NE-NE-HOFRA.
I.
“There is no parallelism in human lives.
“No life runs a straight line.
“The most perfect life develops as a circle, and terminates in its beginning, making it impossible to say, This is the commencement, that the end.
“Perfect lives are the treasures of God; of great days he wears them on the ring-finger of his heart hand.”
II.
“Ne-ne-hofra dwelt in a house close by Essouan, yet closer to the first cataract—so close, indeed, that the sound of the eternal battle waged there between river and rocks was of the place a part.
“She grew in beauty day by day, so that it was said of her, as of the poppies in her father’s garden, What will she not be in the time of blooming?
“Each year of her life was the beginning of a new song more delightful than any of those which went before.