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Bijan Finds the Abandoned Field

Bijan Finds the Abandoned Field

From B14.16, Rostam Divides the Spoils. It illustrates B14.16.40–48:

  • B14.16.40
    When night’s rust passed and day’s bright falchion gleamed,The earth like ruby in the daylight beamed.
  • B14.16.41
    The parda-saray’s tabira rang high;The chiefs rose up; then came great Rostam’s cry:
  • B14.16.42
    “No trace of wise Piran has met our eyes;Return now to the field beneath the skies.
  • B14.16.43
    Send out the troops to seek him everywhere;Search all the field; lay every hiding bare.”
  • B14.16.44
    Bijan the lion-man went on his way,To where the armies fought the former day.
  • B14.16.45
    He saw a world of corpses, wealth displayed,And seats on every side, still richly laid.
  • B14.16.46
    The land was strewn with wounded men around,Flung down upon the earth, in fetters bound.
  • B14.16.47
    No living foe stood free upon the ground;The tents and parda-saray could be found.
  • B14.16.48
    Then bitter news reached Rostam from the plain:“The land is empty of the Turkish train.”

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