Bricks And Mortar
Submitted by on January 1, 1998
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Bricks and Mortar
And so they traveled until they reached Uruk.
There Gilgamesh the king said to the boatman:
"Study the brickwork, study the fortification;
climb the great ancient staircase to the terrace;
study how it is made; from the terrace see
the planted and fallow fields, the ponds and orchards.
One league is the inner city, another league
is orchards; still another the fields beyond;
over there is the precinct of the temple.
Three leagues and the temple precinct of Ishtar
measure Uruk, the city of Gilgamesh.
--Gilgamesh, Tablet XI, lines 366-376
Apollo's temple was built of ancient rock,
And there I prayed: 'Grant us a home, Apollo,
Give walls to weary men, a race , a city
That will abide;...