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DESCENDANTS OF POETRY
Dating back to the reign of Sargon
A woman arose in the personality of Enheduanna
Translated as the High priestess of An'
She,the heartland of Sumerian culture
The chief ornament of heaven is a mystery
The first world author, is she?
The epic of gilgamesh,the oldest poems
Birth of the first great masterpiece of world literature
Poetry indeed had descendants,to this day we see

Amongst the notable wordsmiths Chaucer,Shakespeare,wordsworth and Keats nuzzles our minds
A proud tradition and generational impartation
History records the earliest recorded poem in Old English
Credits awarded to the shy and retiring cowherd Caedmon
He knew not how to sing,
An apparition inciting him to sing the...