of this pious licence, which lent the zest
+of a religious sanction to pleasure, and gave a holiday to the passions of
+earth, in honour of heaven.
+
+I was returning, one lovely night, to Alexandria. The north wind, that
+welcome visitor, freshened the air, while the banks, on either side, sent
+forth, from groves of orange and henna, the most delicious odours. As I
+had left all the crowd behind me at Canopus, there was not a boat to be
+seen on the canal but my own; and I was just yielding to the thoughts
+which solitude at such an hour inspires, when my reveries were broken by
+the sound of some female voices, coming, mingled with laughter and
+screams, from the garden of a pavilion, that stood, brilliantly
+illuminated, upon the bank of the canal.
+
+On rowing nearer, I perceived that both the mirth and the alarm had been
+caused by the efforts of some playful girls to reach a hedge of jasmin
+which grew near the water, and in bending towards which they had nearly
+fallen into the stream. Hastening to proffer my assistance, I soon
+recognised the voice of one of my fair Alexandrian friends, and, springing
+on the bank, was surrounded by the whole group, who insisted on my joining
+their party in the pavilion, and flinging the tendrils of jasmin, which
+they had just plucked, around me, led me, no unwilling captive, to the
+banquet-room.
+
+I found here an assemblage of the very flower of Alexandrian society. The
+unexpectedness of the meeting gave it an additional zest on both sides;
+and seldom had I felt more enlivened myself, or contributed more
+successfully to circulate life among others.
+
+Among the company were some Greek women, who, according to the fashion of
+their country, wore veils; but, as usual, rather to set off than conceal
+their beauty, some gleams of which were continually escaping from under
+the cloud. There was, however, one female, who particularly attracted my
+attention, on whose head was a chaplet of dark-coloured flowers, and who
+sat veiled and silent during the whole of the banquet. She took no share,
+I observed, in what was passing around: the viands and the wine went by
+her untouched, nor did a word that was spoken seem addressed to her ear.
+This abstraction from a scene so sparkling with gaiety, though apparently
+unnoticed by any one but myself, struck me as mysterious and strange. I
+inquired of my fair neighbour the cause of it, but she looked grave and
+was silent.
+
+In the mean time, the lyre and the cup went round; and a young maid from
+Athens, as if inspired by the presence of her countryman, took her lute,
+and sung to it some of the songs of Greece, with a feeling that bore me
+back to the banks of the Ilissus, and, even in the bosom of present
+pleasure, drew a sigh from my heart for that which had passed away. It was
+daybreak ere our delighted party rose, and unwillingly re-embarked to
+return to the city.
+
+Scarcely were we afloat, when it was discovered that the lute of the young
+Athenian had been left behind; and, with my heart still full of its sweet
+sounds, I most readily sprung on shore to seek it. I hastened to the
+banquet-room, which was now dim and solitary, except that--there, to my
+astonishment, still sat that silent figure, which had awakened my
+curiosity so strongly during the night. A vague feeling of awe came over
+me, as I now slowly approached it. There was no motion, no sound of
+breathing in that form;--not a leaf of the dark chaplet on its brow
+stirred. By the light of a dying lamp which stood before the figure, I
+raised, with a hesitating hand, the veil, and saw--what my fancy had
+already anticipated--that the shape underneath was lifeless, was a
+skeleton! Startled and shocked, I hurried back with the lute to the boat,
+and was almost as silent as that shape for the remainder of the voyage.
+
+This custom among the Egyptians of placing a mummy, or skeleton, at the
+banquet-table, had been for some time disused, except at particular
+ceremonies; and, even on such occasions, it had been the practice of the
+luxurious Alexandrians to disguise this memorial of mortality in the
+manner just described. But to me, who was wholly unprepared for such a
+spectacle, it gave a shock from which my imagination did not speedily
+recover. This silent and ghastly witness of mirth seemed to embody, as it
+were, the shadow in my own heart. The features of the grave were now
+stamped on the idea that haunted me, and this picture of what I _was to
+be_ mingled itself with the sunniest aspect of what I _was_.
+
+The memory of the dream now recurred to me more livelily than ever. The
+bright assuring smile of that venerable Spirit, and his words, "Go to the
+shores of the dark Nile, and thou wilt find the eternal life thou
+seekest," were for ever before my mind. But as yet, alas, I had done
+nothing towards realising this splendid promise. Alexandria was not
+Egypt;--the very soil on which it stood was not in existence, when Thebes
+and Memphis already counted ages of glory.
+
+"It is beneath the Pyramids of Memphis," I exclaimed, "or in the mystic
+Halls of the Labyrinth, that I must seek those holy arcana of science, of
+which the antediluvian world has made Egypt its heir, and among
+which--blest thought!--the key to eternal life may lie."
+
+Having formed my determination, I took leave of my many Alexandrian
+friends, and departed for Memphis.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. IV.
+
+
+Egypt was the country, of all others, from that mixture of the melancholy
+and the voluptuous, which marked the character of her people, her
+religion, and her scenery, to affect deeply a temperament and fancy like
+mine, and keep tremblingly alive the sensibilities of both. Wherever I
+turned, I saw the desert and the garden, mingling their bloom and
+desolation together. I saw the love-bower and the tomb standing side by
+side, and pleasure and death keeping hourly watch upon each other. In the
+very luxury of the climate there was the same saddening influence. The
+monotonous splendour of the days, the solemn radiance of the nights--all
+tended to cherish that ardent melancholy, the offspring of passion and of
+thought, which had so long been the inmate of my soul.
+
+When I sailed from Alexandria, the inundation of the Nile was at its full.
+The whole valley of Egypt lay covered by its flood; and, as I saw around
+me, in the light of the setting sun, shrines, palaces, and monuments,
+encircled by the waters, I could almost fancy that I beheld the sinking
+island of Atalantis, on the last evening its temples were visible above
+the wave. Such varieties, too, of animation as presented themselves on
+every side!--
+
+  While, far as sight can reach, beneath as clear
+  And blue a heaven as ever bless'd this sphere,
+  Gardens, and pillar'd streets, and porphyry domes,
+  And high-built temples, fit to be the homes
+  Of mighty gods, and pyramids, whose hour
+  Outlasts all time, above the waters tower!
+
+  Then, too, the scenes of pomp and joy, that make
+  One theatre of this vast, peopled lake,
+  Where all that Love, Religion, Commerce gives
+  Of life and motion, ever moves and lives.
+  Here, up the steps of temples, from the wave
+  Ascending, in procession slow and grave,
+  Priests, in white garments, go, with sacred wands
+  And silver cymbals gleaming in their hands:
+  While, there, rich barks--fresh from those sunny tracts
+  Far off, beyond the sounding cataracts--
+  Glide with their precious lading to the sea,
+  Plumes of bright birds, rhinoceros' ivory,
+  Gems from the isle of Meroee, and those grains
+  Of gold, wash'd down by Abyssinian rains.
+
+  Here, where the waters wind into a bay
+  Shadowy and cool, some pilgrims, on their way
+  To Sais or Bubastus, among beds
+  Of lotus-flowers, that close above their heads,
+  Push their light barks, and hid, as in a bower,
+  Sing, talk, or sleep away the sultry hour;
+  While haply, not far off, beneath a bank
+  Of blossoming acacias, many a prank
+  Is play'd in the cool current by a train
+  Of laughing nymphs, lovely as she, whose chain
+  Around two conquerors of the world was cast,
+  But, for a third too feeble, broke at last!
+
+Enchanted with the whole scene, I lingered on my voyage, visiting all
+those luxurious and venerable places, whose names have been consecrated by
+the wonder of ages. At Sais I was present during her Festival of Lamps,
+and read, by the blaze of innumerable lights, those sublime words on the
+temple of Neitha: "I am all that has been, that is, and that will be, and
+no man hath ever lifted my veil." I wandered among the prostrate obelisks
+of Heliopolis, and saw, not without a sigh, the sun smiling over her
+ruins, as if in mockery of the mass of perishable grandeur, that had once
+called itself, in its pride, "The City of the Sun." But to the Isle of the
+Golden Venus was my fondest pilgrimage;--and as I explored its shades,
+where bowers are the only temples, I felt how far more fit to form the
+shrine of a Deity are the ever-living stems of the garden and the grove,
+than the most precious columns that the inanimate quarry can supply.
+
+Every where new pleasures, new interests awaited me; and though
+Melancholy, as usual, stood always near, her shadow fell but half-way over
+my vagrant path, and left the rest more welcomely brilliant from the
+contrast. To relate my various adventures, during this short voyage, would
+only detain me from events, far, far more worthy of record. Amidst such
+endless variety of attractions, the great object of my journey was
+forgotten;--the mysteries of this land of the sun were, to me, as much
+mysteries as ever, and I had as yet been initiated in nothing but its
+pleasures.
+
+It was not till that evening, when I first stood before the Pyramids of
+Memphis, and saw them towering aloft, like the watch-towers of Time, from
+whose summit, when he expires, he will look his last,--it was not till this
+moment that the great secret, of which I had dreamed, again rose, in all
+its inscrutable darkness, upon my thoughts. There was a solemnity in the
+sunshine that rested upon those monuments--a stillness, as of reverence, in
+the air around them, that stole, like the music of past times, into my
+heart. I thought what myriads of the wise, the beautiful, and the brave,
+had sunk into dust since earth first beheld those wonders; and, in the
+sadness of my soul, I exclaimed,--"Must man alone, then, perish? must minds
+and hearts be annihilated, while pyramids endure? Death, Death, even on
+these everlasting tablets,--the only approach to immortality that kings
+themselves could purchase,--thou hast written our doom, saying, awfully and
+intelligibly, 'There is, for man, no eternal mansion, but the tomb!'"
+
+My heart sunk at the thought; and, for the moment, I yielded to that
+desolate feeling, which overspreads the soul that hath no light from the
+future. But again the buoyancy of my nature prevailed, and again, the
+willing dupe of vain dreams, I deluded myself into the belief of all that
+I most wished, with that happy facility which makes imagination stand in
+place of happiness. "Yes," I cried, "immortality _must_ be within man's
+reach; and, as wisdom alone is worthy of such a blessing, to the wise
+alone must the secret have been revealed. Deep, it is said, under yonder
+pyramid, has for ages lain concealed the Table of Emerald, on which the
+Thrice-Great Hermes engraved, before the flood, the secret of Alchemy,
+that gives gold at will. Why may not the mightier, the more god-like
+secret, that gives life at will, be recorded there also? It was by the
+power of gold, of endless gold, that the kings, who repose in those massy
+structures, scooped earth to the centre, and raised quarries into the air,
+to provide themselves with tombs that might outstand the world. Who can
+tell but that the gift of immortality was also theirs? who knows but that
+they themselves, triumphant over decay, still live--those mansions, which
+we call tombs, being rich and everlasting palaces, within whose depths,
+concealed from this withering world, they still wander, with the few who
+are sharers of their gift, through a sunless, but illuminated, elysium of
+their own? Else, wherefore those structures? wherefore that subterraneous
+realm, by which the whole valley of Egypt is undermined? Why, else, those
+labyrinths, which none of earth hath ever beheld--which none of heaven,
+except that God, with the finger on his hushed lip, hath trodden!"
+
+While I indulged in these dreams, the sun, half sunk beneath the horizon,
+was taking, calmly and gloriously, his leave of the Pyramids,--as he had
+done, evening after evening, for ages, till they had become familiar to
+him as the earth itself. On the side turned to his ray they now presented
+a front of dazzling whiteness, while, on the other, their great shadows,
+lengthening to the eastward, looked like the first steps of Night,
+hastening to envelope the hills of Araby in her shade.
+
+No sooner had the last gleam of the sun disappeared, than, on every house-
+top in Memphis, gay, gilded banners were seen waving aloft, to proclaim
+his setting,--while a full burst of harmony pealed from all the temples
+along the shores.
+
+Startled from my musing by these sounds, I at once recollected, that, on
+that very evening, the great festival of the Moon was to be celebrated. On
+a little island, half-way over between the gardens of Memphis and the
+eastern shore, stood the temple of that goddess,
+
+                 Whose beams
+  Bring the sweet time of night-flowers and dreams.
+  _Not_ the cold Dian of the North, who chains
+  In vestal ice the current of young veins;
+  But she, who haunts the gay, Bubastian grove,
+  And owns she sees, from her bright heav'n above,
+  Nothing on earth, to match that heav'n, but love!
+
+Thus did I exclaim, in the words of one of their own Egyptian poets, as,
+anticipating the various delights of the festival, I cast away from my
+mind all gloomy thoughts, and, hastening to my little bark, in which I now
+lived, like a Nile-bird, on the waters, steered my course to the island-
+temple of the Moon.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CHAP. V.
+
+
+The rising of the Moon, slow and majestic, as if conscious of the honours
+that awaited her upon earth, was welcomed with a loud acclaim from every
+eminence, where multitudes stood watching for her first light. And seldom
+had she risen upon a scene more beautiful. Memphis,--still grand, though no
+longer the unrivalled Memphis, that had borne away from Thebes the crown
+of supremacy, and worn it undisputed through so many centuries,--now,
+softened by the moonlight that harmonised with her decline, shone forth
+among her lakes, her pyramids, and her shrines, like a dream of glory that
+was soon to pass away. Ruin, even now, was but too visible around her. The
+sands of the Libyan desert gained upon her like a sea; and, among solitary
+columns and sphinxes, already half sunk from sight, Time seemed to stand
+waiting, till all, that now flourished around, should fall beneath his
+desolating hand, like the rest.
+
+On the waters all was life and gaiety. As far as eye could reach, the
+lights of innumerable boats were seen, studding, like rubies, the surface
+of the stream. Vessels of all kinds,--from the light coracle, built for
+shooting down the cataracts, to the large yacht that glides to the sound
+of flutes,--all were afloat for this sacred festival, filled with crowds of
+the young and the gay, not only from Memphis and Babylon, but from cities
+still farther removed from the scene.
+
+As I approached the island, I could see, glittering through the trees on
+the bank, the lamps of the pilgrims hastening to the ceremony. Landing in
+the direction which those lights pointed out, I soon joined the crowd;
+and, passing through a long alley of sphinxes, whose spangling marble
+shone out from the dark sycamores around them, in a short time reached the
+grand vestibule of the temple, where I found the ceremonies of the evening
+already commenced.
+
+In this vast hall, which was surrounded by a double range of columns, and
+lay open over-head to the stars of heaven, I saw a group of young maidens,
+moving in a sort of measured step, between walk and dance, round a small
+shrine, upon which stood one of those sacred birds, that, on account of
+the variegated colour of their wings, are dedicated to the moon. The
+vestibule was dimly lighted,--there being but one lamp of naptha on each of
+the great pillars that encircled it. But, having taken my station beside
+one of those pillars, I had a distinct view of the young dancers, as in
+succession they passed me.
+
+Their long, graceful drapery was as white as snow; and each wore loosely,
+beneath the rounded bosom, a dark-blue zone, or bandelet, studded, like
+the skies at midnight, with little silver stars. Through their dark locks
+was wreathed the white lily of the Nile,--that flower being accounted as
+welcome to the moon, as the golden blossoms of the bean-flower are to the
+sun. As they passed under the lamp, a gleam of light flashed from their
+bosoms, which, I could perceive, was the reflection of a small mirror,
+that, in the manner of the women of the East, each wore beneath her left
+shoulder.
+
+There was no music to regulate their steps; but, as they gracefully went
+round the bird on the shrine, some, by the beat of the castanet, some, by
+the shrill ring of the sistrum,--which they held uplifted in the attitude
+of their own divine Isis,--harmoniously timed the cadence of their feet;
+while others, at every step, shook a small chain of silver, whose sound,
+mingling with those of the castanets and sistrums, produced a wild, but
+not an unpleasing harmony.
+
+They seemed all lovely; but there was one--whose face the light had not yet
+reached, so downcast she held it,--who attracted, and, at length, riveted
+all my attention. I knew not why, but there was a something in those half-
+seen features,--a charm in the very shadow, that hung over their imagined
+beauty,--which took me more than all the out-shining loveliness of her
+companions. So enchained was my fancy by this coy mystery, that her alone,
+of all the group, could I either see or think of--her alone I watched, as,
+with the same downcast brow, she glided round the altar, gently and
+aerially, as if her presence, like that of a spirit, was something to be
+felt, not seen.
+
+Suddenly, while I gazed, the loud crash of a thousand cymbals was
+heard;--the massy gates of the Temple flew open, as if by magic, and a
+flood of radiance from the illuminated aisle filled the whole vestibule;
+while, at the same instant, as if the light and the sounds were born
+together, a peal of rich harmony came mingling with the radiance.
+
+It was then,--by that light, which shone full upon the young maiden's
+features, as, starting at the blaze, she raised her eyes to the portal,
+and, as suddenly, let fall their lids again,--it was then I beheld, what
+even my own ardent imagination, in its most vivid dreams of beauty, had
+never pictured. Not Psyche herself, when pausing on the threshold of
+heaven, while its first glories fell on her dazzled lids, could have
+looked more beautiful, or blushed with a more innocent shame. Often as I
+had felt the power of looks, none had ever entered into my soul so far. It
+was a new feeling--a new sense--coming as suddenly as that radiance into the
+vestibule, and, at once, filling my whole being;--and had that vision but
+lingered another moment before my eyes, I should have wholly forgotten who
+I was and where, and thrown myself, in prostrate adoration, at her feet.
+
+But scarcely had that gush of harmony been heard, when the sacred bird,
+which had, till now, stood motionless as an image, expanded his wings, and
+flew into the Temple; while his graceful young worshippers, with a
+fleetness like his own, followed,--and she, who had left a dream in my
+heart never to be forgotten, vanished with the rest. As she went rapidly
+past the pillar against which I leaned, the ivy that encircled it caught
+in her drapery, and disengaged some ornament which fell to the ground. It
+was the small mirror which I had seen shining on her bosom. Hastily and
+tremulously I picked it up, and hurried to restore it;--but she was already
+lost to my eyes in the crowd.
+
+In vain I tried to follow;--the aisles were already filled, and numbers of
+eager pilgrims pressed towards the portal. But the servants of the Temple
+prevented all further entrance, and still, as I presented myself, their
+white wands barred the way. Perplexed and irritated amid that crowd of
+faces, regarding all as enemies that impeded my progress, I stood on
+tiptoe, gazing into the busy aisles, and with a heart beating as I caught,
+from time to time, a glimpse of some spangled zone, or lotus wreath, which
+led me to fancy that I had discovered the object of my search. But it was
+all in vain;--in every direction, files of sacred nymphs were moving, but
+nowhere could I see her, whom alone I sought.
+
+In this state of breathless agitation did I stand for some
+time,--bewildered with the confusion of faces and lights, as well as with
+the clouds of incense that rolled around me,--till, fevered and impatient,
+I could endure it no longer. Forcing my way out of the vestibule into the
+cool air, I hurried back through the alley of sphinxes to the shore, and
+flung myself into my boat.
+
+There is, to the north of Memphis, a solitary lake (which, at this season
+of the year, mingles with the rest of the waters,) upon whose shores
+stands the Necropolis, or City of the Dead--a place of melancholy grandeur,
+covered over with shrines and pyramids, where many a kingly head, proud
+even in death, has for ages awaited the resurrection of its glories.
+Through a range of sepulchral grots underneath, the humbler denizens of
+the tomb are deposited,--looking out on each successive generation that
+visits them, with the same face and features they wore centuries ago.
+Every plant and tree, that is consecrated to death, from the asphodel-
+flower to the mystic plantain, lends its sweetness or shadow to this place
+of tombs; and the only noise that disturbs its eternal calm, is the low
+humming sound of the priests at prayer, when a new inhabitant is added to
+the silent city.
+
+It was towards this place of death that, in a mood of mind, as usual, half
+bright, half gloomy, I now, almost unconsciously, directed my bark. The
+form of the young Priestess was continually before me. That one bright
+look of hers, the very memory of which was worth all the actual smiles of
+others, never left my mind. Absorbed in such thoughts, I rowed on, scarce
+knowing whither I went, till, startled by finding myself within the shadow
+of the City of the Dead, I looked up, and saw, rising in succession before
+me, pyramid beyond pyramid, each towering more loftily than the
+other,--while all were out-topped in grandeur by one, upon whose summit the
+moon seemed to rest, as on a pedestal.
+
+Drawing near to the shore, which was sufficiently elevated to raise this
+city of monuments above the level of the inundation, I lifted my oar, and
+let the boat rock idly on the water, while my thoughts, left equally
+without direction, fluctuated as idly. How various and vague were the
+dreams that then passed through my mind--that bright vision of the temple
+mingling itself with all! Sometimes she stood before me, like an aerial
+spirit, as pure as if that element of music and light, into which I had
+seen her vanish, was her only dwelling. Sometimes, animated with passion,
+and kindling into a creature of earth, she seemed to lean towards me with
+looks of tenderness, which it were worth worlds, but for one instant, to
+inspire; and again--as the dark fancies, that ever haunted me, recurred--I
+saw her cold, parched, and blackening, amid the gloom of those eternal
+sepulchres before me!
+
+Turning away, with a shudder, from the cemetery at this thought, I heard
+the sound of an oar plying swiftly through the water, and, in a few
+moments, saw, shooting past me towards the shore, a small boat in which
+sat two female figures, muffled up and veiled. Having landed them not far
+from the spot where I lay,--concealed by the shadow of a monument on the
+bank,--the boat again departed, with the same fleetness, over the flood.
+
+Never had the prospect of an adventure come more welcome than at this
+moment, when my fancy was weaving such chains for my heart, as threatened
+a bondage, of all others, the most difficult to break. To become enamoured
+thus of a creature of my own imagination, was the worst, because the most
+lasting, of follies. Reality alone gives a chance of dissolving such
+spells, and the idol I was now creating to myself must for ever remain
+ideal. Any pursuit, therefore, that seemed likely to divert me from such
+thoughts--to bring back my imagination to earth and reality, from the vague
+region in which it was wandering, was a relief too seasonable not to be
+welcomed with eagerness.
+
+I had watched the course which the two figures took, and, having hastily
+fastened my boat to the bank, stepped gently on shore, and, at a little
+distance, followed them. The windings through which they led were
+intricate; but, by the bright light of the moon, I was enabled to keep
+their forms in view, as, with rapid step, they glided among the monuments.
+At length, in the shade of a small pyramid, whose peak barely surmounted
+the plane-trees that grew nigh, they vanished from my sight. I hastened to
+the spot, but there was not a sign of life around; and had my creed
+extended to another world, I might have fancied that these forms were
+spirits, sent from thence to mock me,--so instantaneously they disappeared.
+I searched through the neighbouring grove, but all there was still as
+death. At length, in examining one of the sides of the pyramid, which, for
+a few feet from the ground, was furnished with steps, I found, midway
+between peak and base, a part of the surface, which, though presenting an
+appearance of smoothness to the eye, gave to the touch, I thought,
+indications of a concealed opening.
+
+After a variety of efforts and experiments, I, at last, more by accident
+than skill, pressed the spring that commanded this mysterious aperture. In
+an instant the portal slid aside, and disclosed a narrow stair-way within,
+the two or three first steps of which were discernible by the moonlight,
+while the rest were lost in utter darkness. Though it was difficult to
+conceive that the persons whom I had followed would have ventured to pass
+through this gloomy opening, yet to account for their disappearance
+otherwise was still more difficult. At all events, my curiosity was now
+too eager in the chase to relinquish it;--the spirit of adventure, once
+raised, could not be so easily laid. Accordingly, having sent up a gay
+prayer to that bliss-loving Queen whose eye alone was upon me, I passed
+through the portal and descended into the pyramid.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. VI.
+
+
+At the bottom of the stair-way I found myself in a low, narrow passage,
+through which, without stooping almost to earth, it was impossible to
+proceed. Though leading through a multiplicity of dark windings, this way
+seemed but little to advance my progress,--its course, I perceived, being
+chiefly circular, and gathering, at every turn, but a deeper intensity of
+darkness.
+
+"Can this," I thought, "be the sojourn of any thing human?"--and had
+scarcely asked myself the question, when the path opened into a long
+gallery, at the farthest end of which a gleam of light was visible. This
+welcome glimmer appeared to come from some cell or alcove, in which the
+right-hand wall of the gallery terminated, and, breathless with
+expectation, I stole gently towards it.
+
+Arrived at the end of the gallery, a scene presented itself to my eyes,
+for which my fondest expectations of adventure could not have prepared me.
+The place from which the light proceeded was a small chapel, of whose
+interior, from the dark recess in which I stood, I had, unseen myself, a
+full and distinct view. Over the walls of this oratory were painted some
+of those various symbols, by which the mystic wisdom of the Egyptians
+loves to shadow out the History of the Soul--the winged globe with a
+serpent,--the rays descending from above, like a glory, and the Theban
+beetle, as he comes forth, after the waters have passed away, and the
+first sunbeam falls on his regenerated wings.
+
+In the middle of the chapel stood a low altar of granite, on which lay a
+lifeless female form, enshrined within a case of crystal,--as they preserve
+their dead in Ethiopia,--and looking as freshly beautiful as if the soul
+had but a few hours departed. Among the emblems of death, on the front of
+the altar, were a slender lotus-branch, broken in two, and a bird, just
+winging its flight from the spray.
+
+To these memorials of the dead, however, I but little attended; for there
+was a living object there upon which my eyes were most intently fixed.
+
+The lamp, by which the whole of the chapel was illuminated, was placed at
+the head of the pale image in the shrine; and, between its light and me,
+stood a female form, bending over the monument, as if to gaze upon the
+silent features within. The position in which this figure was placed,
+intercepting a strong light, afforded me, at first, but an imperfect and
+shadowy view of it. Yet even at this mere outline my heart beat high,--and
+memory, as it proved, had as much share in this feeling as imagination.
+For, on the head changing its position, so as to let a gleam fall on the
+features, I saw with a transport, which had almost led me to betray my
+lurking-place, that it was she--the young worshipper of Isis--the same, the
+very same, whom I had seen, brightening the holy place where she stood,
+and looking like an inhabitant of some purer world.
+
+The movement, by which she had now given me an opportunity of recognising
+her, was made in raising from the shrine a small cross(2) of silver, which
+lay directly over the bosom of the lifeless figure. Bringing it close to
+her lips, she kissed it with a religious fervour; then, turning her eyes
+mournfully upwards, held them fixed with an inspired earnestness, as if,
+at that moment, in direct communion with heaven, they saw neither roof,
+nor any other earthly barrier between them and the skies.
+
+What a power hath innocence, whose very helplessness is its safeguard--in
+whose presence even Passion himself stands abashed, and turns worshipper
+at the altar which he came to despoil. She, who, but a short hour before,
+had presented herself to my imagination, as something I could have risked
+immortality to win--she, whom gladly, from the floor of her own lighted
+temple, in the very face of its proud ministers, I would have borne away
+in triumph, and defied all punishments, both human and sacred, to make her
+mine,--she was now before me, thrown, as if by fate itself, into my
+power--standing there, beautiful and alone, with nothing but her innocence
+for her guard! Yet, no--so touching was the purity of the whole scene, so
+calm and august that protection which the dead seemed to extend over the
+living, that every earthlier feeling was forgotten as I gazed, and love
+itself became exalted into reverence.
+
+Entranced, indeed, as I felt in witnessing such a scene, thus to enjoy it
+by stealth, seemed a wrong, a sacrilege--and, rather than let her eyes meet
+the flash of mine, or disturb, by a whisper, that sacred silence, in which
+Youth and Death held communion through Love, I would have let my heart
+break, without a murmur, where I stood. Gently, as if life depended upon
+every movement, I stole away from that tranquil and holy scene--leaving it
+still tranquil and holy as I found it--and, gliding back through the same
+passages and windings by which I had entered, regained the narrow stair-
+way, and again ascended into light.
+
+The sun had just risen, and, from the summit of the Arabian hills, was
+pouring down his beams into that vast valley of waters,--as if proud of the
+homage that had been paid to his own Isis, now fading away in the superior
+light of her Lord. My first impulse was to fly from this dangerous spot,
+and in new loves and pleasures seek forgetfulness of the scene which I had
+witnessed. "Once out of the circle of this enchantment," I exclaimed, "I
+know my own susceptibility to new impressions too well, to doubt that I
+shall soon break the spell that is around me."
+
+But vain were my efforts and resolves. Even while I swore to fly, my steps
+were still lingering round the pyramid--my eyes still turned towards the
+secret portal, which severed this enchantress from the world of the
+living. Hour after hour did I wander through that City of Silence,--till,
+already, it was noon, and, under the sun's meridian eye, the mighty
+pyramid of pyramids stood, like a great spirit, shadowless.
+
+Again did those wild and passionate feelings, which had, for a moment,
+been subdued into reverence by her presence, return to kindle up my
+imagination and senses. I even reproached myself for the awe, that had
+held me spell-bound before her. "What would my companions of the Garden
+say, did they know that their chief,--he, whose path Love had strewed with
+trophies--was now pining for a simple Egyptian girl, in whose presence he
+had not dared to give utterance to a sigh, and who had vanquished the
+victor, without even knowing her triumph!"
+
+A blush came over my cheek at the humiliating thought, and my
+determination was fixed to await her coming. That she should be an inmate
+of those gloomy caverns seemed inconceivable; nor did there appear to be
+any issue from their depths but by the pyramid. Again, therefore, like a
+sentinel of the dead, did I pace up and down among these tombs,
+contrasting, in many a mournful reflection, the burning fever within my
+own veins with the cold quiet of those who slept around.
+
+At length the fierce glow of the sun over my head, and, still more, that
+ever restless agitation in my heart, were too much for even strength like
+mine to bear. Exhausted, I lay down at the base of the pyramid--placing
+myself directly under the portal, where, even should slumber surprise me,
+my heart, if not my ear, might still be on the watch, and her footstep,
+light as it was, could not fail to awake me.
+
+After many an ineffectual struggle against drowsiness, I at length sunk
+into sleep--but not into forgetfulness. The same image still haunted me, in
+every variety of shape, with which imagination, assisted by memory, could
+invest it. Now, like Neitha, upon her throne at Sais, she seemed to sit,
+with the veil just raised from that brow, which mortal had never, till
+then, beheld,--and now, like the beautiful enchantress Rhodope, I saw her
+rise out of the pyramid in which she had dwelt for ages,--
+
+  "Fair Rhodope, as story tells,
+  The bright, unearthly nymph, who dwells
+  Mid sunless gold and jewels hid,
+  The Lady of the Pyramid!"
+
+So long, amid that unbroken silence, did my sleep continue, that I found
+the moon again shining above the horizon, when I awoke. All around was
+silent and lifeless as before, nor did a print upon the herbage betray
+that any foot had passed it since my own. Refreshed by rest, and with a
+fancy still more excited by the mystic wonders of which I had been
+dreaming, I now resolved to revisit the chapel in the pyramid, and put an
+end, if possible, to this illusion that haunted me.
+
+Having learned from the experience of the preceding night, the
+inconvenience of encountering those labyrinths without a light, I now
+hastened to provide myself with a lamp from my boat. Tracking my way back
+with some difficulty to the shore, I there found, not only my lamp, but
+some dates and dried fruits, with a store of which, for my roving life
+upon the waters, I was always supplied,--and which now, after so many hours
+of abstinence, were a welcome and necessary relief.
+
+Thus prepared, I again ascended the pyramid, and was proceeding to search
+out the secret spring, when a loud, dismal noise was heard at a distance,
+to which all the echoes of the cemetery answered. It came, I knew, from
+the Great Temple on the shore of the Lake, and was the shriek which its
+gates--the Gates of Oblivion, as they were called--sent forth from their
+hinges, in opening at night, to receive within their precincts the newly-
+landed dead.
+
+I had heard that sound before, and always with sadness; but, at this
+moment, it thrilled through me, like a voice of ill omen, and I almost
+doubted whether I should not abandon my enterprise. The hesitation,
+however, was but momentary;--even while it passed through my mind, I had
+touched the spring of the portal. In a few seconds more, I was again in
+the passage beneath the pyramid, and being enabled by my lamp to follow
+the windings of the way more rapidly, soon found myself at the door of the
+small chapel in the gallery.
+
+I entered, still awed, though there was now nothing living within. The
+young Priestess had fled--had vanished, like a spirit, into the darkness.
