Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
Africa: Vol. XXIV. 1876–79. | | | | Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia: Nile, the River | | Moses on the Nile | | James Grahame (1765–1811) |
| | | SLOW glides the Nile; amid the margin-flags | |
| Closed in a bulrush-ark the babe is left,— | |
| Left by a mother’s hand. His sister waits | |
| Far off; and pale, ’tween hope and fear, beholds | |
| The royal maid, surrounded by her train, | 5 |
| Approach the river-bank; approach the spot | |
| Where sleeps the innocent. She sees them stoop | |
| With meeting plumes: the rushy lid is oped, | |
| And wakes the infant, smiling in his tears,— | |
| As when along a little mountain lake | 10 |
| The summer south-wind breathes a gentle sigh, | |
| And parts the reeds, unveiling, as they bend, | |
| A water-lily floating on the wave. | | | | |
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