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Manijeh Welcomes Bijan into Her Tent

Manijeh Welcomes Bijan into Her Tent

From C2.6, Bijan Goes to Manijeh’s Tent. It illustrates C2.6.3–12:

  • C2.6.3
    He passed the curtain in, a cypress high,Gold-girdled at the waist for every eye.
  • C2.6.4
    Manijeh came and clasped him to her breast,And loosed the royal girdle from her guest.
  • C2.6.5
    She asked him of the road, and of his train,And who had shared the boar-hunt on that plain.
  • C2.6.6
    “Why torture such a face, such farr, such heightWith gorz, O fair of countenance and bright?”
  • C2.6.7
    They bathed his feet with musk and rose perfume,And then made haste to eat within the room.
  • C2.6.8
    They set the board with dishes of each kind,And made a feast beyond the reach of mind.
  • C2.6.9
    They made a place for rud and wine and clearedThe tent of every stranger who appeared.
  • C2.6.10
    The serving-women stood upon their feet,With barbat, chang, and songs of music sweet.
  • C2.6.11
    Brocade had made the ground a peacock’s hue,And scattered dinars, leopard-spotted through.
  • C2.6.12
    The tent enclosure glittered, fold on fold,With musk and jewels, ambergris and gold.

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