And thus we wander on, the sights and sounds of God's world without attract us no longer, we see nothing but the sacred representations which encompass us so closely, feel only the solemnity of the temple in which we stand.
And the consecrated walls embrace us ever more and more closely, until at last we reach the lonely, resonant chamber occupied by the divinity himself, and entered by no human being save his priest." Schnaase, Kunstaeschirhtc I.394.] After a short time a young priest appeared with the intelligence that his superior awaited the Prince's visit.

Psamtik had seated himself under the shadow of the sacred grove of silver poplars bordering the shores of the consecrated lake, holy to the great Neith.

He rose immediately, crossed the temple-court, paved with stone and asphalte, on which the sun's rays were darting like fiery arrows, and turned into one of the long avenues of Sphinxes which led to the isolated Pylons before the gigantic temple of the goddess.

He then passed through the principal gate, ornamented, as were all Egyptian temple-entrances, with the winged sun's disc.

Above its widely-opened folding doors arose on either side, tower-like buildings, slender obelisks and waving flags.