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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.
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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).
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سالها میگشت آن قاصد از او ** گرد هندستان برای جستجو 3645
- For (many) years his envoy wandered about India in quest (of the tree).
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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).
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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?”
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بس کسان صفعش زدند اندر مزاح ** بس کسان گفتند ای صاحب فلاح
- Many slapped him jocosely; many said, “O fortunate man,
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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?”
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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.
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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,
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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.”