Ameni did not remain in Thebes.  Rameses had been informed of the way in which he had turned the death of the ram to account, and the use he had made of the heart, as he had supposed it, of the sacred animal, and he translated him without depriving him of his dignity or revenues to Mendes, the city of the holy rams in the Delta, where, as he observed not without satirical meaning, he would be particularly intimate with these sacred beasts; in Mendes Ameni exerted great influence, and in spite of many differences of opinion which threatened to sever them, he and Pentaur remained fast friends to the day of his death.

In the first court of the House of Rameses there stands—­now broken across the middle—­the wonder of the traveller, the grandest colossus in Egypt, made of the hardest granite, and exceeding even the well-known statue of Memnon in the extent of its base.  It represents Rameses the Great.  Little Scherau, whom Pentaur had educated to be a sculptor, executed it, as well as many other statues of the great sovereign of Egypt.

A year after the burning of the pavilion at Pelusium Rameri sailed to the land of the Danaids, was married to Uarda, and then remained in his wife’s native country, where, after the death of her grandfather, he ruled over many islands of the Mediterranean and became the founder of a great and famous race.  Uarda’s name was long held in tender remembrance by their subjects, for having grown up in misery she understood the secret of alleviating sorrow and relieving want, and of doing good and giving happiness without humiliating those she benefitted.  The end.

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     Drink of the joys of life thankfully, and in moderation
     It is not seeing, it is seeking that is delightful
     The man within him, and not on the circumstances without

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     A dirty road serves when it makes for the goal
     Age when usually even bad liquor tastes of honey
     An admirer of the lovely color of his blue bruises
     Ardently they desire that which transcends sense
     Ask for what is feasible
     Bearers of ill ride faster than the messengers of weal
     Blossom of the thorny wreath of sorrow
     Called his daughter to wash his feet
     Colored cakes in the shape of beasts
     Deficient are as guilty in their eyes as the idle
     Desert is a wonderful physician for a sick soul
     Do not spoil the future for the sake of the present
     Drink of the joys of life thankfully, and in moderation
     Every misfortune brings its fellow with it
     Exhibit one’s happiness in the streets, and conceal one’s misery
     Eyes kind and frank, without tricks of glance
     For fear of the toothache, had his sound teeth drawn
     Hatred for all that