
Barzvi Reads the Kalila
From E2.4, The Kalila and Dimna Comes to Iran. It illustrates E2.4.81–87:
- E2.4.81But you shall read it only in my sight,And set no words upon a page to write.
- E2.4.82Let none learn what you write within your heart;Read here before me till you know each part.”
- E2.4.83Barzvi replied, “O king, your words have shownThe very wish that I would call my own.”
- E2.4.84The Raja’s minister brought Kalila out;Barzvi perused it, banishing all doubt.
- E2.4.85As each new chapter opened to his view,He spent the day learning its order true.
- E2.4.86He read no more than memory could retain,And kept each passage clear within his brain.
- E2.4.87Each day he wrote a chapter out to sendIn secret to the Shah, his royal friend.
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