A golden boy
With forty–nine amulets
And an ochroid mask ;

From nested coffins
Travels to the afterlife,
The feet sandaled white ;

Steps from sarcophagus .
The way perilous,
The fronded body shielded

By cartonnage,
He begins to recite
The verses across auric

Tongue, before the heart
Silenced by a blond scarab
Is judged ’gainst feather .

The knot of Isis
Loosens, and the boy looks
Into the eye of Horus .

*[ WSB ]_.