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Well then, from Troy-it was there I left off-
- [Rises and listens.]
- What is that strange sort of murmur that's rushing-?
- [Sunrise.]
MEMNON'S STATUE [sings].
- From the demigod's ashes there soar, youth-renewing,
- birds ever singing.
- Zeus the Omniscient
- shaped them contending
- Owls of wisdom,
- my birds, where do they slumber?
- Thou must die if thou rede not
- the song's enigma!
PEER
- How strange now,-I really fancied there came
- from the statue a sound. Music, this, of the Past.
- I heard the stone-accents now rising, now sinking.-
- I will register it, for the learned to ponder.
- [Notes in his pocket-book.]
- "The statue did sing. I heard the sound plainly,
- but didn't quite follow the text of the song.
- The whole thing, of course, was hallucination.-
- Nothing else of importance observed to-day."
- [Proceeds on his way.]
