- Saith of Mentu the truth-telling brother
- Who was master of Thebes from his birth:
- O heart of me, heart of my mother!
- O heart which I had upon earth!
- Stand not thou up against me a witness!
- Oppose me not, judge, in my quest!
- Accuse me not now of unfitness
- Before the Great God, the dread Lord of the West!
- For I fastened the one to the other
- With a spell for their mystical girth,
- The earth and the wonderful West,
- When I flourished, o earth, on thy breast!
- The dead man Ankh-af-na-Khonsu
- Saith with his voice of truth and calm:
- O thou that hast a single arm!
- O thou that glitterest in the moon!
- I weave thee in the spinning charm;
- I lure thee with the billowy tune.
- The dead man Ankh-af-na-Khonsu
- Hath parted from the darkling crowds,
- Hath joined the dwellers of the light,
- Opening Duant, the star-abodes,
- Their keys receiving.
- The dead man Ankh-af-na-Khonsu
- Hath made his passage into night,
- His pleasure on the earth to do
- Among the living.
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