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Page 234
... Sohrab's vaunts , not I. For what care I , though all speak Sohrab's fame ? For would that I myself had such a son , And not that one slight helpless girl I have— A son so famed , so brave , to send to war , And I to tarry with the snow ...
... Sohrab's vaunts , not I. For what care I , though all speak Sohrab's fame ? For would that I myself had such a son , And not that one slight helpless girl I have— A son so famed , so brave , to send to war , And I to tarry with the snow ...
Page 245
... Sohrab lay , Lovely in death , upon the common sand . And Rustum gazed on him with grief , and said : - " O Sohrab , thou indeed art such a son Whom Rustum , wert thou his , might well have loved . Yet here thou errest , Sohrab , or ...
... Sohrab lay , Lovely in death , upon the common sand . And Rustum gazed on him with grief , and said : - " O Sohrab , thou indeed art such a son Whom Rustum , wert thou his , might well have loved . Yet here thou errest , Sohrab , or ...
Page 246
... Sohrab's arm , the sign of Rustum's seal . It was that griffin , which of old reared Zal , Rustum's great father , whom they left to die , A helpless babe , among the mountain rocks ; Him that kind creature found , and reared , and ...
... Sohrab's arm , the sign of Rustum's seal . It was that griffin , which of old reared Zal , Rustum's great father , whom they left to die , A helpless babe , among the mountain rocks ; Him that kind creature found , and reared , and ...
Contents
PREFACE | 1 |
INTRODUCTION TO NARRATIVE POETRY | 38 |
EDMUND SPENSER | 42 |
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