+All the rest was as I had left it on the preceding night. The lamp still
+stood burning upon the crystal shrine--the cross lay where the hands of the
+young mourner had placed it, and the cold image beneath wore the same
+tranquil look, as if resigned to the solitude of death--of all lone things
+the loneliest. Remembering the lips that I had seen kiss that cross, and
+kindling with the recollection, I raised it passionately to my own;--but,
+at the same moment, I fancied the dead eyes met mine, and, saddened in the
+midst of my ardour, I replaced the cross upon the shrine.
+
+I had now lost all clue to the object of my pursuit, and was preparing
+slowly to retrace my steps to earth, with that gloomy satisfaction which
+certainty, even when unwelcome, brings,--when, as I held forth my lamp, on
+leaving the chapel, I could perceive that the gallery, instead of
+terminating here, took a sudden bend to the left, which had before eluded
+my eye, and which gave a promise of leading still further into those
+recesses. Re-animated by this discovery, which opened a new source of hope
+to my heart, I cast but one hesitating look at my lamp, as if to ask
+whether it would be faithful through the gloom I was about to encounter,
+and, without further thought, rushed eagerly forward.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. VII.
+
+
+The path led, for some time, through the same sort of narrow windings as
+those which I had encountered in descending the stair-way; and at length
+opened, in a similar manner, into a straight and steep gallery, along each
+side of which stood, closely ranged and upright, a file of lifeless
+bodies, whose glassy eyes threw a preternatural glare upon me as I passed.
+
+Arrived at the end of this gallery, I found my hopes a second time vanish.
+The path, I perceived, extended no further. The only object that I could
+discern, by the glimmering of my lamp, which now, every minute, burned
+fainter and fainter, was the mouth of a huge well, that lay gaping before
+me--a reservoir of darkness, black and unfathomable. It now crossed my
+memory that I had heard of such wells, as being used occasionally for
+passages by the Priests. Leaning down, therefore, over the edge, I looked
+anxiously within, to discover whether it was possible to descend into the
+chasm; but the sides were hard and smooth as glass, being varnished all
+over with that dark pitch, which the Dead Sea throws out on its slimy
+shore.
+
+After a more attentive scrutiny, however, I observed, at the depth of a
+few feet, a sort of iron step, projecting dimly from the side, and, below
+it, another, which, though hardly perceptible, was just sufficient to
+encourage an adventurous foot to the trial. Though all hope of tracing the
+young Priestess was at an end,--it being impossible that female foot should
+have dared this descent,--yet, as I had so far engaged in the adventure,
+and there was, at least, a mystery to be unravelled, I determined, at all
+hazards, to explore the chasm. Placing my lamp (which was hollowed at the
+bottom, so as to fit like a helmet) firmly on my head, and having thus
+both hands at liberty for exertion, I set my foot cautiously on the iron
+step, and descended into the well.
+
+I found the same footing, at regular intervals, to a considerable depth;
+and had already counted near a hundred of these steps, when the ladder
+altogether ceased, and I could descend no farther. In vain did I stretch
+down my foot in search of support--the hard, slippery sides were all that
+it encountered. At length, stooping my head, so as to let the light fall
+below, I observed an opening or window directly above the step on which I
+stood, and, taking for granted that the way must lie in that direction,
+with some little difficulty clambered through the aperture.
+
+I now found myself on a rude and narrow stair-way, the steps of which were
+cut out of the living rock, and wound spirally downward in the same
+direction as the well. Almost dizzy with the descent, which seemed as if
+it would never end, I, at last, reached the bottom, where a pair of massy
+iron gates closed directly across my path, as if to forbid any further
+progress. Massy, however, and gigantic as they were, I found, to my
+surprise, that the hand of an infant might have opened them with ease--so
+readily did their great folds give way to my touch,
+
+  "Light as a lime-bush, that receives
+  Some wandering bird among its leaves."
+
+No sooner, however, had I passed through, than the din, with which the
+gates clashed together again, was such as might have awakened death
+itself. It seemed as if every echo, throughout that vast, subterranean
+world, from the Catacombs of Alexandria to Thebes's Valley of Kings, had
+caught up and repeated the thundering sound.
+
+Startled, however, as I was, not even this supernatural clangour could
+divert my attention from the light that now broke upon me--soft, warm, and
+welcome as are the stars of his own South to the mariner who has been
+wandering through the seas of the north. Looking for the source of this
+splendour, I saw, through an archway opposite, a long illuminated alley,
+stretching away as far as the eye could reach, and fenced, on one side,
+with thickets of odoriferous shrubs, while, along the other, extended a
+line of lofty arcades, from which the light, that filled the whole area,
+issued. As soon, too, as the din of the deep echoes had subsided, there
+stole gradually on my ear a strain of choral music, which appeared to
+come, mellowed and sweetened in its passage, through many a spacious hall
+within those shining arcades. Among the voices I could distinguish some
+female tones, towering high and clear over all the rest, and forming the
+spire, as it were, into which the harmony tapered, as it rose.
+
+So excited was my fancy by this sudden enchantment, that--though never had
+I caught a sound from the young Egyptian's lips,--I yet persuaded myself
+that the voice I now heard was hers, sounding highest and most heavenly of
+all that choir, and calling to me, like a distant spirit out of its
+sphere. Animated by this thought, I flew forward to the archway, but
+found, to my mortification, that it was guarded by a trellis-work, whose
+bars, though invisible at a distance, resisted all my efforts to force
+them.
+
+While occupied in these ineffectual struggles, I perceived, to the left of
+the archway, a dark, cavernous opening, which seemed to lead in a
+direction parallel to the lighted arcades. Notwithstanding my impatience,
+however, the aspect of this passage, as I looked shudderingly into it,
+chilled my very blood. It was not so much darkness, as a sort of livid and
+ghastly twilight, from which a damp, like that of death-vaults, exhaled,
+and through which, if my eyes did not deceive me, pale, phantom-like
+shapes were, at that very moment, hovering.
+
+Looking anxiously round, to discover some less formidable outlet, I saw,
+over the vast folding-gates through which I had just passed, a blue,
+tremulous flame, which, after playing for a few seconds over the dark
+ground of the pediment, settled gradually into characters of light, and
+formed the following words:--
+
+  You, who would try
+    Yon terrible track,
+  To live, or to die,
+    But ne'er to look back--
+
+  You, who aspire
+    To be purified there,
+  By the terrors of Fire,
+    Of Water, and Air,--
+
+  If danger, and pain,
+    And death you despise,
+  On--for again
+    Into light you shall rise;
+
+  Rise into light
+    With that Secret Divine,
+  Now shrouded from sight
+    By the Veils of the Shrine!
+
+  But if----
+
+Here the letters faded away into a dead blank, more awfully intelligible
+than the most eloquent words.
+
+A new hope now flashed across me. The dream of the Garden, which had been
+for some time almost forgotten, returned to my mind. "Am I then," I
+exclaimed, "in the path to the promised mystery? and shall the great
+secret of Eternal Life _indeed_ be mine?"
+
+"Yes!" seemed to answer, out of the air, that spirit-voice, which still
+was heard crowning the choir with its single sweetness. I hailed the omen
+with transport. Love and Immortality, both beckoning me onward--who could
+give a thought to fear, with two such bright hopes in view? Having invoked
+and blessed that unknown enchantress, whose steps had led me to this abode
+of mystery and knowledge, I plunged into the chasm.
+
+Instead of that vague, spectral twilight which had at first met my eye, I
+now found, as I entered, a thick darkness, which, though far less
+horrible, was, at this moment, still more disconcerting, as my lamp, which
+had been, for some time, almost useless, was fast expiring. Resolved,
+however, to make the most of its last gleam, I hastened, with rapid step,
+through this gloomy region, which seemed wider and more open to the air
+than any that I had yet passed. Nor was it long before the appearance of a
+bright blaze in the distance announced to me that my first great Trial was
+at hand. As I drew nearer, the flames burst high and wide on all
+sides;--and the spectacle that now presented itself was such as might have
+appalled even hearts more habituated to dangers than mine.
+
+There lay before me, extending completely across my path, a thicket, or
+grove of the most combustible trees of Egypt--tamarind, pine, and Arabian
+balm. Around their stems and branches were coiled serpents of fire, which,
+twisting themselves rapidly from bough to bough, spread their own wild-
+fire as they went, and involved tree after tree in one general blaze. It
+was, indeed, rapid as the burning of those reed-beds of Ethiopia, whose
+light brightens, at night, the distant cataracts of the Nile.
+
+Through the middle of this blazing grove, I perceived, my only pathway
+lay. There was not a moment to be lost--the conflagration gained rapidly on
+either side, and already the narrowing path between was strewed with fire.
+Casting away my now useless lamp, and holding my robe as some protection
+over my head, with a tremor, I own, in every limb, I ventured through the
+blaze.
+
+Instantly, as if my presence had given new life to the flames, a fresh
+outbreak of combustion arose on all sides. The trees clustered into a
+bower of fire above my head, while the serpents, that hung hissing from
+the red branches, shot showers of sparkles down upon me, as I passed.
+Never were decision and activity more serviceable;--one minute later, and I
+must have perished. The narrow opening, of which I had so promptly availed
+myself, closed instantly behind me; and, as I looked back, to contemplate
+the ordeal which I had passed, I saw that the whole grove was already one
+mass of fire.
+
+Happy at having escaped this first trial, I plucked from one of the pine-
+trees a bough that was but just kindled, and, with this for my only guide,
+hastened breathlessly forward. I had gone but a few paces, when the path
+turned suddenly off,--leading downwards, as I could see by the glimmer of
+my brand, into a more confined space, through which a chilling air, as if
+from some neighbouring waters, blew over my brow. Nor had I proceeded very
+far, when the sound of torrents fell on my ear,--mingled, as I thought,
+from time to time, with shrill wailings, like the cries of persons in
+danger or distress. At every step the noise of the dashing waters
+increased, and I now perceived that I had entered an immense rocky cavern,
+through the middle of which, headlong as a winter-torrent, the flood, to
+whose roar I had been listening, rushed. Upon its surface, too, there
+floated strange, spectre-like shapes, which, as they went by, sent forth
+those dismal shrieks, as if in fear of some precipice to whose brink they
+were hurrying.
+
+I saw too plainly that my course must be across that torrent. It was
+fearful; but in courage lay my only hope. What awaited me on the opposite
+shore, I knew not; for all there was wrapped in impenetrable gloom, nor
+could the weak light I held reach half so far. Dismissing, however, all
+thoughts but that of pressing onward, I sprung from the rock on which I
+stood into the flood,--trusting that, with my right hand, I should be able
+to buffet the current, while, with the other, I might contrive to hold my
+brand aloft, as long as a glimmer of it remained, to guide me to the
+shore.
+
+Long and formidable was the struggle I had to maintain. More than once,
+overpowered by the rush of the waters, I had almost given myself up, as
+destined to follow those apparitions, that still passed me, hurrying, with
+mournful cries, to their doom in some invisible gulf before them.
+
+At length, just as my strength was nearly exhausted, and the last remains
+of the pine-branch were falling from my hand, I saw, outstretching towards
+me into the water, a light double balustrade, with a flight of steps
+between, ascending, almost perpendicularly, from the wave, till they
+seemed lost in a dense mass of clouds above. This glimpse--for it was no
+more, as my light expired in giving it--lent new spring to my courage.
+Having now both hands at liberty, so desperate were my efforts, that after
+a few minutes' struggle, I felt my brow strike against the stairway, and,
+in an instant more, my feet were on the steps.
+
+Rejoiced at my rescue from that perilous flood, though I knew not whither
+the stairway led, I promptly ascended it. But this feeling of confidence
+was of short duration. I had not mounted far, when, to my horror, I
+perceived, that each successive step, as my foot left it, broke away from
+beneath me,--leaving me in midair, with no other alternative than that of
+mounting still by the same momentary footing, and with the dreadful doubt
+whether it would even endure my tread.
+
+And thus did I, for a few seconds, continue to ascend, with nothing
+beneath me but that awful river, in which--so tranquil it had become--I
+could hear the plash of the falling fragments, as every step in succession
+gave way under my feet. It was a trying moment, but still worse remained.
+I now found the balustrade, by which I had held during my ascent, and
+which had hitherto seemed firm, grow tremulous in my hand,--while the step
+to which I was about to trust myself, tottered under my foot. Just then, a
+momentary flash, as if of lightning, broke around, and I saw, hanging out
+of the clouds, within my reach, a huge brazen ring. Instinctively I
+stretched forth my arm to seize it, and, at the same instant, both
+balustrade and steps gave way beneath me, and I was left swinging by my
+hands in the dark void. As if, too, this massy ring, which I grasped, was
+by some magic power linked with all the winds in heaven, no sooner had I
+seized it than, like the touching of a spring, it seemed to give loose to
+every variety of gusts and tempests, that ever strewed the sea-shore with
+wrecks or dead; and, as I swung about, the sport of this elemental strife,
+each new burst of its fury threatened to shiver me, like a storm-sail, to
+atoms!
+
+Nor was even this the worst;--still holding, I know not how, by the ring, I
+felt myself caught up, as if by a thousand whirlwinds, and round and
+round, like a stone-shot in a sling, whirled in the midst of all this
+deafening chaos, till my brain grew dizzy, and my recollection confused,
+and I almost fancied myself on that wheel of the infernal world, whose
+rotations, it is said, Eternity alone can number!
+
+Human strength could no longer sustain such a trial. I was on the point,
+at last, of loosing my hold, when suddenly the violence of the storm
+moderated;--my whirl through the air gradually ceased, and I felt the ring
+slowly descend with me, till--happy as a shipwrecked mariner at the first
+touch of land--I found my feet once more upon firm ground.
+
+At the same moment, a light of the most delicious softness filled the
+whole air. Music, such as is heard in dreams, came floating at a distance;
+and, as my eyes gradually recovered their powers of vision, a scene of
+glory was revealed to them, almost too bright for imagination, and yet
+living and real. As far as the sight could reach, enchanting gardens were
+seen, opening away through long tracts of light and verdure, and sparkling
+every where with fountains, that circulated, like streams of life, among
+the flowers. Not a charm was here wanting, that the imagination of poet or
+prophet, in their pictures of Elysium, ever yet dreamed or promised.
+Vistas, opening into scenes of indistinct grandeur,--streams, shining out
+at intervals, in their shadowy course,--and labyrinths of flowers, leading,
+by mysterious windings, to green, spacious glades, full of splendour and
+repose. Over all this, too, there fell a light, from some unseen source,
+resembling nothing that illumines our upper world--a sort of golden
+moonlight, mingling the warm radiance of day with the calm and melancholy
+lustre of night.
+
+Nor were there wanting inhabitants for this sunless Paradise. Through all
+the bright gardens were wandering, with the serene air and step of happy
+spirits, groups both of young and old, of venerable and of lovely forms,
+bearing, most of them, the Nile's white flowers on their heads, and
+branches of the eternal palm in their hands; while, over the verdant turf,
+fair children and maidens went dancing to aerial music, whose source was,
+like that of the light, invisible, but which filled the whole air with its
+mystic sweetness.
+
+Exhausted as I was by the trials I had undergone, no sooner did I perceive
+those fair groups in the distance, than my weariness, both of frame and
+spirit, was forgotten. A thought crossed me that she, whom I sought, might
+be among them; and, notwithstanding the awe, with which that unearthly
+scene inspired me, I was about to fly, on the instant, to ascertain my
+hope. But in the act of making the effort, I felt my robe gently pulled,
+and turning, beheld an aged man before me, whom, by the sacred hue of his
+garb, I knew to be a Hierophant. Placing a branch of the consecrated palm
+in my hand, he said, in a solemn voice, "Aspirant of the Mysteries,
+welcome!"--then, regarding me for a few seconds with grave attention,
+added, in a tone of courteousness and interest, "The victory over the body
+hath been gained!--Follow me, young Greek, to thy resting place."
+
+I obeyed in silence,--and the Priest, turning away from this scene of
+splendour, into a secluded path, where the light faded away, as we
+advanced, conducted me to a small pavilion, by the side of a whispering
+stream, where the very spirit of slumber seemed to preside, and, pointing
+to a bed of dried poppy-leaves within it, left me to repose.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. VIII.
+
+
+Though the sight of that splendid scene which opened upon me, like a
+momentary glimpse into another world, had, for an instant, re-animated my
+strength and spirit, so completely had fatigue overmastered my whole
+frame, that, even had the form of the young Priestess stood before me, my
+limbs would have sunk in the effort to reach her. No sooner had I fallen
+on my leafy couch, than sleep, like a sudden death, came over me; and I
+lay, for hours, in the deep, and motionless rest, which not even a shadow
+of life disturbs.
+
+On awaking I saw, beside me, the same venerable personage, who had
+welcomed me to this subterranean world on the preceding night. At the foot
+of my couch stood a statue, of Grecian workmanship, representing a boy,
+with wings, seated gracefully on a lotus-flower, and having the forefinger
+of his right hand pressed to his lips. This action, together with the
+glory round his brows, denoted, as I already knew, the God of Silence and
+Light.
+
+Impatient to know what further trials awaited me, I was about to speak,
+when the Priest exclaimed, anxiously, "Hush!"--and pointing to this statue
+at the foot of the couch, said--"Let the spell of that Spirit be on thy
+lips, young stranger, till the wisdom of thy instructors shall think fit
+to remove it. Not unaptly doth the same god preside over Silence and
+Light; since it is only out of the depth of contemplative silence, that
+the great light of the soul, Truth, arises!"
+
+Little used to the language of dictation or instruction, I was now
+preparing to rise, when the priest again restrained me; and, at the same
+moment, two boys, beautiful as the young Genii of the stars, entered the
+pavilion. They were habited in long garments of the purest white, and bore
+each a small golden chalice in his hand. Advancing towards me, they
+stopped on opposite sides of the couch, and one of them, presenting to me
+his chalice of gold, said, in a tone between singing and speaking,--
+
+  "Drink of this cup--Osiris sips
+    The same in his halls below;
+  And the same he gives, to cool the lips
+    Of the Dead, who downward go.
+
+  "Drink of this cup--the water within
+    Is fresh from Lethe's stream;
+  'Twill make the past with all its sin,
+    And all its pain and sorrows, seem
+    Like a long-forgotten dream!
+
+  "The pleasure, whose charms
+    Are steep'd in woe;
+  The knowledge, that harms
+    The soul to know;
+
+  "The hope, that, bright
+    As the lake of the waste,
+  Allures the sight,
+    But mocks the taste;
+
+  "The love, that binds
+    Its innocent wreath,
+  Where the serpent winds,
+    In venom, beneath;--
+
+  "All that, of evil or false, by thee
+    Hath ever been known or seen,
+  Shall melt away in this cup, and be
+    Forgot, as it never had been!"
+
+Unwilling to throw a slight on this strange ceremony, I leaned forward,
+with all due gravity, and tasted the cup; which I had no sooner done than
+the young cup-bearer, on the other side, invited my attention, and, in his
+turn, presenting the chalice which he held, sung, with a voice still
+sweeter than that of his companion, the following strain:--
+
+  "Drink of this cup--when Isis led
+    Her boy, of old, to the beaming sky,
+  She mingled a draught divine, and said--
+    'Drink of this cup, thou'lt never die!'
+
+  "Thus do I say and sing to thee,
+    Heir of that boundless heav'n on high,
+  Though frail, and fall'n, and lost thou be,
+    Drink of this cup, thou'lt never die!"
+
+Much as I had endeavoured to keep my philosophy on its guard, against the
+illusions with which, I knew, this region abounded, the young cup-bearer
+had here touched a spring of imagination, over which, as has been seen, my
+philosophy had but little controul. No sooner had the words, "thou shalt
+never die," struck on my ear, than the dream of the Garden came fully to
+my mind, and, starting half-way from the couch, I stretched forth my hands
+to the cup. Recollecting myself, however, and fearful of having betrayed
+to others a weakness only fit for my own secret indulgence, with an
+affected smile of indifference I sunk back again on my couch,--while the
+young minstrel, but little interrupted by my movement, still continued his
+strain, of which I heard but the concluding words:--
+
+  "And Memory, too, with her dreams shall come,
+    Dreams of a former, happier day,
+  When Heaven was still the Spirit's home,
+    And her wings had not yet fallen away;
+
+  "Glimpses of glory, ne'er forgot,
+    That tell, like gleams on a sunset sea,
+  What once hath been, what now is not,
+    But, oh, what again shall brightly be!"
+
+Though the assurances of immortality, contained in these verses, would, at
+any other moment,--vain and visionary as I thought them,--have sent my fancy
+wandering into reveries of the future, the effort of self-control I had
+just made enabled me to hear them with indifference.
+
+Having gone through the form of tasting this second cup, I again looked
+anxiously to the Hierophant, to ascertain whether I might be permitted to
+rise. His assent having been given, the young pages brought to my couch a
+robe and tunic, which, like their own, were of linen of the purest white;
+and having assisted to clothe me in this sacred garb, they then placed
+upon my head a chaplet of myrtle, in which the symbol of Initiation, a
+golden grasshopper, was seen shining out from among the dark leaves.
+
+Though sleep had done much to refresh my frame, something more was still
+wanting to restore its strength; and it was not without a smile at my own
+reveries I reflected, how much more welcome than the young page's cup of
+immortality was the unpretending, but real, repast now set before
+me,--fresh fruits from the Isle of Gardens in the Nile, the delicate flesh
+of the desert antelope, and wine from the Vineyard of the Queens at
+Anthylla, fanned by one of the pages with a palm-leaf, to keep it cool.
+
+Having done justice to these dainties, it was with pleasure I heard the
+proposal of the Priest, that we should now walk forth together, and
+meditate among the scenes without. I had not forgotten the elysium that
+welcomed me last night,--those enchanted gardens, that mysterious music,
+and light, and the fair forms I saw wandering about,--as if, in the very
+midst of happiness, still seeking it. The hope, which had then occurred to
+me, that, perhaps, among those sparkling groups, might be the maiden I
+sought, now returned with increased strength. I had little doubt that my
+guide was about to lead to the same Elysian scene, and that the form, so
+fit to inhabit it, would again appear before my eyes.
+
+But far different was the region to which he conducted me; nor could the
+whole world produce a scene more gloomy, or more strange. It had the
+appearance of a small, solitary valley, inclosed, on every side, by rocks,
+which seemed to rise, almost perpendicularly, to the very sky;--for it was,
+indeed, the blue sky that I saw shining between their summits, and whose
+light, dimmed and half lost, in its descent thus far, formed the
+melancholy daylight of this nether world.(3) Down the side of these rocky
+walls fell a cataract, whose source was upon earth, and on whose waters,
+as they rolled glassily over the edge above, a gleam of radiance rested,
+that showed how brilliant was the sunshine they left. From thence,
+gradually darkening, and broken, in its long descent, by alternate chasms
+and projections, the stream fell, at last, in a pale and thin mist--the
+phantom of what it had been on earth--into a small lake that lay at the
+base of the rock to receive it.
+
+Nothing could be more bleak and saddening than the appearance of this
+lake. The usual ornaments of the waters of Egypt were not wanting: the
+lotus here uplifted her silvery flowers, and the crimson flamingo floated
+over the tide. But they were, neither of them, the same as in the upper
+world;--the flower had exchanged its whiteness for a livid hue, and the
+wings of the bird hung heavy and colourless. Every thing wore the same
+half-living aspect; and the only sounds that disturbed the mournful
+stillness were the wailing cry of a heron among the sedges, and that din
+of the waters, in their midway struggle, above.
+
+There was an unearthly sadness in the whole scene, of which no heart,
+however light, could resist the influence. Perceiving how I was affected
+by it, "Such scenes," said the Priest, "are best suited to that solemn
+complexion of mind, which becomes him who approaches the Great Secret of
+futurity. Behold,"--and, in saying thus, he pointed to the opening over our
+heads, through which I could perceive a star or two twinkling in the
+heavens, though the sun had but a short time passed his meridian,--"as from
+this gloomy depth we can see those stars, which are now invisible to the
+dwellers upon the bright earth, even so, to the sad and self-humbled
+spirit, doth many a mystery of heaven reveal itself, of which they, who
+walk in the light of the proud world, know not!"
+
+He now led me towards a rustic seat or alcove, beside which stood an image
+of that dark Deity, that God without a smile, who presides over the
+kingdom of the Dead.(4) The same livid and lifeless hue was upon his
+features, that hung over every thing in this dim valley; and, with his
+right hand, he pointed directly downwards, to denote that his melancholy
+kingdom lay there. A plantain--that favourite tree of the genii of
+Death--stood behind the statue, and spread its branches over the alcove, in
+which the Priest now, seating himself, signified that I should take my
+place by his side.
+
+After a long pause, as if of thought and preparation,--"Nobly," said he,
+"young Greek, hast thou sustained the first trials of Initiation. What
+remains, though of vital import to the soul, brings with it neither pain
+nor peril to the body. Having now proved and chastened thy mortal frame,
+by the three ordeals of Fire, of Water, and of Air, the next task to which
+we are called is the purification of thy spirit,--the cleansing of that
+inward and immortal part, so as to render it fit for the reception of the
+last luminous revealment, when the Veils of the Sanctuary shall be thrown
+aside, and the Great Secret of Secrets unfolded to thee!--Towards this
+object, the primary and most essential step is, instruction. What the
+three purifying elements, through which thou hast passed, have done for
+thy body, instruction will effect for----"
+
+"But that lovely maiden!" I exclaimed, bursting from my silence, having
+fallen, during his speech, into a deep revery, in which I had forgotten
+him, myself, the Great Secret, every thing--but her.
+
+Startled by this profane interruption, he cast a look of alarm towards the
+statue, as if fearful lest the God should have heard my words. Then,
+turning to me, in a tone of mild solemnity, "It is but too plain," said
+he, "that thoughts of the upper world, and of its vain delights, still
+engross thee too much, to let the lessons of Truth sink profitably into
+thy heart. A few hours of meditation amid this solemn scenery--of that
+wholesome meditation, which purifies, by saddening--may haply dispose thee
+to receive, with reverence, the holy and immortal knowledge that is in
+store for thee. With this hope, I now leave thee to thy own thoughts, and
+to that God, before whose calm and mournful eye the vanities of the world,
+from which thou comest, wither!"
+
+Thus saying, he turned slowly away, and passing behind the statue, towards
+which he had pointed during the last sentence, suddenly, and as if by
+enchantment, disappeared from my sight.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. IX.
+
+
+Being left to my own solitary thoughts, I had now leisure to reflect, with
+coolness, on the inconveniences, if not dangers, of the situation into
+which my love of adventure had hurried me. However ready my imagination
+was to kindle, in its own ideal sphere, I have ever found that, when
+brought into contact with reality, it as suddenly cooled;--like those
+meteors, that seem stars in the air, but, the moment they touch earth, are
+extinguished. Such was the disenchantment that now succeeded to the dreams
+in which I had been indulging. As long as Fancy had the field of the
+future to herself, even immortality did not seem too distant a race for
+her. But when human instruments interposed, the illusion vanished. From
+mortal lips the promise of immortality seemed a mockery, and imagination
+herself had no wings that could carry beyond the grave.
+
+Nor was this disappointment the only feeling that occupied me;--the
+imprudence of the step, which I had taken, now appeared in its full extent
+before my eyes. I had thrown myself into the power of the most artful
+priesthood in the world, without a chance of being able to escape from
+their toils, or to resist any machinations with which they might beset me.
+It seemed evident, from the state of preparation in which I had found all
+that wonderful apparatus, by which the terrors and splendours of
+Initiation are produced, that my descent into the pyramid was not
+unexpected. Numerous, indeed, and active as were the spies of the Sacred
+College of Memphis, there could be but little doubt that all my movements,
+since my arrival, had been tracked; and the many hours I had passed in
+watching and wandering round the pyramid, betrayed a curiosity which might
+well inspire these wily priests with the hope of drawing an Epicurean into
+their superstitious toils.
+
+I well knew their hatred to the sect of which I was Chief;--that they
+considered the Epicureans as, next to the Christians, the most formidable
+enemies of their craft and power. "How thoughtless, then," I exclaimed,
+"to have placed myself in a situation, where I am equally helpless against
+their fraud and violence, and must either seem to be the dupe of their
+impostures, or submit to become the victim of their vengeance." Of these
+alternatives, bitter as they were, the latter appeared by far the more
+welcome. I blushed even to think of the mockeries to which I already had
+yielded; and the prospect of being put through still further ceremonials,
+and of being tutored and preached to by hypocrites I despised, appeared to
+me, in my present temper, a trial of patience, to which the flames and the
+whirlwinds I had already encountered were pastime.
+
+Often and impatiently did I look up, between those rocky walls, to the
+bright sky that appeared to rest upon their summits, as, round and round,
+through every part of the valley, I endeavoured to find an outlet from its
+gloomy precincts. But in vain I endeavoured;--that rocky barrier, which
+seemed to end but in heaven, interposed itself every where. Neither did
+the image of the young maiden, though constantly in my mind, now bring
+with it the least consolation or hope. Of what avail was it that she,
+perhaps, was an inhabitant of this region, if I could neither see her
+smile, nor catch the sound of her voice,--if, while among preaching priests
+I wasted away my hours, her presence diffused its enchantment elsewhere.
+
+At length exhausted, I lay down by the brink of the lake, and gave myself
+up to all the melancholy of my fancy. The pale semblance of daylight,
+which had hitherto shone around, grew, every moment, more dim and dismal.
+Even the rich gleam, at the summit of the cascade, had faded; and the
+sunshine, like the water, exhausted in its descent, had now dwindled into
+a ghostly glimmer, far worse than darkness. The birds upon the lake, as if
+about to die with the dying light, sunk down their heads; and, as I looked
+to the statue, the deepening shadows gave an expression to its mournful
+features that chilled my very soul.
+
+The thought of death, ever ready to present itself to my imagination, now
+came, with a disheartening weight, such as I had never before felt. I
+almost fancied myself already in the dark vestibule of the
+grave,--separated, for ever, from the world above, and with nothing but the
+blank of an eternal sleep before me. It had often, I knew, happened that
+the visitants of this mysterious realm were, after their descent from
+earth, never seen or heard of;--being condemned, for some failure in their
+initiatory trials, to pine away their lives in the dark dungeons, with
+which, as well as with altars, this region abounded. Such, I shuddered to
+think, might probably be my destiny; and so appalling was the thought,
+that even the spirit of defiance died within me, and I was already giving
+myself up to helplessness and despair.
+
+At length, after some hours of this gloomy musing, I heard a rustling in
+the sacred grove behind the statue; and, soon after, the sound of the
+Priest's voice--more welcome than I had ever thought such voice could
+be--brought the assurance that I was not yet, at least, wholly abandoned.
+Finding his way to me through the gloom, he now led me to the same spot,
+on which we had parted so many hours before; and, in a voice that retained
+no trace of displeasure, bespoke my attention, while he should reveal to
+me some of those divine truths, by whose infusion, he said, into the soul
+of man, its purification can alone be effected.
+
+The valley had now become so wholly dark, that we could no longer discern
+each other's faces, as we sat. There was a melancholy in the voice of my
+instructor that well accorded with the gloom around us; and, saddened and
+subdued, I now listened with resignation, if not with interest, to those
+sublime, but, alas, I thought, vain tenets, which, with the warmth of a
+believer, this Hierophant expounded to me.
+
+He spoke of the pre-existence of the soul,--of its abode, from all
+eternity, in a place of bliss, of which all that we have most beautiful in
+our conceptions here is but a dim transcript, a clouded remembrance. In
+the blue depths of ether, he said, lay that "Country of the Soul,"--its
+boundary alone visible in the line of milky light, that separates it, as
+by a barrier of stars, from the dark earth. "Oh, realm of purity! Home of
+the yet unfallen Spirit!--where, in the days of her primal innocence, she
+wandered, ere her beauty was soiled by the touch of earth, or her
+resplendent wings had withered away. Methinks," he cried, "I see, at this
+moment, those fields of radiance,--I look back, through the mists of life,
+into that luminous world, where the souls that have never lost their high,
+heavenly rank, still soar, without a stain, above the shadowless stars,
+and dwell together in infinite perfection and bliss!"
