Cleopatra, being an account of the fall and vengeance of Harmachis, the royal Egyptian, as set forth by his own hand . he arrows of her winged words. Alas ! and alas ! it wastrue—the shaft of my vengeance fell upon my own head;never had I loved her as I loved her now. My soul was rentwith jealous torture, and thus I swore she should not die. Peace ! I cried ; what peace is there for thee ? Oh ! yeHoly Three, hear now my prayer. Osiris, loosen Thou thebonds of Hell and send forth those whom I shall summon !Come Ptolemy, poisoned of thy sister Cleopatra; come Ar-sinoe, murdered in the sanctuary
Cleopatra, being an account of the fall and vengeance of Harmachis, the royal Egyptian, as set forth by his own hand . he arrows of her winged words. Alas ! and alas ! it wastrue—the shaft of my vengeance fell upon my own head;never had I loved her as I loved her now. My soul was rentwith jealous torture, and thus I swore she should not die. Peace ! I cried ; what peace is there for thee ? Oh ! yeHoly Three, hear now my prayer. Osiris, loosen Thou thebonds of Hell and send forth those whom I shall summon !Come Ptolemy, poisoned of thy sister Cleopatra; come Ar-sinoe, murdered in the sanctuary by thy sister Cleopatra;come Sepa, tortured to death of Cleopatra; come DivineMenkau-ra, whose body Cleopatra tore and whose curse shebraved for greed; come one, come all who have died at thehands of Cleopatra ! Bush from the breast of Nout and greether who murdered you ! By the link of mystic union, by thesymbol of the Life, Spirits, I summon you ! Thus I spoke the spell; while Charmion, affrighted, clungto my robe, and the dying Cleopatra, resting on her hands,swung slowly to and fro, gazing with vacant CLEi WATRA 323 Thru the answer came, The casement burst asunder, andon flittering wings that great bat entered which last I had seen hanging to the eunuchs chin in the womb of the pyra-mid of Her. Thrice it circled round, once it hovered oerdead Iras, then flew to where the dying woman stood. Toher it flew, on her breast it settled, clinging to that emeraldwhich was dragged from the dead heart of Menkau-ra. Thricethe grey Horror screamed aloud, thrice it beat its bony wings,and lo ! it was gone. Then suddenly within that chamber sprang up theShapes of Death. There was Arsinoe, the beautiful, evenas she had shrunk beneath the butchers knife. There wasyoung Ptolemy, his features twisted by the poisoned was the majesty of Menkau-ra, crowned with theuraeus crown; there was grave Sepa, his flesh all torn bythe torturers hooks; there were those poisoned slaves; an
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