No Passenger was known to flee－1
That lodged a night in memory－
That wily－subterranean Inn
Contrives that none go out again－
That lodged a night in memory－
That wily－subterranean Inn
Contrives that none go out again－
(F.1451/J.1406)
[1] No Passenger:: passengers of the pyramid (or hell) can never flee from it (that experience).
[2] memory:: pyramid is a grave, a monumental structure. night:: darkness.
[2] a night in Memory:: This poem can fit to A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens. Scrooge sees his past and future in a night.
[3] subterranean:: hidden, secret.
[3, 4] wily, Contrives:: pyramid has a complex design that no one inside can go out.
In it is the mouth of a well, which has been opened, but it is supposed to lead below the level of the Nile, to subterranean passages, or probably to some canal which is connected with the Nile, and served as an auxiliary in the religious solemnities enacted in these subterranean caverns. Caviglia found many passages leading from this chamber, in different directions, sealed up however, at some distance from the opening, by blocks of stone. Should a perfect exploration ever take place of the wells of the pyramid, and these lateral passages, it would be found that they communicate with the adjoining pyramid of Cepheres; and as there are the same kind of subterranean galleries in that pyramid of an equally intricate labyrinthine course, it is not unreasonable to conjecture that they communicate with the neighbouring pyramid of Mycerinus. ─ Notes of a Tour through Turkey, Greece, Egypt (1847)