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Excerpt from Notes for the Nile: Together With a Metrical Rendering of the Hymns of Ancient Egypt and of the Precepts of Ptah-Hotep (the Oldest Book in the World) A Return To Egypt There is a land where Time no count can keep, Where works of men imperishable seem; Where through death's barren solitude doth gleam Undying hope for them that sow and reap: Yea, land of life where death is but a deep Warm slumber, a communicable dream, Where from the silent grave far voices stream Of those who tell their secrets in their sleep. Land of the palm-tree and the pyramid, Land of sweet waters from a mystic urn, Land of sure rest where suns shine on for ever, I left thee - in thy sands a heart was hid, My life, my love, were cast upon thy river. And, lo! I to seek Osiris I return. H. D. R. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.