Tag: sumeria
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House of Life
Enamtila ejects the next to face the sages’ fetch quest Tests mettle the trials of life, love’s unslaked thirsts unbuilt nests Nothing left to take to breast, my hard-impressed flesh irons with age Everything therewith bored; some hear angel song but I hear footfall on boards Thrills his querents with paths through, judges debating seasons,…
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Hymns to Lofty Enlil
Enlil, you drew together impossible chords Knots hitherto undreamt, progenitor of dreams Tarsus upon which Enlil sets his armies That nations comrade between his seas Pleases, unleashed his leashed creation Least of flesh and most of mind, mind’s golden mean Lasting not long the leaves of language, Gilgamesh his lands flees Dozen deeds done, his…