join every living soul, Beneath the spacious temple of the sky, In adoration join; and ardent raise One general song!

He had been, among other divinities, the object of Egyptian adoration ages before Alexandria was built or the Ptolemies reigned.

" The Saviour sheds his presence, In radiance round the place: And joy and adoration Beams bright on ev'ry face.

If the maiden of his adoration frowns to-day, the sun will never shine again.

Here, for instance, is a stanza which it is not for those who run to read: Increasing days their reign exalt, Nor in the pink and mottled vault The opposing spirits tilt; And, by the coasting reader spy'd, The silverlings and crusions glide For Adoration gilt.

E'en learned saints sang of the holy shrine; And to this sacred spot from far-off lands For adoration countless pilgrims came And men to buy all rarest things that poured Into her busy marts from foreign parts. Here in this ancient port of Nundipore In royal splendour lived a merchant youth, Who scarce had reached his one-and-twentieth year.