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Dawn breaks over

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Babylon—stone,

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sky,

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and judgment.

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Here,

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Hammurabi raises a code that

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binds a city and tests

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a king.

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In an age when early

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alphabets stirred in the

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Sinai,

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these laws were cut in

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cuneiform,

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line by relentless line.

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Trade,

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theft,

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marriage,

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price—measured and named.

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Harsh,

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yes;

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enduring,

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more.

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From this stele,

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echoes travel: rights

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claimed,

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power checked,

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society negotiating justice

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in public stone.