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Plate XX.
the horizon."
[1. There is a play on the words ### and ###.]
{p. 326}
Osiris, the scribe Ani, triumphant, declareth his (25) praise of thee when thou shinest, and when thou
risest at dawn he crieth in his joy at thy birth: (26) "Thou art crowned with the majesty of thy beauties;
thou mouldest thy limbs as thou dost advance, and thou bringest them forth without birth-pangs in the
form of Ra (27), as thou dost climb up into the upper air. Grant thou that I may come unto the heaven
which is everlasting, and unto the mountain [where dwell] thy favoured ones. (28) May I be joined unto
those shining beings, holy and perfect, who are in the underworld; and may I come forth with them to
behold thy beauties when thou shinest (29) at eventide and goest to thy mother Nut.
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