Ye two divine Hawks([4]) upon your gables, who are giving attentive heed to the matter; ye who accompany the bier to the tomb, and who conduct the ship of Râ, advancing onwards from the highest place of the Ark in heaven—the Lord of the Shrine([5]) which standeth in the centre of the Earth;
He is I, and I am He.([6])
Mine is the radiance in which Ptah floateth over his firmament.([7])
Oh Râ, who smileth cheerfully, and whose heart is delighted with the perfect order of this day as thou enterest into Heaven and comest forth in the East: the Ancients and those who are gone before acclaim thee.
Let thy paths be made pleasant for me; let thy ways be made wide for me to traverse the earth and the expanse of Heaven.
Shine thou upon me, oh gracious Power;([8]) as I draw nigh to the divine words which my ears shall hear in the Tuat; let no pollution of my mother be upon me; deliver me, protect me from him who closeth his eyes at twilight and bringeth to an end in darkness.
I am the Overflower, and Kam-ura([9]) is my name: I bring to its fulness([10]) the Force which is hidden within me.
Oh thou Great One, who art Shoreless,([11]) and callest upon the Powers of the South, at the moment when the god is carried forth, saying:—
“Behold the Lord of his Flood; see, the Shoulder is fastened([12]) upon his neck and the Haunch upon the head of the West” offerings which the two goddesses of the West([13]) present to me when the weeping bursteth forth from me at what I witness, as I am borne round on the Tenait in Abydos,([14]) and the bolts made fast on the gateways([15]) above your images are in the reach of thine hand and from within thee.
Thy face is as that of a hound whose nostril sniffeth at the covert to which my feet convey me.