ABSTRACT
That never failed gave water for canals. Beside it he set up a Fane of Fire, Eevived the feasts of Sada1 and Mihrgán,2 And round it splendid edifices raised, With pleasances and parks and palaces. (When that wise Sháh of Grace and might was dead The border-chieftain named the city Zúr). He founded villages all round about, And there he settled folk when all was ready. He saw within one quarter a deep lake, But needs must pierce a height that intervened. They brought picks and artificers, and clove The mountain with a hundred water-ways. He led them thence to Zúr. It was a seat Abounding both in dwellings and in neat.
