9.16.2010

Thursday Text: Love Song

In my art history book there is a poem from Egypt's New Kingdom (between 1300 and 1100 BC) that is now in the Cairo Museum. Here's a part that I thought was especially sweet.

While unhurried days come and go,
Let us turn to each other in quiet affection,
Walk in peace to the edge of old age.
And I shall be with you each unhurried day,
A woman given her one with: to see
For a lifetime the face of her lord.

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