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  • پادشاهی این شنید از صادقی ** بر درخت و میوه‏اش شد عاشقی‏
  • A king heard this (tale) from a veracious person: he became a lover of the tree and its fruit.
  • قاصدی دانا ز دیوان ادب ** سوی هندستان روان کرد از طلب‏
  • From the Divan of culture he sent an intelligent envoy to India in search (of it).
  • سالها می‏گشت آن قاصد از او ** گرد هندستان برای جستجو 3645
  • For (many) years his envoy wandered about India in quest (of the tree).
  • شهر شهر از بهر این مطلوب گشت ** نه جزیره ماند و نه کوه و نه دشت‏
  • He roamed from town to town for this object: neither island nor mountain nor plain was left (unvisited).
  • هر که را پرسید کردش ریشخند ** کاین که جوید جز مگر مجنون بند
  • Every one whom he asked made a mock of him, saying, “Who would search after this, unless perhaps a madman in confinement?”
  • بس کسان صفعش زدند اندر مزاح ** بس کسان گفتند ای صاحب فلاح‏
  • Many slapped him jocosely; many said, “O fortunate man,
  • جستجوی چون تو زیرک سینه صاف ** کی تهی باشد کجا باشد گزاف‏
  • How should the enquiry of a clever and clear-minded person like you be devoid (of result)? How should it be vain?”
  • وین مراعاتش یکی صفعی دگر ** وین ز صفع آشکارا سخت‏تر 3650
  • And this (ironical) respect was to him another slap, and it was harder (to bear) than the visible slap.
  • می‏ستودندش به تسخر کای بزرگ ** در فلان اقلیم بس هول و سترگ‏
  • They extolled him sarcastically, saying, “O great sir, in such and such a very tremendous and huge country,
  • در فلان بیشه درختی هست سبز ** بس بلند و پهن و هر شاخیش گبز
  • In such and such a forest there is a green tree, very tall and broad, and every branch of it is big.”