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Pharaoh
The king of Egypt as a byword for the legendary and remote; the burnt-out homestead seems to the surviving son 'more fantastic than Pharaoh.'
Reading notes
- The Life of the Virgin Mary §8 dead Pharaohs
The kings of ancient Egypt; the palm whose wreaths once crowned their mummies now bows to the living child.
- New Poems: The Other Part §43 Pharaoh
A byword for the legendary and far-off; once the house has burned, its vanished ordinariness seems to the son 'more fantastic than Pharaoh.'