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two colleagues may have long since pronounced favourable sentence on him in the judgment-hall of the under world; and Thoth, the clerk of the gods, may have duly inscribed it on his papyrus roll. But the body of Osymandias, King of Kings, which was embalmed so carefully and hidden so sedulously within tons of granite sarcophagus, and under fathoms of limestone rock, to be in everlasting readiness for re-animation, lies black and mouldering in the Ghizeh Museum, as unfit for reunion with the soul as are the bones of his son, Seti Meneptah, the Pharaoh of the Exodus, bleaching at the bottom of the Red Sea.
