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Tus Keeps Kaveh's Standard

Tus Keeps Kaveh's Standard

From C4.59, Tus Receives Khosrow’s Patent. It illustrates C4.59.11–17:

  • C4.59.11
    What do you bid me do? What power is mine?You know my faults, and where my virtues shine.”
  • C4.59.12
    The Shah replied, “You bore more grief from fateThan all the woes that you can now relate.
  • C4.59.13
    Keep Kaveh’s standard still in your command;In golden shoes, lead warriors of the land.
  • C4.59.14
    Take Khorasan as your allotted sphere;Among these chiefs, may ease await you here.”
  • C4.59.15
    They wrote the patent, setting forth his right,Before the nobles in the monarch’s sight.
  • C4.59.16
    They set the golden seal upon the writ;A golden torque and belt they brought with it.
  • C4.59.17
    He gave them, blessing Tus: “May no heart breedThe hate that might be kindled by your deed.”

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