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Anonymous Sumerian · Ur III / Old Babylonian (c. 2100–1600 BCE)

They hugged and kissed. They wearied each other with questions: "Did you see the order of the nether world? -- If only you would tell me, my friend, if only you would tell me!" "If I tell you the order of the nether world, sit down and weep! I shall sit down and weep! xx, which your heart rejoiced to touch, is xx, worms infest it like an old garment (?); like xx of (?) a crevice, it is full of dust." "Alas!" he said and sat down in the dust.