THE ILIAD" AND ODYSSEY " IN "SOHRAB AND RUSTUM" 75 



Compare II. i : 349 : " Then Achilles .... sat him down apart, aloof 

 from his comrades." 



— Yet my heart forbodes 

 Danger or death. 



Compare Ody. 14 : 219 : " My swelling heart cast not a look on death." 

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And o'er his chilly limbs his woolen coat 

 He pass'd, and tied his sandals on his feet, 

 And threw a white cloak round him, and he took 

 In his right hand a ruler's staff, no sword. 



Compare II. 10: 21 ff. : "Then he rose and did on his doublet about his 

 breast, and beneath his shining feet he bound on fair sandals, and there- 

 after clad him in a tawny skin of a lion fiery and great, a skin that 

 reached to the feet, and he grasped his spear." 



From their black tents, long files of horse, they stream'd; 



As when some grey November morn the files, 



In marching order spread, of long neck'd cranes 



Stream over Casbin and the southern slopes 



Of Elburz, from the Aralian estuaries, 



Or some frore Caspian reed-bed, southward bound 



For the warm Persian sea-board — so they stream'd. 



These verses have much in common with //. 2:459 ff. : "And as the 

 many tribes of feathered birds, wild geese or cranes or long-necked 

 swans, on the Asian mead by Kaystrios' stream, fly hither and thither 

 joying in their plumage, and with loud cries settle ever onwards, and the 

 mead resounds; even so poured forth the many tribes of warriors from 

 ships and huts into the Skamandrian plain." , 

 Pages 69 f . : 



As, in a country, on a morn in June, 

 When the dew glistens on the pearled ears, 

 A shiver runs through the deep corn for joy — 

 So, when they heard what Peran-Wisa said, 

 A thrill through all the Tartar squadron ran 

 Of pride and hope for Sohrab, whom they loved. 



Compare II. 23 : 597 ff. : " And his heart was gladdened as when the dew 

 cometh upon the ears of ripening harvest-corn, what time the fields are 



