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Arrows Stitch the Dragon's Jaws
Book D10 · The Bahram Goor Cycle: Justice, Foreign Adventures, and End of a Reign

Arrows Stitch the Dragon's Jaws

From D10.31, Bahram Slays a Dragon. It illustrates D10.31.19–23:

  • D10.31.19
    He strung his bow and chose his shafts with skill;Their tips bore milk and poison mixed to kill.
  • D10.31.20
    He loosed them thick while wheeling through the fight,And turned his horse now left and now to right.
  • D10.31.21
    With steel-tipped shafts he sewed the dragon’s mouth,Whose venom scorched the brambles north and south.
  • D10.31.22
    Four further shafts he drove into its head;Its blood and venom mingled as they spread.
  • D10.31.23
    The dragon weakened under arrow-rain,And all the ground ran dark with gore and bane.

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