
Esfandiyar Hauls the Hiyun from the River
From C7.8, The River of the Seventh Stage. It illustrates C7.8.1–6:
- C7.8.1When one watch of the darkened night had passed,A cry rose from the vanguard, sharp and fast.
- C7.8.2The young prince mounted, urging on his steed,And from the center took the army’s lead.
- C7.8.3When he had passed the troops, his eyes could seeA river fathoms deep and running free.
- C7.8.4The driver’s leading hiyun, in the flood,Was drowning, trapped beneath the stream in mud.
- C7.8.5The prince seized both its thighs and pulled it clear;Gorgsar, his enemy, looked on in fear.
- C7.8.6The prince commanded him to come in chains;He came with fettered limbs and inward pains.
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