+
+As he spoke these words, a burst of pure, brilliant light, like a sudden
+opening of heaven, broke through the valley; and, as soon as my eyes were
+able to endure the splendour, such a vision of loveliness and glory opened
+upon them, as took even my sceptical spirit by surprise, and made it
+yield, at once, to the potency of the spell.
+
+Suspended, as I thought, in air, and occupying the whole of the opposite
+region of the valley, there appeared an immense orb of light, within
+which, through a haze of radiance, I could see distinctly groups of young
+female spirits, who, in silent, but harmonious movement, like that of the
+stars, wound slowly through a variety of fanciful evolutions; and, as they
+linked and unlinked each other's arms, formed a living labyrinth of beauty
+and grace. Though their feet seemed to tread along a field of light, they
+had also wings, of the richest hue, which, like rainbows over waterfalls,
+when played with by the breeze, at every moment reflected a new variety of
+glory.
+
+As I stood, gazing with wonder, the orb, with all its ethereal inmates,
+gradually receded into the dark void, lessening, as it went, and growing
+more bright, as it lessened;--till, at length, distant, apparently, as a
+retiring comet, this little world of Spirits, in one small point of
+intense radiance, shone its last and vanished. "Go," exclaimed the rapt
+Priest, "ye happy souls, of whose dwelling a glimpse is thus given to our
+eyes, go, wander, in your orb, through the boundless heaven, nor ever let
+a thought of this perishable world come to mingle its dross with your
+divine nature, or tempt you to that earthward fall, by which spirits, as
+bright, have been ruined!"
+
+A pause ensued, during which, still under the influence of wonder, I sent
+my fancy wandering after the inhabitants of that orb,--almost wishing
+myself credulous enough to believe in a heaven, of which creatures, so
+like all that I most loved on earth, were inmates.
+
+At length, the Priest, with a sigh at the contrast he was about to draw,
+between the happy spirits we had just seen and the fallen ones of earth,
+resumed his melancholy History of the Soul. Tracing it, from the first
+moment of earthward desire, to its final eclipse in the shadows of this
+world, he dwelt upon every stage of its darkening descent, with a pathos
+that sent sadness into the very depths of the heart. The first downward
+look of the Spirit towards earth--the tremble of her wings on the edge of
+Heaven--the giddy slide, at length, down that fatal descent, and the
+Lethaean cup, midway in the sky, of which when she has once tasted, Heaven
+is forgot,--through all these gradations he mournfully traced her fall, to
+the last stage of darkness, when, wholly immersed in this world, her
+celestial nature is changed, she can no longer rise above earth, nor
+remembers her home, but by glimpses so vague, that, mistaking for hope
+what is only memory, she believes them to be a light from the Future, not
+the Past.
+
+"To retrieve this ruin of the once blessed Soul--to clear away, from around
+her, the clouds of earth, and, restoring her lost wings(5), facilitate
+their return to Heaven--such," said the reverend man, "is the great task of
+our religion, and such the triumph of those divine Mysteries, in which the
+life and essence of our religion lie. However sunk and changed and clouded
+may be the Spirit, as long as a single trace of her original light
+remains, there is yet hope that----"
+
+Here his voice was interrupted by a strain of mournful music, of which the
+low, distant breathings had been, for some minutes, heard, but which now
+gained upon the ear too thrillingly to let it listen to any more earthly
+sound. A faint light, too, at that instant broke through the valley,--and I
+could perceive, not far from the spot where we sat, a female figure,
+veiled, and crouching to earth, as if subdued by sorrow, or under the
+influence of shame.
+
+The light, by which I saw her, was from a pale, moon-like meteor, which
+had formed itself in the air as the music approached, and shed over the
+rocks and the lake a glimmer as cold as that by which the Dead, in their
+own realm, gaze on each other. The music, too, which appeared to rise
+directly out of the lake, and to come full of the breath of its dark
+waters, spoke a despondency in every note which no language could
+express;--and, as I listened to its tones, and looked upon that fallen
+Spirit, (for such, the holy man whispered, was the form before us,) so
+entirely did the illusion of the scene take possession of me, that, with
+breathless anxiety, I waited the result.
+
+Nor had I gazed long before that form rose slowly from its drooping
+position;--the air around it grew bright, and the pale meteor overhead
+assumed a more cheerful and living light. The veil, which had before
+shrouded the face of the figure, became gradually transparent, and the
+features, one by one, disclosed themselves through it. Having tremblingly
+watched the progress of the apparition, I now started from my seat, and
+half exclaimed, "It is she!" In another minute, this veil had, like a thin
+mist, melted away, and the young Priestess of the Moon stood, for the
+third time, revealed before my eyes.
+
+To rush instantly towards her was my first impulse--but the arm of the
+Priest held me firmly back. The fresh light, which had begun to flow in
+from all sides, collected itself in a glory round the spot where she
+stood. Instead of melancholy music, strains of the most exalted rapture
+were heard; and the young maiden, buoyant as the inhabitants of the fairy
+orb, amid a blaze of light like that which fell upon her in the Temple,
+ascended into the air.
+
+"Stay, beautiful vision, stay!" I exclaimed, as, breaking from the hold of
+the Priest, I flung myself prostrate on the ground,--the only mode by which
+I could express the admiration, even to worship, with which I was filled.
+But the vanishing spirit heard me not:--receding into the darkness, like
+that orb, whose track she seemed to follow, her form lessened away, till
+she was seen no more. Gazing, till the last luminous speck had
+disappeared, I suffered myself unconsciously to be led away by my reverend
+guide, who, placing me once more on my bed of poppy-leaves, left me to
+such repose as it was possible, after such a scene, to enjoy.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 CHAP. X.
+
+
+The apparition with which I had been blessed in that Valley of Visions--as
+the place where I had witnessed these wonders was called--brought back to
+my heart all the hopes and fancies, in which I had indulged during my
+descent from earth. I had now seen once more that matchless creature, who
+had been my guiding star into this mysterious world; and that she was, in
+some way, connected with the further revelations that awaited me, I saw no
+reason to doubt. There was a sublimity, too, in the doctrines of my
+reverend teacher, and even a hope in the promises of immortality held out
+by him, which, in spite of reason, won insensibly both upon my fancy and
+my pride.
+
+The Future, however, was now but of secondary consideration;--the Present,
+and that deity of the Present, woman, were the objects that engrossed my
+whole soul. For the sake, indeed, of such beings alone did I think
+immortality desirable, nor, without them, would eternal life have appeared
+to me worth a prayer. To every further trial of my patience and faith, I
+now made up my mind to submit without a murmur. Some propitious chance, I
+fondly persuaded myself, might yet bring me nearer to the object of my
+adoration, and enable me to address, as mortal woman, her who had hitherto
+been to me but as a vision, a shade.
+
+The period of my probation, however, was nearly at an end. Both frame and
+spirit had now been tried; and, as the crowning test of the purification
+of the latter was that power of seeing into the world of spirits, with
+which, in the Valley of Visions, I had proved myself to be endowed, there
+remained now, to perfect my Initiation, but this one night more, when, in
+the Temple of Isis, and in the presence of her unveiled image, the last
+grand revelation of the Secret of Secrets was to open upon me.
+
+I passed the morning of this day in company with the same venerable
+personage, who had, from the first, presided over the ceremonies of my
+instruction; and who, to inspire me with due reverence for the power and
+magnificence of his religion, now conducted me through the long range of
+illuminated galleries and shrines, that extend under the site upon which
+Memphis and the Pyramids stand, and form a counterpart under ground to
+that mighty city of temples upon earth.
+
+He then descended with me, still lower, into those winding crypts, where
+lay the Seven Tables of stone, found by Hermes in the valley of Hebron.
+"On these tables," said he, "is written all the knowledge of the
+antediluvian race,--the decrees of the stars from the beginning of time,
+the annals of a still earlier world, and all the marvellous secrets, both
+of heaven and earth, which would have been,
+
+          "_but_ for this key,
+  Lost in the Universal Sea."
+
+Returning to the region, from which we had descended, we next visited, in
+succession, a series of small shrines, representing the various objects of
+adoration through Egypt, and thus furnishing to the Priest an occasion for
+explaining the mysterious nature of animal worship, and the refined
+doctrines of theology that lay veiled under its forms. Every shrine was
+consecrated to a particular faith, and contained a living image of the
+deity which it adored. Beside the goat of Mendes, with his refulgent star
+upon his breast, I saw the crocodile, as presented to the eyes of its
+idolaters at Arsinoe, with costly gems in its loathsome ears, and rich
+bracelets of gold encircling its feet. Here, floating through a tank in
+the centre of a temple, the sacred carp of Lepidotum exhibited its silvery
+scales; while, there, the Isiac serpents trailed languidly over the altar,
+with that movement which most inspires the hopes of their votaries. In one
+of the small chapels we found a beautiful child, feeding and watching over
+those golden beetles, which are adored for their brightness, as emblems of
+the sun; while, in another, stood a sacred ibis upon its pedestal, so
+like, in plumage and attitude, to the bird of the young Priestess, that I
+could gladly have knelt down and worshipped it for her sake.
+
+After visiting these various shrines, and listening to the reflections
+which they suggested, I was next led by my guide to the Great Hall of the
+Zodiac, on whose ceiling, in bright and undying colours, was delineated
+the map of the firmament, as it appeared at the first dawn of time. Here,
+in pointing out the track of the sun, among the spheres, he spoke
+eloquently of the analogy that exists between moral and physical
+darkness--of the sympathy with which all spiritual creatures regard the
+sun, so as to sadden and droop when he sinks into his wintry hemisphere,
+and to rejoice when he resumes his own empire of light. Hence, the
+festivals and hymns, with which most of the nations of the earth are wont
+to welcome the resurrection of his orb in spring, as an emblem and pledge
+of the re-ascent of the soul to heaven. Hence, the songs of sorrow, the
+mournful ceremonies,--like those Mysteries of the Night, upon the Lake of
+Sais,--in which they brood over his autumnal descent into the shades, as a
+type of the Spirit's fall into this world of death.
+
+In discourses such as these the hours passed away; and though there was
+nothing in the light of this sunless region to mark to the eye the decline
+of day, my own feelings told me that the night drew near;--nor, in spite of
+my incredulity, could I refrain from a flutter of hope, as that promised
+moment of revelation approached, when the Mystery of Mysteries was to be
+made all my own. This consummation, however, was less near than I
+expected. My patience had still further trials to encounter. It was
+necessary, I now found, that I should keep watch, during the greater part
+of the night, in the Sanctuary of the Temple, alone and in darkness,--and
+thus prepare myself, by meditation, for the awful moment, when the
+irradiation from behind the sacred Veils was to burst upon me.
+
+At the appointed hour, we left the Hall of the Zodiac, and proceeded
+through a line of long marble galleries, where the lamps were more thinly
+scattered as we advanced, till, at length, we found ourselves in total
+darkness. Here the Priest, taking me by the hand, and leading me down a
+flight of steps, into a place where the same deep gloom prevailed, said,
+with a voice trembling, as if from excess of awe,--"Thou art now in the
+Sanctuary of our goddess, Isis, and the dark veils, that hang over her
+image, are before thee!"
+
+After exhorting me earnestly to that train of thought, which best accorded
+with the spirit of the place where I stood, and, above all, to that full
+and unhesitating faith, with which alone, he said, the manifestation of
+such mysteries should be approached, the holy man took leave of me, and
+re-ascended the steps;--while, so spell-bound did I feel by that deep
+darkness, that the last sound of his footsteps died upon my ear, before I
+ventured to stir a limb from the position in which he had left me.
+
+The prospect of the long watch, now before me, was dreadful. Even danger
+itself, in an active form, would have been preferable to this sort of
+safe, but dull, probation, by which patience was the only virtue put to
+the proof. Having ascertained how far the space around me was free from
+obstacles, I endeavoured to beguile the time by pacing up and down within
+those limits, till I became tired of the echoes of my own tread. Finding
+my way, then, to what I felt to be a massive pillar, and, leaning wearily
+against it, I surrendered myself to a train of thoughts and feelings, far
+different from those with which the Hierophant had hoped to inspire me.
+
+"Why," I again asked, "if these priests possess the secret of life, why
+are they themselves the victims of death? why sink into the grave with the
+cup of immortality in their hands? But no, safe boasters, the eternity
+they so lavishly promise is reserved for _another_, a future world--that
+ready resource of all priestly promises--that depository of the airy
+pledges of all creeds. Another world!--alas, where does it lie? or, what
+spirit hath ever come to say that Life is there?"
+
+The conclusion, to which, half sadly, half passionately, I arrived, was
+that, life being but a dream of the moment, never to come again, every
+bliss that is promised for hereafter should be secured by the wise man
+here. And, as no heaven I had ever heard of from these visionary priests
+opened half such certainty of happiness as that smile which I beheld last
+night,--"Let me," I exclaimed, impatiently, striking the massy pillar, till
+it rung, "let me but make that beautiful Priestess my own, and I here
+willingly exchange for her every chance of immortality, that the combined
+wisdom of Egypt's Twelve Temples can offer me!"
+
+No sooner had I uttered these words, than a tremendous peal, like that of
+thunder, rolled over the Sanctuary, and seemed to shake its walls. On
+every side, too, a succession of blue, vivid flashes pierced, like so many
+lances of light, through the gloom, revealing to me, at intervals, the
+mighty dome in which I stood--its ceiling of azure, studded with stars, its
+colossal columns, towering aloft, and those dark, mysterious veils, which
+hung, in massy drapery, from the roof to the floor, and covered the rich
+glories of the Shrine under their folds.
+
+So weary had I grown of my tedious watch, that this stormy and fitful
+illumination, during which the Sanctuary seemed to rock to its base, was
+by no means an unwelcome interruption of the monotony under which my
+impatience suffered. After a short interval, however, the flashes
+ceased;--the sounds died away, like exhausted thunder, through the abyss,
+and darkness and silence, like that of the grave, succeeded.
+
+Resting my back once more against the pillar, and fixing my eyes upon that
+side of the Sanctuary, from which the promised irradiation was to burst, I
+now resolved to await the awful moment in patience. Resigned and
+immovable, I had remained thus, for nearly another hour, when, suddenly,
+along the edges of the mighty Veils, I perceived a thin rim of light, as
+if from some brilliant object under them;--like that border which encircles
+a cloud at sunset, when the radiance, from behind, is escaping at its
+edges.
+
+This indication of concealed glories grew every instant more strong; till,
+at last, vividly marked as it was upon the darkness, the narrow fringe of
+lustre almost pained the eye, giving promise of a splendour too bright to
+be endured. My expectations were now wound to the highest pitch, and all
+the scepticism, into which I had been cooling down my mind, was forgotten.
+The wonders that had been presented to me since my descent from earth--that
+glimpse into Elysium on the first night of my coming--those visitants from
+the Land of Spirits in the mysterious valley,--all led me to expect, in
+this last and brightest revelation, such visions of glory and knowledge as
+might transcend even fancy itself, nor leave a doubt that they belonged
+less to earth than heaven.
+
+While, with an imagination thus excited, I stood waiting the result, an
+increased gush of light still more awakened my attention; and I saw, with
+an intenseness of interest, which made my heart beat aloud, one of the
+corners of the mighty Veil slowly raised up. I now felt that the Great
+Secret--whatever it might be--was at hand. A vague hope even crossed my
+mind--so wholly had imagination resumed her empire--that the splendid
+promise of my dream was on the point of being realised!
+
+With surprise, however, and--for a moment--with disappointment, I perceived,
+that the massy corner of the Veil was but raised sufficiently to allow a
+female figure to emerge from under it,--and then fell again, over its
+mystic splendours, as dark as before. By the strong light, too, that
+issued when the drapery was lifted, and illuminated the profile of the
+emerging figure, I either saw, or fancied that I saw, the same bright
+features, that had already mocked me so often with their momentary charm,
+and seemed destined to haunt my heart as unavailingly as the fond, vain
+dream of Immortality itself.
+
+Dazzled as I had been by that short gush of splendour, and distrusting
+even my senses, when under the influence of a fancy so excited, I had
+hardly time to question myself as to the reality of my impression, when I
+heard the sounds of light footsteps approaching me through the gloom. In a
+second or two more, the figure stopped before me, and, placing the end of
+a riband gently in my hand, said, in a tremulous whisper, "Follow, and be
+silent."
+
+So sudden and strange was the adventure, that, for a moment, I
+hesitated,--fearful lest my eyes should have been deceived as to the object
+they had seen. Casting a look towards the Veil, which seemed bursting with
+its luminous secret, I was almost doubting to which of the two chances I
+should commit myself, when I felt the riband in my hand pulled softly at
+the other extremity. This movement, at once, like a touch of magic,
+decided me. Without further deliberation, I yielded to the silent summons,
+and following my guide, who was already at some distance before me, found
+myself led up the same flight of marble steps, by which the Priest had
+conducted me into the Sanctuary. Arrived at their summit, I felt the pace
+of my conductress quicken, and, giving one more look to the Veiled Shrine,
+whose glories we left burning ineffectually behind us, hastened into the
+gloom, full of confidence in the belief, that she, who now held the other
+end of that clue, was one whom I could follow devotedly through the world.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XI.
+
+
+So rapidly was I hurried along by my unseen conductress, full of wonder at
+the speed with which she ventured through these labyrinths, that I had but
+little time to reflect upon the strangeness of the adventure to which I
+had committed myself. My knowledge of the character of the priests, as
+well as the fearful rumours that had reached me, of the fate that often
+attended unbelievers in their hands, waked a momentary suspicion of
+treachery in my mind. But, when I recalled the face of my guide, as I had
+seen it in the chapel, with that divine look, the very memory of which
+brought purity into the heart, this suspicion all vanished, and I felt
+shame at having harboured it but an instant.
+
+In the mean while, our course continued uninterrupted, through windings
+more capriciously intricate than any that I had yet passed, and whose
+darkness seemed never to have been disturbed by a single glimmer. My
+conductress still continued at some distance before me, and the clue, to
+which I clung as if it were the thread of Destiny herself, was still kept,
+by her speed, at full stretch between us. At length, suddenly stopping,
+she said, in a breathless whisper, "Seat thyself here," and, at the same
+moment, led me by the hand to a sort of low car, in which I lost not a
+moment in placing myself, as desired, while the maiden, as promptly, took
+her seat by my side.
+
+A sudden click, like the touching of a spring, was then heard, and the
+car,--which, as I had felt in entering it, leaned half-way over a steep
+descent,--on being loosed from its station, shot down, almost
+perpendicularly, into the darkness, with a rapidity which, at first,
+nearly deprived me of breath. The wheels slid smoothly and noiselessly in
+grooves, and the impetus, which the car acquired in descending, was
+sufficient, I perceived, to carry it up an eminence that succeeded,--from
+the summit of which it again rushed down another declivity, even still
+more long and precipitous than the former. In this manner we proceeded, by
+alternate falls and rises, till, at length, from the last and steepest
+elevation, the car descended upon a level of deep sand, where, after
+running for a few yards, it by degrees lost its motion and stopped.
+
+Here, the maiden alighting, again placed the riband in my hands,--and again
+I followed her, though with more slowness and difficulty than before, as
+our way led up a flight of damp and time-worn steps, whose ascent seemed
+to the weary and insecure foot interminable. Perceiving with what languor
+my guide now advanced, I was on the point of making an effort to assist
+her progress, when the creak of an opening door above, and a faint gleam
+of light which, at the same moment, shone upon her figure, apprised me
+that we were arrived within reach of sunshine.
+
+Joyfully I followed through this opening, and, by the dim light, could
+discern, that we were now in the sanctuary of a vast, ruined
+temple,--having entered by a passage under the lofty pedestal, upon which
+an image of the idol of the place once stood. The first movement of the
+maiden, after replacing the portal under the pedestal, was, without even a
+look towards me, to cast herself down on her knees, with her hands clasped
+and uplifted, as if for the purpose of thanksgiving or prayer. But she was
+unable to sustain herself in this position;--her strength could hold out no
+longer. Overcome by agitation and fatigue, she sunk senseless upon the
+pavement.
+
+Bewildered as I was, myself, by the events of the night, I stood for some
+minutes looking upon her in a state of helplessness and alarm. But,
+reminded, by my own feverish sensations, of the reviving effects of the
+air, I raised her gently in my arms, and crossing the corridor that
+surrounded the sanctuary, found my way to the outer vestibule of the
+temple. Here, shading her eyes from the sun, I placed her, reclining, upon
+the steps, where the cool wind, then blowing freshly from the north, might
+play, with free draught, between the pillars over her brow.
+
+It was, indeed,--I now saw, with certainty,--the same beautiful and
+mysterious girl, who had been the cause of my descent into that
+subterranean world, and who now, under such strange and unaccountable
+circumstances, was my guide back again to the realms of day. I looked
+round, to discover where we were, and beheld such a scene of grandeur,
+as--could my eyes have wandered to any other object from the pale form
+reclining at my side--might well have won them to dwell on its splendid
+beauties.
+
+I was now standing, I found, on the small island in the centre of Lake
+Moeris; and that sanctuary, where we had emerged from darkness, formed part
+of the ruins of a temple, which (as I have since learned) was, in the
+grander days of Memphis, a place of pilgrimage for worshippers from all
+parts of Egypt. The fair Lake, itself, out of whose waters once rose
+pavilions, palaces, and even lofty pyramids, was still, though divested of
+many of these wonders, a scene of interest and splendour such as the whole
+world could not equal. While the shores still sparkled with mansions and
+temples, that bore testimony to the luxury of a living race, the voice of
+the Past, speaking out of unnumbered ruins, whose summits, here and there,
+rose blackly above the wave, told of times long fled and generations long
+swept away, before whose giant remains all the glory of the present stood
+humbled. Over the southern bank of the Lake hung the dark relics of the
+Labyrinth;--its twelve Royal Palaces, like the mansions of the Zodiac,--its
+thundering portals and constellated halls, having left nothing behind but
+a few frowning ruins, which, contrasted with the soft groves of olive and
+acacia around them, seemed to rebuke the luxuriant smiles of nature, and
+threw a melancholy grandeur over the whole scene.
+
+The effects of the air, in re-animating the young Priestess, were less
+speedy than I had expected;--her eyes were still closed, and she remained
+pale and insensible. Alarmed, I now rested her head (which had been, for
+some time, supported by my arm,) against the base of a column, with my
+cloak for its pillow, while I hastened to procure some water from the
+Lake. The temple stood high, and the descent to the shore was precipitous.
+But, my Epicurean habits having but little impaired my activity, I soon
+descended, with the lightness of a desert deer, to the bottom. Here,
+plucking from a lofty bean-tree, whose flowers stood, shining like gold,
+above the water, one of those large hollowed leaves that serve as cups for
+the Hebes of the Nile, I filled it from the Lake, and hurried back with
+the cool draught to the temple. It was not without some difficulty and
+delay that I succeeded, in bearing my rustic chalice steadily up the
+steep; more than once did an unlucky slip waste its contents, and as often
+did I impatiently return to refill it.
+
+During this time, the young maiden was fast recovering her animation and
+consciousness; and, at the moment when I appeared above the edge of the
+steep, was just rising from the steps, with her hand pressed to her
+forehead, as if confusedly recalling the recollection of what had
+occurred. No sooner did she observe me, than a short cry of alarm broke
+from her lips. Looking anxiously round, as though she sought for
+protection, and half audibly uttering the words, "Where is he?" she made
+an effort, as I approached, to retreat into the temple.
+
+Already, however, I was by her side, and taking her hand gently, as she
+turned away, "Whom dost thou seek, fair Priestess?" I asked,--for the first
+time breaking through the silence she had enjoined, and in a tone that
+might have re-assured the most timid spirit. But my words had no effect in
+calming her apprehension. Trembling, and with her eyes still averted
+towards the Temple, she continued in a voice of suppressed alarm,--"Where
+_can_ he be?--that venerable Athenian, that philosopher, who----"
+
+"Here, here," I exclaimed, anxiously interrupting her,--"behold him still
+by thy side--the same, the very same who saw thee steal from under the
+lighted Veils of the Sanctuary, whom thou hast guided by a clue through
+those labyrinths below, and who now but waits his command from those lips,
+to devote himself through life and death to thy service." As I spoke these
+words, she turned slowly round, and looking timidly in my face, while her
+own burned with blushes, said, in a tone of doubt and wonder, "Thou!" and
+hid her eyes in her hands.
+
+I knew not how to interpret a reception so unexpected. That some mistake
+or disappointment had occurred was evident; but so inexplicable did the
+whole adventure appear, that it was in vain to think of unravelling any
+part of it. Weak and agitated, she now tottered to the steps of the
+temple, and there seating herself, with her forehead against the cold
+marble, seemed for some moments absorbed in the most anxious
+thought,--while silent and watchful I waited her decision, with a prophetic
+feeling, however, that my destiny would be henceforth linked with hers.
+
+The inward struggle by which she was agitated, though violent, was not of
+long continuance. Starting suddenly from her seat, with a look of terror
+towards the temple, as if the fear of immediate pursuit had alone decided
+her, she pointed eagerly towards the East, and exclaimed, "To the Nile,
+without delay!"--clasping her hands, when she had spoken, with the most
+suppliant fervour, as if to soften the abruptness of the mandate she had
+given, and appealing to me with a look that would have taught Stoics
+tenderness.
+
+I lost no time in obeying the welcome command. While a thousand wild hopes
+and wishes crowded upon my fancy, at the prospect which a voyage, under
+such auspices, presented, I descended rapidly to the shore, and hailing
+one of the numerous boats that ply upon the Lake for hire, arranged
+speedily for a passage down the canal to the Nile. Having learned, too,
+from the boatmen, a more easy path up the rock, I hastened back to the
+Temple for my fair charge; and without a word, a look, that could alarm,
+even by its kindness, or disturb that innocent confidence which she now
+placed in me, led her down by the winding path to the boat.
+
+Every thing looked smiling around us as we embarked. The morning was now
+in its first freshness, and the path of the breeze might be traced over
+the Lake, wakening up its waters from their sleep of the night. The gay,
+golden-winged birds that haunt these shores, were, in every direction,
+skimming along the lake; while, with a graver consciousness of beauty, the
+swan and the pelican were seen dressing their white plumage in the mirror
+of its wave. To add to the animation of the scene, a sweet tinkling of
+musical instruments came, at intervals, on the breeze, from boats at a
+distance, employed thus early in pursuing the fish of these waters, that
+suffer themselves to be decoyed into the nets by music.
+
+The vessel which I selected for our voyage was one of those small
+pleasure-boats or yachts,--so much in use among the luxurious navigators of
+the Nile,--in the centre of which rises a pavilion of cedar or cypress
+wood, gilded gorgeously, without, with religious emblems, and fitted up,
+within, for all the purposes of feasting and repose. To the door of this
+pavilion I now led my companion, and, after a few words of
+kindness--tempered with as much respectful reserve as the deep tenderness
+which I felt would admit of--left her in solitude to court that restoring
+rest, which the agitation of her spirits but too much required.
+
+For myself, though repose was hardly less necessary to me, the ferment in
+which my thoughts had been kept seemed to render it hopeless. Throwing
+myself upon the deck, under an awning which the sailors had raised for me,
+I continued, for some hours, in a sort of vague day-dream,--sometimes
+passing in review the scenes of that subterranean drama, and sometimes,
+with my eyes fixed in drowsy vacancy, receiving passively the impressions
+of the bright scenery through which we passed.
+
+The banks of the canal were then luxuriantly wooded. Under the tufts of
+the light and towering palm were seen the orange and the citron,
+interlacing their boughs; while, here and there, huge tamarisks thickened
+the shade, and, at the very edge of the bank, the willow of Babylon stood
+bending its graceful branches into the water. Occasionally, out of the
+depth of these groves, there shone a small temple or pleasure-
+house;--while, now and then, an opening in their line of foliage allowed
+the eye to wander over extensive fields, all covered with beds of those
+pale, sweet roses, for which this district of Egypt is so celebrated.
+
+The activity of the morning hour was visible every where. Flights of doves
+and lapwings were fluttering among the leaves, and the white heron, which
+had roosted all night in some date-tree, now stood sunning its wings upon
+the green bank, or floated, like living silver, over the flood. The
+flowers, too, both of land and water, looked freshly awakened;--and, most
+of all, the superb lotus, which had risen with the sun from the wave, and
+was now holding up her chalice for a full draught of his light.
+
+Such were the scenes that now passed before my eyes, and mingled with the
+reveries that floated through my mind, as our boat, with its high,
+capacious sail, swept over the flood. Though the occurrences of the last
+few days appeared to me one series of wonders, yet by far the most
+miraculous wonder of all was, that she, whose first look had sent wild-
+fire into my heart,--whom I had thought of ever since with a restlessness
+of passion, that would have dared any thing on earth to obtain its
+object,--was now sleeping sacredly in that small pavilion, while guarding
+her, even from myself, I lay calmly at its threshold.
+
+Meanwhile, the sun had reached his meridian. The busy hum of the morning
+had died gradually away, and all around was sleeping in the hot stillness
+of noon. The Nile-goose, folding her splendid wings, was lying motionless
+on the shadow of the sycamores in the water. Even the nimble lizards upon
+the bank seemed to move more languidly, as the light fell upon their gold
+and azure hues. Overcome as I was with watching, and weary with thought,
+it was not long before I yielded to the becalming influence of the hour.
+Looking fixedly at the pavilion,--as if once more to assure my senses, that
+I was not already in a dream, but that the young Egyptian was really
+there,--I felt my eyes close as I looked, and in a few minutes sunk into a
+profound sleep.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XII.
+
+
+It was by the canal through which we now sailed, that, in the more
+prosperous days of Memphis, the commerce of Upper Egypt and Nubia was
+transported to her magnificent Lake, and from thence, having paid tribute
+to the queen of cities, was poured out again, through the Nile, into the
+ocean. The course of this canal to the river was not direct, but ascending
+in a south-easterly direction towards the Said; and in calms, or with
+adverse winds, the passage was tedious. But as the breeze was now blowing
+freshly from the north, there was every prospect of our reaching the river
+before night-fall. Rapidly, too, as our galley swept along the flood, its
+motion was so smooth as to be hardly felt; and the quiet gurgle of the
+waters underneath, and the drowsy song of the boatman at the prow, alone
+disturbed the deep silence that prevailed.
+
+The sun, indeed, had nearly sunk behind the Libyan hills, before the
+sleep, in which these sounds lulled me, was broken; and the first object,
+on which my eyes rested, in waking, was that fair young Priestess,--seated
+under a porch by which the door of the pavilion was shaded, and bending
+intently over a small volume that lay unrolled on her lap.
+
+Her face was but half turned towards me, and as, once or twice, she raised
+her eyes to the warm sky, whose light fell, softened through the trellis,
+over her cheek, I found every feeling of reverence, with which she had
+inspired me in the chapel, return. There was even a purer and holier charm
+around her countenance, thus seen by the natural light of day, than in
+those dim and unhallowed regions below. She could now, too, look direct to
+the glorious sky, and that heaven and her eyes, so worthy of each other,
+met.
+
+After contemplating her for a few moments, with little less than
+adoration, I rose gently from my resting-place, and approached the
+pavilion. But the mere movement had startled her from her devotion, and,
+blushing and confused, she covered the volume with the folds of her robe.
+
+In the art of winning upon female confidence, I had long been schooled;
+and, now that to the lessons of gallantry the inspiration of love was
+added, my ambition to please and to interest could hardly, it may be
+supposed, fail of success. I soon found, however, how much less fluent is
+the heart than the fancy, and how very distinct are the operations of
+making love and feeling it. In the few words of greeting now exchanged
+between us, it was evident that the gay, the enterprising Epicurean was
+little less embarrassed than the secluded Priestess;--and, after one or two
+ineffectual efforts to bring our voices acquainted with each other, the
+eyes of both turned bashfully away, and we relapsed into silence.
+
+From this situation--the result of timidity on one side, and of a feeling
+altogether new, on the other--we were, at length, after an interval of
+estrangement, relieved, by the boatmen announcing that the Nile was in
+sight. The countenance of the young Egyptian brightened at this
+intelligence; and the smile with which I congratulated her on the speed of
+our voyage was answered by another, so full of gratitude, that already an
+instinctive sympathy seemed established between us.
