since the time of Ra. (They in the shades) are sitting on the bank of the river, thy soul is among them, drinking its sacred water, following thy heart, at peace . . . Give bread to him whose field is barren, thy name will be glorious in posterity for evermore; they will look upon thee . . . (The Priest clad in the skin) of a panther will pour to the ground, and bread will be given as offerings; the singing women . . . Their forms are standing before Ra, their persons are protected Rannu will come at her hour, and Shu will calculate his day, thou shalt awake . . . . . (woe to the bad one!) He shall sit miserable in the heat of infernal fires. Make a good day, O holy father Neferhotep, pure of hands! No works of buildings in Egypt could avail, his resting place is all his wealth. . . Let me return to know what remaineth of him! Not the least moment could be added to his life, when he went to) the realm of eternity. Those who have magazines full of bread to spend, even they shall encounter the hour of a last end. The moment of that day will diminish the valour of the rich Mind thee of the day, when thou too shalt start for the land, to which one goeth to return not thence. Good for thee then will have been (an honest life,) therefore be just and hate transgressions, for he who loveth justice (will be blessed). The coward and the bold, neither can fly (the grave), the friendless and proud are alike. . . . Then let thy bounty give abundantly, as is fit, IV. HYMN. For them is destined the incense of Horus, for them Thoth is there, for the producing all good and pure as offering to Amon-Ra, the lord of the temple of Nesta, and for Amon-Ra, the lord of Hib city, the strong-armed one. Many in truth are his names, all mysterious, declaring his forms. When the gates open of heaven on earth, then shines resplendent the ruler of Nesta, of the temples of Thebes, in his various forms, in the earthly spaces. The land is a-glow and the crops of the fields, when he pours out the waters of the fresh floods. Eternally lives he in his own name as sun of the day. 1 The Air. the children live, and earth's sons love, in his name; the creator of good, He poureth out the living breath for all that breathes in the name that is his! as Amon divine, who ever abideth in all things, the soul of the Shu! for all the Gods. He is the body of living man, the maker of trees on earth's broad plain, in his name of Osiris divine, dispenser of light. He is Horus, of spirits the living God, who from primal waters erst arose. The God of Memphis, the living God of illumined man. A lion-god is he, the Anch-hir in the temple, the vast one of On. He is the creator of every beast in his own name: the Ram of sheep, the God of goats, the Bull of the cows. The sacred sparhawks, the darters of rays, they live as gods in his name of Hormachis. The friend of the scorpion in his hole, the god of such as dwell in the waters, of the crocodile, the diver in floods. He is the God whose Being is Becoming. at the great festal-day The god is he of them reposing in the graves. Image of Amon, Image of Atum, Image of Chepra, Image of Ra is but the One only, the self-revealer The grand architect who from very beginning is, an Eikon that itself fashions its own shape with own hands, in every form as it wills. His is the image of the winged Chafer, of the goddess Nut. She heaven and earth to him surrenders when he riseth up from the water-depths in the lofty highland of Chomuni. When he shows himself then appear the gods. They in their shapes. behold themselves in the light of the god. Near and far is circumfused by the beams of his eyes. He lighteth up the arch of heaven with the dazzling splendour of his wings. Mighty are his ends. His law is power creative. Abiding, enduring, he fadeth never. In millions and millions more of endless æons Osiris god as King of Aker, the under-world, renewing his body and form once again within his palace. Full of joy |