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Fereydoon in Iraj's Burned Garden

Fereydoon in Iraj's Burned Garden

From A6.13, Fereydoon Receives the Tragic News. It illustrates A6.13.26–37 (to A6.13.38):

  • A6.13.26
    Fereydoon bore the young king’s head in pain,And entered, staggering beneath the strain.
  • A6.13.27
    He looked upon the royal throne with dread,And saw no crown above the severed head.
  • A6.13.28
    The royal pool and cypress met his eye,Flowering tree, willow, quince stood nearby.
  • A6.13.29
    He found the nobles’ festive ground laid bare,Black dust rose high to Saturn through the air.
  • A6.13.30
    He tore his hair and wounded his own face,While tears poured down within that ruined place.
  • A6.13.31
    He bound a blood-red girdle round his frame,And set the royal dwelling all aflame.
  • A6.13.32
    He tore the rose beds up, burned cypress trees,And closed joy’s eye, renouncing every ease.
  • A6.13.33
    He cradled Iraj’s head against his breast,Then turned toward Yazdan with his request:
  • A6.13.34
    “O righteous Judge, behold this guiltless one;Look on the innocent; see what they have done.
  • A6.13.35
    His severed head lies here, exposed and bare;His body, torn by lions, lies elsewhere.
  • A6.13.36
    Burn both those unjust hearts till all their lightIs gone, and every day they see is night.
  • A6.13.37
    Brand both their livers with so deep a scarThat beasts will pity what their torments are.

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