+
+We were now on the point of entering that sacred river, of whose sweet
+waters the exile drinks in his dreams,--for a draught of whose flood the
+daughters of the Ptolemies, when wedded to foreign kings, sighed in the
+midst of their splendour. As our boat, with slackened sail, glided into
+the current, an enquiry from the boatmen, whether they should anchor for
+the night in the Nile, first reminded me of the ignorance, in which I
+still remained, with respect to either the motive or destination of our
+voyage. Embarrassed by their question I directed my eyes towards the
+Priestess, whom I saw waiting for my answer with a look of anxiety, which
+this silent reference to her wishes at once dispelled. Eagerly unfolding
+the volume with which I had seen her occupied, she took from its folds a
+small leaf of papyrus, on which there appeared to be some faint lines of
+drawing, and after thoughtfully looking upon it, herself, for a moment,
+placed it, with an agitated hand, in mine.
+
+In the mean time, the boatmen had taken in their sail, and the yacht drove
+slowly down the river with the current, while, by a light which had been
+kindled at sunset on the deck, I stood examining the leaf that the
+Priestess had given me,--her dark eyes fixed anxiously on my countenance
+all the while. The lines traced upon the papyrus were so faint as to be
+almost invisible, and I was for some time at a loss to divine their
+import. At length, I could perceive that they were the outlines, or
+map--traced slightly and unsteadily with a Memphian reed--of a part of that
+mountainous ridge by which Upper Egypt is bounded to the east, together
+with the names, or rather emblems, of the chief towns in the
+neighbourhood.
+
+It was thither, I could not doubt, that the young Priestess wished to
+pursue her course. Without a moment's delay, therefore, I gave orders to
+the boatmen to set our yacht before the wind and ascend the current. My
+command was promptly obeyed: the white sail again rose into the region of
+the breeze, and the satisfaction that beamed in every feature of the fair
+Egyptian showed that the quickness with which I had obeyed her wishes was
+not unfelt by her. The moon had now risen; and though the current was
+against us, the Etesian wind of the season blew strongly up the river, and
+we were soon floating before it, through the rich plains and groves of the
+Said.
+
+The love, with which this simple girl had inspired me, was--possibly from
+the mystic scenes and situations in which I had seen her--not unmingled
+with a tinge of superstitious awe, under the influence of which I felt the
+buoyancy of my spirit checked. The few words that had passed between us on
+the subject of our route had somewhat loosened this spell; and what I
+wanted of vivacity and confidence was more than made up by the tone of
+deep sensibility which love had awakened in their place.
+
+We had not proceeded far before the glittering of lights at a distance,
+and the shooting up of fireworks, at intervals, into the air, apprised us
+that we were approaching one of those night-fairs, or marts, which it is
+the custom, at this season, to hold upon the Nile. To me the scene was
+familiar; but to my young companion it was evidently a new world; and the
+mixture of alarm and delight with which she gazed, from under her veil,
+upon the busy scene into which we now sailed, gave an air of innocence to
+her beauty, which still more heightened its every charm.
+
+It was one of the widest parts of the river; and the whole surface, from
+one bank to the other, was covered with boats. Along the banks of a green
+island, in the middle of the stream, lay anchored the galleys of the
+principal traders,--large floating bazaars, bearing each the name of its
+owner, emblazoned in letters of flame, upon the stern. Over their decks
+were spread out, in gay confusion, the products of the loom and needle of
+Egypt,--rich carpets of Memphis, and those variegated veils, for which the
+female embroiderers of the Nile are so celebrated, and to which the name
+of Cleopatra lends a traditional value. In each of the other galleys was
+exhibited some branch of Egyptian workmanship,--vases of the fragrant
+porcelain of On,--cups of that frail crystal, whose hues change like those
+of the pigeon's plumage,--enamelled amulets graven with the head of Anubis,
+and necklaces and bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia.
+
+While Commerce thus displayed her luxuries in one quarter, in every other
+direction Pleasure, multiplied into her thousand shapes, swarmed over the
+waters. Nor was the festivity confined to the river only. All along the
+banks of the island and on the shores, lighted up mansions were seen
+through the trees, from which sounds of music and merriment came. In some
+of the boats were bands of minstrels, who, from time to time, answered
+each other, like echoes, across the wave; and the notes of the lyre, the
+flageolet, and the sweet lotus-wood flute, were heard, in the pauses of
+revelry, dying along the waters.
+
+Meanwhile, from other boats stationed in the least lighted places, the
+workers of fire sent forth their wonders into the air. Bursting out from
+time to time, as if in the very exuberance of joy, these sallies of flame
+seemed to reach the sky, and there breaking into a shower of sparkles,
+shed such a splendour round, as brightened even the white Arabian
+hills,--making them shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at night, when the
+fire from his own bosom is playing around its snows.
+
+The opportunity which this luxurious mart afforded us, of providing
+ourselves with other and less remarkable habiliments than those in which
+we had escaped from that nether world, was too seasonable not to be gladly
+taken advantage of by both. For myself, the strange mystic garb that I
+wore was sufficiently concealed by my Grecian mantle, which I had luckily
+thrown round me on the night of my watch. But the thin veil of my
+companion was a far less efficient disguise. She had, indeed, flung away
+the golden beetles from her hair; but the sacred robe of her order was
+still too visible, and the stars of the bandelet shone brightly through
+her veil.
+
+Most gladly, therefore, did she avail herself of this opportunity of a
+change; and, as she took from a casket--which, with the volume I had seen
+her reading, appeared to be her only treasure--a small jewel, to exchange
+for the simple garments she had chosen, there fell out, at the same time,
+the very cross of silver, which I had seen her kiss, as may be remembered,
+in the monumental chapel, and which was afterwards pressed to my own lips.
+This link (for such it appeared to my imagination) between us, now revived
+in my heart all the burning feelings of that moment;--and, had I not
+abruptly turned away, my agitation would, but too plainly, have betrayed
+itself.
+
+The object, for which we had delayed in this gay scene, being
+accomplished, the sail was again spread, and we proceeded on our course up
+the river. The sounds and the lights we left behind died gradually away,
+and we now floated along in moonlight and silence once more. Sweet dews,
+worthy of being called "the tears of Isis," fell through the air, and
+every plant and flower sent its fragrance to meet them. The wind, just
+strong enough to bear us smoothly against the current, scarcely stirred
+the shadow of the tamarisks on the water. As the inhabitants from all
+quarters were collected at the night-fair, the Nile was more than usually
+still and solitary. Such a silence, indeed, prevailed, that, as we glided
+near the shore, we could hear the rustling of the acacias, as the
+chameleons ran up their stems. It was, altogether, a night such as only
+the clime of Egypt can boast, when every thing lies lulled in that sort of
+bright tranquillity, which, we may imagine, shines over the sleep of those
+happy spirits, who are supposed to rest in the Valley of the Moon, on
+their way to heaven.
+
+By such a light, and at such an hour, seated, side by side, on the deck of
+that bark, did we pursue our course up the lonely Nile--each a mystery to
+the other--our thoughts, our objects, our very names a secret;--separated,
+too, till now, by destinies so different, the one, a gay voluptuary of the
+Garden of Athens, the other, a secluded Priestess of the Temples of
+Memphis;--and the only relation yet established between us being that
+dangerous one of love, passionate love, on one side, and the most feminine
+and confiding dependence on the other.
+
+The passing adventure of the night-fair had not only dispelled still more
+our mutual reserve, but had supplied us with a subject on which we could
+converse without embarrassment. From this topic I took care to lead on,
+without interruption, to others,--fearful lest our former silence should
+return, and the music of her voice again be lost to me. It was, indeed,
+only by thus indirectly unburdening my heart that I was enabled to refrain
+from the full utterance of all I thought and felt; and the restless
+rapidity with which I flew from subject to subject was but an effort to
+escape from the only one in which my heart was interested.
+
+"How bright and happy," said I,--pointing up to Sothis, the fair Star of
+the Waters, which was just then sparkling brilliantly over our heads,--"How
+bright and happy this world ought to be, if--as your Egyptian sages
+assert--yon pure and beautiful luminary was its birth-star!" Then, still
+leaning back, and letting my eyes wander over the firmament, as if seeking
+to disengage them from the fascination which they dreaded--"To the study (I
+said), for ages, of skies like this, may the pensive and mystic character
+of your nation be traced. That mixture of pride and melancholy which
+naturally arises, at the sight of those eternal lights shining out of
+darkness;--that sublime, but saddened, anticipation of a Future, which
+comes over the soul in the silence of such an hour, when, though Death
+seems to reign in the repose of earth, there are those beacons of
+Immortality burning in the sky--"
+
+Pausing, as I uttered the word "immortality," with a sigh to think how
+little my heart echoed to my lips, I looked in the face of the maiden, and
+saw that it had lighted up, as I spoke, into a glow of holy animation,
+such as Faith alone gives--such as Hope herself wears, when she is dreaming
+of heaven. Touched by the contrast, and gazing upon her with mournful
+tenderness, I found my arms half opened, to clasp her to my heart, while
+the words died away inaudibly upon my lips,--"thou, too, beautiful maiden!
+must thou, too, die for ever?"
+
+My self-command, I felt, had nearly deserted me. Rising abruptly from my
+seat, I walked to the middle of the deck, and stood, for some moments,
+unconsciously gazing upon one of those fires, which,--as is the custom of
+all who travel by night upon the Nile,--our boatmen had just kindled, to
+scare away the crocodiles from the vessel. But it was in vain that I
+endeavoured to compose my spirit. Every effort I made but more deeply
+convinced me, that, till the mystery which hung round that maiden should
+be solved--till the secret, with which my own bosom laboured, should be
+disclosed--it was fruitless to attempt even a semblance of tranquillity.
+
+My resolution was therefore taken;--to lay open, at least, my own heart, as
+far as such a revelation might be risked, without startling the timid
+innocence of my companion. Thus resolved, I returned, with more composure,
+to my seat by her side, and taking from my bosom the small mirror which
+she had dropped in the Temple, and which I had ever since worn suspended
+round my neck, with a trembling hand presented it to her view. The boatmen
+had just kindled one of their night-fires near us, and its light, as she
+leaned forward towards the mirror, fell on her face.
+
+The quick blush of surprise with which she recognised it to be hers, and
+her look of bashful, yet eager, inquiry, in raising her eyes to mine, were
+appeals to which I was not, of course, slow in answering. Beginning with
+the first moment when I saw her in the Temple, and passing hastily, but
+with words that burned as they went, over the impression which she had
+then left upon my heart and fancy, I proceeded to describe the particulars
+of my descent into the pyramid--my surprise and adoration at the door of
+the chapel--my encounter with the Trials of Initiation, so mysteriously
+prepared for me, and all the various visionary wonders I had witnessed in
+that region, till the moment when I had seen her stealing from under the
+Veils to approach me.
+
+Though, in detailing these events, I had said but little of the feelings
+they had awakened in me,--though my lips had sent back many a sentence,
+unuttered, there was still enough that could neither be subdued or
+disguised, and which, like that light from under the veils of her own
+Isis, glowed through every word that I spoke. When I told of the scene in
+the chapel,--of the silent interview which I had witnessed between the dead
+and the living,--the maiden leaned down her head and wept, as from a heart
+full of tears. It seemed a pleasure to her, however, to listen; and, when
+she looked at me again, there was an earnest and affectionate cordiality
+in her eyes, as if the knowledge of my having been present at that
+mournful scene had opened a new source of sympathy and intelligence
+between us. So neighbouring are the fountains of Love and of Sorrow, and
+so imperceptibly do they often mingle their streams.
+
+Little, indeed, as I was guided by art or design, in my manner and conduct
+to this innocent girl, not all the most experienced gallantry of the
+Garden could have dictated a policy half so seductive as that which my new
+master, Love, now taught me. The ardour which, shown at once, and without
+reserve, might have startled a heart so little prepared for it, thus
+checked and softened by the timidity of real love, won its way without
+alarm, and, when most diffident of success, most triumphed. Like one whose
+sleep is gradually broken by music, the maiden's heart was awakened
+without being disturbed. She followed the charm, unconscious whither it
+led, nor was aware of the flame she had lighted in another's bosom, till
+she perceived the reflection of it glimmering in her own.
+
+Impatient as I was to appeal to her generosity and sympathy, for a similar
+proof of confidence to that which I had just given, the night was now too
+far advanced for me to impose such a task upon her. After exchanging a few
+words, in which, though little was said, there was a tone and manner that
+spoke far more than language, we took a lingering leave of each other for
+the night, with every prospect of still being together in our dreams.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XIII.
+
+
+It was so near the dawn of day when we parted, that we again found the sun
+sinking westward when we rejoined each other. The smile with which she met
+me,--so frankly cordial,--might have been taken for the greeting of a long
+mellowed friendship, did not the blush and the castdown eyelid, that
+followed, give symptoms of a feeling newer and less calm. For myself,
+lightened as I was, in some degree, by the confession which I had made, I
+was yet too conscious of the new aspect thus given to our intercourse, to
+feel altogether unembarrassed at the prospect of returning to the theme.
+It was, therefore, willingly we both suffered our attention to be
+diverted, by the variety of objects that presented themselves on the way,
+from a subject that both equally trembled to approach.
+
+The river was now full of life and motion. Every moment we met with boats
+descending the current, so independent of aid from sail or oar, that the
+sailors sat idly upon the deck as they shot along, singing or playing upon
+their double-reeded pipes. Of these boats, the greater number came loaded
+with merchandise from Coptos,--some with those large emeralds, from the
+mine in the desert, whose colours, it is said, are brightest at the full
+of the moon, and some laden with frankincense from the acacia-groves near
+the Red Sea. On the decks of others, that had been to the Golden Mountains
+beyond Syene, were heaped blocks and fragments of that sweet-smelling
+wood, which the Green Nile of Nubia washes down in the season of the
+floods.
+
+Our companions up the stream were far less numerous. Occasionally a boat,
+returning lightened from the fair of last night, with those high sails
+that catch every breeze from over the hills, shot past us;--while, now and
+then, we overtook one of those barges full of bees, that at this season of
+the year, are sent to colonise the gardens of the south, and take
+advantage of the first flowers after the inundation has passed away.
+
+By these various objects we were, for a short time, enabled to divert the
+conversation from lighting and settling upon the one subject, round which
+it continually hovered. But the effort, as might be expected, was not long
+successful. As evening advanced, the whole scene became more solitary. We
+less frequently ventured to look upon each other, and our intervals of
+silence grew more long.
+
+It was near sunset, when, in passing a small temple on the shore, whose
+porticoes were now full of the evening light, we saw, issuing from a
+thicket of acanthus near it, a train of young maids linked together in the
+dance by lotus-stems, held at arms' length between them. Their tresses
+were also wreathed with this emblem of the season, and such a profusion of
+the white flowers were twisted round their waists and arms, that they
+might have been taken, as they gracefully bounded along the bank, for
+Nymphs of the Nile, risen freshly from their gardens under the wave.
+
+After looking for a few moments at this sacred dance, the maid turned away
+her eyes, with a look of pain, as if the remembrances it recalled were of
+no welcome nature. This momentary retrospect, this glimpse into the past,
+seemed to offer a sort of clue to the secret for which I panted;--and,
+gradually and delicately as my impatience would allow, I availed myself of
+it. Her frankness, however, saved me the embarrassment of much
+questioning. She even seemed to feel that the confidence I sought was due
+to me, and beyond the natural hesitation of maidenly modesty, not a shade
+of reserve or evasion appeared.
+
+To attempt to repeat, in her own touching words, the simple story which
+she now related to me, would be like endeavouring to note down some strain
+of unpremeditated music, with those fugitive graces, those felicities of
+the moment, which no art can restore, as they first met the ear. From a
+feeling, too, of humility, she had omitted in her narrative some
+particulars relating to herself, which I afterwards learned;--while others,
+not less important, she but slightly passed over, from a fear of wounding
+the prejudices of her heathen hearer.
+
+I shall, therefore, give her story, as the outline which she, herself,
+sketched was afterwards filled up by a pious and venerable hand,--far, far
+more worthy than mine of being associated with the memory of such purity.
+
+
+
+
+
+                             STORY OF ALETHE.
+
+
+"The mother of this maiden was the beautiful Theora of Alexandria, who,
+though a native of that city, was descended from Grecian parents. When
+very young, Theora was one of the seven maidens selected, to note down the
+discourses of the eloquent Origen, who, at that period, presided over the
+School of Alexandria, and was in all the fulness of his fame, both among
+Pagans and Christians. Endowed richly with the learning of both creeds, he
+brought the natural light of philosophy to elucidate the mysteries of
+faith, and was only proud of his knowledge of the wisdom of this world,
+inasmuch as it ministered to the triumph of divine truth.
+
+"Though he had courted in vain the crown of martyrdom, it was held,
+throughout his life, suspended over his head, and in more than one
+persecution, he had evinced his readiness to die for that faith which he
+lived but to testify and adorn. On one of these occasions, his tormentors,
+having habited him like an Egyptian priest, placed him upon the steps of
+the Temple of Serapis, and commanded that he should, in the manner of the
+Pagan ministers, present palm-branches to the multitude who went up to the
+shrine. But the courageous Christian disappointed their views. Holding
+forth the branches with an unshrinking hand, he cried aloud, 'Come hither
+and take the branch, not of an Idol Temple, but of Christ.'
+
+"So indefatigable was this learned Father in his studies, that, while
+composing his Commentary on the Scriptures, he was attended by seven
+scribes or notaries, who relieved each other in taking down the dictates
+of his eloquent tongue; while the same number of young females, selected
+for the beauty of their penmanship, were employed in arranging and
+transcribing the precious leaves.
+
+"Among the scribes so selected, was the fair young Theora, whose parents,
+though attached to the Pagan worship, were not unwilling to profit by the
+accomplishments of their daughter, thus devoted to a task which they
+considered purely mechanical. To the maid herself, however, her task
+brought far other feelings and consequences. She read anxiously as she
+wrote, and the divine truths, so eloquently illustrated, found their way,
+by degrees, from the page to her heart. Deeply, too, as the written words
+affected her, the discourses from the lips of the great teacher himself,
+which she had frequent opportunities of hearing, sunk still more deeply
+into her mind. There was, at once, a sublimity and gentleness in his views
+of religion, which, to the tender hearts and lively imaginations of women,
+never failed to appeal with convincing power. Accordingly, the list of his
+female pupils was numerous; and the names of Barbara, Juliana, Herais, and
+others, bear honourable testimony to his influence over that sex.
+
+"To Theora the feeling, with which his discourses inspired her, was like a
+new soul,--a consciousness of spiritual existence, unfelt before. By the
+eloquence of the comment she was awakened into admiration of the text; and
+when, by the kindness of a Catechumen of the school, who had been struck
+by her innocent zeal, she, for the first time, became possessor of a copy
+of the Scriptures, she could not sleep for thinking of her sacred
+treasure. With a mixture of pleasure and fear she hid it from all eyes,
+and was like one who had received a divine guest under her roof, and felt
+fearful of betraying its divinity to the world.
+
+"A heart so awake would have been easily secured to the faith, had her
+opportunities of hearing the sacred word continued. But circumstances
+arose to deprive her of this advantage. The mild Origen, long harassed and
+thwarted in his labours by the tyranny of the Bishop of Alexandria,
+Demetrius, was obliged to relinquish his school and fly from Egypt. The
+occupation of the fair scribe was, therefore, at an end: her intercourse
+with the followers of the new faith ceased; and the growing enthusiasm of
+her heart gave way to more worldly impressions.
+
+"Love, among the rest, had its share in alienating her thoughts from
+religion. While still very young, she became the wife of a Greek
+adventurer, who had come to Egypt as a purchaser of that rich tapestry, in
+which the needles of Persia are rivalled by the looms of the Nile. Having
+taken his young bride to Memphis, which was still the great mart of this
+merchandise, he there, in the midst of his speculations, died,--leaving his
+widow on the point of becoming a mother, while, as yet, but in her
+nineteenth year.
+
+"For single and unprotected females, it has been, at all times, a
+favourite resource, to seek admission into the service of some of those
+great temples, which absorb so much of the wealth and power of Egypt. In
+most of these institutions there exists an order of Priestesses, which,
+though not hereditary, like that of the Priests, is provided for by ample
+endowments, and confers that rank and station, with which, in a government
+so theocratic, Religion is sure to invest even her humblest handmaids.
+From the general policy of the Sacred College of Memphis, it may be
+concluded, that an accomplished female, like Theora, found but little
+difficulty in being chosen one of the Priestesses of Isis; and it was in
+the service of the subterranean shrines that her ministry chiefly lay.
+
+"Here, a month or two after her admission, she gave birth to Alethe, who
+first opened her eyes among the unholy pomps and specious miracles of this
+mysterious region. Though Theora, as we have seen, had been diverted by
+other feelings from her first enthusiasm for the Christian faith, she had
+never wholly forgot the impression then made upon her. The sacred volume,
+which the pious Catechumen had given her, was still treasured with care;
+and, though she seldom opened its pages, there was an idea of sanctity
+associated with it in her memory, and often would she sit to look upon it
+with reverential pleasure, recalling the happiness she felt when it was
+first made her own.
+
+"The leisure of her new retreat, and the lone melancholy of widowhood, led
+her still more frequently to indulge in such thoughts, and to recur to
+those consoling truths which she had heard in the school of Alexandria.
+She now began to peruse eagerly the sacred book, drinking deep of the
+fountain of which she before but tasted, and feeling--what thousands of
+mourners, since her, have felt--that Christianity is the true religion of
+the sorrowful.
+
+"This study of her secret hours became still more dear to her, from the
+peril with which, at that period, it was attended, and the necessity she
+was under of concealing from those around her the precious light that had
+been kindled in her heart. Too timid to encounter the fierce persecution,
+which awaited all who were suspected of a leaning to Christianity, she
+continued to officiate in the pomps and ceremonies of the Temple;--though,
+often, with such remorse of soul, that she would pause, in the midst of
+the rites, and pray inwardly to God, that he would forgive this
+profanation of his Spirit.
+
+"In the mean time her daughter, the young Alethe, grew up still lovelier
+than herself, and added, every hour, to her happiness and her fears. When
+arrived at a sufficient age, she was taught, like the other children of
+the priestesses, to take a share in the service and ceremonies of the
+shrines. The duty of some of these young servitors was to look after the
+flowers for the altar;--of others, to take care that the sacred vases were
+filled every day with fresh water from the Nile. The task of some was to
+preserve, in perfect polish, those silver images of the moon which the
+priests carried in processions; while others were, as we have seen,
+employed in feeding the consecrated animals, and in keeping their plumes
+and scales bright, for the admiring eyes of their worshippers.
+
+"The office allotted to Alethe--the most honourable of these minor
+ministries--was to wait upon the sacred birds of the Moon, to feed them
+with those eggs from the Nile which they loved, and provide for their use
+that purest water, which alone these delicate birds will touch. This
+employment was the delight of her childish hours; and that ibis, which
+Alciphron (the Epicurean) saw her dance round in the Temple, was her
+favourite, of all the sacred flock, and had been daily fondled and fed by
+her from infancy.
+
+"Music, as being one of the chief spells of this enchanted region, was an
+accomplishment required of all its ministrants; and the harp, the lyre,
+and the sacred flute, sounded nowhere so sweetly as that through these
+subterranean gardens. The chief object, indeed, in the education of the
+youth of the Temple, was to fit them, by every grace of art and nature, to
+give effect to the illusion of those shows and phantasms, in which the
+whole charm and secret of Initiation lay.
+
+"Among the means employed to support the old system of superstition,
+against the infidelity and, still more, the new Faith that menaced it, was
+an increased display of splendour and marvels in those Mysteries for which
+Egypt has so long been celebrated. Of these ceremonies so many imitations
+had, under various names, been multiplied through Europe, that the parent
+superstition ran a risk of being eclipsed by its progeny; and, in order
+still to retain their rank of the first Priesthood in the world, those of
+Egypt found it necessary to continue still the best impostors.
+
+"Accordingly, every contrivance that art could devise, or labour
+execute--every resource that the wonderful knowledge of the Priests, in
+pyrotechny, mechanics, and dioptrics, could command, was brought into
+action to heighten the effect of their Mysteries, and give an air of
+enchantment to every thing connected with them.
+
+"The final scene of beatification--the Elysium, into which the Initiate was
+received,--formed, of course, the leading attraction of these ceremonies;
+and to render it captivating alike to the senses of the man of pleasure,
+and the imagination of the spiritualist, was the object to which the whole
+skill and attention of the Sacred College were devoted. By the influence
+of the Priests of Memphis over those of the other Temples they had
+succeeded in extending their subterranean frontier, both to the north and
+south, so as to include, within their ever-lighted Paradise, some of the
+gardens excavated for the use of the other Twelve Shrines.
+
+"The beauty of the young Alethe, the touching sweetness of her voice, and
+the sensibility that breathed throughout her every look and movement,
+rendered her a powerful auxiliary in such appeals to the imagination. She
+was, accordingly, from her childhood, selected from among her fair
+companions, as the most worthy representative of spiritual loveliness, in
+those pictures of Elysium--those scenes of another world--by which not only
+the fancy, but the reason, of the excited Aspirants was dazzled.
+
+"To the innocent child herself these shows were pastime. But to Theora,
+who knew too well the imposition to which they were subservient, this
+profanation of all that she loved was a perpetual source of horror and
+remorse. Often would she--when Alethe stood smiling before her, arrayed,
+perhaps, as a spirit of the Elysian world,--turn away, with a shudder, from
+the happy child, almost fancying that she already saw the shadows of sin
+descending over that innocent brow, as she gazed on it.
+
+"As the intellect of the young maid became more active and inquiring, the
+apprehensions and difficulties of the mother increased. Afraid to
+communicate her own precious secret, lest she should involve her child in
+the dangers that encompassed it, she yet felt it to be no less a cruelty
+than a crime to leave her wholly immersed in the darkness of Paganism. In
+this dilemma, the only resource that remained to her was to select, and
+disengage from the dross that surrounded them, those pure particles of
+truth which lie at the bottom of all religions;--those feelings, rather
+than doctrines, which God has never left his creatures without, and which,
+in all ages, have furnished, to those who sought it, some clue to his
+glory.
+
+"The unity and perfect goodness of the Creator; the fall of the human soul
+into corruption; its struggles with the darkness of this world, and its
+final redemption and re-ascent to the source of all spirit;--these natural
+solutions of the problem of our existence, these elementary grounds of all
+religion and virtue, which Theora had heard illustrated by her Christian
+teacher, lay also, she knew, veiled under the theology of Egypt; and to
+impress them, in all their abstract purity, upon the mind of her
+susceptible pupil, was, in default of more heavenly lights, her sole
+ambition and care.
+
+"It was their habit, after devoting their mornings to the service of the
+Temple, to pass their evenings and nights in one of those small mansions
+above ground, allotted to some of the most favoured Priestesses, in the
+precincts of the Sacred College. Here, out of the reach of those gross
+superstitions, which pursued them, at every step, below, she endeavoured
+to inform, as far as she might, the mind of her beloved girl; and found it
+lean as naturally and instinctively to truth, as plants that have been
+long shut up in darkness will, when light is let in, incline themselves to
+its ray.
+
+"Frequently, as they sat together on the terrace at night, contemplating
+that assembly of glorious stars, whose beauty first misled mankind into
+idolatry, she would explain to the young listener by what gradations it
+was that the worship, thus transferred from the Creator to the creature,
+sunk lower and lower in the scale of being, till man, at length, presumed
+to deify man, and by the most monstrous of inversions, heaven was made the
+mirror of earth, reflecting all its most earthly features.
+
+"Even in the Temple itself, the anxious mother would endeavour to
+interpose her purer lessons among the idolatrous ceremonies in which they
+were engaged. When the favourite ibis of Alethe took its station on the
+shrine, and the young maiden was seen approaching, with all the gravity of
+worship, the very bird which she had played with but an hour before,--when
+the acacia-bough, which she herself had plucked, seemed to acquire a
+sudden sacredness in her eyes, as soon as the priest had breathed on
+it,--on all such occasions Theora, though with fear and trembling, would
+venture to suggest to the youthful worshipper the distinction that should
+be drawn between the sensible object of adoration, and that spiritual,
+unseen Deity, of which it was but the remembrancer or type.
+
+"With sorrow, however, she soon discovered that, in thus but partially
+enlightening a mind too ardent to be satisfied with such glimmerings, she
+only bewildered the heart that she meant to guide, and cut down the hope
+round which its faith twined, without substituting any other support in
+its place. As the beauty, too, of Alethe began to attract all eyes, new
+fears crowded upon the mother's heart;--fears, in which she was but too
+much justified by the characters of some of those around her.
+
+"In this sacred abode, as may easily be conceived, morality did not always
+go hand in hand with religion. The hypocritical and ambitious Orcus, who
+was, at this period, High Priest of Memphis, was a man, in every respect,
+qualified to preside over a system of such splendid fraud. He had reached
+that effective time of life, when enough of the warmth of youth remains to
+give animation to the counsels of age. But, in his instance, youth had
+only the baser passions to bequeath, while age but contributed a more
+refined maturity of mischief. The advantages of a faith appealing so
+wholly to the senses, were well understood by him; nor was he ignorant
+that the only way of making religion subservient to his own interests was
+by shaping it adroitly to the passions of others.
+
+"The state of misery and remorse in which the mind of Theora was kept by
+the scenes, however veiled by hypocrisy, which she witnessed around her,
+became at length intolerable. No perils that the cause of truth could
+bring with it would be half so dreadful as this endurance of sinfulness
+and deceit. Her child was, as yet, pure and innocent;--but, without that
+sentinel of the soul, Religion, how long might she continue so?
+
+"This thought at once decided her;--all other fears vanished before it. She
+resolved instantly to lay open to Alethe the whole secret of her soul; to
+make her, who was her only hope on earth, the sharer of all her hopes in
+heaven, and then fly with her, as soon as possible, from this unhallowed
+place, to the desert--to the mountains--to any place, however desolate,
+where God and the consciousness of innocence might be with them.
+
+"The promptitude with which her young pupil caught from her the divine
+truths, was even beyond what she expected. It was like the lighting of one
+torch at another,--so prepared was Alethe's mind for the illumination.
+Amply was the mother now repaid for all her misery, by this perfect
+communion of love and faith, and by the delight with which she saw her
+beloved child--like the young antelope, when first led by her dam to the
+well,--drink thirstily by her side, at the source of all life and truth.
+
+"But such happiness was not long to last. The anxieties that Theora had
+suffered preyed upon her health. She felt her strength daily decline; and
+the thoughts of leaving, alone and unguarded in the world, that treasure
+which she had just devoted to heaven, gave her a feeling of despair which
+but hastened the ebb of life. Had she put in practice her resolution of
+flying from this place, her child might have been now beyond the reach of
+all she dreaded, and in the solitude of the wilderness would have found at
+least safety from wrong. But the very happiness she had felt in her new
+task diverted her from this project;--and it was now too late, for she was
+already dying.
+
+"She concealed, however, her state from the tender and sanguine girl, who,
+though she saw the traces of disease on her mother's cheek, little knew
+that they were the hastening footsteps of death, nor thought even of the
+possibility of losing what was so dear to her. Too soon, however, the
+moment of separation arrived; and while the anguish and dismay of Alethe
+were in proportion to the security in which she had indulged, Theora, too,
+felt, with bitter regret, that she had sacrificed to her fond
+consideration much precious time, and that there now remained but a few
+brief and painful moments, for the communication of all those wishes and
+instructions, on which the future destiny of the young orphan depended.
+
+"She had, indeed, time for little more than to place the sacred volume
+solemnly in her hands, to implore that she would, at all risks, fly from
+this unholy place, and, pointing in the direction of the mountains of the
+Said, to name, with her last breath, the holy man, to whom, under heaven,
+she trusted for the protection and salvation of her child.
+
+"The first violence of feeling to which Alethe gave way was succeeded by a
+fixed and tearless grief, which rendered her insensible, for some time, to
+the dangers of her situation. Her only comfort was in visiting that
+monumental chapel, where the beautiful remains of Theora lay. There, night
+after night, in contemplation of those placid features, and in prayers for
+the peace of the departed spirit, did she pass her lonely, and--sad as they
+were--happiest hours. Though the mystic emblems that decorated that chapel
+were but ill suited to the slumber of a Christian saint, there was one
+among them, the Cross, which, by a remarkable coincidence, is an emblem
+common alike to the Gentile and the Christian,--being, to the former, a
+shadowy type of that immortality, of which, to the latter, it is a
+substantial and assuring pledge.
