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و آن یکی بینی در آن دلق کهن ** چون نبات اندیشه و شکر سخن
- While you may see another in an old patched frock, his thoughts (sweet) as the sugar-cane and his words (like) sugar.
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بازگشتن به حکایت پیل
- Returning to the Story of the elephant.
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گفت ناصح بشنوید این پند من ** تا دل و جانتان نگردد ممتحن
- Said the sincere adviser, “Hearken to this counsel of mine, so that your hearts and souls may not be afflicted.
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با گیاه و برگها قانع شوید ** در شکار پیل‌بچگان کم روید
- Be content with herbage and leaves, do not go in chase of the young elephants.
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من برون کردم ز گردن وام نصح ** جز سعادت کی بود انجام نصح 140
- I have put off from my neck (I have discharged) the debt of admonition: how should the end (final result) of admonition be aught but felicity?
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من به تبلیغ رسالت آمدم ** تا رهانم مر شما را از ندم
- I came to deliver the message, that I may save you from (fruitless) repentance.
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هین مبادا که طمع رهتان زند ** طمع برگ از بیخهاتان بر کند
- Beware! Let not greed waylay you, let not greed for victual tear you up by the roots!”
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این بگفت و خیربادی کرد و رفت ** گشت قحط و جوعشان در راه زفت
- This he said, and gave a farewell and departed; their famine and hunger waxed great on the way.
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ناگهان دیدند سوی جاده‌ای ** پور پیلی فربهی نو زاده‌ای
- Suddenly, in the direction of a highroad, they espied a fat young elephant, newly born.
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اندر افتادند چون گرگان مست ** پاک خوردندش فرو شستند دست 145
- They fell upon it like furious wolves, ate it clean up, and washed their hands.
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آن یکی همره نخورد و پند داد ** که حدیث آن فقیرش بود یاد
- One of the fellow-travellers did not eat (of it) and exhorted (the others to abstain), for the sayings of that dervish were remembered by him.