“THE THINKING PLACE OF RAMESES THE GREAT,” HALL OF LOTUS COLUMNS, RAMESSEUM

tombs of Thebes—those tombs under those gleaming mountains:

For no one carries away his goods with him;
Yea, no one returns again who has gone thither.

It took the place of the song that had died as I thought of the great king’s glory; that he had been here, and had long since passed away.

“The thinking place of Rameses the Great!”

“Suttinly.”

“You must leave me alone here, Ibrahim.”