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Now every star along the purpling sky

from midnight watching winks the drowsy eye

Like youth man’s luck the yellow mantled sun

Moved forth while night retreats with beams dun

As lighting waved air alis sabre dance

The morning beams air Shames fair regions [ofance?]

In other words

It was now the time of Morning Prayer and the shick prepared to perform his orisons[.] He ordered the two bodies to be placed near each other and lifted the hands of Petition in devotion, and said[, “] Merciful and beneficent father, lord of heaven and earth[,] I trust thou in thy clemency will behold the distress of thy servant and restore the lives of these copses[!”] While he was yet speaking, they revived by the command of the author of life and both threw themselves at the feet of the Shick. The Shah chose him for his spiritual father[,] but that instant the shick vanished from the eyes of man. The Shah and Diu Faz with his wife and child then returned to the city[,] and soon after the latter was created Vizier to the great satisfaction of his sovereign and spent the rest