Giv Collapses before Gorgin's Lie

From C2.11, Gorgin Brings False Tidings of Bijan. It illustrates C2.11.25–35:

C2.11.25
When Gorgin saw that Giv was drawing near,He left his horse and ran to him in fear.
C2.11.26
He wallowed in the dust, bareheaded, pale,His cheeks torn open as he voiced his tale:
C2.11.27
“O chosen warrior of the Iranian line,The Shah’s great chief, in whom all honors shine,
C2.11.28
Why have you come to meet me on my way?Why do your blood-red tears fall down today?
C2.11.29
I do not wish to live if further woeShould now befall me, blow succeeding blow.
C2.11.30
Ashamed am I to look upon your face;My eyes pour blood in sorrow and disgrace.
C2.11.31
Yet do not fear for Bijan’s life,” he cried;“No harm has touched him; truth shall be my guide.”
C2.11.32
Giv saw his son’s horse standing at his side,And Gorgin, dust-covered and wild-eyed.
C2.11.33
He heard those words and tumbled to the ground,Then lay beneath his grief without a sound.
C2.11.34
His head lay hidden in the road’s dry sand;He rent his Pahlavi robe with either hand.
C2.11.35
He plucked his hair and from his wounded headPoured dust, and cried aloud in grief and dread: