le. My hands knit together thy limbs with the fluid of life;
sweet unto me are thy gracious acts towards my person. I have stablished
thee in my sanctuary. I have made thee to be a source of wonder [to
men]. I have given unto thee strength and conquests over all lands. I
have set thy Souls and the fear of thee in all lands. The terror of thee
hath penetrated to the four pillars of the sky. I have made great the
awe of thee in all bodies. I have set the roar of Thy Majesty everywhere
[in the lands of] the Nine Bows (_i.e._ Nubia). The Chiefs of all lands
are grouped in a bunch within thy fist. I put out my two hands; I tied
them in a bundle for thee. I collected the Antiu of Ta-sti[1] in tens of
thousands and thousands, and I made captives by the hundred thousand of
the Northern Nations. I have cast down thy foes under thy sandals, thou
hast trampled upon the hateful and vile-hearted foes even as I commanded
thee. The length and breadth of the earth are thine, and those who dwell
in the East and the West are vassals unto thee. Thou hast trodden upon
all countries, thy heart is expanded (_i.e._ glad). No one dareth to
approach Thy Majesty with hostility, because I am thy guide to conduct
thee to them. Thou didst sail over the Great Circuit of water (the
Euphrates) of Nehren (Aram Naharayim, or Mesopotamia) with strength and
power. I have commanded for thee that they should hear thy roarings, and
run away into holes in the ground. I stopped up their nostrils [shutting
out] the breath of life. I have set the victories of Thy Majesty in
their minds. The fiery serpent Khut which is on thy forehead burnt them
up. It made thee to grasp as an easy prey the Ketu peoples, it burnt up
the dwellers in their marshes with its fire. The Princes of the Aamu
(Asiatics) have been slaughtered, not one of them remains, and the sons
of the mighty men have fallen. I have made thy mighty deeds to go
throughout all lands, the serpent on my crown hath illumined thy
territory, nothing that is an abomination unto thee existeth in all the
wide heaven, and the people come bearing offerings upon their backs,
bowing to the ground before Thy Majesty, in accordance with my decree. I
made impotent those who dared to attack thee, their hearts melted and
their limbs quaked.

[Footnote 1: The natives of the Eastern Desert of Nubia.]

[Illustration: Stele on which is cut the Speech of Amen-Ra, summarising
the Conquests of Thothmes III.]

"I have come, maki