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هم بدان قانع شد و از دام جست ** هیچ دامی پر و بالش را نبست
- With that (grain) it is contented, and escapes the trap: no trap confines its wings and pinions.
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وخامت کار آن مرغ کی ترک حزم کرد از حرص و هوا
- The banefulness of the action of the bird that abandons prudence from (motives of) greed and vain desire.
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باز مرغی فوق دیواری نشست ** دیده سوی دانه دامی ببست
- Again, a bird settles on a wall and fastens its eyes upon the grain in a trap.
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یک نظر او سوی صحرا می‌کند ** یک نظر حرصش به دانه می‌کشد
- Now it looks towards the open country, (while) now its greed leads it to look at the grain.
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این نظر با آن نظر چالیش کرد ** ناگهانی از خرد خالیش کرد
- This look struggles with that look and suddenly makes it (the bird) empty of wisdom.
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باز مرغی کان تردد را گذاشت ** زان نظر بر کند و بر صحرا گماشت 2865
- Again, a bird that has abandoned that vacillation turns its gaze away from that (grain) and fixes it upon the open fields.
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شاد پر و بال او بخا له ** تا امام جمله آزادان شد او
- Glad (glistening) are its wings and pinions: how goodly it is, since it has become the leader of all the free.
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هر که او را مقتدا سازد برست ** در مقام امن و آزادی نشست
- Every one who makes it his model is saved and sits in the abode of security and freedom,
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زانک شاه حازمان آمد دلش ** تا گلستان و چمن شد منزلش
- Because his heart has become the king of the prudent, so that the rosery and garden (of Paradise) has become his dwelling-place.
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حزم ازو راضی و او راضی ز حزم ** این چنین کن گر کنی تدبیر و عزم
- Prudence is pleased with him, and he pleased with Prudence: do likewise, if you would act with foresight and resolution.
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بارها در دام حرص افتاده‌ای ** حلق خود را در بریدن داده‌ای 2870
- Many a time have you fallen into the snare of greed and given up your throat to be cut;