text: Every story, tale or memoir
  Every saga or romance
  Whether true or fabricated
  Whether planned or happenstance
  Whether sweeping through the ages
  Casting centuries aside
  Or a hurried brief recital
  Just a thirty-minute ride
  Whether bright or melancholy
  Rough and ready, finely spun
  Whether with a thousand players
  Or a lonely cast of one
  Every story, new or ancient
  Bagatelle or work of art
  All are tales of human failing
  All are tales of love at heart
  This is the story
  Of a love that flourished
  In a time of hate
  Of lovers no tyranny could separate
  Love set into motion on the Niles shore
  Destiny ignited by an act of war
  Egypt saw the mighty river as its very heart and soul
  Source of life for all her people
  That only Egypt could control
  Destruction of her southern neighbor, justified
  Nubia exploited, left with little more than pride, oh