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FA RIZADE, SMILE OF THE ROSE
By J. C. MARDRUS
There lived a Persian king named
Khosrou-Schah, to whom the dis
poser had given goodness, youth,
beauty. In him there was such a
sense of Justness that during his
reign the tiger and the horse walk
ed side by side and drank of the
same waters.
This king was accustomed to take
walks by night, disguised, in com
pany with one of the diguitar >s ot
the palace, in order that h ’night
gee what went on among hi sub
a/'ts and cure any evils of j. ivern
f wit.
’ One night as he passed through a
quarter of the city inhabited with
poor people, he stopped before the
door of a house, from which he heard
the voices of young girls, and look
ing through an opening in the door
he saw three young girls, who, their
repast ended, were seated at the ta
ble in conversation.
These three young girls were fault
lessly beautiful, but the youngest ap
peared the most beautiful.
The first said:
"My wish is to become the wife of
the pastry cook of the Sultan, bts
cause you know how 1 love pastries,
and above all those delicious puffs,
which we call the puffs of the Sul
tan. But there is only the chief pas
try cook of the Sultain who can
make them.”
And the second said:
"1 am not so ambitious. I would
content myself simply with becom
ing the wife of the chef of the Sul
tan. I could then taste all the won
derful dishes which are only eaten
in the palace. There is, above all,
the dish of cucumbers stuffed and
cooked in the oven. I would not for
get from time to time to give you
some, if my husband would permit
me."
Then the wto sisters turned to the
youngest, who had remained silent,
and bade her express her desires.
But she lowered her eyes and refus
ed to speak for a time, until at length
she, blushing, said in a voice soft
and like running water:
"Oh, my sisters, I wish to become
the wife of the Sultan, and the sons
which Allah would permit to be born
i. our un.on would be wor’hy of their
father, and the daughter whom 1
would love to have, would have the
smile of the skies, her hair would
he golden on one side and silver on
the other; her tears, if she cried,
would be so many pearls falling; her
laugh, if she laughed, would sound
like the tinkling of gold, and there
would be as many rosebuds on her
lips as could bloom.”
The Sultan and his vizier, amused
to the extreme, departed without hear
ing further.
But the Sultan felt within him a de
sire to see all these wishes come to
pass, and ordered the vizier to mark
the house well. The next day he di
rected the vizier to go and get the
three girls and bring them to him.
The three girls were brought to him
and he made one the wife of the chief
pastry cook and the other the wife of
the chef of the palace and the young
cst he took by the hand and placed
her on the throne by his side. And
the manage of the youngest was cel
ebrate" with surpassing splendor,
while that of the other two sisters,
according to the ordinary usages.
Thus jealousy and spite penetrated
Into the hearts of the older sisters
and from that moment they plotted
the downfall of their youngest sister
The Sultana, on her part, never
ceased to bestow on them marks of
her affection and notwithstanding
their obscure rank, received them on
the most intimate terms.
In due course of everts, the Sultana
gave birth to an infant prince, beauti
ful as the crescent of the new moon
and the two older sisters, far from
being touched with the goodness of
their younger sister, found this the
occasion which they had waited for
to torture the heart of th e young mo
ther.
They took the child without the
mother having seen it and replaced it
by a little dead dog, which they pro
duced before all th e women of the
palace.
The Sultan, at this news, at the
limit of his grief, went and closed
himself In his aparlmentß and refused
to occupy himself with the affairs of
the state. And the Smtana was
plunged in affliction.
The newlv-born was placed in a
basket by his aunts and abandoned to
the waters of the canal, which passed
the foot of the palace, and was found
by the keeper of the garden as it
floated on the water.
No children had bles J the union
of the gardener and his wife, and
thus it waß that when he had found
this beautiful child he hastened to
ills home and, giving her the child.
sal#B
"Peace upon you oh. wife Here is
the gift of the Creator. Let this
child which I bring to you be out
child."
And he told her how he had found
it floating on the waters of the canal.
And the wife of the gardener too*
the child and loved it.
The next year the poor mother gives
birth to another child, more beautiful
than the first.
And the two sisters watched with
hearts filled with hate and without
more pity than the first time they
took the child, as they had the first,
and put it in a basket In the emu
and produced In place of the child a
cat.
