The sky and its stars
make music to you.
The sun and the moon praise you.
The gods exalt you.
The goddesses sing to you.
(Hymn on a staircase wall at the
temple of Hathor at Dendera,
staircase leading to the roof.)
(Lise Manniche, _Music and Musicians in Ancient Egypt_, pg. 12)
who got it from H. Junker, 'Poesie der Spatzeit'
