
Shirin Unveils Before the Nobles
From E8.6, The Deaths of Shirin and Shiruyeh. It illustrates E8.6.56–62:
- E8.6.56Then she unveiled her face before them all;Her musky hair in waves began to fall.
- E8.6.57“This is the third: my face, now shown to you;Speak out if what I said has been untrue.
- E8.6.58My hidden excellence was all my hair;No eye on earth had ever seen it bare.
- E8.6.59This face and hair comprise my magic art;No fraud or dark enchantment played a part.”
- E8.6.60No eye had seen her hair; astounded, allBit on their fingers in that silent hall.
- E8.6.61When Shiruyeh saw Shirin’s face unveiled,His spirit fled him, and his senses failed.
- E8.6.62He cried, “I want none but yourself as wife;Iran could give no greater gift to life.”
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