"
"Thou hearest, my Lord Pharaoh, what is spoken over the whole circle
of the earth; thine eyes see farther than the stars of heaven and
the eye of the sun!"
"And yet only my ear has heard, but my intelligence has not grasped
what the gods have revealed to me in a dream. Interpret it for me."
"Tell it, my lord."
"I saw nothing, but I heard a voice, when sleep had quenched the
light of my eyes. The voice spoke in the darkness, and said, 'The
red earth will spread over all lands, but the black shall be
dispersed like the sand.'"
"The dream, my lord is not hard to interpret, but it forebodes
nothing good."
"Interpret it."
"Very well; the red earth is Syria, as thou knowest, my lord, where
live the wretched Hittites, that is the hereditary land of the
Hebrew, Canaan. The black earth is that of the Nile, thy land, my
lord."
"Again the Hebrews, always the Hebrews! Centuries have passed since
this people wandered into our land. They have increased without
disturbing us. I neither love nor hate them; but now I fear them.
They have had to toil, of late more severely than ever, but they do
not murmur; they are patient as though they expected something to
happen."
"Let them go, my lord."
"No! for then they will go, and found a new kingdom."
"Let them go.
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