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Rudabeh Reaches for the Dead Snake
Book C9 · Rostam and Shaghad

Rudabeh Reaches for the Dead Snake

From C9.7, Rudabeh’s Grief for Rostam. It illustrates C9.7.10–13:

  • C9.7.10
    At one week’s end, her reason from her fled;Now helpless, she went seeking to be fed.
  • C9.7.11
    She went into the kitchen in the night,Where water held a dead snake in her sight.
  • C9.7.12
    She seized its head, intent upon the meat,And meant to make the serpent hers to eat.
  • C9.7.13
    A servant snatched the serpent from her grasp;The others held her in their steady clasp.

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