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گفت معشوق این اگر بهر منست ** گاه وصل این عمر ضایع کردنست
- The beloved said, “If this is for my sake, (to read) this at the time of (our) meeting is to waste one's life.
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من به پیشت حاضر و تو نامه خوان ** نیست این باری نشان عاشقان
- I am here beside thee, and thou reading a letter! This, at any rate, is not the mark of (true) lovers.”
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گفت اینجا حاضری اما ولیک ** من نمی‌یایم نصیب خویش نیک 1410
- He replied, “Thou art present here, but I am not gaining my pleasure well (completely).
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آنچ می‌دیدم ز تو پارینه سال ** نیست این دم گرچه می‌بینم وصال
- That which I felt last year on account of thee is non-existent at this moment, though I am experiencing union (with thee).
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من ازین چشمه زلالی خورده‌ام ** دیده و دل ز آب تازه کرده‌ام
- I have drunk cool water from this fountain, I have refreshed eye and heart with its water.
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چشمه می‌بینم ولیکن آب نی ** راه آبم را مگر زد ره‌زنی
- I am (still) seeing the fountain, but the water is not there: maybe some brigand has waylaid (and cut off) my water.”
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گفت پس من نیستم معشوق تو ** من به بلغار و مرادت در قتو
- She said, “Then I am not thy beloved: I am in Bulghár, and the object of thy desire is in Qutú
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عاشقی تو بر من و بر حالتی ** حالت اندر دست نبود یا فتی 1415
- Thou art in love with me and (also) with a state of feeling; the state of feeling is not in thy hand (in thy possession), O youth.
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پس نیم کلی مطلوب تو من ** جزو مقصودم ترا اندرز من
- Therefore I am not the whole of that which is sought by thee; I am (only) part of the object of thy quest at the present time.
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خانه‌ی معشوقه‌ام معشوق نی ** عشق بر نقدست بر صندوق نی
- I am (only) the house of thy beloved, not the beloved (herself): (true) love is for the cash, not for the coffer (that contains it).”