Oh, come, dear Zir-ri, tune your lyres and lutes, And sing of love with chastest, sweetest notes, Of Accad's goddess Ishtar, Queen of Love, And Izdubar, with softest measure move; Great Samas' son, of him dear Zir-ri sing!

Behold the sovereign on her throne of bronze, While crouching at her feet a lion fawns; The glittering court with gold and gems ablaze With ancient splendor of the glorious days Of Accad's sovereignty.

Great Subartu has fallen by Sutu And Kassi, Goim fell with Lul-lu-bu, Thus Khar-sak-kal-a-ma all Eridu[20] O'erran with Larsa's allies; Subartu With Duran thus was conquered by these sons Of mighty Shem and strewn was Accad's bones Throughout her plains, and mountains, valleys fair, Unburied lay in many a wolf's lair.

Oh, where is Accad's chieftain Izdubar, Her mightiest unrivalled prince of war?

The horsemen of Elam, her spearsmen and bows, Thy treasures have ravished, thy towers thrown down, And Accad is fallen, trod down by her foes.

" Awake then, brave Accad, to welcome the day!

Behold thy bright banners yet flaming on high, Triumphant are streaming on land and the sea! Arise, then, O Accad!

the cause of Accad's woes, Revenge of Erech, be the cry!

Great Accad's hosts arrayed with spears and shields Are coming!

while Accad's army ready waits, The enemy are swarming from the gates.

The charge, from either host, the trumpets sound, And bristling chariots from each army bound: A cloud of arrows flies from Accad's bows That hides the sun, and falls among their foes.

Now roars the thunder of great Accad's cars, Their brazen chariots as blazing stars Through Nuk-khu's depths with streams of blazing fire, Thus fall upon the foe with vengeful ire.

For Accad crowns him, crowns him there!

Khumbaba hath enjoyed great Accad's spoils Too long; with him we end these long turmoils.

our giant King, The amaranti for him bring, To crown him, crown him here, As King of Accad and Sutu, And all the land of Subar-tu!

"And hath great Accad lost so many sons, And left so many maids unmarried ones?" He eyed the image where the goddess stood Upon a pedestal of cedar wood O'erlaid with gold and pearls and uk-ni stones, And near it stands the altar with its cones Of gold adorned with gems and solid pearls, And from the golden censer incense curls.

Their monarch turned and slowly rode away; And Accad's hosts his men pursue and slay, Until the forest deep resounds with cries.

O never may thy truth forgotten be, May Accad's race forever worship thee.

Roman and mediæval sorcery had its origin in that of ancient Accad.]

20 Palace of Assur-bani-pal, King of Assyria; 21 Son of Esar-haddon, King of multitudes, King of Assyria, high-priest of Babylon, 22 King of Sumer and Accad, King of the Kings of Cush and Egypt, 23 King of the four zones; Son of Sennacherib, 24 King of multitudes, King of Assyria; 25 who to Assur and Beltis, Nebo and Tasmit trusts.

77 In my ninth campaign a second time to the land of Accad I went.

" This order is in accordance with the position held by the woman in Accad; in the Accadian Table of Laws, for instance, translated in "Records of the Past," vol. iii.

These sentences were drawn up at a time when it was necessary for the scribes to be familiar with the old language of Accad, and to be able to translate it into Assyrian, and hence these phrases are of very great philological value, since they indicate often analogous words and various verbal forms.

Nimrod the | hunter was | mighty in | hunting, and | famed as the | ruler of | cities of | yore; Babel, and | Erech, and | Accad, and | Calneh, from | Shinar's fair | region his | name afar | bore.

But in the heyday of their new-driven corner stakes, what wars were waged for the power to draw people into them; and especially, how the county-seat fights raged like prairie fires set out by those Nimrods who sought to make up in the founding of cities for what they lacked as hunters, in comparison with the establisher of Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar.