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پس تو ای ادبار رو هم نان مخور ** تا نیفتی همچو او در شور و شر
- Go, then, O ill-fated man, do not eat bread at all, lest thou fall like him into bale and woe!
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صد هزاران خلق نانها می‌خورند ** زور می‌یابند و جان می‌پرورند
- Hundreds of thousands of folk are eating loaves of bread and gaining strength and nourishing the (vital) spirit.
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تو بدان نادر کجا افتاده‌ای ** گر نه محرومی و ابله زاده‌ای 4795
- How hast thou fallen into that rare (calamity), unless thou art deprived (of blessedness) and art born a fool?
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این جهان پر آفتاب و نور ماه ** او بهشته سر فرو برده به چاه
- He (the ill-fated man) has forsaken this world full of sunshine and moonlight and has plunged his head into the pit,
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که اگر حقست پس کو روشنی ** سر ز چه بردار و بنگر ای دنی
- Saying, “If it is true, then where is the radiance?” Lift up thy head from the pit and look, O miserable wretch!
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جمله عالم شرق و غرب آن نور یافت ** تا تو در چاهی نخواهد بر تو تافت
- The whole world, east and west, obtained that light, (but) whilst thou art in the pit it will not shine upon thee.
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چه رها کن رو به ایوان و کروم ** کم ستیز اینجا بدان کاللج شوم
- Leave the pit, go to the palace and the vineyards; do not wrangle here, know that quarrelling is unlucky.
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هین مگو کاینک فلانی کشت کرد ** در فلان سالی ملخ کشتش بخورد 4800
- Beware! Do not say, “Mark you, such and such a one sowed seed, and in such and such a year the locusts devoured what he had sown.
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پس چرا کارم که اینجا خوف هست ** من چرا افشانم این گندم ز دست
- Why, then, should I sow? for there is danger in this respect. Why should I scatter this corn(-seed) from my hand?”
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و آنک او نگذاشت کشت و کار را ** پر کند کوری تو انبار را
- And (meanwhile) he who did not neglect to sow and labour fills his barn (with grain), to your confusion.