The Iron Age
By Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The big-lipped Sphinx, with bent perplexed brow,
Crouches in desert sand, inert and pale,
Hearing the engine's raucous scream, that now
Sends Echo flying through the Memphian vale.
Source Book
Flower And Thorn: Later Poems
by Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Copyright 1876
Published by James R. Osgood And Company, Boston