Thou art met climbing the walls,
And breaking through the paling:
People flee from thee,
Thou strikest them until they are wounded.
Oh that thou didst know that wine is an abomination,
And that thou wouldst forswear the Shedeh drink!
That thou wouldst not put cool drinks within thy heart,
That thou wouldst forget the Tenreku.
But now thou art taught to sing to the flute,
To recite [?] to the pipe,
To intone to the lyre,
To sing to the harp,
[and generally to lead a life of dissipation.]
Revised from the German of Adolf Erman.
FOOTNOTES
[1] The italicized phrases represent the principal names of the King.
[2] The temple of Karnak.
[3] Horus as the winged disk of the sun, so often figured as a protecting symbol over the doors of temples.
[4] The coloration or configuration of his limbs indicated to the learned in such matters his victorious career. Mentu was the god of war.