And Allah, who watches over the
destiny of children, put this on# also
in the care of the keeper of tho gar
dens. who took It to hts wife and they
loved this one also as their own child.
And the Sultana gave birth to a
third child.
This time it was a young princess.
And IW child met th# same fate as
the other two, and It also was rescued
by tho gardener.
But the Sultan could now no long
er restrain himself and he condemn
. ’ii‘ Sultana to death But when
W *.tid seen her before him weighed
do*n In tears and sorrow, he toog
bity on her and ordered har to be
locked up for the rest of her life.
The years passed on and when tho
three adopted children of the keeper
of the garden had attained adoles
cence they appeared wonderfully
beautiful.
The oldest they called FuiTde, the
second Farouz and the girl Farizade
And Farizade had a smile of the
sky, her hair was golden on one side
and silver on the other; her tears,
when she wept, were pearls; her
laugh, when she laughed, was
sounds of tinkling gold, and her
smiles were as rosebuds.
And thus it was that all those
who approached her when they spoke
to her, called her Farizade. Smile
of the Rose. And all marveled :U
■her beauty, her goodness and her wii
dom.
Surrounded with the affection and
respect of her foster children, the
gardeners wife having lived her al
lotted life, was called to receive the
mercy of the judge.
And the gardener could not bring
himself, In his great sorrow, to de
sire longer to live in his house, where
th»y had Jived so many happy years,
and he went and threw himself at the
feet of the Sultan and petitioned !•>
be allowed to go, and the Sultan, as
a reward for his long and faithful
service, granted him a magnificent
domain near the city, with a richly
furnished palace and a garden of pt-i
--fed art.
Here at length he also passed ints
the hands of his God.
He was mourned by his adopted
children as never father had been,
and he carried with him the secret e*
their birth, which, however, he him
self had only known imperfectly.
The two brothers and their sister
continued to live, and as they had
been raised in wisdom and simplicity.
They had no other wish than to live
in this perfect union und happiness.
One day as Farizade, according to
her custom, was walking In the gar
den, one of her servants came to he*
and told her that a good old woman
solicited the favor of resting for an
hour or two in the shadow of her gar
den, and Farizade, whose heart was
easily moved, ordered food and drink,
which she herself took to the old wo
man, desiring to be in the company
of persons of experience and learn
their words of wisdom.
After the old woman had rested for
a time she looked at the young girl
and said:
"1 have passed my life In going over
the earth and never have I rested in
a more delightful place. But I wish
you would have in this garden tho
three Incomparable things which aro
wanting. ,
Farizade was extremely astonish'd
and she requested the old woman to
Inform her what these things were.
And the old woman replied:
"The first of these three thing::,
if It was In this garden, all the birds
in this garden would come to look at
It. and having seen It would sing In
chorus. It Is tne speaking bird.
The second of thse things, if It
were in this garden, the breeze which
makes the trees sing, would stop and
llaten. and the strings of the harp
and of the guitar would become si
lent. And this is the singing treiy
Because neither the breeze of the
trees nor the strings of the harp can
render a harmony comparable to tin
concert of the millions of invisible
mouths which are In the leaves of the
singing tree.
"The third thing, if It were In thle
garden, all the waters of the garden
would stop in th'dr murmuring tra
vels and look at It. And this is the
golden water."
And Farizade cried:
"Oh, mother, where are these three
things found 1"
And the old woman said: "Tbev
are found In a place situated towards
the frontiers of India and the road
which conducts there passes directly
behind the palace which you live la
You have only to follow this roaj
twenty days, and on the twentieth
day ask the first person you meet
where the singing bird and the speak
ing tree and the golden waters are,
and this person will direct you.”
And the old woman murmured a
benediction over the young girl and
departed.
Thereafter, her garden ceased to
please Farizade, and she never ceased
to think of tnese three things and to
desire to possess them.
She at length told her brothers
what the old woman had said aiA.
they were at the limit of astonish
ment, and seeing that their sistw
was inconsolable at the want of these
three things they promised to go to
gether and find them for her.
But she would not let both of them
go, fearing that If evil should befall
them she would lose both at the same
time, and it was agreed that Farlde,
the older, should go in search o(
them.
Before he departed he gave to his
sister a knife, and told her that if
the blade became rusty she would
know that a great accident had hap
pened to him, and that if it should
become covered with blood that he
was no longer among the living.
