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Piran Beholds the Newborn Kay Khosrow

Piran Beholds the Newborn Kay Khosrow

From B9.57, The Birth of Kay Khosrow. It illustrates B9.57.10–16:

  • B9.57.10
    Golshahr ran swiftly to the queen and sawThe newborn prince, and stood transfixed with awe.
  • B9.57.11
    She cried with joy that echoed through the dome,Then breathless ran to Piran in his home:
  • B9.57.12
    “The moon and sun seem joined in this one child;Come see what power the Maker has compiled.
  • B9.57.13
    The Maker’s wisdom shines in every sign;He lacks but crown, and helm, and jowshan’s shine.”
  • B9.57.14
    Then Piran came and looked upon the boy,And praised Yazdan with reverence and joy.
  • B9.57.15
    So well proportioned were his limbs and frame,No newborn child had ever seemed the same.
  • B9.57.16
    He seemed a child already one year grown,So firm his limbs, so strong in flesh and bone.

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