The Persian slaughtered the Apis Bull;
  (Ammon-Ra is a darksome king.)
And the brain fermented beneath his skull.
  (Egypt's curse is a deathly thing.)

He rode on the desert raider's track;
  (Ammon-Ra is a darksome king.)
No man of his gleaming hosts came back.
And the dust winds drifted sombre and black.
  (Egypt's curse is a deathly thing.)

The eons passed on the desert land;
  (Ammon-Ra is a darksome king.)
And a stranger trod the shifting sand.
  (Egypt's curse is a deathly thing.)

His idle hand disturbed the dead;
  (Ammon-Ra is a darksome king.)
Till he found Cambysses' skull of dread
Whence the frenzied brain so long had fled,
That once held terrible visions red.
  (Egypt's curse is a deathly thing.)

And an asp crawled from the dust inside
  (Ammon-Ra is a darksome king.)
And the stranger fell and gibbered and died.
  (Egypt's curse is a deathly thing.)