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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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بر نتابد دو سخن زو هی کند ** تاب یک جرعه ندارد قی کند
- He (an old man) cannot endure two words, he cries out thereat; he cannot retain one draught, he vomits (it)—
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جز مگر پیری که از حق است مست ** در درون او حیات طیبه است 3100
- Except, to be sure, the Ancient (Pír) that is drunken with God, and in whose inward being there is “a goodly life.”