Vis and Ramin

THE ACCESSION OF RAMIN 891
knights. 1 He acquired glory and travelled to Khuarasan,
for their royal seat was the city of Marav. The cities and
land of Khuarasan were all decked, every person, female
and male, gazed upon them. All the roads were like
Paradise, every hand scattered gems and pearls at them,
and every tongue praised Vis and Ramin. They congratulated
them, and the heart of every man gazed on them with
the eye of love.
When Shahinshah entered Marav, the city seemed merry
like Paradise, and in its charms it was like the fortune and
in its loveliness like the face of Vis. A thousand kinds
of singing damsels 2 were seated and sang as many kinds of
songs, and all their songs were sliairis* in
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praise of
Ramin. They censed everywhere with aloes 6 and amber, 6
they scattered on all sides gold and silver, gems and
pearls ; under his horse's feet they spread brocade in his
honour. For three months the city was thus decked, day
and night they ceased not from merrymaking and rejoicing.
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never was Marav city so adorned, but in truth all
the cities of Khuarasan were the same.
The land had suffered much from Moabad, and by his
death all were released from woe. They
were delivered
from the injustice of Moabad, and made to rejoice by the
justice of Ramin, just as if they had all been delivered from
hell. Evil always befalls the evil-doer, and he remains
accursed to eternity. True is the saying of Khuasro 8 :
" God created evil people so that hell might not be empty ;
from that earth out of which He created them, to that
again will He bring them in the end."
When Ramin began to do justice in this way, mischance
fell asleep in the earth, peace awoke. From all sides
whither he sent his hosts they returned victorious. From
Shairi, 152,
Mutribi, 881.
165. B., 19. B.'s metro if that of the Shairi.
Sakcbari. Cf. Keba in B.
* Aha, 284. Anibari, 18, 846.
Nithatinncba, 123, 666, 707.
Khuasro, 415, 456. Damttoidtb*