Kharrad Unmasks the Weeping Talisman

From E6.19, The Mystery of Caesar’s Talisman. It illustrates E6.19.46–57 (to E6.19.58):

E6.19.46
Since those great nobles failed, he next addressedKharrad, whose piercing thought surpassed the best.
E6.19.47
Caesar then said, “From Ardeshir’s great lineYou come; perhaps her voice will give a sign.”
E6.19.48
He sent him to the mourner from the court,With one attendant trusted for support.
E6.19.49
Kharrad arrived and studied her array,Her crown, her face, and how she sat that day.
E6.19.50
The guileful talisman bowed down to greet;Kharrad watched closely from her head to feet.
E6.19.51
He marked the servants standing all around,Then spoke at length, but heard from her no sound.
E6.19.52
That scion of the chiefs grew full of thought:“Can grief explain the signs my eye has caught?
E6.19.53
If grief had robbed her reason and her will,Why are her servants also silent still?
E6.19.54
If these are tears that truly fill her eyes,Her passion should abate beneath the skies.
E6.19.55
She lets the drops fall always on one place;Her hand repeats its course before her face.
E6.19.56
No other part has stirred, no foot has strayed;The same stiff gesture, endlessly replayed.
E6.19.57
Were life within this form, its tears would stray,Or else its hand would move another way.