Love
Love Song I
Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller · From Archaeology and the Bible (1916)
Your love has penetrated all within me
Like honey plunged into water,
Like an odor which penetrates spices,
As when one mixes juice in
Nevertheless you run to seek your sister,
Like the steed upon the battlefield,
As the warrior rolls along on the spokes of his wheels.
For heaven makes your love
Like the advance of flames in straw,
And its longing like the downward swoop of a hawk.
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Anonymous Egyptian Poets. “Love Song I.” Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-egyptian/21/.
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Anonymous Egyptian Poets. “Love Song I.” Translated by George A. Barton, from the German of W. Max Müller. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-egyptian/21/.
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