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Then touched was Pharaoh's heart; and he cried out,
“Fall backward from the door; fall back afar,
All, save my child: and Meroë, mark thou well;
Stand close; that, when I open, like the wind
Thou may rush in; and I may shut again
In that same instant.”
Answer was there none;
His words unheard without; so loud the din.