Gilgamesh (completed?)

No chorus! What I had suggested as a chorus I will instead use as intro and outro as well. I won't go into details as to how many lines I discarded, shifted, rewrote etc. I had known from the beginning that casting the oldest epos of the word into a song would become tough. I'm leaving out Gilgamesh's search for his ancestor and the story of the great flood completely (yes, the very same flood that later occurs in the Bible). That would be a story in a story - not really viable in a song.

My little helpers this time were:
The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
http://www.dict.cc/
http://www.synonyms.net/

The latter provided "lift" as a synonym for "revoke" which would not match the meter at all. I had found "spell" as a rhyme for "well" (both mayby not the greatest of all options, but anyway), but next all synonyms for "revoke" that I could come up with had at least two syllables as well...

I may (have to) go over the text when I'm setting it to music. This is what I have got now:

[Intro]

let your gaze wander
from the top of the wall
over the blooming land
over courtyards, fountains, and flower beds

let your thoughts wander
and make sure to recall
the time of glory and
the great king of kings, called Gilgamesh


[Verses]

bitter complaints 'bout the tyrannic(al) king
who claimed for himself the right of the first night
and tried the young men's strength in the ring
reached the Gods who considered the plight

the Gods decided to send him a friend
equal in strength and equal in force
to share adventures, to share ideas
and in the long term alter his course

against all advice, in search of personal fame
Gilgamesh one day decided to kill
Humbaba, the dragon, who guarded the wood(s)
- he was the king and he would get his will

though a sense of foreboding weighed the friends down
overcoming their fear they fought side by side
they showed no mercy, and slew the beast
so that their glory would shine far and wide

Ishdar, the goddess, fell in love with the king
rejecting her offer he brought on her revenge
she sent the Bull of Heaven to lay waste to the land
but the mighty, fierce beast was overcome by the friends

the Gods resolved that the friend had to die
so their punishment would hurt the king as well
who would stay with his friend 'till the body decayed
no sacrifice could make the Gods lift their spell

to avoid the fate of the friend he had lost
on his quest to find immortality
the king set off for places unknown
through the lightless tunnel, 'cross the endless sea

he'd heard of a plant that'd grant eternal youth
he found it, he picked it - now he could stop to roam
but the snake stole his prize, she's shed her skin ever since
he was still empty-handed when he came home

[Bridge]

he set out for fame, for immortality
he won some fights, found and lost a friend
he came back bare-handed, to his people, his home
a caring and good king until his end

[Outro]

let your gaze wander
from the top of the wall
over the blooming land
over courtyards, fountains, and flower beds

let your thoughts wander
and make sure to recall
the time of glory and
the great king of kings, called Gilgamesh