the lives of a man and woman. It deals with mature love, not prostitution and infatuation, but it is similar to the Nakhtsobek Songs in structural conception. Individual songs work together to give the audience a coherent if highly poetic interpretation of the joy and significance of sexual love. Like the Nakhtsobek Songs, Song of Songs focuses on a single moment of life, but here it is the marriage and first union of a man and woman. ► Egyptian Love Poetry The Egyptian love songs contain the closest
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