A scribe with paper, musk, and spicery
Approached Káús, and wrote: “I am rejoiced
And well content with this God-given fortune
And said: “If now the Judge, the only God,
Will but vouchsafe to guide me on the way,
Then by this self-same token will I shed
Afrásiyáb's own blood like water here!”
He left the spot, departing to his throne,
And communed with the holy Judge alone.