The Babylonian Story of the Deluge as Told by Assyrian Tablets from Nineveh / The Discovery of the Tablets at Nineveh by Layard, Rassam and Smith

by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge

61. "How is it possible for me to keep silence about it?

How is it possible for me to cry out [the story of] it?

62. "My friend whom I loved hath become like the dust.

"Enkidu, my friend whom I loved hath become like the dust.

63. "Shall not I myself also be obliged to lay me down

64. "And never again rise up to all eternity?"

65. Gilgamish [continued] to speak unto Sabîtu [saying]:

66. "[O] Sabîtu, which is the way to Uta-Napishtim?

67. "What is the description thereof? Give me, give me the description thereof.

68. "If it be possible I will cross the sea,