The Washerwoman Opens the Coffer

From D2.2, Darab Is Raised by a Washerman. It illustrates D2.2.12–18:

• D2.2.12
  He laid the clothes upon the ground, then drewThe coffer’s narrow lid aside from view.
• D2.2.13
  The washerwoman saw the child and prayed,Astonished at the sight the box displayed.
• D2.2.14
  His radiant face shone from the silken bed;He looked like Ardeshir, the king now dead.
• D2.2.15
  His pillow gleamed with pearls of costly sheen,His feet with carnelian and emerald green.
• D2.2.16
  Gold coins lay on his left in yellow light;And many rubies glittered on his right.
• D2.2.17
  She gave her breast; he drank, and at the sightThe lovely infant filled her with delight.
• D2.2.18
  The lovely child and treasures round him layBefore her eyes and drove her grief away.

In the picture

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