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The Shoemaker's Mulberry
Book D13 · Anooshirvan and the Road to the End-time

The Shoemaker's Mulberry

From D13.14, The Founding of Zib-e-Khosrow. It illustrates D13.14.9–14:

  • D13.14.9
    He gave each captive gifts and ample aid,Till Paradise seemed there on earth remade.
  • D13.14.10
    In mansions, streets, and markets all around,No vacant space within the town was found.
  • D13.14.11
    A shoemaker came forth and, grieving, cried,“O just king, hear what joy I am denied.
  • D13.14.12
    At my old house in Kaliniyus grewA mulberry whose shade I loved and knew.
  • D13.14.13
    I find no joy in living here at all;No mulberry stands by my doorway wall.”
  • D13.14.14
    Then Anooshirvan ordered, “Go, restoreSome thriving trees beside that poor man’s door.”

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