Ocean's Breath Plateau [m] seventy-fifth

nazli.

she danced, before the sea, before the sand, before him;

and senmut let his song lower before another rose, blended from the tones of the first;

sister without rival, 
most lovely of all!
behold; she is as the star-goddess, rising
at the start of the First Year
perfection. brightness;
her eyes are filled with praise;
her limbs are as the lengths of flowers;
her steps are shapely.
she has stolen my breath!
i caress her with starlight!

the hymn of a young man to a young lover, not he, not she; to a far off black land where fellahin only knew the face of the gods by how the heavens moved.

but his breath caught now, almost ceasing the song; senmut witnessed nazli in this ascension to high priestess as his voice wavered.