Egyptian religious poetry

* 100 EGYPTIAN RELIGIOUS POETRY

Obtaining the truth at the Weighing of Souls, he weighs every heart in the Balance ;

Just and exact as the Scales of the Lord, confronting the deed and the doer,

Calling to mind the words and the deeds and the evil long past and forgotten,

Wickedness flees from the face of the Judge who admits all the righteous to favour.

Time and Eternity wait on his Word and his Word abideth for ever.

8 HYMN TO THE GODDESS NEKHEBT

Homacs to thee, Lady of the Mouth of the Valley, Lady of Heaven. Mistress of the gods, beautiful tiller for him that hath no rudder, judge in heaven and on earth, beautiful star unseen save in time of good. I have come to thee. Grant unto me my mouth to speak, my feet to walk, my eyes to see thy brightness every day, that I may enjoy the good things that are presented unto me. Grant then to me that I may pass through the beautiful Amentet day by day. [c.T.P., p. 10]

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THE HAWK OF GOLD! 1? I risz, I rise as a great Hawk of Gold, coming out of the egs. I fly and IJ alight as a Hawk of four cubits in length in its back, its wings are of the green stone of the South. When I come forth from the shrine of the Evening Boat my heart is brought to me

1 The Chapter of making existence as a Hawk of Gold.