'The dynasty of the Kajars translated from the original Persian manuscript presented by His Majesty Faty Aly Shah to Sir Harford Jones Brydges ... to which is prefixed a succinct account of the history of Persia previous to that period illustarted with plates and a map of Western Persia' [‎354] (571/684)

354 DYNASTY OF THE KAJARS.
garrison of the castle also*, who in their anxiety for
such an hour had turned night into day, and in
their eager wish for such a day had tinned dcij
into night; whose hearts, within the nanow liinits
of the fort of their bosoms, were sore pressed to meet
the Russians in battle; who, instead ot quanelling
with the Russians, quarrelled with their own fortune;
and in disappointment swallowed their blood, be
cause they had no opportunity ot hurling down the
headless bodies of the Russians from the alls, nor
of making with the stroke oi the crescent- shaped
falchion the heads of those bodies fall, like balls,
into the squares and corners ot the streets, at the feet
of those passing through them; and who, through
indignant feeling, gnawed the back ot the hand in the
cells of hope-deferred, and enveloped their heads
in the mantle of patient endurance. On witnessing
the present state of affairs, so intensely eagei were
they for battle and for hazardous exploits and head
scattering, that one could only liken it to the \ita
spark returning to an inanimate corpse, 01 the
optic nerve restored to a darkened eye-ball. I 11
one instant, on every side along the bastions an
curtains of the castle, they grasped the high)
tempered dagger, the blood-shedding sword, an
the fire-showering musket: they drew out their lines,
and, well prepared for the fight, anxious foi
encounter, with lips closed against muttering 0
clamour, and a fixed purpose to catch the prey,t e }
crouched like lions in ambuscade ; until the ^ 10
* I do not hold myself responsible for the sense of this p
or play on words; but I have not thought it right to distui