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Linda's voice is still the music of a sonnet. Still do the roses fade, and love is always like the constant stars. And once, this! surely from a garret: When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance
"That starr'd Ethiop queen who strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea-nymphs," through dusky Cleopatras, dark Candaces, and darker, fiercer Zinghas, to our own day and our own land, in gentle Phillis; Harriet, the crude Moses; the sybil, Sojourner Truth; and the martyr, Louise De Mortie.
Such in vague and general outline is the strange story of the valley of the Nile of Egypt, the motherland of human culture and "That starr'd Ethiop Queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above The sea nymphs." Cf. Maciver and Thompson: Ancient Races of the Thebaid. Journal of Race Development, I, 484. Petrie: History of Egypt, I, 51, 237. From West Africa to Palestine, p. 114.
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