He traveled during twenty days
and nights, and on the twentieth
day he arrived at the foot of a moun
tain, and there was a tree, under
which was seated a very old man.
The .face of this old man was hid
den under his long eyelashes and
long beard, which was thick and
white. His arms and his legs were
of an extreme thinness, and his hands
and his feet had nails of au extreme
lengih.
On being addressed by Faride the
old man attempted to respond, but
with a voice so choked with his beard
(hat Faride could not understand his
words, Faride took scissors from his
-as and cut ihe hair of the old man
and his moustach* and his nails.
And when the old man was relieved]
of these encumbrances he Bmlled and
spoke In a clear voice and said:
"I will help thee with my counsel
and my experience."
And Faride told him that he search
ed for the singing tree, the speaking
bird and the golden water."
Tho old man answered:
T know the place where those
things ran be found but the service
you have rendered me is so great that
I cannot willingly expose you to the
terrible dangers of such an enterprise
Many young men before you have
passed h- re never to return.”
But the old man seeing that he
could not persuade Faride to roturb,
put his hand in a sack, which he had
around bis body and drew therefrom
a ball of red granite.
"This will conduct you where you
wish to go. Mount your horse and
throw th.s before you and it will
roll and you will follow until It stops,
then tie your horse to this hat and
ascend the mountain of which you
see the summit from h'-re.
“On all sides you will see black
stones and you will hear voices
which are not the voices of the earth
They will«h<- voices of the invisible
and they will hurl words which will
freeze tne blood In your veins. Hut
by no means listen, because If you
turn your head while they are call
Ing you, you will be changed to one
of these stones, but. If resisting these
calls, you arrive at the summit you
will find the speaking bird, tho sing
ing tree and the golden water.”
Faride Jumped on his horse, and
with all his /orce he threw before him
the ball and the ball rolled before
hint until It earn# to the mountain
and then stopped.
Faride descended from his horse
and commenced to ascend the moun-!
tains.
At first he heard nothing, hut as
ho proceeded he saw blocks of stones
which represented human figures pet- i
rlned, and suddenly from the rocks (
a cry was heard, and this cry was
followed from right to left with olh-1
or voices of the Invisible.
On# demanded to know what he
wanted there; another said, kill him
and throw Mm down the mountain
But Faride did not allow himself
to be frightened by thtse voice* un- ]
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til at length so frightful an uproar
was raised, now on hiß right, now on
Ills left, and In front of h«m and be
hind him, that he became frightened
and forgetting the advice of the old
man, he turned his head and was im
mediately turned Into a block of stone
At the foot of the mountain, the
same thing happened to his horse
and the ball of red granite returned
to the old man.
That day Farizade, according to
her custom, looked at the knife which
she carried, and although so brtl
liant the day before it was now tar
nished and rusty and she knew that
a great misfortune had happened to
her brother.
Farizade blamed herself greatly
for having permitted her brother to
go in search of these strange tilings
but her brother Farouz attempted to
console her by announcing his pur
pose to go In search of his brother
and release him from captivity. Re
fusing to be dissuaded from this pur
pose, he gave his sister a string of
pearlß, telling her that if they chang
ed their color she would know that
the same fate had befallen him, he
started on his journey.
On the twentieth day he found the
same old man, seated in the same
place, whit told Farouz what hail hap
pened to his brother and warned him
of the dangers that v,** <1 beset him.
Farouz attempted to ascend tho
mountain but suddenly hearing the
voice of his brother, bo turned and
was likewise turned Into stone.
In her palace, Faride watched the
string of pearls and saw that one
after the other they lost their color,
and she cried:
"Oh, my brother, devoted to my ca
prices, 1 will join you.”
And forgetting her sorrows, without
delay she disguised herself as a
young man uni departed on the road
to the mountain.
On the twentieth day she met tho
old man who told her the fate which
surrounded them.
Seeing that Farizade was determin
ed to attempt, to release her brothers,
the old man said to her:
"Here, oh, daughter. Is the hall of
granite which will conduct you, but
you cannot deliver your brothers un
til you have become mlHiress of the
three marvels, and because you wish
to expose your life for the love of
your brothers and not because you de
sire to acquire these wonders I will
protect you against the call of tho
Invisible voices.”
