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  • گفت از پیری است آن ضعف دماغ ** گفت بر چشمم ز ظلمت هست داغ‏
  • The doctor replied, “That weakness of brain is from age.” Said the old man, “There are spots of darkness on my eyes.”
  • گفت از پیری است ای شیخ قدیم ** گفت پشتم درد می‏آید عظیم‏ 3090
  • “It is from age, O ancient Shaykh,” said the doctor. “Awful pain comes in my back,” said he.
  • گفت از پیری است ای شیخ نزار ** گفت هر چه می‏خورم نبود گوار
  • “It is from age, O emaciated Shaykh” said the doctor. “Whatever I eat,” said he, “is not digested.”
  • گفت ضعف معده هم از پیری است ** گفت وقت دم مرا دم گیری است‏
  • The doctor replied, “Weakness of stomach also is (the result) of age.” Said he, “When I breathe, respiration is hard for me.”
  • گفت آری انقطاع دم بود ** چون رسد پیری دو صد علت شود
  • “Yes,” he said, “it is asthma*; when old age arrives, two hundred diseases come on.”
  • گفت ای احمق بر این بر دوختی ** از طبیبی تو همین آموختی‏
  • “O fool,” he exclaimed, “you have stuck at this: this is all that you have learned of medicine.
  • ای مدمغ عقلت این دانش نداد ** که خدا هر رنج را درمان نهاد 3095
  • O crack-brained man, your intellect has not given you this knowledge, that God hath appointed a remedy for every pain.
  • تو خر احمق ز اندک مایگی ** بر زمین ماندی ز کوته‏پایگی‏
  • You, stupid ass, from poorness of ability have remained (fallen) on the ground for want of a sufficient foothold.”
  • پس طبیبش گفت ای عمر تو شصت ** این غضب وین خشم هم از پیری است‏
  • Then the doctor said to him, “O sexagenarian, this anger and this choler are also from old age.
  • چون همه اوصاف و اجزا شد نحیف ** خویشتن‏داری و صبرت شد ضعیف‏
  • Since all the functions and parts (of your body) are atrophied, your self-control and patience have become weak.”