. Stories from the Arabian nights . taking her hand he led her to theapartments of the Queen Pirouze. Here at themeeting of mother and wife a scene of the mosttender and heart-rending affliction took King himself was so moved by it that hehad not the heart to refuse to them any when they came and besought for the absentthose funeral honours which under other circum-stances would have been his due, he gaveorders for a dome of marble to be erected on theplain by which the city of Harran lies with such speed was the work put in hand,and so large was the number
. Stories from the Arabian nights . taking her hand he led her to theapartments of the Queen Pirouze. Here at themeeting of mother and wife a scene of the mosttender and heart-rending affliction took King himself was so moved by it that hehad not the heart to refuse to them any when they came and besought for the absentthose funeral honours which under other circum-stances would have been his due, he gaveorders for a dome of marble to be erected on theplain by which the city of Harran lies with such speed was the work put in hand,and so large was the number of men employedupon it, that within three days the entire buildingwas completed. On the day following the obsequies was done with the greatest solemnity andsplendour. First came the King attended byhis vizier and all the officers and lords of hispalace ; and entering the tomb, in which lay aneffigy of Codadad, they seated themselves oncarpets of mourning bordered with gold. Thenfollowed the chiefs of the army mounted upon. WICKED HALF-BROTHERS horses and bewailing the loss of him who hadled them to victory ; behind these came old menupon black mules, with long robes and flowingbeards ; and after these maidens on white horses,with heads unveiled, bearing in their handsbaskets of precious stones. Now when thesehad approached and compassed the dome threetimes about, then the King rose up to speak thedismissal of the dead. Touching with his browthe tomb whereon the effigy lay, he cried in aloud voice, O my dear son, O light of mineeyes, O joy that is lost to me for ever. Afterhim all the lords and the chiefs and the elderscame and prostrated themselves in like manner ;and when the ceremony was ended the doorsof the tomb were shut and all the people returnedto the city. Now after this there was prayer and fasting inthe mosque for eight days, and on the ninth theKing gave orders that the Princes were to be-headed. But meanwhile the neighbouring powers,whose arms the King of
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