Herodotus in Egypt Remembers Delos

The ground verdigris, fluffy with young mosquitoes.
      Waters
sacred as these, as fatted with reeds. Bronze palms planted
to Sun. Lizards, Nile alligators, hindquarters
rolling on granite sphinx-chippings. Air salted with
      confident
brown larks. Travelling, you remember (mind
upturning these foreign priests, find-
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