From which I am trying to awake
O lord Bilgames, you are drinking, O lord, you are drinking!
Inanna has brought the Bull of Heaven down from the sky.
In Uruk the bull devours the grass.
In the Engilua canal it drinks the water,
one league it reached along the Engilua canal, its heart was not sated.
It devours the date palms of Uruk, bending them to its mouth.
The bull, it stands there, filling all of Uruk,
the bull, on its own, it fills all of Kullab.
Bilgames answered Lugalgabangal his minstrel:
‘O my minstrel, sing your song, strum your strings!
I will drink beer, refill the tankard!’
The minstrel Lugalgabangal answered his master Bilgames:
‘O my lord, may you eat, may you drink,
as for that matter is it not your concern?’