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Shirin Unveils Before the Nobles

Shirin Unveils Before the Nobles

From E8.6, The Deaths of Shirin and Shiruyeh. It illustrates E8.6.56–62:

  • E8.6.56
    Then 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.
  • E8.6.58
    My hidden excellence was all my hair;No eye on earth had ever seen it bare.
  • E8.6.59
    This face and hair comprise my magic art;No fraud or dark enchantment played a part.”
  • E8.6.60
    No eye had seen her hair; astounded, allBit on their fingers in that silent hall.
  • E8.6.61
    When Shiruyeh saw Shirin’s face unveiled,His spirit fled him, and his senses failed.
  • E8.6.62
    He cried, “I want none but yourself as wife;Iran could give no greater gift to life.”

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