RAhodope, the Egyptian Princess 
Ferd. Kelaer, 4rtist                                  M. Weber, Engraver

 
 
 
"(7t   0 she raised her bands to the great and glorious sun, who with
his 
        golden, sword-like rays was just dispersing the mists that bung 
        over the Euphrates. and opened her lips to sing her newly-learned

hymns in praise of Mithras; but her voice failed ber-instead of Mithras 
she could only see her own great Ra, the god she bad so often worshipped
in 
Egypt, and instead of a Magian bymn could only sing the one with which 
the Egyptian priests are accustomed to greet the rising sun. 
   "As she ga,-ed on the young light, the rays of which were not yet
strong 
enough to da{le her, she thought of her childhood, and the tears gathered
in 
her eyes. Then she looked down over the broad plain. There was the 
Euphrates with his yellow waves looking so like the Nile--" 
                              Georg Ebers's "An Egyptian Princess."