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این عجب‌تر که بریشان می‌گذشت ** صد هزاران خلق از صحرا و دشت
- More wondrous (than all else) was this, that hundreds of thousands of people were passing through the desert and plain beside them,
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ز آرزوی سایه جان می‌باختند ** از گلیمی سایه‌بان می‌ساختند 2010
- Hazarding their lives (ready to sacrifice everything) in desire for shade, and making a parasol out of a woollen garment,
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سایه‌ی آن را نمی‌دیدند هیچ ** صد تفو بر دیده‌های پیچ پیچ
- And not seeing the shade of those (trees) at all. A hundred spittings on (such) distorted eyes!
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ختم کرده قهر حق بر دیده‌ها ** که نبیند ماه را بیند سها
- The wrath of God had sealed their eyes, so that he (such a one) should not see the moon, (but) should see (only) Suhá.
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ذره‌ای را بیند و خورشید نه ** لیک از لطف و کرم نومید نه
- He sees a mote, (but) not the sun; yet he is not despairing of the grace and loving kindness of God.
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کاروانها بی نوا وین میوه‌ها ** پخته می‌ریزد چه سحرست ای خدا
- The caravans are without food, and (yet) these fruits are dropping ripe (beside them): O God, what magic is this?
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سیب پوسیده همی‌چیدند خلق ** درهم افتاده بیغما خشک‌حلق 2015
- With parched throats the people, having fallen pell-mell to plunder, were gathering the rotten apples,
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گفته هر برگ و شکوفه آن غصون ** دم بدم یا لیت قوم یعلمون
- (While) every leaf and bud of those boughs said continually, ‘Oh, would that my people knew!’
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بانگ می‌آمد ز سوی هر درخت ** سوی ما آیید خلق شوربخت
- From the direction of every tree was coming the cry, ‘Come towards us, O ye folk of evil fortune,’
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بانگ می‌آمد ز غیرت بر شجر ** چشمشان بستیم کلا لا وزر
- (While) from (the Divine) jealousy there was coming to the trees the cry, ‘We have bandaged their eyes;nay, there is no refuge.’