roat. The two "fair women"
sang the sections alternately in the presence of the Kher-heb and Setem
priests. The two first sections, as they are found on a papyrus in
Berlin, read thus:--ISIS SAITH: "Come to thy house, come to thy house, O
An, come to thy house. Thine enemy [Set] hath perished. O beautiful
youth, come to thy house. Look thou upon me. I am the sister who loveth
thee, go not far from me. O Beautiful Boy, come to thy house,
straightway, straightway. I cannot see thee, and my heart weepeth for
thee; my eyes follow thee about. I am following thee about so that I may
see thee. Lo, I wait to see thee, I wait to see thee; behold, Prince, I
wait to see thee. It is good to see thee, it is good to see thee; O An,
it is good to see thee. Come to thy beloved one, come to thy beloved
one, O Un-Nefer, whose word is truth. Come to thy wife, O thou whose
heart is still. Come to the lady of thy house; I am thy sister from thy
mother's [womb]. Go not thou far from me. The faces of gods and men are
turned towards thee, they all weep for thee together. As soon as I saw
thee I cried out to thee, weeping with a loud voice which pierced the
heavens, and thou didst not hear my voice. I am thy sister who loved
thee upon earth; none other loved thee more than [thy] sister, thy
sister."

NEPHTHYS SAITH: "O Beautiful Prince, come to thy house. Let thy heart
rejoice and be glad, for thine enemies have ceased to be. Thy two
Sisters are nigh unto thee; they guard thy bier, they address thee with
words [full of] tears as thou liest prone on thy bier. Look thou at the
young women; speak to us, O our Sovereign Lord. Destroy thou all the
misery that is in our hearts; the chiefs among gods and men look upon
thee. Turn thou towards us thy face, O our Sovereign Lord. At the sight
of thy face life cometh to our faces; turn not thou thy face from us.
The joy of our heart is in the sight of thee. O Beautiful Sovereign, our
hearts would see thee. I am thy sister Nephthys who loveth thee. The
fiend Seba hath fallen, he hath not being. I am with thee, and I act as
the protectress of thy members for ever and ever."

The second work, the "Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys," was sung
during the great festival of Osiris, which took place in the fourth
month of the Season of Akhet and lasted five days (from the
twenty-second to the twenty-sixth day). It was sung by two virgins who
wore fillets of sheep's wool on their heads, and held tambourines in