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Who Are The First Two Poems About?
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Who Are The First Two Poems About?

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Daniel Evensen
Jul 09, 2025
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Who Are The First Two Poems About?

It wouldn’t be fair for me to just leave you hanging. Let’s jump in and see who the two poems we read in yesterday’s translation post are about.

The first poem was written in a somewhat unusual poetic style, as you can see from the original printing:

You don’t see the familiar parallel textual lines here that you elsewhere.

The text is a little bit easier to understand if you break it up like this:

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