+
+"Nightly, upon this cross, which she had often seen her lost mother kiss,
+did she breathe forth a solemn and heartfelt vow, never to abandon the
+faith which that departed spirit had bequeathed to her. To such
+enthusiasm, indeed, did her heart at such moments rise, that, but for the
+last injunctions from those pallid lips, she would, at once, have avowed
+her perilous secret, and spoken out the words, 'I am a Christian,' among
+those benighted shrines!
+
+"But the will of her, to whom she owed more than life, was to be obeyed.
+To escape from this haunt of superstition must now, she felt, be her first
+object; and, in devising the means of effecting it, her mind, day and
+night, was employed. It was with a loathing not to be concealed she now
+found herself compelled to resume her idolatrous services at the shrine.
+To some of the offices of Theora she succeeded, as is the custom, by
+inheritance; and in the performance of these--sanctified as they were in
+her eyes by the pure spirit she had seen engaged in them--there was a sort
+of melancholy pleasure in which her sorrow found relief. But the part she
+was again forced to take, in the scenic shows of the Mysteries, brought
+with it a sense of wrong and degradation which she could no longer bear.
+
+"She had already formed, in her own mind, a plan of escape, in which her
+knowledge of all the windings of this subterranean realm gave her
+confidence, when the reception of Alciphron, as an Initiate, took place.
+
+"From the first moment of the landing of that philosopher at Alexandria,
+he had become an object of suspicion and watchfulness to the inquisitorial
+Orcus, whom philosophy, in any shape, naturally alarmed, but to whom the
+sect over which the young Athenian presided was particularly obnoxious.
+The accomplishments of Alciphron, his popularity, wherever he went, and
+the freedom with which he indulged his wit at the expense of religion, was
+all faithfully reported to the High Priest by his spies, and stirred up
+within him no kindly feelings towards the stranger. In dealing with an
+infidel, such a personage as Orcus could know no alternative but that of
+either converting or destroying him; and though his spite, as a man, would
+have been more gratified by the latter proceeding, his pride, as a priest,
+led him to prefer the triumph of the former.
+
+"The first descent of the Epicurean into the pyramid was speedily known,
+and the alarm immediately given to the Priests below. As soon as it was
+discovered that the young philosopher of Athens was the intruder, and that
+he still continued to linger round the pyramid, looking often and
+wistfully towards the portal, it was concluded that his curiosity would
+impel him to try a second descent; and Orcus, blessing the good chance
+which had thus brought the wild bird to his net, determined not to allow
+an opportunity so precious to be wasted.
+
+"Instantly, the whole of that wonderful machinery, by which the phantasms
+and illusions of Initiation are produced, were put in active preparation
+throughout that subterranean realm; and the increased stir and
+watchfulness excited among its inmates, by this more than ordinary display
+of all the resources of priestcraft, rendered the accomplishment of
+Alethe's design, at such a moment, peculiarly difficult. Wholly ignorant
+of the share which had fallen to herself in attracting the young
+philosopher down to this region, she but heard of him vaguely, as the
+Chief of a great Grecian sect, who had been led, by either curiosity or
+accident, to expose himself to the first trials of Initiation, and whom
+the priests, she saw, were endeavouring to ensnare in their toils, by
+every art and skill with which their science of darkness had gifted them.
+
+"To her mind, the image of a philosopher, such as Alciphron had been
+represented to her, came associated with ideas of age and reverence; and,
+more than once, the possibility of his being made instrumental to her
+deliverance flashed a hope across her heart in which she could not help
+indulging. Often had she been told by Theora of the many Gentile sages,
+who had laid their wisdom down humbly at the foot of the Cross; and though
+this Initiate, she feared, could hardly be among the number, yet the
+rumours which she had gathered from the servants of the Temple, of his
+undisguised contempt for the errors of heathenism, led her to hope she
+might find tolerance, if not sympathy, in her appeal to him.
+
+"Nor was it solely with a view to her own chance of deliverance that she
+thus connected him in her thoughts with the plan which she meditated. The
+look of proud and self-gratulating malice, with which the High Priest had
+mentioned this 'infidel,' as he styled him, when instructing her in the
+scene she was to enact before the philosopher in the valley, but too
+plainly informed her of the destiny that hung over him. She knew how many
+were the hapless candidates for Initiation, who had been doomed to a
+durance worse than that of the grave, for but a word, a whisper breathed
+against the sacred absurdities which they witnessed; and it was evident to
+her that the venerable Greek (for such her fancy represented Alciphron)
+was no less interested in escaping from this region than herself.
+
+"Her own resolution was, at all events, fixed. That visionary scene, in
+which she had appeared before Alciphron,--little knowing how ardent were
+the heart and imagination, over which her beauty, at that moment, shed its
+whole influence,--was, she solemnly resolved, the very last unholy service,
+that superstition or imposture should ever command of her.
+
+"On the following night the Aspirant was to watch in the Great Temple of
+Isis. Such an opportunity of approaching and addressing him might never
+come again. Should he, from compassion for her situation, or a sense of
+the danger of his own, consent to lend his aid to her flight, most gladly
+would she accept it,--assured that no danger or treachery she might risk
+could be half so dreadful as those she left behind. Should he, on the
+contrary, refuse, her determination was equally fixed--to trust to that
+God, who watches over the innocent, and go forth alone.
+
+"To reach the island in Lake Moeris was her first object, and there
+occurred luckily, at this time, a mode of accomplishing it, by which the
+difficulty and dangers of the attempt would be, in a great degree,
+diminished. The day of the annual visitation of the High Priest to the
+Place of Weeping--as that island in the centre of the lake is called--was
+now fast approaching; and Alethe well knew that the self-moving car, by
+which the High Priest and one of the Hierophants are conveyed to the
+chambers under the lake, stood waiting in readiness. By availing herself
+of this expedient, she would gain the double advantage both of
+facilitating her own flight and retarding the speed of her pursuers.
+
+"Having paid a last visit to the tomb of her beloved mother, and wept
+there, long and passionately, till her heart almost failed in the
+struggle,--having paused, too, to give a kiss to her favourite ibis, which,
+though too much a Christian to worship, she was still child enough to
+love,--with a trembling step she went early to the Sanctuary, and hid
+herself in one of the recesses of the Shrine. Her intention was to steal
+out from thence to Alciphron, while it was yet dark, and before the
+illumination of the great Statue behind the Veils had begun. But her fears
+delayed her till it was almost too late;--already was the image lighted up,
+and still she remained trembling in her hiding place.
+
+"In a few minutes more the mighty Veils would have been withdrawn, and the
+glories of that scene of enchantment laid open,--when, at length, summoning
+up courage, and taking advantage of a momentary absence of those employed
+in the preparations of this splendid mockery, she stole from under the
+Veil and found her way, through the gloom, to the Epicurean. There was
+then no time for explanation;--she had but to trust to the simple words,
+'Follow, and be silent;' and the implicit readiness with which she found
+them obeyed filled her with no less surprise than the philosopher himself
+felt in hearing them.
+
+"In a second or two they were on their way through the subterranean
+windings, leaving the ministers of Isis to waste their splendours on
+vacancy, through a long series of miracles and visions which they now
+exhibited,--unconscious that he, whom they took such pains to dazzle, was
+already, under the guidance of the young Christian, removed beyond the
+reach of their spells."
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XIV.
+
+
+Such was the story, of which this innocent girl gave me, in her own
+touching language, the outline.
+
+The sun was just rising as she finished her narrative. Fearful of
+encountering the expression of those feelings with which, she could not
+but observe, I was affected by her recital, scarcely had she concluded the
+last sentence, when, rising abruptly from her seat, she hurried into the
+pavilion, leaving me with the words already crowding for utterance to my
+lips.
+
+Oppressed by the various emotions, thus sent back upon my heart, I lay
+down on the deck in a state of agitation, that defied even the most
+distant approaches of sleep. While every word she had uttered, every
+feeling she expressed, but ministered new fuel to that flame within me, to
+describe which, passion is too weak a word, there was also much of her
+recital that disheartened, that alarmed me. To find a Christian thus under
+the garb of a Memphian Priestess, was a discovery that, had my heart been
+less deeply interested, would but have more powerfully stimulated my
+imagination and pride. But, when I recollected the austerity of the faith
+she had embraced,--the tender and sacred tie, associated with it in her
+memory, and the devotion of woman's heart to objects thus consecrated,--her
+very perfections but widened the distance between us, and all that most
+kindled my passion at the same time chilled my hopes.
+
+Were we left to each other, as on this silent river, in this undisturbed
+communion of thoughts and feelings, I knew too well, I thought, both her
+sex's nature and my own, to feel a doubt that love would ultimately
+triumph. But the severity of the guardianship to which I must resign
+her,--some monk of the desert, some stern Solitary,--the influence such a
+monitor would gain over her mind, and the horror with which, ere long, she
+would be taught to regard the reprobate infidel on whom she now smiled,--in
+all this prospect I saw nothing but despair. After a few short hours, my
+happiness would be at an end, and such a dark chasm open between our
+fates, as must sever them, far as earth is from heaven, asunder.
+
+It was true, she was now wholly in my power. I feared no witnesses but
+those of earth, and the solitude of the desert was at hand. But though I
+acknowledged not a heaven, I worshipped her who was, to me, its type and
+substitute. If, at any moment, a single thought of wrong or deceit,
+towards a creature so sacred, arose in my mind, one look from her innocent
+eyes averted the sacrilege. Even passion itself felt a holy fear in her
+presence,--like the flame trembling in the breeze of the sanctuary,--and
+Love, pure Love, stood in place of Religion.
+
+As long as I knew not her story, I might indulge, at least, in dreams of
+the future. But, now--what hope, what prospect remained? My sole chance of
+happiness lay in the feeble hope of beguiling away her thoughts from the
+plan which she meditated; of weaning her, by persuasion, from that austere
+faith, which I had before hated and now feared, and of--attaching her,
+perhaps, alone and unlinked as she was in the world, to my own fortunes
+for ever!
+
+In the agitation of these thoughts, I had started from my resting-place,
+and continued to pace up and down, under a burning sun, till, exhausted
+both by thought and feeling, I sunk down, amid its blaze, into a sleep,
+which, to my fevered brain, seemed a sleep of fire.
+
+On awaking, I found the veil of Alethe laid carefully over my brow, while
+she, herself, sat near me, under the shadow of the sail, looking anxiously
+at that leaf, which her mother had given her, and apparently employed in
+comparing its outlines with the course of the river and the forms of the
+rocky hills by which we passed. She looked pale and troubled, and rose
+eagerly to meet me, as if she had long and impatiently waited for my
+waking.
+
+Her heart, it was plain, had been disturbed from its security, and was
+beginning to take alarm at its own feelings. But, though vaguely conscious
+of the peril to which she was exposed, her reliance, as is usually the
+case, increased with her danger, and on me, far more than on herself, did
+she depend for saving her from it. To reach, as soon as possible, her
+asylum in the desert, was now the urgent object of her entreaties and
+wishes; and the self-reproach she expressed at having permitted her
+thoughts to be diverted, for a single moment, from this sacred purpose,
+not only revealed the truth, that she had forgotten it, but betrayed even
+a glimmering consciousness of the cause.
+
+Her sleep, she said, had been broken by ill-omened dreams. Every moment
+the shade of her mother had stood before her, rebuking her, with mournful
+looks, for her delay, and pointing, as she had done in death, to the
+eastern hills. Bursting into tears at this accusing recollection, she
+hastily placed the leaf, which she had been examining, in my hands, and
+implored that I would ascertain, without a moment's delay, what portion of
+our voyage was still unperformed, and in what space of time we might hope
+to accomplish it.
+
+I had, still less than herself, taken note of either place or distance;
+and, had we been left to glide on in this dream of happiness, should never
+have thought of pausing to ask where it would end. But such confidence, I
+felt, was too sacred to be deceived. Reluctant as I was, naturally, to
+enter on an inquiry, which might so soon dissipate even my last hope, her
+wish was sufficient to supersede even the selfishness of love, and on the
+instant I proceeded to obey her will.
+
+There is, on the eastern bank of the Nile, to the north of Antinoee, a high
+and steep rock, impending over the flood, which for ages, from a prodigy
+connected with it, has borne the name of the Mountain of the Birds.
+Yearly, it is said, at a certain season and hour, large flocks of birds
+assemble in the ravine, of which this rocky mountain forms one of the
+sides, and are there observed to go through the mysterious ceremony of
+inserting each its beak into a particular cleft of the rock, till the
+cleft closes upon one of their number, when the rest, taking wing, leave
+the selected victim to die.
+
+Through the ravine where this charm--for such the multitude consider it--is
+worked, there ran, in ancient times, a canal from the Nile, to some great
+and forgotten city that now lies buried in the desert. To a short distance
+from the river this canal still exists, but, soon after having passed
+through the defile, its scanty waters disappear altogether, and are lost
+under the sands.
+
+It was in the neighbourhood of this place, as I could collect from the
+delineations on the leaf,--where a flight of birds represented the name of
+the mountain,--that the dwelling of the Solitary, to whom Alethe was
+bequeathed, lay. Imperfect as was my knowledge of the geography of Egypt,
+it at once struck me, that we had long since left this mountain behind;
+and, on inquiring of our boatmen, I found my conjecture confirmed. We had,
+indeed, passed it, as appeared, on the preceding night; and, as the wind
+had, ever since, blown strongly from the north, and the sun was already
+declining towards the horizon, we must now be, at least, an ordinary day's
+sail to the southward of the spot.
+
+At this discovery, I own, my heart felt a joy which I could with
+difficulty conceal. It seemed to me as if fortune was conspiring with
+love, and, by thus delaying the moment of our separation, afforded me at
+least a chance of happiness. Her look, too, and manner, when informed of
+our mistake, rather encouraged than chilled this secret hope. In the first
+moment of astonishment, her eyes opened upon me with a suddenness of
+splendour, under which I felt my own wink, as if lightning had crossed
+them. But she again, as suddenly, let their lids fall, and, after a quiver
+of her lip, which showed the conflict of feeling within, crossed her arms
+upon her bosom, and looked silently down upon the deck;--her whole
+countenance sinking into an expression, sad, but resigned, as if she felt,
+with me, that fate was on the side of wrong, and saw Love already stealing
+between her soul and heaven.
+
+I was not slow in availing myself of what I fancied to be the irresolution
+of her mind. But, fearful of exciting alarm by any appeal to tenderer
+feelings, I but addressed myself to her imagination, and to that love of
+novelty, which is for ever fresh in the youthful breast. We were now
+approaching that region of wonders, Thebes. "In a day or two," said I, "we
+shall see, towering above the waters, the colossal Avenue of Sphinxes, and
+the bright Obelisks of the Sun. We shall visit the plain of Memnon, and
+those mighty statues, that fling their shadows at sunrise over the Libyan
+hills. We shall hear the image of the Son of the Morning answering to the
+first touch of light. From thence, in a few hours, a breeze like this will
+transport us to those sunny islands near the cataracts; there, to wander,
+among the sacred palm-groves of Philae, or sit, at noon-tide hour, in those
+cool alcoves, which the waterfall of Syene shadows under its arch. Oh,
+who, with such scenes of loveliness within reach, would turn coldly away
+to the bleak desert, and leave this fair world, with all its enchantments,
+shining behind them, unseen and unenjoyed? At least,"--I added, tenderly
+taking her by the hand,--"at least, let a few more days be stolen from the
+dreary fate to which thou hast devoted thyself, and then----"
+
+She had heard but the last few words;--the rest had been lost upon her.
+Startled by the tone of tenderness, into which, in spite of all my
+resolves, my voice had softened, she looked for an instant in my face,
+with passionate earnestness;--then, dropping upon her knees with her
+clasped hands upraised, exclaimed--"Tempt me not, in the name of God I
+implore thee, tempt me not to swerve from my sacred duty. Oh, take me
+instantly to that desert mountain, and I will bless thee for ever."
+
+This appeal, I felt, _could not_ be resisted,--though my heart were to
+break for it. Having silently expressed my assent to her prayer, by a
+pressure of her hand as I raised her from the deck, I hastened, as we were
+still in full career for the south, to give orders that our sail should be
+instantly lowered, and not a moment lost in retracing our course.
+
+In proceeding, however, to give these directions, it, for the first time,
+occurred to me, that, as I had hired this yacht in the neighbourhood of
+Memphis, where it was probable that the flight of the young fugitive would
+be most vigilantly tracked, we should act imprudently in betraying to the
+boatmen the place of her retreat;--and the present seemed the most
+favourable opportunity of evading such a danger. Desiring, therefore, that
+we should be landed at a small village on the shore, under pretence of
+paying a visit to some shrine in the neighbourhood, I there dismissed our
+barge, and was relieved from fear of further observation, by seeing it
+again set sail, and resume its course fleetly up the current.
+
+From the boats of all descriptions that lay idle beside the bank, I now
+selected one, which, in every respect, suited my purpose,--being, in its
+shape and accommodations, a miniature of our former vessel, but so small
+and light as to be manageable by myself alone, and, with the advantage of
+the current, requiring little more than a hand to steer it. This boat I
+succeeded, without much difficulty, in purchasing, and, after a short
+delay, we were again afloat down the current;--the sun just then sinking,
+in conscious glory, over his own golden shrines in the Libyan waste.
+
+The evening was more calm and lovely than any that yet had smiled upon our
+voyage; and, as we left the bank, there came soothingly over our ears a
+strain of sweet, rustic melody from the shore. It was the voice of a young
+Nubian girl, whom we saw kneeling on the bank before an acacia, and
+singing, while her companions stood round, the wild song of invocation,
+which, in her country, they address to that enchanted tree:--
+
+    "Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      We pray, we pray, to thee;
+  By the glow of thy golden fruit,
+    And the violet hue of thy flower,
+      And the greeting mute
+      Of thy bough's salute
+    To the stranger who seeks thy bower.(6)
+
+                II.
+
+    "Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      How the traveller blesses thee,
+  When the night no moon allows,
+    And the sun-set hour is near,
+      And thou bend'st thy boughs
+      To kiss his brows,
+    Saying, 'Come rest thee here.'
+      Oh! Abyssinian tree,
+      Thus bow thy head to me!"
+
+In the burden of this song the companions of the young Nubian joined; and
+we heard the words, "Oh! Abyssinian tree," dying away on the breeze, long
+after the whole group had been lost to our eyes.
+
+Whether, in this new arrangement which I had made for our voyage, any
+motive, besides those which I professed, had a share, I can scarcely, even
+myself, so bewildered were my feelings, determine. But no sooner had the
+current borne us away from all human dwellings, and we were alone on the
+waters, with not a soul near, than I felt how closely such solitude draws
+hearts together, and how much more we seemed to belong to each other, than
+when there were eyes around.
+
+The same feeling, but without the same sense of its danger, was manifest
+in every look and word of Alethe. The consciousness of the one great
+effort she had made appeared to have satisfied her heart on the score of
+duty,--while the devotedness with which she saw I attended to her every
+wish, was felt with all that gratitude which, in woman, is the day-spring
+of love. She was, therefore, happy, innocently happy; and the confiding,
+and even affectionate, unreserve of her manner, while it rendered my trust
+more sacred, made it also far more difficult.
+
+It was only, however, on subjects unconnected with our situation or fate,
+that she yielded to such interchange of thought, or that her voice
+ventured to answer mine. The moment I alluded to the destiny that awaited
+us, all her cheerfulness fled, and she became saddened and silent. When I
+described to her the beauty of my own native land--its founts of
+inspiration and fields of glory--her eyes sparkled with sympathy, and
+sometimes even softened into fondness. But when I ventured to whisper,
+that, in that glorious country, a life full of love and liberty awaited
+her; when I proceeded to contrast the adoration and bliss she might
+command, with the gloomy austerities of the life to which she was
+hastening,--it was like the coming of a sudden cloud over a summer sky. Her
+head sunk, as she listened;--I waited in vain for an answer; and when, half
+playfully reproaching her for this silence, I stooped to take her hand, I
+could feel the warm tears fast falling over it.
+
+But even this--little hope as it held out--was happiness. Though it
+foreboded that I should lose her, it also whispered that I was loved. Like
+that lake, in the Land of Roses(7), whose waters are half sweet, half
+bitter, I felt my fate to be a compound of bliss and pain,--but the very
+pain well worth all ordinary bliss.
+
+And thus did the hours of that night pass along; while every moment
+shortened our happy dream, and the current seemed to flow with a swifter
+pace than any that ever yet hurried to the sea. Not a feature of the whole
+scene but is, at this moment, freshly in my memory;--the broken star-light
+on the water;--the rippling sound of the boat, as, without oar or sail, it
+went, like a thing of enchantment, down the stream;--the scented fire,
+burning beside us on the deck, and, oh, that face, on which its light
+fell, still revealing, as it turned, some new charm, some blush or look,
+more beautiful than the last.
+
+Often, while I sat gazing, forgetful of all else in this world, our boat,
+left wholly to itself, would drive from its course, and, bearing us to the
+bank, get entangled in the water-flowers, or be caught in some eddy, ere I
+perceived where we were. Once, too, when the rustling of my oar among the
+flowers had startled away from the bank some wild antelopes, that had
+stolen, at that still hour, to drink of the Nile, what an emblem I thought
+it of the young heart beside me,--tasting, for the first time, of hope and
+love, and so soon, alas, to be scared from their sweetness for ever!
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XV.
+
+
+The night was now far advanced;--the bend of our course towards the left,
+and the closing in of the eastern hills upon the river, gave warning of
+our approach to the hermit's dwelling. Every minute now seemed like the
+last of existence; and I felt a sinking of despair at my heart, which
+would have been intolerable, had not a resolution that suddenly, and as if
+by inspiration, occurred to me, presented a glimpse of hope which, in some
+degree, calmed my feelings.
+
+Much as I had, all my life, despised hypocrisy,--the very sect I had
+embraced being chiefly recommended to me by the war which they waged on
+the cant of all others,--it was, nevertheless, in hypocrisy that I now
+scrupled not to take refuge from, what I dreaded more than shame or death,
+my separation from Alethe. In my despair, I adopted the humiliating
+plan--deeply humiliating as I felt it to be, even amid the joy with which I
+welcomed it--of offering myself to this hermit, as a convert to his faith,
+and thus becoming the fellow-disciple of Alethe under his care!
+
+From the moment I resolved upon this plan, my spirit felt lightened.
+Though having fully before my eyes the labyrinth of imposture into which
+it would lead me, I thought of nothing but the chance of our being still
+together;--in this hope, all pride, all philosophy was forgotten, and every
+thing seemed tolerable, but the prospect of losing her.
+
+Thus resolved, it was with somewhat less reluctant feelings, that I now
+undertook, at the anxious desire of Alethe, to ascertain the site of that
+well-known mountain, in the neighbourhood of which the dwelling of the
+anchoret lay. We had already passed one or two stupendous rocks, which
+stood, detached, like fortresses, over the river's brink, and which, in
+some degree, corresponded with the description on the leaf. So little was
+there of life now stirring along the shores, that I had begun almost to
+despair of any assistance from inquiry, when, on looking to the western
+bank, I saw a boatman among the sedges, towing his small boat, with some
+difficulty, up the current. Hailing him, as we passed, I asked, "Where
+stands the Mountain of the Birds?"--and he had hardly time to answer,
+pointing above our heads, "There," when we perceived that we were just
+then entering into the shadow, which this mighty rock flings across the
+whole of the flood.
+
+In a few moments we had reached the mouth of the ravine, of which the
+Mountain of the Birds forms one of the sides, and through which the scanty
+canal from the Nile flows. At the sight of this chasm, in some of whose
+gloomy recesses--if we had rightly interpreted the leaf--the dwelling of the
+Solitary lay, our voices, at once, sunk into a low whisper, while Alethe
+looked round upon me with a superstitious fearfulness, as if doubtful
+whether I had not already disappeared from her side. A quick movement,
+however, of her hand towards the ravine, told too plainly that her purpose
+was still unchanged. With my oars, therefore, checking the career of our
+boat, I succeeded, after no small exertion, in turning it out of the
+current of the river, and steering into this bleak and stagnant canal.
+
+Our transition from life and bloom to the very depth of desolation, was
+immediate. While the water and one side of the ravine lay buried in
+shadow, the white, skeleton-like crags of the other stood aloft in the
+pale glare of moonlight. The sluggish stream through which we moved,
+yielded sullenly to the oar, and the shriek of a few water-birds, which we
+had roused from their fastnesses, was succeeded by a silence, so dead and
+awful, that our lips seemed afraid to disturb it by a breath; and half-
+whispered exclamations, "How dreary!"--"How dismal!"--were almost the only
+words exchanged between us.
+
+We had proceeded for some time through this gloomy defile, when, at a
+distance before us, among the rocks on which the moonlight fell, we
+perceived, upon a ledge but little elevated above the canal, a small hut
+or cave, which, from a tree or two planted around it, had some appearance
+of being the abode of a human being. "This, then," thought I, "is the home
+to which Alethe is destined!"--A chill of despair came again over my heart,
+and the oars, as I gazed, lay motionless in my hands.
+
+I found Alethe, too, whose eyes had caught the same object, drawing closer
+to my side than she had yet ventured. Laying her hand agitatedly upon
+mine, "We must here," she said, "part for ever." I turned to her, as she
+spoke: there was a tenderness, a despondency in her countenance, that at
+once saddened and inflamed my soul. "Part!" I exclaimed
+passionately,--"No!--the same God shall receive us both. Thy faith, Alethe,
+shall, from this hour, be mine, and I will live and die in this desert
+with thee!"
+
+Her surprise, her delight, at these words, was like a momentary delirium.
+The wild, anxious smile, with which she looked into my face, as if to
+ascertain whether she had, indeed, heard my words aright, bespoke a
+happiness too much for reason to bear. At length the fulness of her heart
+found relief in tears; and, murmuring forth an incoherent blessing on my
+name, she let her head fall languidly and powerlessly on my arm. The light
+from our boat-fire shone upon her face. I saw her eyes, which she had
+closed for a moment, again opening upon me with the same tenderness,
+and--merciful Providence, how I remember that moment!--was on the point of
+bending down my lips towards hers, when, suddenly, in the air above our
+heads, as if it came from heaven, there burst forth a strain from a choir
+of voices, that with its solemn sweetness filled the whole valley.
+
+Breaking away from my caress at these supernatural sounds, the maiden
+threw herself trembling upon her knees, and, not daring to look up,
+exclaimed wildly, "My mother, oh my mother!"
+
+It was the Christian's morning hymn that we heard;--the same, as I learned
+afterwards, that, on their high terrace at Memphis, Alethe had been often
+taught by her mother to sing to the rising sun.
+
+Scarcely less startled than my companion, I looked up, and, at the very
+summit of the rock above us, saw a light, appearing to come from a small
+opening or window, through which also the sounds, that had appeared so
+supernatural, issued. There could be no doubt, that we had now found--if
+not the dwelling of the anchoret--at least, the haunt of some of the
+Christian brotherhood of these rocks, by whose assistance we could not
+fail to find the place of his retreat.
+
+The agitation, into which Alethe had been thrown by the first burst of
+that psalmody, soon yielded to the softening recollections which it
+brought back; and a calm came over her brow, such as it had never before
+worn, since our meeting. She seemed to feel that she had now reached her
+destined haven, and to hail, as the voice of heaven itself, those sounds
+by which she was welcomed to it.
+
+In her tranquillity, however, I could not now sympathize. Impatient to
+know all that awaited her and myself, I pushed our boat close to the base
+of the rock,--directly under that lighted window on the summit, to find my
+way up to which was my first object. Having hastily received my
+instructions from Alethe, and made her repeat again the name of the
+Christian whom we sought, I sprang upon the bank, and was not long in
+discovering a sort of rude stair-way, cut out of the rock, but leading, I
+found, by easy windings, up the steep.
+
+After ascending for some time, I arrived at a level space or ledge, which
+the hand of labour had succeeded in converting into a garden, and which
+was planted, here and there, with fig-trees and palms. Around it, too, I
+could perceive, through the glimmering light, a number of small caves or
+grottos, into some of which, human beings might find entrance, while
+others appeared no larger than the tombs of the Sacred Birds round Lake
+Moeris.
+
+I was still, I found, but half-way up the ascent to the summit, nor could
+perceive any further means of continuing my course, as the mountain from
+hence rose, almost perpendicularly, like a wall. At length, however, on
+exploring around, I discovered behind the shade of a sycamore a large
+ladder of wood, resting firmly against the rock, and affording an easy and
+secure ascent up the steep.
+
+Having ascertained thus far, I again descended to the boat for
+Alethe,--whom I found trembling already at her short solitude,--and having
+led her up the steps to this quiet garden, left her safely lodged, amid
+its holy silence, while I pursued my way upward to the light on the rock.
+
+At the top of the long ladder I found myself on another ledge or platform,
+somewhat smaller than the first, but planted in the same manner, with
+trees, and, as I could perceive by the mingled light of morning and the
+moon, embellished with flowers. I was now near the summit;--there remained
+but another short ascent, and, as a ladder against the rock, as before,
+supplied the means of scaling it, I was in a few minutes at the opening
+from which the light issued.
+
+I had ascended gently, as well from a feeling of awe at the whole scene,
+as from an unwillingness to disturb too rudely the rites on which I
+intruded. My approach was, therefore, unheard, and an opportunity, during
+some moments, afforded me of observing the group within, before my
+appearance at the window was discovered.
+
+In the middle of the apartment, which seemed once to have been a Pagan
+oratory, there was an assembly of seven or eight persons, some male, some
+female, kneeling in silence round a small altar;--while, among them, as if
+presiding over their ceremony, stood an aged man, who, at the moment of my
+arrival, was presenting to one of the female worshippers an alabaster cup,
+which she applied, with much reverence, to her lips. On the countenance of
+the venerable minister, as he pronounced a short prayer over her head,
+there was an expression of profound feeling that showed how wholly he was
+absorbed in that rite; and when she had drank of the cup,--which I saw had
+engraven on its side the image of a head, with a glory round it,--the holy
+man bent down and kissed her forehead.
+
+After this parting salutation, the whole group rose silently from their
+knees; and it was then, for the first time, that, by a cry of terror from
+one of the women, the appearance of a stranger at the window was
+discovered. The whole assembly seemed startled and alarmed, except him,
+that superior person, who, advancing from the altar, with an unmoved look,
+raised the latch of the door, which was adjoining to the window, and
+admitted me.
+
+There was, in this old man's features, a mixture of elevation and
+sweetness, of simplicity and energy, which commanded at once attachment
+and homage; and half hoping, half fearing to find in him the destined
+guardian of Alethe, I looked anxiously in his face, as I entered, and
+pronounced the name "Melanius!" "Melanius is my name, young stranger," he
+answered; "and whether in friendship or in enmity thou comest, Melanius
+blesses thee." Thus saying, he made a sign with his right hand above my
+head, while, with involuntary respect, I bowed beneath the benediction.
+
+"Let this volume," I replied, "answer for the peacefulness of my
+mission,"--at the same time, placing in his hands the copy of the
+Scriptures, which had been his own gift to the mother of Alethe, and which
+her child now brought as the credential of her claims on his protection.
+At the sight of this sacred pledge, which he recognized instantly, the
+solemnity that had marked his first reception of me softened into
+tenderness. Thoughts of other times seemed to pass through his mind, and
+as, with a sigh of recollection, he took the book from my hands, some
+words on the outer leaf caught his eye. They were few,--but contained,
+perhaps, the last wishes of the dying Theora, for as he eagerly read them
+over, I saw the tears in his aged eyes. "The trust," he said, with a
+faltering voice, "is sacred, and God will, I hope, enable his servant to
+guard it faithfully."
+
+During this short dialogue, the other persons of the assembly had
+departed--being, as I afterwards learned, brethren from the neighbouring
+bank of the Nile, who came thus secretly before day-break, to join in
+worshipping God. Fearful lest their descent down the rock might alarm
+Alethe, I hurried briefly over the few words of explanation that remained,
+and, leaving the venerable Christian to follow at his leisure, hastened
+anxiously down to rejoin the maiden.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XVI.
