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Sargon

Sleepless king

Once-infinite land

Four Borders, Four Parts

The Sea Above, The Sea Below

Once-endless kingdom

The Gift of Dagan to the Sleepless King

The king fought Marduk

His curse on him

Sargon's now sleepless

His soul won't rest

Nothing and never can the wine

Nothing and never help the drugs

Istar is gone

Marduk's laughing

A golden city For the sleepless king

What am I in the place

of nourishment and sleep?

What am I now?

That city of Uruk has become

an evil rebel against your god.

An, make it surrander. Cut it in two!

Let Enlil curse it!

Let its whining child go

without a pampering mother

O lady, the harp of mourning is on the ground.

Your ship mourning is on a hostile

shore, dragged over the rocks.

When the people ofa the city

hear my sacred song,

they are ready to die.