The Spell of Egypt Author:J. Walker McSpadden One day at sunset I saw a bird trying to play with the Sphinx--a bird like a swallow, but with a ruddy brown on its breast, a gleam of blue somewhere on its wings. When I came to the edge of the sand basin where perhaps Khufu saw it lying nearly four thousand years before the birth of Christ, the Sphinx and the bird were quite alone. The bird fl... more »ew near the Sphinx, whimsically turning this way and that, flying now low, now high, but ever returning.« less