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چونی ای عیسای عیسی دم ز رنج ** که نبود اندر جهان بیمار گنج
- How art thou as to affliction, O thou Jesus who hast the (healing) breath of Jesus? For there never was in the world a treasure without a snake.
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چونی ای عیسی ز دیدار جهود ** چونی ای یوسف ز مکار حسود
- How art thou, O Jesus, at the sight of the Jews? How art thou, O Joseph, in respect of the envious plotter?
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تو شب و روز از پی این قوم غمر ** چون شب و روزی مدد بخشای عمر
- Night and day for the sake of this foolish people thou, like night and day, art a replenisher of life.
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چونی از صفراییان بیهنر ** چه هنر زاید ز صفرا درد سر 1865
- How art thou in regard to those bilious ones who are without excellence? What excellence is born from bile? Headache.
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تو همان کن که کند خورشید شرق ** ما نفاق و حیله و دزدی و زرق
- Do thou the same thing as the sun of the east does: we are hypocrisy and craft and thieving and dissimulation.
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تو عسل ما سرکه در دنیا و دین ** دفع این صفرا بود سرکنگبین
- Thou art honey, we are vinegar in (the affairs of) this world and in religion; the (means of) removing this bile is oxymel.
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سرکه افزودیم ما قوم زحیر ** تو عسل بفزا کرم را وامگیر
- We folk who suffer from colic have added more and more vinegar; do thou add more and more honey, withhold not thy bounty.
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این سزید از ما چنان آمد ز ما ** ریگ اندر چشم چه فزاید عما
- This was meet in us; such (acts naturally) issued from us: what is increased by sand in the eye? Blindness.
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آن سزد از تو أیا کحل عزیز ** که بیابد از تو هر ناچیز چیز 1870
- (But) ’tis meet in thee, O precious collyrium, that every nothing should gain from thee something.
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ز آتش این ظالمانت دل کباب ** از تو جمله اهد قومی بد خطاب
- Thy heart is roasted by the fire of these unrighteous men, (yet) all thy appeal (to God) has been, “Guide my people!”