Fragment X
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Fragment XThat is the last picture that stands before my eyes, oh, my son! Directly after that two hands were laid heavily upon my shoulders. Once more I looked upon the earth that once I had thought so fair, at the glories of Osiris, as he rose majestic beyond the sacred river, once more at the holy Nile, the waving palms, the wonders of Abydos, with its new temples and monuments, once more for the last time! Then once more I looked down at the sea of upturned faces, watching me now as they would watch one already dead; and far beyond at a single retreating figure, a woman's, carrying a small child in her arms, wandering in search of a home that she could never find, friendless, alone, and accursed.
They led me away and forced me down the stairs that lead to these vaults; then I heard the heavy stone slab fall to over my head, and I was buried for ever!
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