And as he gave her the hall of
granite he also gave her two pieces
of cotton with which to fill her ears
And so It was that Farizade pass
ed safely through the horrible noises
that beset her on all sides and reach
eu the summit and silence rested on
the mountain.
Tho voice of the speaking bird was
heard, saying: "Farizade, lam your
slave.”
And Farizade delighted, forgot her
sorrows and asked the singing bird
Where she could find the singing tree
and the bird told her, and that. It
would ho sufficient to plant the
smallest brunch in order to grow a
beautiful tree that which she saw,
and Farizade went, towards the tree
and hearing the leaves sing she knew
she was In the presence of the sing
ing three, the golden water and also
the singing bird showed her
And Farizade took a crystal urn
and filled It with the golden water
And w-lth the golden cage of the
singing bird, and the branch of the
singing tree and the urn of golden
wa'er she descended the mountain,
and as she went she sprinkled the
stones with 1,.e golden water „nd all
were changed Into men and together
thdy descended the mountain where
they mounted their horses, af'er Furl
zade hod likewise delivered them.
On their way the young men de
parted. one by one, after expressing
their gratitude to Farizade, until on
the nAfht of the twentieth day. Farl
zade and her brother* arrived in their
domain.
Far'zade made haste to place tho
bird ip the garden and with her own
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hiimlH planted the branch or the sing
ing tree and tlie brunch took root and
became a beautiful tree while music
exhaled from Its branches. And she
took a drop of Water from the crystal
bowl and It, bubbled and spread Into a
sparkling stream.
zlfT'uhlMlz.yl
One dav In a path of Die forest the
two brothers met the Sultan, who
was much surgo-isol to see two noble
non of so s ilklnt an appearance
whom he did not snow and on < n
qulring of them was (111*1 with Joy
to know the sons of his faithful
servant.
The Sultan desired to know why
they had not prosi nted themselves
before him and they pleaded that
they had one slsloi whom tney lev
ed greatly and had no desire to
leave.
The Sultan was touched hv this
fraternal union and unselfishness
and the desire came to hiui to visit
them In their home
Farlzade, when she heard that tin
Sultan was on Ills wav to vlkli Up iii
was much concerned how her. to en
tertain him, and hastened lo consult
the Hpeaklng bird, who told lie.- si, •
must serve only one dish, that a por
tlori of cucumbers garnished willi
p -nrls, which Farlzade In great won
tier and fear proceeded to arrange.
’.'hr Sultan entered accompanied hy
the two brothers and they seated
themselves In the garden beneath
trees protected from the heat.. And
the llrst thing which Hlrnck the eye
of the Sultan was the stream of
golden water, which he examin'd In
udmiratlon, and suddenly he hear I
the concert of the singing tree, a.pi
he listened with delight, and th-n
the voice of the singing bird was
h**ard
And the Siiltnn thought within him
sr*lf that he would give his thornc
to live thus.
Th" dish of encumbers mil pearls
being now brought before lln- Sul
tan. Observing the pearls, he ex
claimed :
"What Innovation In tin- garnish
Ing of cucumbers and slnci whc..
have pearls replaced rl< * "
And Farlzade was on the point of
dropping the plain |i her confusion,
when the speaking bird raised bits
volte and calling to the Sultan, said:
"Oh, my Master, and si:.'- w',.</i
could the children of the Sultan In
come changed Into animal' a 'hell
bllth. Since, O. King, you have be
lleved In a thing so Incredible y>u
have not tie- right to become aston*
I shed at a thing so simple.
And Middof.lv tije lord raid to I’n
rlzsde, who, e fuc, was win d:
"Raise your veil, or Farlzade, be
fore your fa'lier,"
Fsrlzade raised her veil und hci
hair fell about h»r sboulders.
And the talking bird said:
"Votir daughter, oh King, whos
hair In golden on one side sad stive
on th u other, and pearls of Joy are
on her eyes and rose* on her lip*."
And the Sultan at Ihe same time
looked at. tho two brothers und he
recognized himself in them, and
while the Sultan was still perplexed
with emotion, Iho speaking bird re
counted rapidly tin- true history of
his children.
And after they had overcome tuelr
emotion, fl*e Sullen salil:
"Loi us go in haste to find your
mother."
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