+
+
+Melanius was among the first of those Christians of Egypt, who, after the
+recent example of the hermit, Paul, renouncing all the comforts of social
+existence, betook themselves to a life of contemplation in the desert.
+Less selfish, however, in his piety, than most of these ascetics, Melanius
+forgot not the world, in leaving it. He knew that man was not born to live
+wholly for himself; that his relation to human kind was that of the link
+to the chain, and that even his solitude should be turned to the advantage
+of others. In flying, therefore, from the din and disturbance of life, he
+sought not to place himself beyond the reach of its sympathies, but
+selected a retreat, where he could combine the advantage of solitude with
+those opportunities of serving his fellow-men, which a neighbourhood to
+their haunts would afford.
+
+That taste for the gloom of subterranean recesses, which the race of
+Misraim inherit from their Ethiopian ancestors, had, by hollowing out all
+Egypt into caverns and crypts, furnished these Christian anchorets with a
+choice of retreats. Accordingly, some found a shelter in the grottos of
+Elethya;--others, among the royal tombs of the Thebaid. In the middle of
+the Seven Valleys, where the sun rarely shines, a few have fixed their dim
+and melancholy retreat, while others have sought the neighbourhood of the
+red Lakes of Nitria, and there,--like those Pagan solitaries of old, who
+dwelt among the palm-trees near the Dead Sea,--muse amid the sterility of
+nature, and seem to find, in her desolation, peace.
+
+It was on one of the mountains of the Said, to the east of the river, that
+Melanius, as we have seen, chose his place of seclusion,--between the life
+and fertility of the Nile on the one side, and the lone, dismal barrenness
+of the desert on the other. Half-way down this mountain, where it impends
+over the ravine, he found a series of caves or grottos dug out of the
+rock, which had, in other times, ministered to some purpose of mystery,
+but whose use had been long forgotten, and their recesses abandoned.
+
+To this place, after the banishment of his great master, Origen, Melanius,
+with a few faithful followers, retired, and, by the example of his
+innocent life, no less than by his fervid eloquence, succeeded in winning
+crowds of converts to his faith. Placed, as he was, in the neighbourhood
+of the rich city, Antinoe, though he mingled not with its multitude, his
+name and his fame were among them, and, to all who sought instruction or
+consolation, the cell of the hermit was ever open.
+
+Notwithstanding the rigid abstinence of his own habits, he was yet careful
+to provide for the comforts of others. Contented with a rude bed of straw,
+himself, for the stranger he had always a less homely resting-place. From
+his grotto, the wayfaring and the indigent never went unrefreshed; and,
+with the assistance of some of his brethren, he had formed gardens along
+the ledges of the mountain, which gave an air of cheerfulness to his rocky
+dwelling, and supplied him with the chief necessaries of such a climate,
+fruit and shade.
+
+Though the acquaintance which he had formed with the mother of Alethe,
+during the short period of her attendance at the school of Origen, was
+soon interrupted, and never afterwards renewed, the interest which he had
+then taken in her fate was too lively to be forgotten. He had seen the
+zeal with which her young heart welcomed instruction; and the thought that
+such a candidate for heaven should have relapsed into idolatry, came
+often, with disquieting apprehension, over his mind.
+
+It was, therefore, with true pleasure, that, but a year or two before her
+death, he had learned, by a private communication from Theora, transmitted
+through a Christian embalmer of Memphis, that "not only her own heart had
+taken root in the faith, but that a new bud had flowered with the same
+divine hope, and that, ere long, he might see them both transplanted to
+the desert."
+
+The coming, therefore, of Alethe was far less a surprise to him, than her
+coming thus alone was a shock and a sorrow; and the silence of their
+meeting showed how deeply each remembered that the tie which had brought
+them together was no longer of this world,--that the hand, which should
+have been joined with theirs, was in the tomb. I now saw that not even
+religion was proof against the sadness of mortality. For, as the old man
+put the ringlets aside from her forehead, and contemplated in that clear
+countenance the reflection of what her mother had been, there was a
+mournfulness mingled with his piety, as he said, "Heaven rest her soul!"
+which showed how little even the certainty of a heaven for those we love
+can subdue our regret for having lost them on earth.
+
+The full light of day had now risen upon the desert, and our host,
+reminded, by the faint looks of Alethe, of the many anxious hours we had
+passed without sleep, proposed that we should seek, in the chambers of the
+rock, such rest as the dwelling of a hermit could offer. Pointing to one
+of the largest openings, as he addressed me,--"Thou wilt find," he said,
+"in that grotto a bed of fresh doum leaves, and may the consciousness of
+having protected the orphan sweeten thy sleep!"
+
+I felt how dearly this praise had been earned, and already almost repented
+of having deserved it. There was a sadness in the countenance of Alethe,
+as I took leave of her, to which the forebodings of my own heart but too
+faithfully responded; nor could I help fearing, as her hand parted
+lingeringly from mine, that I had, by this sacrifice, placed her beyond my
+reach for ever.
+
+Having lighted me a lamp, which, in these recesses, even at noon, is
+necessary, the holy man led me to the entrance of the grotto;--and here, I
+blush to say, my career of hypocrisy began. With the sole view of
+obtaining another glance at Alethe, I turned humbly to solicit the
+benediction of the Christian, and, having conveyed to her, as I bent
+reverently down, as much of the deep feeling of my soul as looks could
+express, with a desponding spirit I hurried into the cavern.
+
+A short passage led me to the chamber within,--the walls of which I found
+covered, like those of the grottos of Lycopolis, with paintings, which,
+though executed long ages ago, looked fresh as if their colours were but
+laid on yesterday. They were, all of them, representations of rural and
+domestic scenes; and, in the greater number, the melancholy imagination of
+the artist had called Death in, as usual, to throw his shadow over the
+picture.
+
+My attention was particularly drawn to one series of subjects, throughout
+the whole of which the same group--a youth, a maiden, and two aged persons,
+who appeared to be the father and mother of the girl,--were represented in
+all the details of their daily life. The looks and attitudes of the young
+people denoted that they were lovers; and, sometimes, they were seen
+sitting under a canopy of flowers, with their eyes fixed on each other's
+faces, as though they could never look away; sometimes, they appeared
+walking along the banks of the Nile,
+
+      ----on one of those sweet nights
+  When Isis, the pure star of lovers, lights
+  Her bridal crescent o'er the holy stream,--
+  When wandering youths and maidens watch her beam,
+  And number o'er the nights she hath to run,
+  Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun.
+
+Through all these scenes of endearment the two elder persons stood
+by;--their calm countenances touched with a share of that bliss, in whose
+perfect light the young lovers were basking. Thus far, all was
+happiness,--but the sad lesson of mortality was to come. In the last
+picture of the series, one of the figures was missing. It was that of the
+young maiden, who had disappeared from among them. On the brink of a dark
+lake stood the three who remained; while a boat, just departing for the
+City of the Dead, told too plainly the end of their dream of happiness.
+
+This memorial of a sorrow of other times--of a sorrow, ancient as death
+itself,--was not wanting to deepen the melancholy of my mind, or to add to
+the weight of the many bodings that pressed on it.
+
+After a night, as it seemed, of anxious and unsleeping thought, I rose
+from my bed and returned to the garden. I found the Christian
+alone,--seated, under the shade of one of his trees, at a small table, with
+a volume unrolled before him, while a beautiful antelope lay sleeping at
+his feet. Struck forcibly by the contrast which he presented to those
+haughty priests, whom I had seen surrounded by the pomp and gorgeousness
+of temples, "Is this, then," thought I, "the faith, before which the world
+trembles--its temple the desert, its treasury a book, and its High Priest
+the solitary dweller of the rock!"
+
+He had prepared for me a simple, but hospitable, repast, of which fruits
+from his own garden, the white bread of Olyra, and the juice of the honey-
+cane were the most costly luxuries. His manner to me was even more cordial
+than before; but the absence of Alethe, and, still more, the ominous
+reserve, with which he not only, himself, refrained from all mention of
+her name, but eluded the few inquiries, by which I sought to lead to it,
+seemed to confirm all the fears I had felt in parting from her.
+
+She had acquainted him, it was evident, with the whole history of our
+flight. My reputation as a philosopher--my desire to become a Christian--all
+was already known to the zealous Anchoret, and the subject of my
+conversion was the very first on which he entered. O pride of philosophy,
+how wert thou then humbled, and with what shame did I stand, casting down
+my eyes, before that venerable man, as, with ingenuous trust in the
+sincerity of my intention, he welcomed me to a participation of his holy
+hope, and imprinted the Kiss of Charity on my infidel brow!
+
+Embarrassed as I felt by the consciousness of hypocrisy, I was even still
+more perplexed by my total ignorance of the real tenets of the faith to
+which I professed myself a convert. Abashed and confused, and with a heart
+sick at its own deceit, I heard the animated and eloquent gratulations of
+the Christian, as though they were words in a dream, without link or
+meaning; nor could disguise but by the mockery of a reverential bow, at
+every pause, the entire want of self-possession, and even of speech, under
+which I laboured.
+
+A few minutes more of such trial, and I must have avowed my imposture. But
+the holy man saw my embarrassment;--and, whether mistaking it for awe, or
+knowing it to be ignorance, relieved me from my perplexity by, at once,
+changing the theme. Having gently awakened his antelope from its sleep,
+"You have heard," he said, "I doubt not, of my brother-anchoret, Paul,
+who, from his cave in the marble mountains, near the Red Sea, sends hourly
+'the sacrifice of thanksgiving' to heaven. Of _his_ walks, they tell me, a
+lion is the companion; but, for me," he added, with a playful and
+significant smile, "who try my powers of taming but on the gentler
+animals, this feeble child of the desert is a far fitter play-mate." Then,
+taking his staff, and putting the time-worn volume which he had been
+reading into a large goat-skin pouch, that hung by his side, "I will now,"
+said he, "lead thee over my rocky kingdom,--that thou mayst see in what
+drear and barren places, that 'fruit of the spirit,' Peace, may be
+gathered."
+
+To speak of peace to a heart like mine, at that moment, was like talking
+of some distant harbour to the mariner sinking at sea. In vain did I look
+round for some sign of Alethe;--in vain make an effort even to utter her
+name. Consciousness of my own deceit, as well as a fear of awakening in
+Melanius any suspicion that might frustrate my only hope, threw a fetter
+over my spirit and checked my tongue. In silence, therefore, I followed,
+while the cheerful old man, with slow, but firm, step, ascended the rock,
+by the same ladders which I had mounted on the preceding night.
+
+During the time when the Decian Persecution was raging, many Christians of
+this neighbourhood, he informed me, had taken refuge under his protection,
+in these grottos; and the chapel on the summit, where I had found them at
+prayer, was, in those times of danger, their place of retreat, where, by
+drawing up these ladders, they were enabled to secure themselves from
+pursuit.
+
+From the top of the rock, the view, on either side, embraced the two
+extremes of fertility and desolation; nor could the Epicurean and the
+Anchoret, who now gazed from that height, be at any loss to indulge their
+respective tastes, between the living luxuriance of the world on one side,
+and the dead repose of the desert on the other. When we turned to the
+river, what a picture of animation presented itself! Near us, to the
+south, were the graceful colonnades of Antinoe, its proud, populous
+streets, and triumphal monuments. On the opposite shore, rich plains,
+teeming with cultivation to the water's edge, offered up, as from verdant
+altars, their fruits to the sun; while, beneath us, the Nile,
+
+            ----the glorious stream,
+  That late between its banks was seen to glide,--
+  With shrines and marble cities, on each side,
+  Glittering, like jewels strung along a chain,--
+  Had now sent forth its waters, and o'er plain
+  And valley, like a giant from his bed
+  Rising with outstretch'd limbs, superbly spread.
+
+From this scene, on one side of the mountain, we had but to turn round our
+eyes, and it was as if nature herself had become suddenly extinct;--a wide
+waste of sands, bleak and interminable, wearying out the sun with its
+sameness of desolation;--black, burnt-up rocks, that stood as barriers, at
+which life stopped;--while the only signs of animation, past or present,
+were the foot-prints, here and there, of an antelope or ostrich, or the
+bones of dead camels, as they lay whitening at a distance, marking out the
+track of the caravans over the waste.
+
+After listening, while he contrasted, in a few eloquent words, the two
+regions of life and death on whose confines we stood, I again descended
+with my guide to the garden we had left. From thence, turning into a path
+along the mountain-side, he conducted me to another row of grottos, facing
+the desert, which had once, he said, been the abode of those brethren in
+Christ, who had fled with him to this solitude from the crowded world,--but
+which death had, within a few months, rendered tenantless. A cross of red
+stone, and a few faded trees, were the only traces these solitaries had
+left behind.
+
+A silence of some minutes succeeded, while we descended to the edge of the
+canal; and I saw opposite, among the rocks, that solitary cave, which had
+so chilled me with its aspect on the preceding night. By the bank we found
+one of those rustic boats, which the Egyptians construct of planks of wild
+thorn, bound rudely together with bands of papyrus. Placing ourselves in
+this boat, and rather impelling than rowing it across, we made our way
+through the foul and shallow flood, and landed directly under the site of
+the cave.
+
+This dwelling, as I have already mentioned, was situated upon a ledge of
+the rock; and, being provided with a sort of window or aperture to admit
+the light of heaven, was accounted, I found, more cheerful than the
+grottos on the other side of the ravine. But there was a dreariness in the
+whole region around, to which light only lent more horror. The dead
+whiteness of the rocks, as they stood, like ghosts, in the sunshine;--that
+melancholy pool, half lost in the sands;--all gave me the idea of a wasting
+world. To dwell in such a place seemed to me like a living death; and when
+the Christian, as we entered the cave, said, "Here is to be thy home,"
+prepared as I was for the worst, my resolution gave way;--every feeling of
+disappointed passion and humbled pride, which had been gathering round my
+heart for the last few hours, found a vent at once, and I burst into
+tears!
+
+Well accustomed to human weakness, and perhaps guessing at some of the
+sources of mine, the good Hermit, without appearing to notice this
+emotion, expatiated, with a cheerful air, on, what he called, the many
+comforts of my dwelling. Sheltered, he said, from the dry, burning wind of
+the south, my porch would inhale the fresh breeze of the Dog-star. Fruits
+from his own mountain-garden should furnish my repast. The well of the
+neighbouring rock would supply my beverage; and, "here," he
+continued,--lowering his voice into a more solemn tone, as he placed upon
+the table the volume which he had brought,--"here, my son, is that 'well of
+living waters,' in which alone thou wilt find lasting refreshment or
+peace!" Thus saying, he descended the rock to his boat, and after a few
+plashes of his oar had died upon my ear, the solitude and silence around
+me was complete.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XVII.
+
+
+What a fate was mine!--but a few weeks since, presiding over that splendid
+Festival of the Garden, with all the luxuries of existence tributary in my
+train; and now,--self-humbled into a solitary outcast,--the hypocritical
+pupil of a Christian anchoret,--without even the excuse of fanaticism, or
+of any other madness, but that of love, wild love, to extenuate my fall!
+Were there a hope that, by this humiliating waste of existence, I might
+purchase but a glimpse, now and then, of Alethe, even the depths of the
+desert, with such a chance, would be welcome. But to live--and live
+thus--_without_ her, was a misery which I neither foresaw nor could endure.
+
+Hating even to look upon the den to which I was doomed, I hurried out into
+the air, and found my way, along the rocks, to the desert. The sun was
+going down, with that blood-red hue, which he so frequently wears, in this
+clime, at his setting. I saw the sands, stretching out, like a sea, to the
+horizon, as if their waste extended to the very verge of the world,--and,
+in the bitterness of my feelings, rejoiced to see so much of creation
+rescued, even by this barren liberty, from the grasp of man. The thought
+seemed to relieve my wounded pride, and, as I wandered over the dim and
+boundless solitude, to be thus free, even amid blight and desolation,
+appeared a blessing.
+
+The only living thing I saw was a restless swallow, whose wings were of
+the hue of the grey sands over which he fluttered. "Why may not the mind,
+like this bird, take the colour of the desert, and sympathise in its
+austerity, its freedom, and its calm?"--thus, between despondence and
+defiance, did I ask myself, endeavouring to face with fortitude what yet
+my heart sickened to contemplate. But the effort was unavailing. Overcome
+by that vast solitude, whose repose was not the slumber of peace, but the
+sullen and burning silence of hate, I felt my spirit give way, and even
+love itself yield to despair.
+
+Seating myself on a fragment of a rock, and covering my eyes with my
+hands, I made an effort to shut out the overwhelming prospect. But in
+vain--it was still before me, deepened by all that fancy could add; and
+when, again looking up, I saw the last red ray of the sun, shooting across
+that melancholy and lifeless waste, it seemed to me like the light of the
+comet that once desolated this world, shining out luridly over the ruin
+that it had made!
+
+Appalled by my own gloomy imaginations, I turned towards the ravine; and,
+notwithstanding the disgust with which I had left my dwelling, was not ill
+pleased to find my way, over the rocks, to it again. On approaching the
+cave, to my astonishment, I saw a light within. At such a moment, any
+vestige of life was welcome, and I hailed the unexpected appearance with
+pleasure. On entering, however, I found the chamber as lonely as I had
+left it. The light came from a lamp that burned brightly on the table;
+beside it was unfolded the volume which Melanius had brought, and upon the
+leaves--oh, joy and surprise--lay the well-known cross of Alethe!
+
+What hand, but her own, could have prepared this reception for me?--The
+very thought sent a hope into my heart, before which all despondency fled.
+Even the gloom of the desert was forgotten, and my cave at once brightened
+into a bower. She had here reminded me, herself, by this sacred memorial,
+of the vow which I had pledged to her under the Hermit's rock; and I now
+scrupled not to reiterate the same daring promise, though conscious that
+through hypocrisy alone I could fulfil it.
+
+Eager to prepare myself for my task of imposture, I sat down to the
+volume, which I now found to be the Hebrew Scriptures; and the first
+sentence, on which my eyes fell, was--"The Lord hath commanded the
+blessing, even Life for evermore!" Startled by these words, in which the
+Spirit of my dream seemed again to pronounce his assuring prediction, I
+raised my eyes from the page, and repeated the sentence over and over, as
+if to try whether the sounds had any charm or spell, to reawaken that
+faded illusion in my soul. But, no--the rank frauds of the Memphian
+priesthood had dispelled all my trust in the promises of religion. My
+heart had again relapsed into its gloom of scepticism, and, to the word of
+"Life," the only answer it sent back was, "Death!"
+
+Impatient, however, to possess myself of the elements of a faith, on
+which,--whatever it might promise for hereafter,--I felt that my happiness
+here depended, I turned over the pages with an earnestness and avidity,
+such as never even the most favourite of my studies had awakened in me.
+Though, like all, who seek but the surface of learning, I flew desultorily
+over the leaves, lighting only on the more prominent and shining points, I
+yet found myself, even in this undisciplined career, arrested, at every
+page, by the awful, the supernatural sublimity, the alternate melancholy
+and grandeur of the images that crowded upon me.
+
+I had, till now, known the Hebrew theology but through the platonising
+refinements of Philo;--as, in like manner, for my knowledge of the
+Christian doctrine I was indebted to my brother Epicureans, Lucian and
+Celsus. Little, therefore, was I prepared for the simple majesty, the high
+tone of inspiration,--the poetry, in short, of heaven that breathed
+throughout these oracles. Could admiration have kindled faith, I should,
+that night, have been a believer; so elevated, so awed was my imagination
+by that wonderful book,--its warnings of woe, its announcements of glory,
+and its unrivalled strains of adoration and sorrow.
+
+Hour after hour, with the same eager and desultory curiosity, did I turn
+over the leaves;--and when, at length, I lay down to rest, my fancy was
+still haunted by the impressions it had received. I went again through the
+various scenes of which I had read; again called up, in sleep, the bright
+images that had charmed me, and, when wakened at day-break by the Hymn
+from the chapel, fancied myself still listening to the sound of the winds,
+sighing mournfully through the harps of Israel on the willows.
+
+Starting from my bed, I hurried out upon the rock, with a hope that, among
+the tones of that morning choir, I might be able to distinguish the sweet
+voice of Alethe. But the strain had ceased;--I caught only the last notes
+of the Hymn, as, echoing up that lonely valley, they died away into the
+silence of the desert.
+
+With the first glimpse of light I was again at my study, and,
+notwithstanding the distraction both of my thoughts and looks towards the
+half-seen grottos of the Anchoret, pursued it perseveringly through the
+day. Still alive, however, but to the eloquence, the poetry of what I
+read, of its connection or authenticity, as a history, I never paused to
+consider. My fancy being alone interested by it, to fancy I referred all
+it contained; and, passing rapidly from annals to prophecy, from narration
+to song, regarded the whole but as a tissue of splendid allegories, in
+which the melancholy of Egyptian associations was interwoven with the rich
+imagery of the East.
+
+Towards sunset I saw the boat of Melanius on its way, across the canal, to
+my cave. Though he had no other companion than his graceful antelope, that
+stood snuffing the wild air of the desert, as if scenting its home, I felt
+his visit, even thus, to be a most welcome relief. It was the hour, he
+said, of his evening ramble up the mountain,--of his accustomed visit to
+those cisterns of the rock, from which he nightly drew his most precious
+beverage. While he spoke, I observed in his hand one of those earthen
+cups, in which the inhabitants of the wilderness are accustomed to collect
+the fresh dew among the rocks. Having proposed that I should accompany him
+in his walk, he led me, in the direction of the desert, up the side of the
+mountain that rose above my dwelling, and which formed the southern wall
+or screen of the defile.
+
+Near the summit we found a seat, where the old man paused to rest. It
+commanded a full view over the desert, and was by the side of one of those
+hollows in the rock, those natural reservoirs, in which the dews of night
+are treasured up for the refreshment of the dwellers in the wilderness.
+Having learned from me how far I had proceeded in my study, "In that
+light," said he, pointing to a small cloud in the east, which had been
+formed on the horizon by the haze of the desert, and was now faintly
+reflecting the splendours of sunset,--"in that light stands Mount Sinai, of
+whose glory thou hast read; on whose summit was the scene of one of those
+awful revelations, in which the Almighty has, from time to time, renewed
+his communication with Man, and kept alive the remembrance of his own
+Providence in this world."
+
+After a pause, as if absorbed in the immensity of the subject, the holy
+man continued his sublime theme. Looking back to the earliest annals of
+time, he showed how constantly every relapse of the human race into
+idolatry has been followed by some manifestation of divine power,
+chastening the proud by punishment, and winning back the humble by love.
+It was to preserve, he said, unextinguished upon earth, that vital
+truth,--the Creation of the world by one Supreme Being,--that God chose,
+from among the nations, an humble and enslaved race;--that he brought them
+out of their captivity "on eagles' wings," and, surrounding every step of
+their course with miracles, placed them before the eyes of all succeeding
+generations, as the depositaries of his will, and the ever-during
+memorials of his power.
+
+Passing, then, in review the long train of inspired interpreters, whose
+pens and whose tongues were made the echoes of the Divine voice, he
+traced(8), through the events of successive ages, the gradual unfolding of
+the dark scheme of Providence--darkness without, but all light and glory
+within. The glimpses of a coming redemption, visible even through the
+wrath of heaven;--the long series of prophecy, through which this hope
+runs, burning and alive, like a spark through a chain;--the merciful
+preparation of the hearts of mankind for the great trial of their faith
+and obedience that was at hand, not only by miracles that appealed to the
+living, but by predictions launched into futurity to carry conviction to
+the yet unborn;--"through all these glorious and beneficent gradations we
+may track," said he, "the manifest footsteps of a Creator, advancing to
+his grand, ultimate end, the salvation of his creatures."
+
+After some hours devoted to these holy instructions, we returned to the
+ravine, and Melanius left me at my cave; praying, as he parted from
+me,--with a benevolence I but ill, alas! deserved,--that my soul, under
+these lessons, might be "as a watered garden," and, ere long, bear "fruit
+unto life eternal."
+
+Next morning, I was again at my study, and even more eager in the task
+than before. With the commentary of the Hermit freshly in my memory, I
+again read through, with attention, the Book of the Law. But in vain did I
+seek the promise of immortality in its pages. "It tells me," said I, "of a
+God coming down to earth, but of the ascent of Man to heaven it speaks
+not. The rewards, the punishments it announces, lie all on this side of
+the grave; nor did even the Omnipotent offer to his own chosen servants a
+hope beyond the impassable limits of this world. Where, then, is the
+salvation of which the Christian spoke? or, if Death be at the root of the
+faith, can Life spring out of it!"
+
+Again, in the bitterness of disappointment, did I mock at my own willing
+self-delusion,--again rail at the arts of that traitress, Fancy, ever
+ready, like the Delilah of this book, to steal upon the slumbers of
+Reason, and deliver him up, shorn and powerless, to his foes. If
+deception--thought I, with a sigh--be necessary, at least let me not
+practise it on myself;--in the desperate alternative before me, let me
+rather be even hypocrite than dupe.
+
+These self-accusing reflections, cheerless as they rendered my task, did
+not abate, for a single moment, my industry in pursuing it. I read on and
+on, with a sort of sullen apathy, neither charmed by style, nor
+transported by imagery,--that fatal blight in my heart having communicated
+itself to my fancy and taste. The curses and the blessings, the glory and
+the ruin, which the historian recorded and the prophet predicted, seemed
+all of this world,--all, temporal and earthly. That mortality, of which the
+fountain-head had tasted, tinged the whole stream; and when I read the
+words, "all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again," a feeling, like
+the wind of the desert, came witheringly over me. Love, Beauty, Glory,
+every thing most bright upon earth, appeared sinking before my eyes, under
+this dreadful doom, into one general mass of corruption and silence.
+
+Possessed by the image of desolation I had called up, I laid my head on
+the book, in a paroxysm of despair. Death, in all his most ghastly
+varieties, passed before me; and I had continued thus for some time, as
+under the influence of a fearful vision, when the touch of a hand upon my
+shoulder roused me. Looking up, I saw the Anchoret standing by my
+side;--his countenance beaming with that sublime tranquillity, which a
+hope, beyond this earth, alone can bestow. How I envied him!
+
+We again took our way to the seat upon the mountain,--the gloom in my own
+mind making every thing around me more gloomy. Forgetting my hypocrisy in
+my feelings, I, at once, avowed to him all the doubts and fears which my
+study of the morning had awakened.
+
+"Thou art yet, my son," he answered, "but on the threshold of our faith.
+Thou hast seen but the first rudiments of the Divine plan;--its full and
+consummate perfection hath not yet opened upon thee. However glorious that
+manifestation of Divinity on Mount Sinai, it was but the forerunner of
+another, still more glorious, that, in the fulness of time, was to burst
+upon the world; when all, that had seemed dim and incomplete, was to be
+perfected, and the promises, shadowed out by the 'spirit of prophecy,'
+realized;--when the silence, that lay, as a seal, on the future, was to be
+broken, and the glad tidings of life and immortality proclaimed to the
+world!"
+
+Observing my features brighten at these words, the pious man continued.
+Anticipating some of the holy knowledge that was in store for me, he
+traced, through all its wonders and mercies, the great work of Redemption,
+dwelling on every miraculous circumstance connected with it;--the exalted
+nature of the Being, by whose ministry it was accomplished, the noblest
+and first created of the Sons of God, inferior only to the one, self-
+existent Father;--the mysterious incarnation of this heavenly
+messenger;--the miracles that authenticated his divine mission;--the example
+of obedience to God and love to man, which he set, as a shining light,
+before the world for ever;--and, lastly and chiefly, his death and
+resurrection, by which the covenant of mercy was sealed, and "life and
+immortality brought to light."
+
+"Such," continued the Hermit, "was the Mediator, promised through all
+time, to 'make reconciliation for iniquity,' to change death into life,
+and bring 'healing on his wings' to a darkened world. Such was the last
+crowning dispensation of that God of benevolence, in whose hands sin and
+death are but instruments of everlasting good, and who, through apparent
+evil and temporary retribution, bringing all things 'out of darkness into
+his marvellous light,' proceeds watchfully and unchangingly to the great,
+final object of his providence,--the restoration of the whole human race to
+purity and happiness!"
+
+With a mind astonished, if not touched, by these discourses, I returned to
+my cave; and found the lamp, as before, ready lighted to receive me. The
+volume which I had been reading was replaced by another, which lay open
+upon the table, with a branch of fresh palm between its leaves. Though I
+could not have a doubt to whose gentle hand I was indebted for this
+invisible superintendence over my studies, there was yet a something in
+it, so like spiritual interposition, that it awed me;--and never more than
+at this moment, when, on approaching the volume, I saw, as the light
+glistened over its silver letters, that it was the very Book of Life of
+which the Hermit had spoken!
+
+The orison of the Christians had sounded through the valley, before I
+raised my eyes from that sacred volume; and the second hour of the sun
+found me again over its pages.
+
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAP. XVIII.
+
+
+In this mode of existence did I pass some days;--my mornings devoted to
+reading, my nights to listening, under the canopy of heaven, to the holy
+eloquence of Melanius. The perseverance with which I enquired, and the
+quickness with which I learned, soon succeeded in deceiving my benevolent
+instructor, who mistook curiosity for zeal and knowledge for belief. Alas!
+cold, and barren, and earthly was that knowledge,--the word, without the
+spirit, the shape, without the life. Even when, as a relief from
+hypocrisy, I persuaded myself that I believed, it was but a brief
+delusion, a faith, whose hope crumbled at the touch,--like the fruit of the
+desert-shrub, shining and empty!
+
+But, though my soul was still dark, the good Hermit saw not into its
+depths. The very facility of my belief, which might have suggested some
+doubt of its sincerity, was but regarded by his innocent zeal, as a more
+signal triumph of the truth. His own ingenuousness led him to a ready
+trust in others; and the examples of such conversion as that of the
+philosopher, Justin, who received the light into his soul during a walk by
+the sea-shore, had prepared him for illuminations of the spirit, even more
+rapid than mine.
+
+During this time, I neither saw nor heard of Alethe;--nor could my patience
+have endured so long a privation, had not those mute vestiges of her
+presence, that welcomed me every night on my return, made me feel that I
+was still living under her gentle influence, and that her sympathy hung
+round every step of my progress. Once, too, when I ventured to speak her
+name to Melanius, though he answered not my enquiry, there was a smile, I
+thought, of promise upon his countenance, which love, more alive than
+faith, interpreted as it wished.
+
+At length,--it was on the sixth or seventh evening of my solitude, when I
+lay resting at the door of my cave, alter the study of the day,--I was
+startled by hearing my name called loudly from the opposite rocks, and
+looking up, saw, on the cliff near the deserted grottos, Melanius and--oh,
+I could not doubt--my Alethe by his side!
+
+Though I had never ceased, since the first night of my return from the
+desert, to flatter myself with the fancy that I was still living in her
+presence, the actual sight of her again made me feel what an age we had
+been separated. She was clothed all in white, and, as she stood in the
+last remains of the sunshine, appeared to my too prophetic fancy like a
+parting spirit, whose last footsteps on earth that glory encircled.
+
+With a delight only to be imagined, I saw them descend the rocks, and
+placing themselves in the boat, proceed towards my cave. To disguise from
+Melanius the feelings with which we met was impossible;--nor did Alethe
+even attempt to make a secret of her innocent joy. Though blushing at her
+own happiness, she could as little conceal it, as the clear waters of
+Ethiopia can hide their gold. Every look, too, every word, spoke a fulness
+of affection, to which, doubtful as I was of our tenure of happiness, I
+knew not how to answer.
+
+I was not long, however, left ignorant of the bright fate that awaited me;
+but, as we wandered or rested among the rocks, learned every thing that
+had been arranged since our parting. She had made the Hermit, I found,
+acquainted with all that had passed between us; had told him, without
+reserve, every incident of our voyage,--the avowals, the demonstrations of
+affection on one side, and the deep sentiment that gratitude had awakened
+on the other. Too wise to regard feelings, so natural, with
+severity,--knowing that they were of heaven, and but made evil by man,--the
+good Hermit had heard of our attachment with pleasure; and, proved as he
+thought the purity of my views had been, by the fidelity with which I had
+delivered up my trust into his hands, saw, in my affection for the young
+orphan, but a providential resource against that friendless solitude in
+which his death must soon leave her.
