Vis and Ramin

VIS RECEIVES RAMIN'S LETTER 247
since things were so with the nurse on account of Ramin's
speech and insult, how would it affect Vis, to whom such a
lover had insensibly become an enemy? She had sown
love, and reaped hatred ;
she had expected good, and seen
evil. The weeping messenger-nurse went to Vis, dustylipped
and smoky-hearted. She had carried a message
sweet as sugar, and she brought an answer bitter as gall
and sharp as a sword. A black cloud rained upon Vis's
heart poisoned arrow-heads 1 because Ramin had become
weary of her, and the rain of dishonour covered Vis with
the mud of enmity ;
her form was wounded with a sword,
and she was bound with the hobble 2 of mischance. Her
soul fell sick from sorrow, and she betook herself to bed.
1 Piri point.
2
Toilo, 257,420.