| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900. |
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| 1405. Memnon |
| | | By Clinton Scollard |
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| WHY dost thou hail with songful lips no more | |
| The glorious sunrise?—Why is Memnon mute, | |
| Whose voice was tuned as is the silvery flute | |
| When Thebes sat queenly by the Nile’s low shore? | |
| The chained slaves sweat no longer at the oar, | 5 |
| No longer shrines are raised to man and brute, | |
| Yet dawn by dawn the sun thou didst salute | |
| Gives thee the greeting that it gave of yore. | |
| What nameless spell is on thee? Dost thou wait | |
| (Hoping and yearning through the years forlorn) | 10 |
| The old-time splendor and the regal state, | |
| The glory and the power of empire shorn? | |
| Oh, break the silence deep, defying fate, | |
| And cry again melodious to the morn! | |
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