understandest no word of it, good or bad. There is, as it
were, a wall about it that none may climb. Thou art
instructed, yet thou knowest it not; this makes me afraid."
Birch, _Zeitschrift_, 1871, pp. 61-64. _Papyrus Anastasi_ I,
pl. X. 1. 8, pl. X. 1. 4. Maspero, _Hist. Anc._, pp. 66-67.

"'I go,' she said, and I trembled as she spoke, for no man speaks in
this language when he has any good thought in his heart. 'I go to seek
the counsel of That thou knowest,' and she touched the golden snake
which she had won.

"Then I threw myself on the earth at her feet, and clasped her knees,
crying, 'My daughter, my daughter, sin not this great sin. Nay, for all
the kingdom of the world, wake not That which sleepeth, nor warm again
into life That which is a-cold.'

"But she only nodded, and put me from her,"--and the old man's face grew
pale as he spoke.

"What meant she?" said the Wanderer.

"Nay, wake not _thou_ That which sleepeth, Wanderer," he said, at
length. "My tongue is sealed. I tell thee more that I would tell
another. Do not ask,--but hark! They come again! Now may Ra and Pasht
and Amen curse them; may the red swine's mouth of Set gnaw upon them in
Amenti; may the Fish of Sebek flesh his teeth of stone in them for ever,
and feed and feed again!"

"Why dost thou curse thus, Rei, and who are they that go by?" said the
Wanderer. "I hear their tramping and their song."