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51
XXII AN OLD-WORLD HERO
(THE UNWRAPPING OF TȦȦ-KEN, BOULAK MUSEUM, JUNE 9, 1886, BY M. E. GRÉBAUT)
When that dark face beneath the triple blow
Lay battered, tongue bit thro', and mouth awry,
And o'er Tȧȧ-Ken's last death agony
The Theban warriors felt their freedom grow,
They little thought far centuries would know
Those cruel wounds had never ceased to cry,
Till Egypt broke the Hyksos tyranny,
And great Avaris 'mid her reeds was low.
Lay battered, tongue bit thro', and mouth awry,
And o'er Tȧȧ-Ken's last death agony
The Theban warriors felt their freedom grow,
They little thought far centuries would know
Those cruel wounds had never ceased to cry,
Till Egypt broke the Hyksos tyranny,
And great Avaris 'mid her reeds was low.
Fierce axe might answer thus that brave word sent,
‘Servant I am, yet serve what God I will!’
But seed of independence then was sown
In blood that rained from thrust of lance and bill!
And lo! the rightful Pharaoh on his throne!
And Shepherd-Kings in lasting banishment!
‘Servant I am, yet serve what God I will!’
But seed of independence then was sown
In blood that rained from thrust of lance and bill!
And lo! the rightful Pharaoh on his throne!
And Shepherd-Kings in lasting banishment!
Note.—Ra-Sekenen, or Tȧȧ-Ken, = Tȧȧ, the Brave, was a Theban prince of the seventeenth dynasty, who, when peremptorily ordered by the Shepherd-King Apepi to reject the worship of Amon Ra in favour of the Hyksos god of the Delta, Set or Suteck, stoutly refused, and headed the revolt that eventually drove the Hyksos from Egypt, b.c. 1700. He fell in battle of terrible wounds that may be seen upon his forehead to-day.
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