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Egyptian Love Poem II

"My beloved’s love is on the far side. The river is between our bodies; The waters are mighty at flood-time, A crocodile waits in the shallows.

I enter the water and brave the waves, My heart is strong on the deep; The crocodile seems like a mouse to me, The flood as land to my feet.

It is her love that gives me strength, It makes a water-spell for me; I gaze at my heart's desire, As she stands facing me!

My beloved has come, my heart exults, My arms spread out to embrace her; My heart bounds in its place, Like the red fish in its pond.

O night, be mine forever, Now that my queen has come!" - IIIa. A Collection, The Cairo Vase 1266 + 25218

Love Poems