Hymn to Ra

Homage to thee, O thou who risest in the horizon as "Ra,
thou restest upon law unchangeable and unalterable.
Thou passest over the sky, and every face watcheth thee and thy course,
for thou hast been hidden from their gaze.
Thou dost show thyself at dawn and at eventide day by day.
The Sektet* boat, wherein is the Majesty, goeth forth with light;
thy beams are upon all faces;
the [number] of red and yellow rays cannot be known, nor can thy bright beams be told.
The "lands of the gods, and the lands of Punt* must be seen,
ere that which is hidden [in thee] may be measured.
Alone and by thyself thou dost manifest thyself when thou comest into being above Nu*.
May I advance, even as thou dost advance; may I never "cease to "go forward as thou never ceasest to go forward,
even though it be for a moment; for with strides thou dost in one little "moment
pass over the spaces which would need millions and "millions of
years [for men to pass over; this]
thou doest and then thou dost sink to rest.
Thou puttest an end to the hours of the night,
and thou dost count them, even thou; thou endest them in thine own appointed season,
and the earth becometh light.
Thou settest thyself therefore before thy handiwork in the likeness ofRa [when] thou risest on the horizon.