Father Nannar, whose rule is perfect, chief of the gods;
Father Nannar, who dost go forth in the robe of majesty, chief of the gods.
A fragment of a hymn to Nebo (Nebo No. 2) has in a passage of five lines yet a different use of the refrain. The refrain which makes up the second half of each line is varied in three lines by the introduction of a new word from the first half line:
O lord, thy might is a might incomparable;
O Nebo, thy might is a might incomparable;
Thy house Ezida is a house incomparable;
Thy city Borsippa is a city incomparable;
Thy district of Babylon is a district incomparable.
The carrying forward in the refrain of the important word of the first half line does suggest very forcibly that an individual chanted the first half line, and a choir the second half line. The same arrangement would hold for the couplet that follows the above lines, the second line of the couplet being a response to the first.
Thy weapon is a dragon from whose mouth no poison flows;