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Zangeh and Awkhast Rest in the Heat
Book C3 · The Battle of the Twelve Rukhs

Zangeh and Awkhast Rest in the Heat

From C3.36, How Zangeh, Son of Shavaran, Battles Awkhast. It illustrates C3.36.5–11:

  • C3.36.5
    Their weary warhorses could run no more,As though no vein could stir, so spent and sore.
  • C3.36.6
    The sun moved through the sky in blazing heat;Like iron burned the plain beneath their feet.
  • C3.36.7
    The warriors, spent, could scarcely stand or tread;Neither could move a single step ahead.
  • C3.36.8
    They spoke together, each in grave concern:“In all this heat, our very livers burn.
  • C3.36.9
    Let us take rest till strength has been restored,Then rise and meet each other with the sword.”
  • C3.36.10
    They led their chargers to a resting ground,And there the weary horses’ feet were bound.
  • C3.36.11
    Thereafter, having rested, both arose,And armed again to face each other’s blows.

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