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Updated: June 29, 2025
His neck was thrust up and his glittering little eyes never left the stage. The friend bowed and the scholar followed his example. Softly he said to his friend: "What are the three river-gods called?" "The one in the temple," was the reply, "is the Golden Dragon-King. The two on the columns are two captains. They do not dare to sit in the temple together with the king."
It is only low green banks, mud-huts, and palm-clumps, with the sun setting red behind them, and the great, dull, sinuous river flashing here and there in the light. But it is the Nile, the old Saturn of a stream a divinity yet, though younger river-gods have deposed him. Hail! O venerable father of crocodiles!
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