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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.’
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گر کسی می‌گفتشان کین سو روید ** تا ازین اشجار مستسعد شوید
- If any one had said to them ‘Go in this direction, that ye may be made happy by these trees,’
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جمله می‌گفتند کین مسکین مست ** از قضاء الله دیوانه شدست 2020
- They all would have said, ‘By Divine destiny this poor intoxicated wretch has become mad:
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مغز این مسکین ز سودای دراز ** وز ریاضت گشت فاسد چون پیاز
- Through long melancholy and through austerities the brain of this poor wretch has turned putrid, like an onion.’
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او عجب می‌ماند یا رب حال چیست ** خلق را این پرده و اضلال چیست
- He would have remained in astonishment, saying, ‘O Lord, what is the matter? What is this veil (blindness) and misguidance that is upon the people?’
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خلق گوناگون با صد رای و عقل ** یک قدم آن سو نمی‌آرند نقل
- The people of every sort, (though endowed) with manifold discernment and understanding, do not move a foot in that direction.