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Iskandar Recognized at Dara's Banquet

Iskandar Recognized at Dara's Banquet

From D4.3, Iskandar Visits Dara Disguised as an Ambassador. It illustrates D4.3.48–57:

  • D4.3.48
    Just then the men who, far from home, had madeTheir way to Rum to seek the tribute paid,
  • D4.3.49
    Came from their lodgings to the banquet hall,And walked toward the Shah before them all.
  • D4.3.50
    One saw Iskandar, then approached the throne,And blessed the Shah before he made him known:
  • D4.3.51
    “This is Iskandar, lord of royal grace,Who sits with crown and gorz in Rum’s high place.
  • D4.3.52
    When you commanded us to claim the due,We went to him as envoys sent by you.
  • D4.3.53
    He raged and humbled us before his throne,And warred on you in words, in scornful tone.
  • D4.3.54
    I fled his realm and spurred my steeds in flight,And drove them onward through the dark of night.
  • D4.3.55
    No other man in Rum bears such a face;He boldly comes within this very place.
  • D4.3.56
    He measures all your troops, your treasure’s worth,Your throne and crown, your sovereign might on earth.”
  • D4.3.57
    When Dara heard the tribute-seeker’s claim,He fixed a longer gaze upon his frame.

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