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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 the[[sabif?]] 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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