+
+As I collected these particulars from their discourse, I could hardly
+trust my ears. It seemed too much happiness to be real; nor can words give
+an idea of the joy--the shame--the wonder with which I listened, while the
+holy man himself declared, that he awaited but the moment, when he should
+find me worthy of becoming a member of the Christian Church, to give me
+also the hand of Alethe in that sacred union, which alone sanctifies love,
+and makes the faith, which it pledges, heavenly. It was but yesterday, he
+added, that his young charge, herself, after a preparation of prayer and
+repentance, such as even her pure spirit required, had been admitted, by
+the sacred ordinance of baptism, into the bosom of the faith;--and the
+white garment she wore, and the ring of gold on her finger, "were
+symbols," he said, "of that New Life into which she had been initiated."
+
+I raised my eyes to her as he spoke, but withdrew them again, dazzled and
+confused. Even her beauty, to my imagination, seemed to have undergone
+some brightening change; and the contrast between that open and happy
+countenance, and the unblest brow of the infidel that stood before her,
+abashed me into a sense of unworthiness, and almost checked my rapture.
+
+To that night, however, I look back, as an epoch in my existence. It
+proved that sorrow is not the only awakener of devotion, but that joy may
+sometimes call the holy spark into life. Returning to my cave, with a
+heart full, even to oppression, of its happiness, I knew no other relief
+to my overcharged feelings than that of throwing myself on my knees, and,
+for the first time in my life, uttering a prayer, that if, indeed, there
+were a Being who watched over mankind, he would send down one ray of his
+truth into my soul, and make it worthy of the blessings, both here and
+hereafter, proffered to me!
+
+My days now rolled on in a perfect dream of happiness. Every hour of the
+morning was welcomed as bringing nearer and nearer the blest time of
+sunset, when the Hermit and Alethe never failed to pay their visit to my
+now charmed cave, where her smile left a light, at each parting, that
+lasted till her return. Then, our rambles, by star-light, over the
+mountain;--our pauses, on the way, to contemplate the bright wonders of
+that heaven above us;--our repose by the cistern of the rock, and our
+silent listening, through hours that seemed minutes, to the holy eloquence
+of our teacher;--all, all was happiness of the most heartfelt kind, and
+such as even the doubts, the cold, lingering doubts, that still hung, like
+a mist, around my heart, could neither cloud nor chill.
+
+When the moonlight nights returned, we used to venture into the desert;
+and those sands, which but lately had appeared to me so desolate, now wore
+even a cheerful and smiling aspect. To the light, innocent heart of Alethe
+every thing was a source of enjoyment. For her, even the desert had its
+jewels and flowers; and, sometimes, her delight was to search among the
+sands for those beautiful pebbles of jasper that abound in
+them;--sometimes, her eyes sparkled on finding, perhaps, a stunted
+marigold, or one of those bitter, scarlet flowers, that lend their mockery
+of ornament to the desert. In all these pursuits and pleasures the good
+Hermit took a share,--mingling with them occasionally the reflections of a
+benevolent piety, that lent its own cheerful hue to all the works of
+creation, and saw the consoling truth "God is Love," written legibly every
+where.
+
+Such was, for a few weeks, my blissful life. Oh mornings of hope, oh
+nights of happiness, with what mournful pleasure do I retrace your flight,
+and how reluctantly pass to the sad events that followed!
+
+During this time, in compliance with the wishes of Melanius, who seemed
+unwilling that I should become wholly estranged from the world, I
+occasionally paid a visit to the neighbouring city, Antinoe, which, as the
+capital of the Thebaid, is the centre of all the luxury of Upper Egypt.
+Here,--so changed was my every feeling by the all-transforming passion that
+possessed me,--I wandered, unamused and uninterested by either the scenes
+or the people that surrounded me, and, sighing for that rocky solitude
+where Alethe breathed, felt _this_ to be the wilderness, and _that_, the
+world.
+
+Even the thoughts of my own native Athens, that were called up, at every
+step, by the light, Grecian architecture of this imperial city, did not
+awaken one single regret in my heart--one wish to exchange even an hour of
+my desert for the best luxuries and honours that awaited me in the Garden.
+I saw the arches of triumph;--I walked under the superb portico, which
+encircles the whole city with its marble shade;--I stood in the Circus of
+the Sun, by whose rose-coloured pillars the mysterious movements of the
+Nile are measured;--all these bright ornaments of glory and art, as well as
+the gay multitude that enlivened them, I saw with an unheeding eye. If
+they awakened in me any thought, it was the mournful idea, that, one day,
+like Thebes and Heliopolis, this pageant would pass away, leaving nothing
+behind but a few mouldering ruins,--like the sea-shells found where the
+ocean has been,--to tell that the great tide of Life was once there!
+
+But, though indifferent thus to all that had formerly attracted me, there
+were subjects, once alien to my heart, on which it was now most
+tremblingly alive; and some rumours which had reached me, in one of my
+visits to the city, of an expected change in the policy of the Emperor
+towards the Christians, filled me with apprehensions as new as they were
+dreadful to me.
+
+The peace and even favour which the Christians enjoyed, during the first
+four years of the reign of Valerian, had removed from them all fear of a
+renewal of those horrors, which they had experienced under the rule of his
+predecessor, Decius. Of late, however, some less friendly dispositions had
+manifested themselves. The bigots of the court, taking alarm at the spread
+of the new faith, had succeeded in filling the mind of the monarch with
+that religious jealousy, which is the ever-ready parent of cruelty and
+injustice. Among these counsellors of evil was Macrianus, the Praetorian
+Prefect, who was, by birth, an Egyptian, and--so akin is superstition to
+intolerance--had long made himself notorious by his addiction to the dark
+practices of demon-worship and magic.
+
+From this minister, who was now high in the favour of Valerian, the
+expected measures of severity against the Christians, it was supposed,
+would emanate. All tongues, in all quarters, were busy with the news. In
+the streets, in the public gardens, on the steps of the temples, I saw,
+every where, groups of enquirers collected, and heard the name of
+Macrianus upon every tongue. It was dreadful, too, to observe, in the
+countenances of those who spoke, the variety of feeling with which the
+rumour was discussed, according as they desired or dreaded its
+truth,--according as they were likely to be among the torturers or the
+victims.
+
+Alarmed, though still ignorant of the whole extent of the danger, I
+hurried back to the ravine, and, going at once to the grotto of Melanius,
+detailed to him every particular of the intelligence I had collected. He
+heard me with a composure, which I mistook, alas, for confidence in his
+security; and, naming the hour for our evening walk, retired into his
+grotto.
+
+At the accustomed time Alethe and he were at my cave. It was evident that
+he had not communicated to her the intelligence which I had brought, for
+never did brow wear such a happiness as that which now played round
+hers;--it was, alas, _not_ of this earth! Melanius, himself, though
+composed, was thoughtful; and the solemnity, almost approaching to
+melancholy, with which he placed the hand of Alethe in mine--in the
+performance, too, of a ceremony that _ought_ to have filled my heart with
+joy--saddened and alarmed me. This ceremony was our betrothment,--the
+plighting of our faith to each other,--which we now solemnized on the rock
+before the door of my cave, in the face of that sunset heaven, with its
+one star standing as witness. After a blessing from the Hermit on our
+spousal pledge, I placed the ring,--the earnest of our future union--on her
+finger, and, in the blush, with which she surrendered her whole heart to
+me at that instant, forgot every thing but my happiness, and felt secure,
+even against fate!
+
+We took our accustomed walk over the rocks and on the desert. The moon was
+so bright,--like the daylight, indeed, of other climes--that we could see
+plainly the tracks of the wild antelopes in the sand; and it was not
+without a slight tremble of feeling in his voice, as if some melancholy
+analogy occurred to him as he spoke, that the good Hermit said, "I have
+observed in my walks, that where-ever the track of that gentle animal is
+seen, there is, almost always, the foot-print of a beast of prey near it."
+He regained, however, his usual cheerfulness before we parted, and fixed
+the following evening for an excursion, on the other side of the ravine,
+to a point, looking, he said, "towards that northern region of the desert,
+where the hosts of the Lord encamped in their departure out of bondage."
+
+Though, in the presence of Alethe, my fears, even for herself, were
+forgotten in that perpetual element of happiness, which encircled her like
+the air that she breathed, no sooner was I alone than vague terrors and
+bodings crowded upon me. In vain did I try to reason myself out of my
+fears by dwelling on the most cheering circumstances,--the reverence with
+which Melanius was regarded, even by the Pagans, and the inviolate
+security with which he had lived through the most perilous periods, not
+only safe himself, but affording sanctuary in his grottos to others. When,
+somewhat calmed by these considerations, I sunk off to sleep, dark,
+horrible dreams took possession of my mind. Scenes of death and of torment
+passed confusedly before me, and, when I awoke, it was with the fearful
+impression that all these horrors were real.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                CHAP. XIX.
+
+
+At length, the day dawned,--that dreadful day. Impatient to be relieved
+from my suspense, I threw myself into my boat,--the same in which we had
+performed our happy voyage,--and, as fast as oars could speed me, hurried
+away to the city. I found the suburbs silent and solitary, but, as I
+approached the Forum, loud yells, like those of barbarians in combat,
+struck on my ear, and, when I entered it,--great God, what a spectacle
+presented itself! The imperial edict against the Christians had arrived
+during the night, and already the wild fury of bigotry was let loose.
+
+Under a canopy, in the middle of the Forum, was the tribunal of the
+Governor. Two statues, one of Apollo, the other of Osiris, stood at the
+bottom of the steps that led up to his judgment-seat. Before these idols
+were shrines, to which the devoted Christians were dragged from all
+quarters by the soldiers and mob, and there compelled to recant, by
+throwing incense into the flame, or, on their refusal, hurried away to
+torture and death. It was an appalling scene;--the consternation, the cries
+of some of the victims,--the pale, silent resolution of others;--the fierce
+shouts of laughter that broke from the multitude, when the frankincense,
+dropped on the altar, proclaimed some denier of Christ; and the fiend-like
+triumph with which the courageous Confessors, who avowed their faith, were
+led away to the flames;--never could I have conceived such an assemblage of
+horrors!
+
+Though I gazed but for a few minutes, in those minutes I felt enough for
+years. Already did the form of Alethe flit before me through that
+tumult;--I heard them shout her name;--her shriek fell on my ear; and the
+very thought so palsied me with terror, that I stood fixed and statue-like
+on the spot.
+
+Recollecting, however, the fearful preciousness of every moment, and
+that--perhaps, at this very instant--some emissaries of blood might be on
+their way to the grottos, I rushed wildly out of the Forum, and made my
+way to the quay.
+
+The streets were now crowded; but I ran headlong through the multitude,
+and was already under the portico leading down to the river,--already saw
+the boat that was to bear me to Alethe,--when a Centurion stood sternly in
+my path, and I was surrounded and arrested by soldiers! It was in vain
+that I implored, that I struggled with them as for life, assuring them
+that I was a stranger,--that I was an Athenian,--that I was--_not_ a
+Christian. The precipitation of my flight was sufficient evidence against
+me, and unrelentingly, and by force, they bore me away to the quarters of
+their Chief.
+
+It was enough to drive me to madness! Two hours, two frightful hours, was
+I kept waiting the arrival of the Tribune of their Legion(9),--my brain
+burning with a thousand fears and imaginations, which every passing minute
+made more likely to be realised. Every thing, too, that I could collect
+from the conversations around me but added to the agonising apprehensions
+with which I was racked. Troops, it was said, had been sent in all
+directions through the neighbourhood, to bring in the rebellious
+Christians, and make them bow before the Gods of the Empire. With horror,
+too, I heard of Orcus,--Orcus, the High Priest of Memphis,--as one of the
+principal instigators of this sanguinary edict, and as here present in
+Antinoe, animating and directing its execution.
+
+In this state of torture I remained till the arrival of the Tribune.
+Absorbed in my own thoughts, I had not perceived his entrance;--till,
+hearing a voice, in a tone of friendly surprise, exclaim, "Alciphron!" I
+looked up, and in this legionary Chief recognised a young Roman of rank,
+who had held a military command, the year before, at Athens, and was one
+of the most distinguished visitors of the Garden. It was no time, however,
+for courtesies;--he was proceeding with cordiality to greet me, but, having
+heard him order my instant release, I could wait for no more.
+Acknowledging his kindness but by a grasp of the hand, I flew off, like
+one frantic, through the streets, and, in a few minutes, was on the river.
+
+My sole hope had been to reach the grottos before any of the detached
+parties should arrive, and, by a timely flight across the desert, rescue,
+at least, Alethe from their fury. The ill-fated delay that had occurred
+rendered this hope almost desperate; but the tranquillity I found every
+where as I proceeded down the river, and the fond confidence I still
+cherished in the sacredness of the Hermit's retreat, kept my heart from
+giving way altogether under its terrors.
+
+Between the current and my oars, the boat flew, like wind, along the
+waters; and I was already near the rocks of the ravine, when I saw,
+turning out of the canal into the river, a barge crowded with people, and
+glittering with arms! How did I ever survive the shock of that sight? The
+oars dropped, as if struck out of my hands, into the water, and I sat,
+helplessly gazing, as that terrific vision approached. In a few minutes,
+the current brought us together;--and I saw, on the deck of the barge,
+Alethe and the Hermit surrounded by soldiers!
+
+We were already passing each other when, with a desperate effort, I sprang
+from my boat and lighted upon the edge of their vessel. I knew not what I
+did, for despair was my only prompter. Snatching at the sword of one of
+the soldiers, as I stood tottering on the edge, I had succeeded in
+wresting it out of his hands, when, at the same moment, I received a
+thrust of a lance from one of his comrades, and fell backward into the
+river. I can just remember rising again and making a grasp at the side of
+the vessel;--but the shock, the faintness from my wound, deprived me of all
+consciousness, and a shriek from Alethe, as I sunk, is all I can recollect
+of what followed.
+
+Would I had then died!--Yet, no, Almighty Being,--I should have died in
+darkness, and I have lived to know Thee!
+
+On returning to my senses, I found myself reclined on a couch, in a
+splendid apartment, the whole appearance of which being Grecian, I, for a
+moment, forgot all that had passed, and imagined myself in my own home at
+Athens. But too soon the whole dreadful certainty flashed upon me; and,
+starting wildly--disabled as I was--from my couch, I called loudly, and with
+the shriek of a maniac, on Alethe.
+
+I was in the house, I found, of my friend and disciple, the young Tribune,
+who had made the Governor acquainted with my name and condition, and had
+received me under his roof, when brought, bleeding and insensible, to
+Antinoe. From him I now learned at once,--for I could not wait for
+details,--the sum of all that had happened in that dreadful interval.
+Melanius was no more,--Alethe, still alive, but in prison!
+
+"Take me to her"--I had but time to say--"take me to her instantly, and let
+me die by her side,"--when, nature again failing under such shocks, I
+relapsed into insensibility. In this state I continued for near an hour,
+and, on recovering, found the Tribune by my side. The horrors, he said, of
+the Forum were, for that day, over,--but what the morrow might bring, he
+shuddered to contemplate. His nature, it was plain, revolted from the
+inhuman duties in which he was engaged. Touched by the agonies he saw me
+suffer, he, in some degree, relieved them, by promising that I should, at
+night-fall, be conveyed to the prison, and, if possible, through his
+influence, gain access to Alethe. She might yet, he added, be saved, could
+I succeed in persuading her to comply with the terms of the edict, and
+make sacrifice to the Gods.--"Otherwise," said he, "there is no hope;--the
+vindictive Orcus, who has resisted even this short respite of mercy, will,
+to-morrow, inexorably demand his prey."
+
+He then related to me, at my own request,--though every word was
+torture,--all the harrowing details of the proceeding before the Tribunal.
+"I have seen courage," said he, "in its noblest forms, in the field; but
+the calm intrepidity with which that aged Hermit endured torments--which it
+was hardly less torment to witness--surpassed all that I could have
+conceived of human fortitude!"
+
+My poor Alethe, too,--in describing to me her conduct, the brave man wept
+like a child. Overwhelmed, he said, at first by her apprehensions for my
+safety, she had given way to a full burst of womanly weakness. But no
+sooner was she brought before the Tribunal, and the declaration of her
+faith was demanded of her, than a spirit almost supernatural seemed to
+animate her whole form. "She raised her eyes," said he, "calmly, but with
+fervour, to heaven, while a blush was the only sign of mortal feeling on
+her features;--and the clear, sweet, and untrembling voice, with which she
+pronounced her dooming words, 'I am a Christian!' sent a thrill of
+admiration and pity throughout the multitude. Her youth, her loveliness,
+affected all hearts, and a cry of 'Save the young maiden!' was heard in
+all directions."
+
+The implacable Orcus, however, would not hear of mercy. Resenting, as it
+appeared, with all his deadliest rancour, not only her own escape from his
+toils, but the aid with which, so fatally to his views, she had assisted
+mine, he demanded loudly, and in the name of the insulted sanctuary of
+Isis, her instant death. It was but by the firm intervention of the
+Governor, who shared the general sympathy in her fate, that the delay of
+another day was accorded, to give a chance to the young maiden of yet
+recalling her confession, and thus affording some pretext for saving her.
+
+Even in yielding reluctantly to this brief respite, the inhuman Priest
+would accompany it with some mark of his vengeance. Whether for the
+pleasure (observed the Tribune) of mingling mockery with his cruelty, or
+as a warning to her of the doom she must ultimately expect, he gave orders
+that there should be tied round her brow one of those chaplets of
+coral(10), with which it is the custom of young Christian maidens to array
+themselves on the day of their martyrdom;--"and, thus fearfully adorned,"
+said he, "she was led away, amid the gaze of the pitying multitude, to
+prison."
+
+With these details the short interval till night-fall,--every minute of
+which seemed an age,--was occupied. As soon as it grew dark, I was placed
+upon a litter,--my wound, though not dangerous, requiring such a
+conveyance,--and conducted, under the guidance of my friend, to the prison.
+Through his interest with the guard, we were without difficulty admitted,
+and I was borne into the chamber where the maiden lay immured. Even the
+veteran guardian of the place seemed touched with compassion for his
+prisoner, and supposing her to be asleep, had the litter placed gently
+near her.
+
+She was half reclining, with her face hid in her hands, upon a couch,--at
+the foot of which stood an idol, over whose hideous features a lamp of
+naptha, hanging from the ceiling, shed a wild and ghastly glare. On a
+table before the image stood a censer, with a small vessel of incense
+beside it,--one grain of which, thrown voluntarily into the flame, would,
+even now, save that precious life. So strange, so fearful was the whole
+scene, that I almost doubted its reality. Alethe! my own, happy Alethe!
+_can_ it, I thought, be thou that I look upon?
+
+She now, slowly and with difficulty, raised her head from the couch; on
+observing which, the kind Tribune withdrew, and we were left alone. There
+was a paleness, as of death, over her features; and those eyes, which when
+last I saw them, were but too bright, too happy for this world, looked dim
+and sunken. In raising herself up, she put her hand, as if from pain, to
+her forehead, whose marble hue but appeared more death-like from those red
+bands that lay so awfully across it.
+
+After wandering vaguely for a minute, her eyes rested upon me,--and, with a
+shriek, half terror, half joy, she sprung from the couch, and sunk upon
+her knees by my side. She had believed me dead; and, even now, scarcely
+trusted her senses. "My husband! my love!" she exclaimed; "oh, if thou
+comest to call me from this world, behold I am ready!" In saying thus, she
+pointed wildly to that ominous wreath, and then dropped her head down upon
+my knee, as if an arrow had pierced it.
+
+"Alethe!"--I cried, terrified to the very soul by that mysterious pang,--and
+the sound of my voice seemed to reanimate her;--she looked up, with a faint
+smile, in my face. Her thoughts, which had evidently been wandering,
+became collected; and in her joy at my safety, her sorrow at my suffering,
+she forgot wholly the fate that impended over herself. Love, innocent
+love, alone occupied all her thoughts; and the tenderness with which she
+spoke,--oh, at any other moment, how I would have listened, have lingered
+upon, have blessed every word!
+
+But the time flew fast--the dreadful morrow was approaching. Already I saw
+her writhing in the hands of the torturer,--the flames, the racks, the
+wheels were before my eyes! Half frantic with the fear that her resolution
+was fixed, I flung myself from the litter, in an agony of weeping, and
+supplicated her, by the love she bore me, by the happiness that awaited
+us, by her own merciful God, who was too good to require such a
+sacrifice,--by all that the most passionate anxiety could dictate, I
+implored that she would avert from us the doom that was coming, and--but
+for once--comply with the vain ceremony demanded of her.
+
+Shrinking from me, as I spoke,--but with a look more of sorrow than
+reproach,--"What, thou, too!" she said mournfully,--"thou, into whose spirit
+I had fondly hoped the same heavenly truth had descended as into my own!
+Oh, be not thou leagued with those who would tempt me to 'make shipwreck
+of my faith!' Thou, who couldst alone bind me to life, use not thy power;
+but let me die, as He I serve hath commanded,--die for the Truth. Remember
+the holy lessons we heard on those nights, those happy nights, when both
+the Present and Future smiled upon us,--when even the gift of eternal life
+came more welcome to my soul, from the blessed conviction that thou wert
+to be a sharer in it;--shall I forfeit now that divine privilege? shall I
+deny the true God, whom we then learned to love?
+
+"No, my own betrothed," she continued,--pointing to the two rings on her
+finger,--"behold these pledges,--they are both sacred. I should have been as
+true to thee as I am now to heaven,--nor in that life to which I am
+hastening shall our love be forgotten. Should the baptism of fire, through
+which I shall pass to-morrow, make me worthy to be heard before the Throne
+of Grace, I will intercede for thy soul--I will pray that it may yet share
+with mine that 'inheritance, immortal and undefiled,' which Mercy offers,
+and that thou,--my dear mother,--and I--"
+
+She here dropped her voice; the momentary animation, with which devotion
+and affection had inspired her, vanished;--and a darkness overspread all
+her features, a livid darkness,--like the coming of death--that made me
+shudder through every limb. Seizing my hand convulsively, and looking at
+me with a fearful eagerness, as if anxious to hear some consoling
+assurance from my own lips,--"Believe me," she continued, "not all the
+torments they are preparing for me,--not even this deep, burning pain in my
+brow, which they will hardly equal,--could be half so dreadful to me, as
+the thought that I leave thee--"
+
+Here, her voice again failed; her head sunk upon my arm, and--merciful God,
+let me forget what I then felt,--I saw that she was dying! Whether I
+uttered any cry, I know not;--but the Tribune came rushing into the
+chamber, and, looking on the maiden, said, with a face full of horror, "It
+is but too true!"
+
+He then told me in a low voice, what he had just learned from the guardian
+of the prison, that the band round the young Christian's brow was--oh
+horrible cruelty!--a compound of the most deadly poison,--the hellish
+invention of Orcus, to satiate his vengeance, and make the fate of his
+poor victim secure. My first movement was to untie that fatal wreath,--but
+it would not come away--it would not come away!
+
+Roused by the pain, she again looked in my face; but, unable to speak,
+took hastily from her bosom the small silver cross which she had brought
+with her from my cave. Having prest it to her own lips, she held it
+anxiously to mine, and seeing me kiss the holy symbol with fervour, looked
+happy, and smiled. The agony of death seemed to have passed away;--there
+came suddenly over her features a heavenly light, some share of which I
+felt descending into my own soul, and, in a few minutes more, she expired
+in my arms.
+
+                  -------------------------------------
+
+_Here ends the Manuscript; but, on the outer cover there is, in the hand-
+writing of a much later period, the following Notice, extracted, as it
+appears, from some Egyptian martyrology:--_
+
+"Alciphron,--an Epicurean philosopher, converted to Christianity A. D. 257,
+by a young Egyptian maiden, who suffered martyrdom in that year.
+Immediately upon her death he betook himself to the desert, and lived a
+life, it is said, of much holiness and penitence. During the persecution
+under Dioclesian, his sufferings for the faith were most exemplary; and,
+being at length, at an advanced age, condemned to hard labour, for
+refusing to comply with an Imperial edict, he died at the brass mines of
+Palestine, A. D. 297.--
+
+"As Alciphron held the opinions maintained since by Arius, his memory has
+not been spared by Athanasian writers, who, among other charges, accuse
+him of having been addicted to the superstitions of Egypt. For this
+calumny, however, there appears to be no better foundation than a
+circumstance, recorded by one of his brother monks, that there was found,
+after his death, a small metal mirror, like those used in the ceremonies
+of Isis, suspended round his neck."
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                                  NOTES.
+
+
+Page 17.--For the importance attached to dreams by the ancients, see
+_Jortin_, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History, vol. 1. p. 90.
+
+
+Page 22.--"_The Pillar of Pillars_"--more properly, perhaps, "the column of
+the pillars." v. _Abdallatif_, Relation de l'Egypte, and the notes of _M.
+de Sacy_. The great portico round this column (formerly designated
+Pompey's, but now known to have been erected in honour of Dioclesian) was
+still standing, M. de Sacy says, in the time of Saladin. v. _Lord
+Valentia's Travels_.
+
+
+Page 23.--Ammianus thus speaks of the state of Alexandria in his time,
+which was, I believe, as late as the end of the fourth century:--"Ne nunc
+quidem in eadem urbe Doctrinae variae silent, non apud nos exaruit Musica
+nec Harmonia conticuit." Lib. 22.
+
+
+Page 25.--From the character of the features of the Sphinx, and a passage
+in Herodotus, describing the Egyptians as _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}_,
+Volney, Bruce, and a few others, have concluded that the ancient
+inhabitants of Egypt were negroes. But this opinion is contradicted by a
+host of authorities. See _Castera_'s notes upon _Browne's Travels_, for
+the result of Blumenbach's dissection of a variety of mummies. Denon,
+speaking of the character of the heads represented in the ancient
+sculpture and painting of Egypt, says, "Celle des femmes ressemble encore
+a la figure des jolies femmes d'aujourd'hui: de la rondeur, de la volupte,
+le nez petit, les yeux longs, peu ouverts," &c. &c. He could judge, too,
+he says, from the female mummies, "que leurs cheveux etoient longs et
+lisses, que le caractere de tete de la plupart tenoit du beau style"--"Je
+raportai," he adds, "une tete de vieille femme qui etoit aussi belle que
+celles de Michel Ange, et leur ressembloit beaucoup."
+
+In a "_Description generale de Thebes_" by _Messrs. Jollois et
+Desvilliers_, they say, "Toutes les sculptures Egyptiennes, depuis les
+plus grands colosses de Thebes jusqu'aux plus petites idoles, ne
+rappellent en aucune maniere les traits de la figure des negres; outre que
+les tetes des momies des catacombs de Thebes presentent des profils
+droits." See also _M. Jomard_'s "Description of Syene and the Cataracts,"
+_Baron Larrey_, on the "conformation physique" of the Egyptians, &c.
+
+De Pauw, the great depreciator of every thing Egyptian, has, on the
+authority of a passage in AElian, presumed to affix to the countrywomen of
+Cleopatra the stigma of complete and unredeemed ugliness. The following
+line of Euripides, however, is an answer to such charges:--
+
+  _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}._
+
+In addition to the celebrated instances of Cleopatra, Rhodope, &c. we are
+told, on the authority of Manetho (as given by Zoega from Georgius
+Syncellus), of a beautiful queen of Memphis, Nitocris, of the sixth
+dynasty, who, in addition to other charms and perfections, was (rather
+inconsistently with the negro hypothesis) _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER XI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_.
+
+See, for a tribute to the beauty of the Egyptian women, Montesquieu's
+Temple de Gnide.
+
+
+Page 35.--"_Among beds of lotus flowers._"--v. _Strabo_.
+
+
+Page 36.--"_Isle of the golden Venus._"--"On trouve une ile appelee Venus-
+Doree, ou le champ d'or, avant de remonter jusqu'a Memphis." _Voyages de
+Pythagore._
+
+
+Page 39.--For an account of the Table of Emerald, v. _Lettres sur l'Origine
+des Dieux d'Egypte_. _De Pauw_ supposes it to be a modern fiction of the
+Arabs. Many writers have fancied that the art of making gold was the great
+secret that lay hid under the forms of Egyptian theology. "La science
+Hermetique," says the Benedictine, Pernetz, "l'art sacerdotal etoit la
+source de toutes les richesses des Rois d'Egypte, et l'objet de ces
+mysteres si caches sous le voile du leur pretendu Religion." _Fables
+Egyptiennes._ The hieroglyphs, that formerly covered the Pyramids, are
+supposed by some of these writers to relate to the same art. See _Mutus
+liber, Rupellae_.
+
+
+Page 40.--"By reflecting the sun's rays," says _Clarke_, speaking of the
+Pyramids, "they appeared white as snow."
+
+
+Page 41.--For Bubastis, the Diana of the Egyptians, v. _Jablonski_, lib. 3.
+c. 4.
+
+
+Page 43.--"_The light coracle_," _&c._--v. _Amuilhon_, "_Histoire de la
+Navigation et du Commerce des Egyptiens sous les Ptolemees_." See also,
+for a description of the various kinds of boats used on the Nile,
+_Maillet_, tom. i. p. 98.
+
+
+Page 44.--v. _Maurice_, Appendix to "Ruins of Babylon." Another reason, he
+says, for their worship of the Ibis, "founded on their love of geometry,
+was (according to Plutarch) that the space between its legs, when parted
+asunder, as it walks, together with its beak, forms a complete equilateral
+triangle." From the examination of the embalmed birds, found in the
+Catacombs of Saccara, there seems to be no doubt that the Ibis was the
+same kind of bird as that described by Bruce, under the Arabian name of
+Abou Hannes.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The sistrum_," _&c._--"Isis est genius," says _Servius_, "AEgypti, qui
+per sistri motum, quod gerit in dextra, Nili accessus recessusque
+significat."
+
+
+Page 48.--"_The ivy encircled it_," _&c._--The ivy was consecrated to
+Osiris. v. _Diodor. Sic._ 1. 10.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The small mirror._"--"Quelques unes," says _Dupuis_, describing the
+processions of Isis, "portoient des miroirs attaches a leurs epaules, afin
+de multiplier et de porter dans tous les sens les images de la Deesse."
+_Origine des Cultes_, tom. 8. p. 847. A mirror, it appears, was also one
+of the emblems in the mysteries of Bacchus.
+
+
+Page 49.--"_There__ is, to the north of Memphis_," _&c._--"Tout prouve que
+la territoire de Sakkarah etoit la Necropolis au sud de Memphis, et le
+faubourg oppose a celui-ci, ou sont les pyramides de Gizeh, une autre
+Ville des Morts, qui terminoit Memphis au nord." _Denon._
+
+There is nothing known with certainty as to the site of Memphis, but it
+will be perceived that the description of its position given by the
+Epicurean corresponds, in almost every particular, with that which M.
+Maillet (the French consul, for many years, at Cairo) has left us. It must
+be always borne in mind, too, that of the distances between the respective
+places here mentioned, we have no longer any accurate means of judging.
+
+
+Page 49.--"_Pyramid beyond pyramid._"--"Multas olim pyramidas fuisse e
+ruinis arguitur." _Zoega._--_Vansleb_, who visited more than ten of the
+small pyramids, is of opinion that there must have originally been a
+hundred in this place.
+
+See, for the lake to the northward of Memphis, _Shaw's Travels_, p. 302.
+
+
+Page 57.--"_The Theban beetle._"--"On voit en Egypte, apres la retraite du
+Nil et la fecondation des terres, le limon couvert d'une multitude de
+scarabees. Un pareil phenomene a du sembler aux Egyptiens le plus propre a
+peindre une nouvelle existence." _M. Jomard._--Partly for the same reason,
+and partly for another, still more fanciful, the early Christians used to
+apply this emblem to Christ. "Bonus ille scarabaeus meus," says St.
+Augustine "non ea tantum de causa quod unigenitus, quod ipsemet sui auctor
+mortalium speciem induerit, sed quod in hac nostra faece sese volutaverit
+et ex hac ipsa nasci voluerit."
