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Barzvi Strews Herbs on the Dead
Book E2 · Chess, Wisdom, and the Kalila and Dimna

Barzvi Strews Herbs on the Dead

From E2.4, The Kalila and Dimna Comes to Iran. It illustrates E2.4.40–45:

  • E2.4.40
    On foot Barzvi searched every mountain slope;His learned guides went with him, filled with hope.
  • E2.4.41
    He gathered herbs both dried and fresh with dew,The green, the withered, every kind he knew.
  • E2.4.42
    He ground the herbs, then scattered what he madeUpon the lifeless bodies there displayed.
  • E2.4.43
    No corpse revived, though every herb was tried;Each healing virtue withered up and died.
  • E2.4.44
    The seekers climbed each ridge and searched each slope;Their toil brought back no fruit and left no hope.
  • E2.4.45
    Then Barzvi knew, “This power is God’s to own;He lives forever on His deathless throne.”
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