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Zal Meets Sohrab's Bier

Zal Meets Sohrab's Bier

From B8.24, Rostam Returns to Zabulistan. It illustrates B8.24.7–14:

  • B8.24.7
    When Zal, great son of Sahm, beheld the bier,He left his golden-reined horse and drew near.
  • B8.24.8
    Rostam walked on before it, pale and torn,His garments rent, his heart with sorrow worn.
  • B8.24.9
    The warriors loosed their girdles, bent in woe,And bowed their heads to dust in mourning low.
  • B8.24.10
    They lowered Sohrab’s coffin from the camel’s side,And mourned the famed young warrior who had died.
  • B8.24.11
    They cried aloud for Sohrab, young and brave,Whose name deserved a world beyond the grave.
  • B8.24.12
    Before his father Rostam bowed his head,And drew the gold-worked covering from the dead.
  • B8.24.13
    He said in grief: “Look; Sahm the rider liesWithin this narrow coffin, to our eyes.”
  • B8.24.14
    Blood-tears streamed down where aged Zal now sighs,As grief for Sohrab filled his broken cries.

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