...our rivers, Rhone and Po, he drank, 'Not of the fount of Nile. Cambyses king 'In madman quest led forth his host to where 'The long-lived races dwell: then famine struck, 'Ate of his dead and, Nile unknown, returned. No lying rumour of thy hidden source 'Has e'er made mention; wheresoe'er thou art 'Yet art thou sought, nor yet has nation claimed 'In pride of place thy river as its own. ' Y...