Vis and Ramin

256 VISRAMIANI
a fire in my heart. Thou hast caused blood to flow from
mine eyes. Thou hast set me in a lake of blood, and
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drowned me in Djeon. My heart neither tells me to curse
thee nor to cry out before God. May God never let me
hear of thy grief thy grief would pain me more than thee.
Nevertheless, I shall thus write thee letters until the pen
begins to write in blood or until I see thee, for may God
not slay me until I have seen thee !"
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Djeon, 267, 431.