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Arrows Rain on the Divs in Darkness

Arrows Rain on the Divs in Darkness

From B10.35, Kay Khosrow Captures Bahman Castle. It illustrates B10.35.36–44:

  • B10.35.36
    The world turned black as Zangi’s face in night;Sun, Pleiades, and moon were lost from sight.
  • B10.35.37
    A dark cloud rose and filled the shrouded air;The heavens gaped like lion’s jaws laid bare.
  • B10.35.38
    Then Khosrow urged his black horse with a cry,And called his Pahlevans, his gorz held high:
  • B10.35.39
    “Let arrows fall like rain upon this hold,As storm clouds pour their torrents fierce and cold.”
  • B10.35.40
    A cloud poured down a deadly storm of hail,Its diamond-hard blows swept the wall and vale.
  • B10.35.41
    By arrows many Divs lay slain around,And Ahriman’s own creatures strewed the ground.
  • B10.35.42
    At last a radiant light began to break,And darkness fled as dawn began to wake.
  • B10.35.43
    A blessed breeze passed over field and height,And smiling earth and air grew clear with light.
  • B10.35.44
    The world shone like the moon, serene and white;The Divs withdrew, by Khosrow’s word, outright.

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