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... Persians and Tartars , hear ! Let there be truce between the hosts to - day . But choose a champion from the Persian lords To fight our champion Sohrab , man to man . ' As , in the country , on a morn in June , When the dew glistens on ...
... Persians and Tartars , hear ! Let there be truce between the hosts to - day . But choose a champion from the Persian lords To fight our champion Sohrab , man to man . ' As , in the country , on a morn in June , When the dew glistens on ...
Page 296
... Persians held their breath with fear . And to Ferood his brother chiefs came up To counsel : Gudurz and Zoarrah came , And Feraburz , who ruled the Persian host Second , and was the uncle of the King : These came and counselled ; and ...
... Persians held their breath with fear . And to Ferood his brother chiefs came up To counsel : Gudurz and Zoarrah came , And Feraburz , who ruled the Persian host Second , and was the uncle of the King : These came and counselled ; and ...
Page 299
... Persian host appeared . And all the Persians knew him , and with shouts Hailed ; but the Tartars knew not who he was . And dear as the wet diver to the eyes Of his pale wife who waits and weeps on shore , By sandy Bahrein , in the Persian ...
... Persian host appeared . And all the Persians knew him , and with shouts Hailed ; but the Tartars knew not who he was . And dear as the wet diver to the eyes Of his pale wife who waits and weeps on shore , By sandy Bahrein , in the Persian ...
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