Far in the introspective East <br />A meditative Memphian Priest <br /> <br />Would solve--such is the Sage's curse-- <br />The riddle of the Universe. <br /> <br />Thought, turning round itself, revolved, <br />How was this puzzling World evolved? <br /> <br />How came the starry sky to be, <br />The sun, the earth, the Nile, the sea? <br /> <br />And Man, most tragi-comic Man, <br />Whence came he here, and where began? <br /> <br />Communing with the baffling sky, <br />Who twinkled, but made no reply, <br /> <br />He brooded, till his heated brain <br />Grew fairly addled with the strain. <br /> <br />For in that dim, benighted age <br />Philosopher and hoary sage <br /> <br />Had not yet had the saving grace <br />To teach the Schools that Time and Space, <br /> <br />And all the marvels they contain, <br />Are but the phantoms of the brain. <br /> <br />But that profound Egyptian Seer <br />Maybe--who knows?--came pretty near; <br /> <br />When, after days of strenuous fast, <br />He hit the startling truth at last; <br /> <br />And on select, mysterious nights, <br />Veiled in occult, symbolic rites: <br /> <br />He taught--that once upon a time-- <br />To disbelieve it were a crime-- <br /> <br />The World's great egg--refute who can, <br />That meditates on Life and Man-- <br /> <br />While deafening cacklings spread the news-- <br />Was laid by an Almighty Goose.<br /><br />Mathilde Blind<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/egyptian-theosophy/
