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The Household Tends Rostam's Wounds

The Household Tends Rostam's Wounds

From C8.24, Rostam Consults His Family. It illustrates C8.24.1–8:

  • C8.24.1
    Now Rostam reached his palace; Zal perceivedThe wounds his son in battle had received.
  • C8.24.2
    Zavareh wept with Faramarz in grief;His wounds burned in their hearts beyond relief.
  • C8.24.3
    When Rudabeh had heard the household cries,She tore her face and hair with anguished sighs.
  • C8.24.4
    Zavareh came and loosed his belt; the restRemoved the Babr-e Bayan from his breast.
  • C8.24.5
    The learned of his country also came,And sat around the hero’s wounded frame.
  • C8.24.6
    Then Rakhsh was ordered brought; the healers, too,Were brought to see what remedies could do.
  • C8.24.7
    Wise Zal tore at his hair and bowed his head,And pressed his face to Rostam’s wounds and said:
  • C8.24.8
    “Still living, old and gray, I see my son;I never saw him thus, my cherished one!”

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