So seize the day! hold holiday!
Be unwearied, unceasing, alive
you and your own true love;
Let not the heart be troubled during your
sojourn on Earth,
but seize the day as it passes!
(Translated by J.L. Foster, Excerpt)
Found on the tomb of Inherkhawy, a supervisor of workers at the royal burial ground in the ancient city of Thebes.—[1]