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  • تا همی‏گفت آن کلیله بی‏زبان ** چون سخن نوشد ز دمنه بی‏بیان‏
  • So that he would say, “How should Kalíla, having no language, hear words from Dimna who had no power of expression?

  • ور بدانستند لحن همدگر ** فهم آن چون کرد بی‏نطقی بشر
  • And (even) if they knew each other's accents, how should man understand it (their talk), (since it was) without any articulation?

  • در میان شیر و گاو آن دمنه چون ** شد رسول و خواند بر هر دو فسون‏
  • How did Dimna become a messenger between the lion and the ox, and cajole them both with his palaver?

  • چون وزیر شیر شد گاو نبیل ** چون ز عکس ماه ترسان گشت پیل‏ 3620
  • How did the noble ox become the vizier of the lion? How was the elephant terrified by the reflection of the moon?

  • این کلیله و دمنه جمله افتری است ** ور نه کی با زاغ لکلک را مری است‏
  • This Kalíla and Dimna is entirely fiction, or else how has the stork a quarrel with the crow?”

  • ای برادر قصه چون پیمانه‏ای است ** معنی اندر وی مثال دانه‏ای است‏
  • O brother, the story is like a measure: the real meaning in it resembles grain (in the measure).

  • دانه‏ی معنی بگیرد مرد عقل ** ننگرد پیمانه را گر گشت نقل‏
  • The man of intelligence will take the grain of meaning: he will not pay any regard to the measure, (even) if it is removed (altogether).

  • ماجرای بلبل و گل گوش دار ** گر چه گفتی نیست آن جا آشکار
  • Listen to what passes between the rose and the nightingale, though in that case there is no overt speech.

  • سخن گفتن به زبان حال و فهم کردن آن
  • On mute eloquence and the understanding of it.

  • ماجرای شمع با پروانه نیز ** بشنو و معنی گزین کن ای عزیز 3625
  • Listen to what passes between the moth and the candle, and pick out the meaning from the tale.

  • گر چه گفتی نیست سر گفت هست ** هین ببالا پر مپر چون جغد پست‏
  • Albeit there is no speech, there is the inmost soul of speech. Come, fly aloft, do not fly low, like the owl.