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1990-11-24
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Seven days ... and I've not seen my lady love.
A sickness has shot through me.
I have become sluggish,
And I have forgotten my own body.
If the best surgeions come to me,
My heart will not be comforted with their remedies....
My lady love is more remedial than any potion;
She's better than the whole book of medical lore....
If I see her, then I'll be well....
Distracting is the foliage of my pasture:
The mouth of my girl is a lotus bud,
Her breasts are mandrake apples,
Her arms are vines,
Her eyes are fixed like berries,
Her brow a snare of willow, and I the wild goose!
Simple directness of Egyptian love poetry, from New Kingdom times.