Rudaki, father of Persian poetry
A poet's song sends an emir galloping home without boots
The blind poet Rudaki served the Samanid emir Nasr II and is hailed as the founder of New Persian poetry. Legend says that when the emir lingered in Herat for years, Rudaki sang him a poem about the scent of the Muliyan stream, and he leapt on his horse for Bukhara without his boots.
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