Vis and Ramin

46 VISRAMIANI
forgive the other to whom she was given, and who was
rejoiced thereby. The palace of the one was adorned with
gladness, and the garden of the other was faded for lack of
the rose ; one took up a stone and struck his breast, and the
other took up a goblet and drank at will.
When Moabad's eyes were brightened by the carrying off
of Vis, and he was leading away the sun to Khuarasan, 1
faring along the road Moabad made merry, and he forgot all
the trouble he had ever seen. They went on, and when a
zephyr blew from the litter of Vis, the earth smelt sweet.
You might say the litter of Vis was a tower 2 of gold filled
with musk 3 and amber, 4 and inside was seated the sun
covered with gold-woven brocade. Sometimes from Vis's
face roses fell, sometimes musk 3 and amber. 4 Her litter
seemed like Paradise, and to all men was just as desirable.
The judgment of God, which was to exhaust joy and gladness
and increase grief, was approaching Ramin.
i 1, 45, 85.
3 Mushci, 197.
a Coshci, kiosk, 15, 120. K., 502
4 Amlari, 114, 197.