Benson, Margaret; Gourlay, Janet: The temple of Mut in Asher: an account of the excavation of the temple and of the religious representations and objects found therein, as illustrating the history of Egypt and the main religious ideas of the Egyptians (London, 1899)

CHAP. V.]

THE HOPE OF EGYPT.

79

stone lives in grave figures which wait through
immeasurable years for a hope deferred but sure,
looking with level eyes into a distance beyond
earthly horizons, as those that watch in the dark-
ness before dawn, for the far-off sunrise which brings
in an everlasting day.