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Bahram Tries the Hundred Arab Steeds

Bahram Tries the Hundred Arab Steeds

From D9.2, Bahram Goor Is Born and Raised by an Arab. It illustrates D9.2.109–116:

  • D9.2.109
    He hurried out and soon again returnedWith one full hundred steeds whose mettle burned.
  • D9.2.110
    Bahram beheld them and rode on the plain,And wheeled among them, testing heart and rein.
  • D9.2.111
    Yet every horse, though fleet from side to side,Seemed wingless once the prince had climbed astride.
  • D9.2.112
    At length he chose a chestnut broad of breast,Whose wind-like feet outstripped the tested best.
  • D9.2.113
    A second, branded differently, he chose,A bay, as dread as some nahang that rose.
  • D9.2.114
    Its shoes flashed fire beneath its thundering tread,And from its ruddy breast fell drops of red.
  • D9.2.115
    Then Monzer paid what both those steeds were worth;In Kufa’s woodland lay their native earth.
  • D9.2.116
    Bold Bahram took the pair with watchful care,Bright as Azargashasp, a blazing flare.

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