212 A GARDEN DIARY 
together in China, or Indostan. From kindred 
feelings I soon brought Egypt and all her gods 
under the same law. I was stared at, grinned 
at, hooted at, chattered at, by monkeys, by 
paraquets, by cockatoos. I ran into pagodas ; 
and was fixed for centuries at the summit, or in 
secret rooms; I was the idol; I was the priest ; 
I was worshipped; I was sacrificed; I fled from 
the wrath of Brahma through all the forests of 
Asia: Vishnu hated me; Seeva laid wait for me. 
I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris; I had 
done a deed, they said, which the ibis and the 
crocodile trembled at. I was buried for a 
thousand years in stone coffins, with mummies 
and sphinxes, in narrow chambers, at the heart 
of eternal pyramids. I was kissed with cancer- 
ous kisses by crocodiles, and laid, confounded 
with all unutterable slimy things, amongst reeds 
and Nilotic mud.” 
