Manijeh Brings Bread to the Pit

From C2.10, Bijan Is Put in Bonds. It illustrates C2.10.21–31:

C2.10.21
They reached the princess’ palace, seized her store,And cast her wealth in heaps across the floor.
C2.10.22
Manijeh was left bare, without a veil,Barefoot, bareheaded, and her face grown pale.
C2.10.23
They dragged her to the pit; her heart was blood,Her face a channel running like a flood.
C2.10.24
Garsivaz said, “Look here, and you shall seeYour home; the prisoner’s servant you shall be.”
C2.10.25
Manijeh stayed, with anguish in her breast,And blood-drops on her cheeks, and found no rest.
C2.10.26
He turned away; Manijeh, bride of woe,Roamed through the plain with nowhere else to go.
C2.10.27
When one full day and night had passed in grief,She scraped a handbreadth opening for relief.
C2.10.28
When from the mountain’s crest the sun raised head,Manijeh went from door to door for bread.
C2.10.29
Through the long day she gathered, crust by crust,And brought it to the pit-hole through the dust.
C2.10.30
She gave it to Bijan, and wept her fill,And in that ill-starred living lingered still.
C2.10.31
With sigh and cry, through every hour she keptThat pit’s own watch, and never left, but wept.