Oct. 8, 1912. DEAR POWELL, Be sure I will cause you to ken it, if I discover the source of that singular genitive. When I float on the Nile 'neath a canopy hid (as I'm told Cleopatra when visiting did): when I stray by its banks, where the Yankee supposes that he's looking right here at the Cradle of Moses: when I roam o'er the Desert, that natural Links, with the seventeenth hole at the foot of the Sphinx, -- you may think of me still as attempting to trace to its earliest birth that remarkable case. I'm told, is a far from uncommon one, and experience has proved he's a frequent phenomenon: 'tis a fact, tho' it's one which in language most plain I cuss, that the tourist in Egypt is often Germanicus. Yours sincerely, A. D. GODLEY | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUMAN LIFE: ON THE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE STONEWALL JACKSON; MORTALLY WOUNDED AT CHANCELLORSVILLE by HERMAN MELVILLE THOUGHTS WHILE PACKING A TRUNK by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY ALFRED THE HARPER by JOHN STERLING (1806-1844) THE MEETING by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER SONNET: TO SLEEP by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE BIRDS: THE HOOPOE'S CALL TO HIS WIFE PROCNE, THE NIGHTINGALE by ARISTOPHANES |