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میجهد خون از دهانم با سخن ** ای خدا آخر مکافاتش تو کن
- Blood gushes from my mouth together with (my) words. O God, I beseech Thee, give him the retribution (which he deserves)!”
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هر زمان میگفت او نفرین نو ** اوش میزد کاندر این صحرا بدو
- Every instant he was uttering a new curse, (while) he (the rider) kept beating him and saying, “Run in this plain.”
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زخم دبوس و سوار همچو باد ** میدوید و باز در رو میفتاد 1890
- Blows of the mace, and the rider (swift) as the wind! He (therefore) went on running and (now and) again falling on his face.
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ممتلی و خوابناک و سست بد ** پا و رویش صد هزاران زخم شد
- He was full-fed and sleepy and fatigued: his feet and face became (covered with) a hundred thousand wounds.
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تا شبانگه میکشید و میگشاد ** تا ز صفرا قی شدن بر وی فتاد
- Till nightfall he (the rider) drove (him) to and fro, until vomiting caused by bile overtook him.
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زو بر آمد خوردهها زشت و نکو ** مار با آن خورده بیرون جست از او
- All the things he had eaten, bad or good, came up from him: the snake shot forth from him along with what he had eaten.
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چون بدید از خود برون آن مار را ** سجده آورد آن نکو کردار را
- When he saw the snake outside of him, he fell on his knees before that beneficent man.
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سهم آن مار سیاه زشت زفت ** چون بدید آن دردها از وی برفت 1895
- As soon as he saw the horror of that black, ugly, big snake, those griefs departed from him.
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گفت خود تو جبرییل رحمتی ** یا خدایی که ولی نعمتی
- “Truly,” said he, “you are the Gabriel of (Divine) mercy, or you are God, for you are the lord of bounty.
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ای مبارک ساعتی که دیدیام ** مرده بودم جان نو بخشیدیام
- Oh, blest (is) the hour that you saw me: I was dead, you have given me new life.