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Diodorus has recorded an impressive Egyptian ceremonial the judgment of the dead by the living When the corpse duly embalmed had been placed by the margin of the Acherusian Lake and before consigning it to the bark that was to bear it across the waters to its final resting place it was permitted to the appointed judges to hear all accusations against the past life of the deceased and if proved to deprive the corpse of the rites of sepulture From this singular law not even kings were exempt	A
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With sable plume and nodding crest	B
They bore him to his dreamless rest	B
A cold and abject thing	C
Before the whisper of whose name	D
Strong hearts had quailed in fear and shame	D
While nations knelt to fling	C
The victor's laurel at his feet	E
Now gorgeous pall and winding sheet	E
Were all that royalty could bring	C
To mark the despot and the king	C
In solemn state they swept the glowing strand	F
To meet the conclave of the judgment band	F
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And soon with bright exultant eye	G
Where fierce revenge flashed wild and high	G
Accusers gathered fast	H
From prison keep and living grave	I
Came forth the mutilated slave	I
With faltering step aghast	H
And sightless men with silver hair	J
The record of their dungeon air	J
Who for long years had sought to die	G
And wrestled with their agony	K
Till thought grew wild and intellect grew dim	L
The clanking fetters' mark on every limb	L
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With pallid cheek and eager prayer	J
And maniac laugh of dark despair	J
The widowed mother stood	M
And with white lips an orphan throng	N
Rehearsed a fearful tale of wrong	N
And misery and blood	O
And strong in virtue others came	D
Unnumbered victims to proclaim	D
Of vengeance perfidy and dread	P
Who slumbered with the silent dead	P
The world might start the sable plumes might wave	I
But for that haughty king there was no grave	I
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O ye who press life's crowded mart	Q
With hurrying step and bounding heart	Q
A solemn lesson glean	R
Beware lest when ye cross that stream	S
Whose breaking surges farthest gleam	S
No mortal eye hath seen	R
Discordant voices wake the shore	T
The struggling spirit would explore	T
And to the trembling soul deny	G
Its latest resting place on high	G
Our acts are Judges that must meet us there	J
With seraph smiles of light or fiendish glare	J

Mary Gardiner Horsford

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