گر بیاماسد مرا دست و شکم ** عشق آب از من نخواهد گشت کم
If my hands and belly become swollen, (yet) the passionate desire for the water will not abate (and depart) from me.
گویم آنگه که بپرسند از بطون ** کاشکی بحرم روان بودی درون
At the time when they ask me of my inward state, I say, ‘Would that the Sea were flowing within me!’
خیک اشکم گو بدر از موج آب ** گر بمیرم هست مرگم مستطاب
Let the water-skin, my belly, be burst by the waves of the water: if I die, my death is acceptable.
من بهر جایی که بینم آب جو ** رشکم آید بودمی من جای او
Wherever I see the water of a stream, jealousy comes over me (and I wish) that I might be in its place.
دست چون دف و شکم همچون دهل ** طبل عشق آب می‌کوبم چو گل3890
(With) hands (swollen) like a tambourine and belly like a drum, I am beating the drum of (I am proclaiming) my love for the water, as the rose (does).
گر بریزد خونم آن روح الامین ** جرعه جرعه خون خورم همچون زمین
If that Trusty Spirit spill my blood, I will drink draught on draught of blood, like the earth.
چون زمین وچون جنین خون‌خواره‌ام ** تا که عاشق گشته‌ام این کاره‌ام
I am a blood-drinker, like the earth and like the embryo: (ever) since I became a lover I am (engaged) in this trade.
شب همی‌جوشم در آتش همچو دیگ ** روز تا شب خون خورم مانند ریگ
During the night I boil on the fire, like a kettle; (all) day till nightfall I drink blood, like the sand.
من پشیمانم که مکر انگیختم ** از مراد خشم او بگریختم
I repent that I set contrivance afoot (in order to escape) and fled from that which his anger desired.
گو بران بر جان مستم خشم خویش ** عید قربان اوست و عاشق گاومیش3895
Let him drive on (let him not restrain) his anger against my intoxicated soul: he is the Feast of the Sacrifice, and the lover is the buffalo (for slaughter).