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Gorgin Finds Bijan's Riderless Horse

Gorgin Finds Bijan's Riderless Horse

From C2.11, Gorgin Brings False Tidings of Bijan. It illustrates C2.11.4–12:

  • C2.11.4
    He sought the place where Bijan went astray,And searched the forest through the fading day.
  • C2.11.5
    He circled all the wood, yet saw no one,Nor heard a bird-call underneath the sun.
  • C2.11.6
    He searched the meadow by the river wide,And saw the charger standing at its side.
  • C2.11.7
    There stood the steed, its broken bridle low,Its saddle dragged; its foaming mouth showed woe.
  • C2.11.8
    He knew the horse was his companion’s own,And cried: “Bijan is lost, not well, alone.
  • C2.11.9
    He will not see Iran; some hostile handHas laid him down upon death’s farther strand.
  • C2.11.10
    By gallows, prison, chains, or deadly blow,Afrasiab has struck him, that I know.”
  • C2.11.11
    Repentant, Gorgin cast the kamand out,And caught the horse, and turned his face about.
  • C2.11.12
    He turned and led the steed back from the plain,And stayed one day inside his tent in pain.

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