The Coffins Pass Hand to Hand

From C9.5, Zal Hears of Rostam’s Death. It illustrates C9.5.37–42:

C9.5.37
From Kabul up to Zabul, every roadBent down beneath the public sorrow’s load.
C9.5.38
The men and women gathered there in streams;No room remained amid their cries and screams.
C9.5.39
They passed the two great coffins hand to hand,As if the wind bore them across the land.
C9.5.40
They reached Zabul in two days and one night,And neither bier touched earth along the flight.
C9.5.41
The death of Rostam filled the age with cries;The plain seemed boiling as those cries would rise.
C9.5.42
No voice could reach another through the sound;In every land the wail of grief went round.