one after one
As he thus concluded his soliloquy , the Egyptian involuntarily rose . He paced rapidly the narrow space of that star-roofed floor , and , pausing at the parapet , looked again upon the grey and melancholy heavens . The chills of the faint dawn came refreshingly upon his brow , and gradually his mind resumed its natural and collected calm . He withdrew his gaze from the stars , as , one after one , they receded into the depths of heaven ; and his eyes fell over the broad expanse below . Dim in the silenced port of the city rose the masts of the galleys ; along that mart of luxury and of labor was stilled the mighty hum . No lights , save here and there from before the columns of a temple , or in the porticoes of the voiceless forum , broke the wan and fluctuating light of the struggling morn . From the heart of the torpid city , so soon to vibrate with a thousand passions , there came no sound : the streams of life circulated not ; they lay locked under the ice of sleep .