Yazdegard Leaves Baghdad

From E10.5, Yazdegard Withdraws to Khorasan. It illustrates E10.5.46–57 (to E10.5.62):

E10.5.46
He stayed that night; and when the morning shone,The nobles left Baghdad with many a groan.
E10.5.47
He set his face toward Khorasan’s plain,And counted little all the road and pain.
E10.5.48
The chieftains of Iran, with sorrow bowed,Accompanied their Shah among the crowd.
E10.5.49
They blessed him, saying, “May the earth and timeStill know your royal presence in its prime.”
E10.5.50
The army wailed with grief to see him go;Landholders, high-born men, came in their woe.
E10.5.51
“If we should lose our Shah, how can the heartFind joy in home or country set apart?
E10.5.52
We leave our homes, our children, and our gold,To share your burdens on the road you hold.
E10.5.53
Without your throne our lives are nothing worth;May Fortune never cast you from the earth.
E10.5.54
We all will go and wait for Time to showWhat games it plays amid the battle’s flow.”
E10.5.55
Then eloquent Iranians, face to ground,Spoke from the dust, with grief in every sound:
E10.5.56
“We left our thriving homes and thought to findThe world beneath your shelter, safe and kind.
E10.5.57
Now, broken-hearted, to the Khan we go;From Iran toward Turan, weighed down with woe.”