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Piran Calls Up to Tus

Piran Calls Up to Tus

From B13.13, Piran’s March to Mount Hamavan. It illustrates B13.13.6–17 (to B13.13.21):

  • B13.13.6
    Piran cried: “O Tus, renowned in battle’s course,With elephants, gopal, and koust in force,
  • B13.13.7
    Five months have passed since war consumed the plain,Gudarz’s foremost kin lie headless, slain.
  • B13.13.8
    You fled, your panting soldiers in your train,And climbed the heights, your heart still bent on bane.
  • B13.13.9
    Like mountain sheep, you sought the rocky lair,Yet surely you will fall within my snare.”
  • B13.13.10
    Noble Tus then replied: “I scorn your lies;Your falsehoods cannot stand before my eyes.
  • B13.13.11
    For Siavash you stirred the fires of hate,And spread new vengeance through the proud and great.
  • B13.13.12
    Have you no shame for words of heated air?They will not lure me to your waiting snare.
  • B13.13.13
    May no such Pahlevan as you ariseAmong the mighty, honored by the wise.
  • B13.13.14
    Your oath destroyed Siavash in Turan’s land,His blood convulsed the earth on every hand.
  • B13.13.15
    You held him there in Turan by deceit;Now war and vengeance answer that dark feat.
  • B13.13.16
    Alas for that great prince, that noble face,Whose presence once brought joy to every place.
  • B13.13.17
    By these devices, by such fraud and spite,You gain no luster in a true man’s sight.

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