Esfandiyar Slanders Zal's Birth

From C8.14, Esfandiyar Insults Rostam’s Race. It illustrates C8.14.1–12 (to C8.14.18):

C8.14.1
Then Esfandiyar spoke thus to Rostam’s face:“O kindly chief, whom fame and honor grace,
C8.14.2
From Mobadan I heard this tale of old;From chiefs and wakeful sages it was told:
C8.14.3
That Zal was base, and from a Div was born;His lineage merits nothing more than scorn.
C8.14.4
They hid the child from Sahm for many a day,And deemed him born to bring the world dismay.
C8.14.5
His face and hair were white, his body dark;Sahm saw him and despaired of that strange mark.
C8.14.6
He bade them take him to the sea, away,Where birds and fish might make the child their prey.
C8.14.7
The Simorgh came, her wings spread out to fly;No noble bearing, no farr met her eye.
C8.14.8
She carried him aloft to her retreat,Where no one found the infant’s presence sweet.
C8.14.9
Though hunger gnawed, the Simorgh’s scorn was plain;She held his body worthless, in disdain.
C8.14.10
He ate the carrion scraps that she had shed;Unclothed, despised, on cast-off flesh he fed.
C8.14.11
In time the Simorgh came to love the child;And so the years passed by him in the wild.
C8.14.12
She took him to Sistan, his body bare,After he lived on carrion for his fare.