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آتش چه آهن چه لب ببند ** ریش تشبیه مشبه را مخند 1355
- What fire? What iron? Close your lips: do not laugh at the beard of the assimilator's simile.
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پای در دریا منه کم گوی از آن ** بر لب دریا خمش کن لب گزان
- Do not set foot in the Sea, speak not of It: on the shore of the Sea keep silence, biting your lips (in amazement).
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گر چه صد چون من ندارد تاب بحر ** لیک مینشکیبم از غرقاب بحر
- Though (one equal to) a hundred like me would not have the strength to bear the Sea, yet I cannot refrain from the drowning waters of the Sea.
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جان و عقل من فدای بحر باد ** خونبهای عقل و جان این بحر داد
- May my soul and mind be a sacrifice to the Sea: this Sea has paid the blood-price of mind and soul.
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تا که پایم میرود رانم در او ** چون نماند پا چو بطانم در او
- I will march in It as long as my feet move; when feet remain not, I am (plunged) in It, like ducks.
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بیادب حاضر ز غایب خوشتر است ** حلقه گر چه کژ بود نه بر در است 1360
- An unrespectful person present is better than one absent: though the ring be crooked, is it not on the door?
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ای تن آلوده به گرد حوض گرد ** پاک کی گردد برون حوض مرد
- O defiled in body, frequent the tank: outside of the tank, how shall a man be cleansed?
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پاک کاو از حوض مهجور اوفتاد ** او ز پاکی خویش هم دور اوفتاد
- The pure one who has been banished from the tank becomes far also from his purity.
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پاکی این حوض بیپایان بود ** پاکی اجسام کم میزان بود
- The purity of this tank is infinite; the purity of bodies is of little weight,
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ز انکه دل حوض است لیکن در کمین ** سوی دریا راه پنهان دارد این
- Because the heart (though it) is a tank, yet in ambush (out of sight) it has a hidden channel to the Sea.