Vis and Ramin

CHAPTER XXV
VIS'S PARTING FROM MOABAD
SHE said to her nurse :
" Go, nurse, tell the glad news to Shahro, and make Viro
also glad. Take gifts and say thus to him :
'
Thy beloved
sister is come, thy love, thy brilliant sun has risen, whence
thou didst not expect it ; a sign of hope has appeared to
thee whence thou hadst no suspicion of it. Even now fate
has put away loneliness from thee.' Say :
' Two suns have
come forth from Khuarasan for thee,' and cause my mother
to rejoice, and say to her :
'
The sun is delivered 1 from the
dragon, 2 her happy fate has waked, and the precious jewel
of her race is wending hither.' Since God has delivered us
from Moabad, say I am delivered from all griefs."
Then she went to Mobad 3 and said :
" 4
Exalted monarch, be always merry, and live so that
those who love thee may rejoice ! May
God put away
thine enemies from thee ! As long as I live and have my
being I shall pray heartily for thee. Forthwith wed such
she have a hundred
a wife as may be fitting to you, and may
| handmaidens such as I am. Wed one so fair and beau- 132
tiful that whoever of thine enemies sees her may become
oppressed and blinded with envy ; may she be of exceeding
high birth, praised 8 for purity and honour, like the son
desired of all eyes, and like a spirit beloved of all. Without
thee may I live joyous, and without me may God grant
thee glory and increase thee. May He do so that it befall
i Dackhtna, 82 (shtekhtna).
Vethapi, 81. 151. B., 1186, 1176, 1208, 1896-eclipw.
3 Thus spelt In the text. Maghali, 123, 148.
8 Jfc&ttM-eulogized (Jceba, 116, 145).
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