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Plain text of The Epic of Gilgamish (Passages) · The Eighth Tablet

"What kind of sleep is this which hath laid hold upon thee?

Thou starest out blankly and hearest me not!"

But Enkidu moved not, and when Gilgamish touched his breast his heart was still. Then laying a covering over him, he turned away from the dead body and in his grief roared like a raging lion and like a lioness robbed of her whelps.