Kirta

like grasshoppers on the borders of the desert.
March a day and a second; a third, a fourth day;
a fifth, a sixth day. Behold, at sunrise
on the seventh you will arrive at Udum
the Great, even at Udum the Grand.
And attack the villages, harass
the towns. Sweep from the fields
her woodcutters, from the threshing-floors the straw-pickers.
Sweep from the spring the women that draw, from the fountain
the women that fill. Wait a day and a second;
a third, a fourth day; a fifth,
a sixth day: do not shoot your arrows
into the city, (nor) your hand-stone
flung headlong. And behold, at sunrise
on the seventh, King Pabil will
sleep until the noise of the neighing of his stallion,
until the sound of the braying of his donkey,
until the lowing of the plough-ox, the howling
of the watch-dog. Then he will send
two messengers to you, to Kirta,
to the camp:—'Message of King Pabil:
Take silver and yellow-glittering gold;
. . . . . . . . . . and perpetual slaves;
a groom, horses, chariots
from the stable of the son of a handmaid.
Take, Kirta, make peace,
make peace. And flee, O king,
from my house; withdraw, O Kirta,
from my court. Do not harass
Udum the Great, even Udum the Grand.
Udum is a gift of El, even a present
of the Father of Man (Adam).' Then send
the two messengers back to him:—'What need have I
of silver and yellow-glittering gold;
. . . . . . . . . . and perpetual
slaves; a groom, horses, chariots,
from the stables of the son of a handmaid?
A possession that is not in my house you shall give!
Give me Lady Hurraya,⁠a
the fairest of the offspring of your firstborn;
whose grace is like the grace of Anat,
[whose] beau[ty] like the beauty of Athtart;
whose eyeballs are the pureness of lapis, whose pup[ils]
the gleam of garnet . . . [ ] . .—
let me bask in the brightness of her eyes—
whom in my dream El bestowed,⁠b
in my vision the Father of Man (Adam).
And let her bear offspring to Kirta,
and a lad to the Servant of El.'"—
Kirta looked, and (it was) a dream;
the Servant of El, and (it was) a fantasy.—
He washed and rouged himself;
he washed his hands to the elbow,
his fingers up to the shoulder.
He entered the shade of a pavilion. He took
a lamb of offering in his hand,
a kid in the other hand,
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
He took a msrr, bird of sacrif[ice].