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- As he who with attentive ear
- awaits the crier’s voice to hear
- announced that fasting days expire
- So sits Shah with keen desire
- His eager eyes incessant roam
- Towards the portals of your dome
- Gheti afroz said let him come with all possible speed Melech Mahommed instantly returned to the court of the Shah and reported that his presence was [expitched?] anu Shah ordered his drums to beat and trumpets to play and his army to assemble. He then dressed himself in thesabif? of a cavalier and ordered his [harsemer?] to blow their bugles
- So loud the shrilling bugles play
- That hearts of warriors melt away
- By brazen drums resounding hoarse
- The sun is startled in his course
- The Marshals in every street arranged the army numerous as the waves of the ocean and when the whole was compleated the Shah mounted on horseback A poet thus described his steed,
- On a course swift and strong
- He like a tempest rushed along
- Swift as the breeze the fiery horse
- Yet smooth as water in its course
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