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Love Songs of Ancient Egypt

Unknown

Form
Form Poetry Collection
Year
Year 1300 BCE
Originally in
Originally in Egyptian
Pages
Pages 80

Three thousand years ago, along the Nile, someone set down what it feels like to be undone by another person, and it reads as though the ink is still wet. The lovers here call each other sister and brother, tokens of tenderness rather than blood.

Your love has penetrated all within me / Like honey plunged into water,
Love Songs of Ancient Egypt, Unknown

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