quired; Whereat he answered, that the gipsy- For most, I know, thou lov'st retirèd crew, ground! 1 fireside bench. 2 small, flat-bottomed boat. 80 Was hushed, and still the men were plunged in sleep; Sohrab alone, he slept not: all night long 5 He had lain wakeful, tossing on his bed; But when the gray dawn stole into his tent, He rose, and clad himself, and girt his sword, And took his horseman's cloak, and left his tent, And went abroad into the cold wet fog, 10 Through the dim camp to Peran-Wisa's tent. Through the black Tartar tents he passed, which stood Clustering like bee-hives on the low flat strand Of Oxus, where the summer-floods o'erflow When the sun melts the snows in high Pamere: 15 And Sohrab came there, and went in, Where host meets host, and many names and stood Upon the thick piled carpets in the tent, 25 And found the old man sleeping on his bed are sunk; But of a single combat fame speaks clear." He spoke; and Peran-Wisa took the hand Of rugs and felts, and near him lay his Of the young man in his, and sighed, and |