Wonderful research and an old favourite song.
‘How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
here will we sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.’
(Shakespeare from The Merchant of Venice)
While The Akkadians slept the Moon shone down.
While The Hittites dreamed of an eternal empire the Moon set the tides a flowing.
While The Assyrians and The Phoenicians marched the Moon shone down.
While The Babylonians, The Persians and The Etruscans dreamed of eternal empires the Moon set the tides a flowing.
While The Greeks and The Romans rose and fell the Moon shone down.
While the empires of great Alexander and that of Chandragupta Mauraya rose and fell the Moon set the tides a flowing.
Look up! Look up!
It’s the same moon! The same moon!
And, looking up, we can’t help but feel the Moon looks down on…
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