ABSTRACT

To this poor home of ours.” Bahrám replied :—

“ Good friend ! I give to thee this march, the land, And village. Be thou ever hospitable ; Be that, and give up garden-work.”

He spake, And laughing left the house, gat on his steed

C. 1517 Wind-footed, and from that poor village reached His jewelled halls. The nobles of Írán Went thither for the chase, three hundred strong, And each with thirty servants in his train Of Turkman, Rúman, or of Persian strain.