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Title: Travels in the Far East

Author: Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

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TRAVELS IN THE FAR EAST

[Illustration: _The Pyramids from the Nile, Cairo_]

TRAVELS IN THE FAR EAST

by

ELLEN M. H. PECK
(Mrs. James Sidney Peck)

New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Publishers

Copyright 1909
By Ellen M. H. Peck

The University Press, Cambridge, U.S.A.

OZYMANDIAS

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings;
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

--PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

TO MY DAUGHTER

FOREWORD

As the inspiration which caused the making of this "Tour" came from my
daughter (the "you" of my story), and as she wished a record of the same
published, my desire has been to give her as complete an idea of my
journeyings as is possible by descriptive text and illustrations. The
interest of friends in the plan has caused them to be included in my