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Home / All Magazines / SFINX 2023 / Nr. 46:4 / Guld, røgelse og myrra – Petra, den rosenfarvede ørkenby

Guld, røgelse og myrra

Petra, den rosenfarvede ørkenby

It seems no work of Man’s creative hand,
by labour wrought as wavering fancy planned;
But from the rock as if by magic grown,
eternal, silent, beautiful, alone!
Not virgin-white like that old Doric shrine,
where erst Athena held her rites divine;
Not saintly-grey, like many a minster fane,
that crowns the hill and consecrates the plain;
But rose-red as if the blush of dawn,
that first beheld them were not yet withdrawn;
The hues of youth upon a brow of woe,
which Man deemed old two thousand years ago,
match me such marvel save in Eastern clime,
a ........

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