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The Great Sphinx of Giza
the Sphinx
also: der Sphinx
The colossal Egyptian sphinx at Giza; in the Seventh and Tenth Elegies its face, laid on the scales of the stars, is the great guardian over the Land of the Laments.
Reading notes
- Duino Elegies §7 the Sphinx
The colossal Egyptian sphinx; among the human works (columns, pylons, cathedral) Rilke would show, rescued, to the Angel's gaze.