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Great have been scattered to the wind, and his empty sarcophagus is now the mere curiosity of a museum. «The Egyptian mummies, which Cambyses or time hath spared, avarice now consumeth; Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for balsams.» (a)

What then is to insure this pile which now towers above me from sharing the fate of mightier mausoleums? The time must come when its gilded vaults, which now spring so loftily, shall lie in rubbish beneath the feet; when, instead of the sound of melody and praise, the wind shall whistle through the broken arches, and the owl hoot from the shattered tower-when the garish sun-beam shall break into these gloomy mansions of death, and the ivy twine round the fallen column; and the fox-glove hang its blossoms about the nameless urn, as if in mockery of the dead. Thus man passes away; his name perishes from record and recollection; his history is as a tale that is told, and his very monument becomes a rúin.

(a) Sir T. Brown.

END OF VOL. I,

THE

SKETCH BOOK

OF

GEOFFREY CRAYON, GENT.

« I have no wife nor children, good or bad, to provide for. A mere
spectator of other men's fortunes and adventures, and how they
play their parts: with, methinks, are diversely presented unto
me, as from a common theatre or scene. "

BURTON.

NEW EDITION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

PARIS:

PUBLISHED BY A. AND W. GALIGNANI,

AT THE ENGLISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN, GERMAN AND SPANISH LIBRARY,
18, RUE VIVIENNE.

1824.

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