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Nushzad Breaks the Royal Left Wing

Nushzad Breaks the Royal Left Wing

From D13.19, The Death of Nushzad. It illustrates D13.19.49–55:

  • D13.19.49
    He answered old Pirooz in words of flame,Then veiled the air with shafts that thickly came.
  • D13.19.50
    The warriors advanced; the karnays cried,And battle-roars went up on every side.
  • D13.19.51
    Nushzad spurred on, a blaze amid the fight,Like Azargashasp’s fire in all its might.
  • D13.19.52
    He broke the left wing of the royal force,And none could stand against his headlong course.
  • D13.19.53
    He slew full many lions of the field,And forced the stoutest warriors there to yield.
  • D13.19.54
    Then Ram Barzin, grown wrathful, gave commandTo rain down arrows from Iran’s armed band.
  • D13.19.55
    They filled the air as springtime hailstones fall,And battle’s clamor thundered over all.

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