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Sumerian poems and lamentations – 11 Vigorously He Sprouted
Identifier
022191
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
a gardening poem
A description of the experience
From The Harps that once. . ., Sumerian Poetry in Translation by Thorkild Jacobsen. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1987.
Vigorously he sprouted,
vigorously he sprouted and sprouted,
watered it— it being lettuce!
In his black garden of the desert bearing much yield
did my darling of his mother,
my barley stalk full of allure in its furrow,
water it— it being lettuce,
did my one— a very apple tree bearing fruit at the top—
water it— it being a garden!
The honey-sweet man, the honey-sweet man,
was doing sweet (things) to me!
My lord, the honey-sweet man, the godly one,
my darling of his mother,
his hands honey sweet, his feet honeying,
was doing sweet (things) to me!
His limbs being sweet, sweet honey,
he was doing sweet (things) to me!
O my one who of a sudden was doing sweet (things)
to the whole (insides up) to the navel,
my darling of his mother,
my desert-honey loins, darling of his mother,
you watered it— it being lettuce!