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The Silent Villagers Anger the Shah
Book D10 · The Bahram Goor Cycle: Justice, Foreign Adventures, and End of a Reign

The Silent Villagers Anger the Shah

From D10.8, Rozbeh Ruins and Restores a Village. It illustrates D10.8.8–13:

  • D10.8.8
    He reached a settled, green, and fertile spot,With homes and cattle; want and care forgot.
  • D10.8.9
    The monarch, vexed and overcome by heat,Had chosen that same village for his seat.
  • D10.8.10
    The people came to gaze upon the king,But none pronounced the blessings they should bring.
  • D10.8.11
    One would have thought each villager a beast,A tethered ass that stirred not in the least.
  • D10.8.12
    Its folk disgusted him; he turned his face,And spoke in anger of that ill-starred place:
  • D10.8.13
    “Let this green village be the wild beasts’ den;Let pitch-black water turn its fields to fen.”

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Bahram Goor
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