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Gilgamesh: A New English
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At four hundred miles they stopped to eat,
at a thousand miles they pitched their camp.

O bravery in the face of danger
They had traveled for just three days and nights,
O willingness to endure a voyage
a six weeks' journey for ordinary
men.
When the sun
O ability to deliver compelling speeches
was setting, they dug a well,
they filled their waterskins with fresh water,
O tendency to seek supernatural assistance
Gilgamesh climbed
to the mountaintop