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Golnar Brings the Treasure for Flight

Golnar Brings the Treasure for Flight

From D6.5, Golnar Falls in Love with Ardeshir. It illustrates D6.5.59–68:

  • D6.5.59
    She left the palace like an arrow’s flight,And brought the gems to Ardeshir that night.
  • D6.5.60
    He held a cup; his grooms were all asleep,And wine had sunk them into slumber deep.
  • D6.5.61
    For Ardeshir had plied them all with wine,Since he must flee in secret by design.
  • D6.5.62
    He chose two noble steeds, the finest bred,Now saddled at the manger where they fed.
  • D6.5.63
    He saw Golnar, and saw the jewels she bore;The ruddy dinars gleamed among her store.
  • D6.5.64
    He said, “We must be gone; we cannot stay;No longer here; now we must ride away.
  • D6.5.65
    May we escape this dragon’s claws and go,And save our youthful lives from all this woe.”
  • D6.5.66
    He put the cup aside, his purpose steady;He bridled both the Arab steeds, made ready,
  • D6.5.67
    Put on his khaftan, mounted, helmed, alert,And with a poison-watered blade was girt.
  • D6.5.68
    She mounted on the other steed to ride;Together they departed, side by side.

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