In the course of the construction of the Bridge a number of lives have been lost. Does it not sometimes seem as though every wor
k of enduring value, in the material as in the moral world, must needs be purchased at the cost of human life? Let us recall with kindness at this hour the work of those who labored here faithfully unto the death, no less than of that great army of men who have wrought, year in and year out, to execute the great design. Let us give our meed of praise to-day to the humblest workman who has here done his duty well, no less than to the great engineer who told him what to do.
I'd have to say c but you've got the letters mixed up, so to be safe it's because they often represented animals. The sphinx for example represented Horemakhet, a god who Thutmosis IV 'dreamt' about to become pharaoh.
