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گر چنان گند آزتان ننگیختی ** جرعهای بر گورتان حق ریختی 4290
- If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a draught (of that Water) on your graves.”
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نه بگیرم گفت و پند آن حکیم ** دل نگردانم بهر طعنی سقیم
- Nay; I will accept the rede and counsel of the Sage (of Ghazna): I will not let my heart be sickened (wounded) by every taunt.
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مثل زدن در رمیدن کرهی اسپ از آب خوردن به سبب شخولیدن سایسان
- Parable of the foal's refusing to drink the water because of the bawling of the grooms.
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آنک فرمودست او اندر خطاب ** کره و مادر همیخوردند آب
- As he has said in his discourse, the foal and its mother were drinking the water.
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میشخولیدند هر دم آن نفر ** بهر اسپان که هلا هین آب خور
- Those persons (the grooms) were bawling incessantly at the horses, “Come on! Hey, drink!”
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آن شخولیدن به کره میرسید ** سر همی بر داشت و از خور میرمید
- (The noise of) that bawling reached the foal: it was lifting its head and refusing to drink.
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مادرش پرسید کای کره چرا ** میرمی هر ساعتی زین استقا 4295
- Its mother asked, “O foal, why art thou always refusing to drink this water?”
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گفت کره میشخولند این گروه ** ز اتفاق بانگشان دارم شکوه
- The foal said, “These people are bawling: I am afraid of the occurrence of their shouts.
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پس دلم میلرزد از جا میرود ** ز اتفاق نعره خوفم میرسد
- Therefore my heart is trembling and jumping: dread of the occurrence of the outcry is coming on me.”
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گفت مادر تا جهان بودست ازین ** کارافزایان بدند اندر زمین
- The mother said, “Ever since the world existed, there have been busybodies of this sort on the earth.”
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هین تو کار خویش کن ای ارجمند ** زود کایشان ریش خود بر میکنند
- Hark, do your own business, O worthy man: soon will they tear their beards (in sorrow).