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THE SPHINX by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: I KNOW ALL ABOUT THE SPHINX
Last Line: SHE WAS JUST CUT OUT FOR THAT!
Subject(s): DREAMS; EGYPT; SILENCE; SPHINX; STATUES; NIGHTMARES;

I KNOW all about the Sphinx --
I know even what she thinks,
Staring with her stony eyes
Up forever at the skies.

For last night I dreamed that she
Told me all the mystery --
Why for aeons mute she sat: --
She was just cut out for that!



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