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چون سگ صیاد جنبان کرده دم ** سنگ را می‌کرد ریگ او زیر سم
- Like the hunter's dog, wagging its tail: it made the stones (crumble as) sand beneath its hoof.
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سنگ و آهن را بدم در می‌کشید ** خرد می‌خایید آهن را پدید
- With its breath it drew in stone and iron (to its jaws) and visibly chewed the iron into small fragments.
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در هوا می‌کرد خود بالای برج ** که هزیمت می‌شد از وی روم و گرج
- In the air it was making itself (rise) above the zodiac, so that Greeks and Georgians would flee from it in panic.
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کفک می‌انداخت چون اشتر ز کام ** قطره‌ای بر هر که زد می‌شد جذام
- From its palate it cast out foam, like a camel: whomsoever a drop hit, he was smitten with tubercular leprosy.
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ژغژغ دندان او دل می‌شکست ** جان شیران سیه می‌شد ز دست 1105
- The gnashing of its teeth would break the heart; the souls of black lions would be distraught (with terror).
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چون به قوم خود رسید آن مجتبی ** شدق او بگرفت باز او شد عصا
- When that chosen one (Moses) reached his kinsfolk, he took hold of the corner of its mouth, and it became again a staff.
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تکیه بر وی کرد و می‌گفت ای عجب ** پیش ما خورشید و پیش خصم شب
- He leaned upon it, saying, “O wonder! to me (’tis clear as) the sun, to my enemy (’tis dark as) night.
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ای عجب چون می‌نبیند این سپاه ** عالمی پر آفتاب چاشتگاه
- O wonder! How doth this host not see a whole world filled with the morning sun?
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چشم باز و گوش باز و این ذکا ** خیره‌ام در چشم‌بندی خدا
- Eyes open, and ears open, and this sun! I am amazed at God's eye-bandaging.
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من ازیشان خیره ایشان هم ز من ** از بهاری خار ایشان من سمن 1110
- I am amazed at them, and they too at me: (we are) from one springtime, (but) they are thorns and I am jasmine.