+
+
+Ib.--"_Enshrined within a case of crystal._"--"Les Egyptiens ont fait aussi,
+pour conserver leurs morts, des caisses de verre." _De Pauw._--He mentions,
+in another place, a sort of transparent substance, which the Ethiopians
+used for the same purpose, and which was frequently mistaken by the Greeks
+for glass.
+
+
+Page 58.--"_Among the emblems of death._"--"Un pretre, qui brise la tige
+d'une fleur, des oiseaux qui s'envolent sont les emblemes de la morte et
+de l'ame qui se separe du corps." _Denon._
+
+Theseus employs the same image in the Phaedra:--
+
+  _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}_
+  _{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}' {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}._
+
+
+Page 59.--"The singular appearance of a Cross so frequently recurring among
+the hieroglyphics of Egypt, had excited the curiosity of the Christians at
+a very early period of ecclesiastical history; and as some of the Priests,
+who were acquainted with the meaning of the hieroglyphics, became
+converted to Christianity the secret transpired. 'The converted heathens,'
+says Socrates Scholasticus, 'explained the symbol, and declared that it
+signified Life to Come.'" _Clarke._
+
+Lipsius, therefore, erroneously supposes the Cross to have been an emblem
+peculiar to the Christians. See, on this subject, _L'Histoire des Juifs_,
+liv. 9. c. 16.
+
+It is singular enough that while the Cross was held sacred among the
+Egyptians, not only the custom of marking the forehead with the sign of
+the Cross, but Baptism and the consecration of the bread in the Eucharist
+were imitated in the mysterious ceremonies of Mithra. _Tertull. de
+Proscriptione Hereticorum._
+
+Zoega is of opinion that the Cross found (for the first time, it is said)
+on the destruction of the temple of Serapis, by the Christians, could have
+not been the crux ansata; as nothing is more common than this emblem on
+all the Egyptian monuments.
+
+
+Page 62.--"_Stood shadowless._"--It was an idea entertained among the
+ancients that the Pyramids were so constructed ("mecanica constructione,"
+says _Ammianus Marcellinus_) as never to cast any shadow.
+
+
+Page 64.--"_Rhodope._"--From the story of Rhodope, Zoega thinks, "videntur
+Arabes ansam arripuisse ut in una ex pyramidibus, genii loco, habitare
+dicerent mulierem nudam insignis pulchritudinis quae aspectu suo homines
+insanire faciat." _De Usu Obeliscorum._ See also _L'Egypte de Murtadi par
+Vattier_.
+
+
+Page 66.--"_The Gates of Oblivion._"--"Apud Memphim aeneas quasdam portas,
+quae Lethes et Cocyti (hoc est oblivionis et lamentationis) appellenter
+aperiri, gravem asperumque edentes sonum." _Zoega._
+
+
+Page 69.--"_A pile of lifeless bodies._"--See, for the custom of burying the
+dead upright ("post funus stantia busto corpora," as Statius describes
+it), Dr. Clarke's preface to the 2d section of his fifth volume. They used
+to insert precious stones in the place of the eyes. "Les yeux etoient
+formes d'emeraudes, de turquoises," &c.--v. _Masoudy_, quoted by
+_Quatremere_.
+
+
+Page 72.--"_It seemed as if every echo._"--See, for the echoes in the
+pyramids, _Plutarch, de Placitis Philosoph._
+
+
+Page 74.--"_Pale phantom-like shapes._"--"Ce moment heureux (de l'Autopsie)
+etoit prepare par des scenes effrayantes, par des alternatives de crainte
+et de joie, de lumiere et des tenebres, par la lueur des eclairs, par le
+bruit terrible de la foudre, qu'on imitoit, et par des apparitions de
+spectres, des illusions magiques, qui frappoient les yeux et les oreilles
+tout ensemble." _Dupuis._
+
+
+Page 77.--"_Serpents of fire._"--"Ces considerations me portent a penser
+que, dans les mysteres, ces phenomenes etoient beaucoup mieux executees et
+sans comparison plus terribles a l'aide de quelque composition pyrique,
+qui est restee cachee, comme celle du feu Gregeois." _De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 78.--"_The burning of the reed-beds of Ethiopia._"--"Il n'y a point
+d'autre moyen que de porter le feu dans ces forets de roseaux, qui
+repandent alors dans tout le pais une lumiere aussi considerable que celle
+du jour meme." _Maillet_, tom. 1. p. 63.
+
+
+Page 79.--"_The sound of torrents._"--The Nile, _Pliny_ tells us, was
+admitted into the Pyramid.
+
+
+Page 81.--"_I had almost given myself up._"--"On exercoit," says _Dupuis_,
+"les recipiendaires, pendant plusieurs jours, a traverser, a la nage, une
+grande etendue d'eau. On les y jettoit et ce n'etoit que avec peine qu'
+ils s'en retiroient. On appliquoit le fer et le feu sur leurs membres. On
+les faisoit passer a travers les flammes."
+
+The aspirants were often in considerable danger, and Pythagoras, we are
+told, nearly lost his life in the trials. v. _Recherches sur les
+Initiations, par Robin_.
+
+
+Page 90.--For the two cups used in the mysteries, see _L'Histoire des
+Juifs_, liv. 9. c. 16.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Osiris._"--Osiris, under the name of Serapis, was supposed to rule
+over the subterranean world; and performed the office of Pluto, in the
+mythology of the Egyptians. "They believed," says Dr. Pritchard, "that
+Serapis presided over the region of departed souls, during the period of
+their absence, when languishing without bodies, and that the dead were
+deposited in his palace." _Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology._
+
+
+Ib.--"_To cool the lips of the dead._"--"Frigidam illam aquam post mortem,
+tanquam Hebes poculum, expetitam." _Zoega._--The Lethe of the Egyptians was
+called Ameles. See _Dupuis_, tom. 8. p. 651.
+
+
+Page 90.--"_A draught divine._"--_Diodor. Sicul._
+
+
+Page 93.--"_Grasshopper, symbol of initiation._"--_Hor. Apoll._--The
+grasshopper was also consecrated to the sun as being musical.
+
+
+Page 94.--"_Isle of gardens._"--The isle Antirrhodus near Alexandria.
+_Maillet._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Vineyard at Anthylla._"--See _Athen. Deipnos._
+
+
+Page 97.--"_We can see those stars._"--"On voyoit en plein jour par ces
+ouvertures les etoiles, et meme quelques planetes en leur plus grande
+latitude septentrionale; et les pretres avoient bientot profite de ce
+phenomene pour observer a diverses heures la passage des etoiles."
+_Sethos._--_Strabo_ mentions certain caves or pits, constructed for the
+purpose of astronomical observations, which lay in the Zelopolitan
+prefecture, beyond Heliopolis.
+
+
+Page 98.--"_A plantain._"--This tree was dedicated to the Genii of the
+Shades, from its being an emblem of repose and cooling airs. "Cui imminet
+musae folium, quod ab Iside infera geniisque ei addictis manu geri solitum,
+umbram requiemque et auras frigidas subindigitare videtur." _Zoega._
+
+
+Page 107.--"_He spoke of the preexistence of the soul_," _&c._--For a full
+account of the doctrines which are here represented as having been taught
+to the initiated in the Egyptian mysteries, the reader may consult
+_Dupuis_, _Pritchard's Analysis of the Egyptian Mythology_, &c. &c. "L'on
+decouvroit l'origine de l'ame, sa chute sur la terre, a travers les
+spheres et les elemens, et son retour au lieu de sa origine ... c'etoit
+ici la partie la plus metaphysique, et que ne pourroit guere entendre le
+commun des Inities, mais dont on lui donnoit le spectacle par des figures
+et des spectres allegoriques." _Dupuis._
+
+
+Page 108.--"_Those fields of radiance._"--See _Beausobre_, liv. 3. c. 4. for
+the "terre bienheureuse et lumineuse" which the Manicheans supposed God to
+inhabit. Plato, too, speaks (in Phaed.) of a "pure land lying in the pure
+sky (_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}_), the abode of divinity,
+of innocence, and of life."
+
+
+Page 110.--"_Tracing it from the first moment of earthward desire._"--In the
+original construction of this work, there was an episode introduced here,
+(which I have since published in another form,) illustrating the doctrine
+of the fall of the soul by the Oriental fable of the Loves of the Angels.
+
+
+Page 111.--"_Restoring her lost wings._"--_Damascius_ in his Life of
+Isidorus, says, "Ex antiquissimis Philosophis Pythagoram et Platonem
+Isidorus ut Deos coluit, et _eorum animas alatas esse_ dixit quas in locum
+supercoelestem inque campum veritatis et pratum elevatas, divinis putavit
+ideis pasci." _Apud Phot. Bibliothec._
+
+
+Page 112.--"_A pale, moonlike meteor._"--_Apuleius_, in describing the
+miraculous appearances exhibited in the mysteries, says, "Nocte media vidi
+solem candido coruscantem lumine." _Metamorphos._ lib. 11.
+
+
+Page 113.--"_So entirely did the illusion of the scene_," _&c._--In tracing
+the early connection of spectacles with the ceremonies of religion,
+Voltaire says, "Il y a bien plus; les veritables grandes tragedies, les
+representations imposantes et terribles, etoient les mysteres sacres,
+qu'on celebroit dans les plus vastes temples du monde, en presence des
+seuls Inities; c'etoit la que les habits, les decorations, les machines
+etoient propres au sujet; et le sujet etoit la vie presente et la vie
+future." _Des divers changemens arrives a l'art tragique._
+
+To these scenic representations in the Egyptian mysteries, there is
+evidently an allusion in the vision of Ezekiel, where the spirit shows him
+the abominations which the Israelites learned in Egypt:--"Then said he unto
+me, 'Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel
+do in the dark, every man in _the chambers of his imagery_.'" Chap. 8.
+
+
+Page 118.--"_The seven tables of stone._"--"Bernard, Comte de la Marche
+Trevisane, instruit par la lecture des livres anciens, dit qu' Hermes
+trouva sept tables dans la vallee d'Hebron, sur lesquelles etoient graves
+les principes des arts liberaux." _Fables Egyptiennes._ See _Jablonski de
+stelis Herm._
+
+
+Page 119.--"_Beside the goat of Mendes._"--For an account of the animal
+worship of the Egyptians, see _De Pauw_, tom. 2.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The Isiac serpents._"--"On auguroit bien des serpens Isiaques,
+lorsqu'ils goutoient l'offrande et se trainoient lentement autour de
+l'autel." _De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 121.--"_Hence the festivals and hymns_," _&c._--For an account of the
+various festivals at the different periods of the sun's progress, in the
+spring, and in the autumn, see _Dupuis_ and _Pritchard_.
+
+
+Ib.--"_The mysteries of the night._"--v. _Athenag. Leg. pro Christ._ p. 133.
+
+
+Page 125.--"_A peal like that of thunder._"--See, for some curious remarks
+on the mode of imitating thunder and lightning in the ancient mysteries,
+_De Pauw_, tom. 1. p. 323. The machine with which these effects were
+produced on the stage was called a ceraunoscope.
+
+
+Page 131.--"_Windings, capriciously intricate._"--In addition to the
+accounts which the ancients have left us of the prodigious excavations in
+all parts of Egypt,--the fifteen hundred chambers under the Labyrinth--the
+subterranean stables of the Thebaid, containing a thousand horses--the
+crypts of Upper Egypt passing under the bed of the Nile, &c. &c.--the
+stories and traditions current among the Arabs still preserve the memory
+of those wonderful substructions. "Un Arabe," says Paul Lucas, "qui etoit
+avec nous, m'assura qu'etant entre autrefois dans le Labyrinthe, il avoit
+marche dans les chambres souterraines jusqu'en un lieu ou il y avoit une
+grande place environnee de plusieurs niches qui ressembloit a de petites
+boutiques, d'ou l'on entroit dans d'autres allees et dans des chambres,
+sans pouvoir en trouver la fin." In speaking, too, of the arcades along
+the Nile, near Cosseir, "Ils me dirent meme que ces souterrains etoient si
+profondes qu'il y en avoient qui alloient a trois journees de la, et
+qu'ils conduisoient dans un pays ou l'on voyoit de beaux jardins, qu'on y
+trouvoit de belles maisons," &c. &c.
+
+See also in _M. Quatremere's Memoires sur l'Egypte_, tom. 1. p. 142., an
+account of a subterranean reservoir, said to have been discovered at Kais,
+and of the expedition undertaken by a party of persons, in a long narrow
+boat, for the purpose of exploring it. "Leur voyage avoit ete de six
+jours, dont les quatre premiers furent employes a penetrer les bords; les
+deux autres a revenir au lieu d'ou ils etoient partis: Pendant tout cet
+intervalle ils ne purent atteindre l'extremite du bassin. L'emir Ala-
+eddin-Tamboga, gouverneur de Behnesa, ecrivit ces details au sultan, qui
+en fut extremement surpris."
+
+
+Page 136.--"_A small island in the centre of Lake Moeris._"--The position
+here given to Lake Moeris, in making it the immediate boundary of the city
+of Memphis to the south, corresponds exactly with the site assigned to it
+by Maillet:--"Memphis avoit encore a son midi un vaste reservoir, par ou
+tout ce qui peut servir a la commodite et a l'agrement de la vie lui etoit
+voiture abondamment de toutes les parties de l'Egypte. Ce lac qui la
+terminoit de ce cote-la," &c. &c. Tom. 2. p. 7.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Ruins rising blackly above the wave._"--"On voit sur la rive
+orientale des antiquites qui sont presque entierement sous les eaux."
+_Belzoni._
+
+
+Page 137.--"_Its thundering portals._"--"Quorundam autem domorum (in
+Labyrintho) talis est situs, ut adaperientibus foris tonitru intus
+terribile existat." _Pliny._
+
+
+Page 138.--"_Leaves that serve as cups._"--_Strabo._ According to the French
+translator of Strabo, it was the fruit of the _faba AEgyptiaca_, not the
+leaf, that was used for this purpose. "Le _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER BETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_," he says, "devoit
+s'entendre de la capsule ou fruit de cette plante, dont les Egyptiens se
+servoient comme d'un vase, imaginant que l'eau du Nil y devenoit
+delicieuse."
+
+
+Page 142.--"_The fish of these waters_," _&c._--_AElian_, lib. 6. 32.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Pleasure boats or yachts._"--Called Thalamages, from the pavilion on
+the deck. v. _Strabo_.
+
+
+Page 144.--"_Covered with beds of those pale, sweet roses._"--As April is
+the season for gathering these roses (See _Malte-brun's Economical
+Calendar_), the Epicurean could not, of course, mean to say that he saw
+them actually in flower.
+
+
+Page 146.--"_The lizards upon the bank._"--"L'or et l'azur brillent en
+bandes longitudinales sur leur corps entier, et leur queue est du plus
+beau bleu celeste." _Sonnini._
+
+
+Page 147.--"_The canal through which we now sailed._"--"Un canal," says
+_Maillet_, "tres profond et tres large y voituroit les eaux du Nil."
+
+
+Page 150.--"_For a draught of whose flood_," _&c._--"Anciennement on portoit
+les eaux du Nil jusqu'au des contrees fort eloignees, et surtout chez les
+princesses du sang des Ptolomees, mariees dans des families etrangeres."
+_De Pauw._
+
+
+Page 154.--"_Bearing each the name of its owner._"--"Le nom du maitre y
+etoit ecrit, pendant la nuit en lettres de feu." _Maillet._
+
+
+Page 155.--"_Cups of that frail crystal_"--called Alassontes. For their
+brittleness _Martial_ is an authority:--
+
+  Tolle, puer, calices, tepidique toreumata Nili,
+  Et mihi secura pocula trade manu.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Bracelets of the black beans of Abyssinia._"--The bean of the
+Glycyne, which is so beautiful as to be strung into necklaces and
+bracelets, is generally known by the name of the black bean of Abyssinia.
+_Niebhur._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Sweet lotus-wood flute._"--See _M. Villoteau on the musical
+instruments of the Egyptians_.
+
+
+Page 156.--"_Shine like the brow of Mount Atlas at night._"--_Solinus_
+speaks of the snowy summit of Mount Atlas glittering with flames at night.
+In the account of the Periplus of Hanno, as well as in that of Eudoxus, we
+read that as those navigators were coasting this part of Africa, torrents
+of light were seen to fall on the sea.
+
+
+Page 158.--"_The tears of Isis._"--"Per lacrymas, vero, Isidis intelligo
+effluvia quaedam Lunae, quibus tantam vim videntur tribuisse AEgypti."
+_Jablonski._--He is of opinion that the superstition of the _Nucta_, or
+miraculous drop, is of a relic of the veneration paid to the dews, as the
+tears of Isis.
+
+
+Page 158.--"_The rustling of the acacias_," _&c._--_Travels of Captain
+Mangles._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Supposed to rest in the valley of the moon._"--_Plutarch._ _Dupuis_,
+tom. 10. The Manicheans held the same belief. See _Beausobre_, p. 565.
+
+
+Page 160.--"_Sothis, the fair star of the waters._"--_{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DASIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_ is the
+epithet applied to this star by _Plutarch_, _de Isid._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Was its birth-star._"--_{~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER ETA WITH DASIA~} {~GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER THETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER GAMMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER CHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}
+{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}_. _Porphyr. de Antro Nymph._
+
+
+Page 168.--"_Golden Mountains._"--v. _Wilford on Egypt and the Nile_,
+Asiatic Researches.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Sweet-smelling wood._"--"'A l'epoque de la crue le Nil Vert charie
+les planches d'un bois qui a une odeur semblable a celle de l'encens."
+_Quatremere._
+
+
+Page 169.--"_Barges full of bees._"--_Maillet._
+
+
+Page 170.--"_Such a profusion of the white flowers_," _&c._--"On les voit
+comme jadis cueillir dans les champs des tiges du lotus, signes du
+debordement et presages de l'abondance; ils s'enveloppent les bras et le
+corps avec les longues tiges fleuries, et parcourent les rues," &c.
+_Description des Tombeaux des Rois, par M. Costaz._
+
+
+Page 173.--"_While composing his commentary on the scriptures._"--It was
+during the composition of his great critical work, the Hexapla, that
+Origen employed these female scribes.
+
+
+Page 176.--"_That rich tapestry_," _&c._
+
+  Non ego praetulerim Babylonica picta superbe
+  Texta, Semiramia quae variantur acu.
+
+                                                                _Martial._
+
+
+Page 200.--"_The Place of Weeping._"--v. _Wilford_, _Asiatic Researches_,
+vol. 3. p. 340.
+
+
+Page 210.--"_We had long since left this mountain behind._"--The voyages on
+the Nile are, under favourable circumstances, performed with considerable
+rapidity. "En cinq ou six jours," says _Maillet_, "on pourroit aisement
+remonter de l'embouchure du Nil a ses cataractes, ou descendre des
+cataractes jusqu'a la mer." The great uncertainty of the navigation is
+proved by what _Belzoni_ tells us:--"Nous ne mimes cette fois que deux
+jours et demi pour faire le trajet du Caire a Melawi, auquel, dans notre
+second voyage, nous avions employes dix-huit jours."
+
+
+Page 212.--"_Those mighty statues, that fling their shadows._"--"Elles out
+pres de vingt metres (61 pieds) d'elevation; et au lever du soleil, leurs
+ombres immenses s'etendent au loin sur la chaine Libyen." _Description
+generale de Thebes, par Messrs. Jollois et Desvilliers._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Those cool alcoves._"--_Paul Lucas._
+
+
+Page 219.--"_Whose waters are half sweet, half bitter._"--_Paul Lucas._
+
+
+Page 224.--"_The Mountain of the Birds._"--There has been much controversy
+among the Arabian writers, with respect to the site of this mountain, for
+which see _Quatremere_, tom. 1. art. _Amoun_.
+
+
+Page 230.--"_The hand of labour had succeeded_," _&c._--The monks of Mount
+Sinai (_Shaw_ says) have covered over near four acres of the naked rocks
+with fruitful gardens and orchards.
+
+
+Page 233.--"_The image of a head._"--There was usually, Tertullian tells us,
+the image of Christ on the communion-cups.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Kissed her forehead._"--"We are rather disposed to infer," says the
+present Bishop of Lincoln, in his very sensible work on Tertullian, "that,
+at the conclusion of all their meetings for the purpose of devotion, the
+early Christians were accustomed to give the kiss of peace, in token of
+the brotherly love subsisting between them."
+
+
+Page 237.--"_In the middle of the seven valleys._"--See Macrizy's account of
+these valleys, given by Quatremere, tom. 1. p. 450.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Red lakes of Nitria._"--For a striking description of this region,
+see "_Rameses_,"--a work which, though, in general, too technical and
+elaborate, shows, in many passages, to what picturesque effects the
+scenery and mythology of Egypt may be made subservient.
+
+
+Page 238.--"_In the neighbourhood of Antinoe._"--From the position assigned
+to Antinoe in this work, we should conclude that it extended much farther
+to the north, than these few ruins of it that remain would seem to
+indicate; so as to render the distance between the city and the Mountain
+of the Birds considerably less than what it appears to be at present.
+
+
+Page 243.--"_When Isis, the pure star of lovers._"--v. _Plutarch de Isid._
+
+
+Ib.--"_Ere she again embrace her bridegroom sun._"--"Conjunctio solis cum
+luna, quod est veluti utriusque connubium." _Jablonski._
+
+
+Page 247.--"_Of his walks a lion is the companion._"--M. Chateaubriand has
+introduced Paul and his lion into the "_Martyrs_," liv. 11.
+
+
+Page 235.--"_Come thus secretly before day-break._"--It was among the
+accusations of Celsus against the Christians, that they held their
+assemblies privately and contrary to law; and one of the speakers in the
+curious work of Minucius Felix calls the Christians "latebrosa et
+lucifugax natio."
+
+
+Page 256.--"_A swallow_," _&c._--"Je vis dans le desert des hirondelles d'un
+gris clair comme le sable sur lequel elles volent."--_Denon._
+
+
+Page 257.--"_The comet that once desolated this world._"--In alluding to
+Whiston's idea of a comet having caused the deluge, _M. Girard_, having
+remarked that the word Typhon means a deluge, adds, "On ne peut entendre
+par le tems du regne de Typhon que celui pendant lequel le deluge inonda
+la terre, tems pendant lequel on dut observer la comete qui l'occasionna,
+et dont l'apparition fut, non seulement pour les peuples de l'Egypte, et
+de l'Ethiopie, mais encore pour tous les peuples le presage funeste de
+leur destruction presque totale." _Description de la Vallee de
+l'E'garement._
+
+
+Page 259.--"_In which the spirit of my dream_," _&c._--"Many people," said
+_Origen_, "have been brought over to Christianity by the Spirit of God
+giving a sudden turn to their minds, and offering visions to them either
+by day or night." On this _Jortin_ remarks:--"Why should it be thought
+improbable that Pagans of good dispositions, but not free from prejudices,
+should have been called by divine admonitions, by dreams or visions, which
+might be a support to Christianity in those days of distress."
+
+
+Page 263.--"_One of those earthen cups._"--_Palladius_, who lived some time
+in Egypt, describes the monk Ptolemaeus, who inhabited the desert of Scete,
+as collecting in earthen cups the abundant dew from the
+rocks.--_Bibliothec. Pat._ tom. 13.
+
+
+Page 264.--"_It was to preserve, he said_," _&c._--The brief sketch here
+given of the Jewish dispensation agrees very much with the view taken of
+it by Dr. Sumner, the present Bishop of Llandaff, in the first chapters of
+his eloquent and luminous work, the "Records of the Creation."
+
+
+Page 266.--"_In vain did I seek the promise of immortality._"--"It is
+impossible to deny," says the Bishop of Llandaff, "that the sanctions of
+the Mosaic Law are altogether temporal.... It is, indeed, one of the facts
+that can only be explained by acknowledging that he really acted under a
+divine commission, promulgating a temporary law for a peculiar purpose,"--a
+much more candid and sensible way of treating this very difficult point,
+than by either endeavouring, like Warburton, to escape from it into a
+paradox, or still worse, contriving, like Dr. Graves, to increase its
+difficulty by explanation. v. "_On the Pentateuch_." See also _Horne's
+Introduction_, _&c._ vol. I. p. 226.
+
+
+Page 268.--"_All are of the dust_," _&c._--While Voltaire, Volney, &c. refer
+to the Ecclesiastes, as abounding with tenets of materialism and
+Epicurism, Mr. Des Voeux and others find in it strong proofs of belief in
+a future state. The chief difficulty lies in the chapter from which this
+text is quoted; and the mode of construction by which some writers attempt
+to get rid of it,--namely, by putting these texts into the mouth of a
+foolish reasoner,--appears forced and gratuitous. v. _Dr. Hales's
+Analysis_.
+
+
+Page 270.--"_The noblest and first-created_," _&c._--This opinion of the
+Hermit may be supposed to have been derived from his master, Origen; but
+it is not easy to ascertain the exact doctrine of Origen on this subject.
+In the Treatise on Prayer attributed to him, he asserts that God the
+Father alone should be invoked,--which, says Bayle, is "encherir sur les
+Heresies des Sociniens." Notwithstanding this, however, and some other
+indications of, what was afterwards called, Arianism, (such as the opinion
+of the divinity being received by _communication_, which _Milner_ asserts
+to have been held by this Father,) Origen was one of the authorities
+quoted by Athanasius in support of his high doctrines of co-eternity and
+co-essentiality. What Priestley says is, perhaps, the best solution of
+these inconsistencies;--"Origen, as well as Clemens Alexandrinus, has been
+thought to favour the Arian principle; but he did it only in words and not
+in ideas." _Early Opinions_, _&c._ Whatever uncertainty, however, there
+may exist with respect to the opinion of Origen himself on this subject,
+there is no doubt that the doctrines of his immediate followers were, at
+least, Anti-Athanasian. "So many Bishops of Africa," says Priestley,
+"were, at this period (between the years 255 and 258), Unitarians, that
+Athanasius says, 'The Son of God,'--meaning his divinity,--'was scarcely any
+longer preached in the churches.'"
+
+
+Page 271.--"_The restoration of the whole human race to purity and
+happiness._"--This benevolent doctrine,--which not only goes far to solve
+the great problem of moral and physical evil, but which would, if received
+more generally, tend to soften the spirit of uncharitableness, so fatally
+prevalent among Christian sects,--was maintained by that great light of the
+early Church, Origen, and has not wanted supporters among more modern
+Theologians. That Tillotson was inclined to the opinion appears from his
+sermon preached before the queen. Paley is supposed to have held the same
+amiable doctrine; and Newton (the author of the work on the Prophecies) is
+also among the supporters of it. For a full account of the arguments in
+favour of this opinion, derived both from reason and the express language
+of Scripture, see Dr. Southwood Smith's very interesting work, "On the
+Divine Government." See also _Magee on the Atonement_, where the doctrine
+of the advocates of Universal Restoration is thus briefly and fairly
+explained:--"Beginning with the existence of an infinitely powerful, wise,
+and good Being, as the first and fundamental principle of rational
+religion, they pronounce the essence of this Being to be _love_, and from
+this infer, as a demonstrable consequence, that none of the creatures
+formed by such a Being will ever be made eternally miserable.... Since God
+(they say) would act unjustly in inflicting eternal misery for temporary
+crimes, the sufferings of the wicked can be but remedial, and will
+terminate in a complete purification from moral disorder, and in their
+ultimate restoration to virtue and happiness."
+
+
+Page 273.--"_Fruit of the desert shrub._"--v. _Hamilton's AEgyptiaca_.
+
+
+Page 278.--"_The white garment she wore, and the ring of gold on her
+finger._"--See, for the custom among the early Christians of wearing white
+for a few days after baptism, _Ambros. de Myst._--With respect to the ring,
+the Bishop of Lincoln says, in his work on Tertullian, "The natural
+inference from these words (_Tertull. de Pudicitia_) appears to be that a
+ring used to be given in baptism; but I have found no other trace of such
+a custom."
+
+
+Page 280.--"_Pebbles of jasper._"--v. _Clarke_.
+
+
+Ib.--"_Stunted marigold_," _&c._--"Les _Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum_ et
+_Zygophyllum coccineum_, plantes grasses des deserts, rejetees a cause de
+leur acrete par les chameaux, les chevres, et les gazelles." _M. Delile
+upon the plants of Egypt._
+
+
+Page 281.--"_Antinoe._"--v. _Savary_ and _Quatremere_.
+
+
+Page 286.--"_I have observed in my walks._"--"Je remarquai avec une
+reflexion triste, qu'un animal de proie accompagne presque toujours les
+pas de ce joli et frele individu."
+
+
+Page 272.--"_Glistened over its silver letters._"--The Codex Cottonianus of
+the New Testament is written in silver letters on a purple ground. The
+Codex Cottonianus of the Septuagint version of the Old Testament is
+supposed to be the identical copy that belonged to Origen.
+
+
+Page 289.--"_Some denier of Christ._"--Those Christians who sacrificed to
+idols to save themselves were called by various names, _Thurificati_,
+_Sacrificati_, _Mittentes_, _Negatores_, &c. Baronius mentions a bishop of
+this period (253), Marcellinus, who, yielding to the threats of the
+Gentiles, threw incense upon the altar. v. _Arnob. contra Gent._ lib. 7.
+
+
+Page 297.--"_The clear voice with which_," _&c._--The merit of the
+confession "Christianus sum," or "Christiana sum," was considerably
+enhanced by the clearness and distinctness with which it was pronounced.
+_Eusebius_ mentions the martyr Vetius as making it _{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PHI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA~}_.
+
+
+Page 304.--"_The band round the young Christian's brow._"--We find poisonous
+crowns mentioned by _Pliny_, under the designation of "coronae ferales."
+_Paschalius_, too, gives the following account of these "deadly garlands,"
+as he calls them:--"Sed mirum est tam salutare inventum humanam nequitiam
+reperisse, quomodo ad nefarios usus traducent. Nempe, repertae sunt nefandae
+coronae harum, quas dixi, tam salubrium per nomen quidem et speciem
+imitatrices, at re et effectu ferales, atque adeo capitis, cui imponuntur,
+interfectrices." _De Coronis._
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 THE END.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                 LONDON:
+                    Printed by A. & R. Spottiswoode,
+                            New-Street-Square.
+
+
+
+
+
+                                FOOTNOTES
+
+
+    1 The description, here alluded to, may also be found, copied
+      _verbatim_ from Sethos, in the "Voyages d'Antenor."--"In that
+      philosophical romance, called 'La Vie de Sethos,'" says Warburton,
+      "we find a much juster account of old Egyptian wisdom, than in all
+      the pretended 'Histoire du Ciel.'" _Div. Leg._ book 4. sect. 14.
+
+    2 A cross was, among the Egyptians, the emblem of a future life.
+
+    3 "On s'etoit meme avise, depuis la premiere construction de ces
+      demeures, de percer en plusieurs endroits jusq'au haut les terres
+      qui les couvroient; non pas, a la verite, pour tirer un jour qui
+      n'auroit jamais ete suffisant, mais pour recevoir un air salutaire,
+      &c."--_Sethos._
+
+    4 Osiris.
+
+    5 In the language of Plato, Hierocles, &c. to "restore to the soul its
+      wings," is the main object both of religion and philosophy.
+
+    6 See an account of this sensitive tree, which bends down its branches
+      to those who approach it, in M. Jomard's Description of Syene and
+      the Cataracts.
+
+    7 The province of Arsinoe, now Fioum.
+
+    8 In the original the discourses of the Hermit are given much more at
+      length.
+
+    9 A rank, resembling that of Colonel.
+
+   10 "Une de ces couronnes de grain de corail, dont les vierges martyres
+      ornoient leurs cheveaux en allant a la mort." _Les Martyrs._
+
+
+
+
+
+                            TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
+
+
+Variations in hyphenation (e.g. "daybreak", "day-break", "overhead",
+"over-head") have not been changed.
+
+In the notes, some references are to the wrong pages or out of sequence.
+
+Other changes, which have been made to the text:
+
+      page 32, "alrea d" changed to "already"
+      page 81, "stirke" changed to "strike"
+      page 93, "grashopper" changed to "grasshopper"
+      page 188, quote mark added before "The state of misery"
+      page 194, "decome" changed to "become"
+      page 312, quote mark added before "There is, to the north of
+      Memphis"
+
+
+
+
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