Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt (Arabic: صعيد مصر‎ Sa'id Misr) is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile valley, that extends between Nubia, and downriver (northwards) to Lower Egypt.

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    But that beginning was wiped out in fear
    The day I swung suspended with the grapes,
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