And from their tents the Tartar horsemen filed
Into the open plain; so Haman bade;
Haman, who next to Peran Wisa ruled
The host, and still was in his lusty prime.
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 from Caspian reed-bed, southward bound