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جمله ادراکات بر خرهای لنگ ** او سوار باد پران چون خدنگ
- All perceptions are (mounted) on lame asses; He is mounted on the wind that flies like an arrow.
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گر گریزد کس نیابد گرد شه ** ور گریزند او بگیرد پیش ره
- If He flee, none (of them) finds the dust of the King; and if they flee, He bars the way in front (of them).
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جمله ادراکات را آرام نی ** وقت میدانست وقت جام نی
- All the perceptions are unquiet: it is the time for battle, not the time for the (festal) cup.
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آن یکی وهمی چو بازی می‌پرد ** وآن دگر چون تیر معبر می‌درد
- One perceptive faculty is flying like a falcon, while another, (swift) as an arrow, is tearing its place of passage;
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وان دگر چون کشتی با بادبان ** وآن دگر اندر تراجع هر زمان 3725
- And another is like a ship with sails, and another is turning back every moment.
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چون شکاری می‌نمایدشان ز دور ** جمله حمله می‌فزایند آن طیور
- When an object of chase appears to them from afar, all those birds (the perceptions) increase (the speed of) their onset.
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چونک ناپیدا شود حیران شوند ** همچو جغدان سوی هر ویران شوند
- When it vanishes from sight, they become lost: like owls, they go to every wilderness,
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منتظر چشمی به هم یک چشم باز ** تا که پیدا گردد آن صید به ناز
- Waiting, with one eye closed and one eye open, that the delectable prey may appear.
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چون بماند دیر گویند از ملال ** صید بود آن خود عجب یا خود خیال
- When it tarries long, they say (from weariness), “We wonder whether it was a (real) prey or a phantom.”
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مصلحت آنست تا یک ساعتی ** قوتی گیرند و زور از راحتی 3730
- The right course is that, for a short while, they should gather come strength and vigour by (taking) a rest.