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Dara's Army Flees across the Farat
Book D4 · Dara and Iskandar

Dara's Army Flees across the Farat

From D4.4, Dara Fights Iskandar and Is Worsted. It illustrates D4.4.16–21:

  • D4.4.16
    Upon the eighth, dark dust rose into view;The sun above them turned to lapis blue.
  • D4.4.17
    Iran’s embattled warriors saw no light,With only dust of battle in their sight.
  • D4.4.18
    Then Dara turned and fled the field that day,And all his warlike chiefs forsook the fray.
  • D4.4.19
    His beaten troops crossed Farat in their flight,And left the field where they had waged the fight.
  • D4.4.20
    Iskandar’s legions pressed the fleeing foe,One side in triumph, one consumed by woe.
  • D4.4.21
    They struck them down along the river shore,Uncounted sons of Iran breathed no more.

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