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560-569

  • زین سپس پستان تو آب از آسمان ** چون ندیدی تو وفا در ناودان 560
  • Henceforth take thou the water (that comes) from Heaven, forasmuch as thou hast not found faithfulness in the aqueduct.
  • معدن دنبه نباشد دام گرگ ** کی شناسد معدن آن گرگ سترگ
  • The lure to catch the wolf is (the sheep’s tail; it is) not the place (shop) where the sheep’s tail came from: how should that fierce wolf know the place of provenance?
  • زر گمان بردند بسته در گره ** می‌شتابیدند مغروران به ده
  • They (the Khwaja and his family) imagined (that they would be) gold tied in knots, (so) the deluded (party) were making haste to (reach) the countryside.
  • همچنین خندان و رقصان می‌شدند ** سوی آن دولاب چرخی می‌زدند
  • Thus were they going alone, laughing and dancing and caracoling towards the water-wheel.
  • چون همی‌دیدند مرغی می‌پرید ** جانب ده صبر جامه می‌درید
  • Whenever they saw a bird flying in the direction of the country, (their) patience rent its garments;
  • هر که می‌آمد ز ده از سوی او ** بوسه می‌دادند خوش بر روی او 565
  • (And) they would kiss joyfully the face of any one who came from the country, from his (the countryman’s) neighbourhood,
  • گر تو روی یار ما را دیده‌ای ** پس تو جان را جان و ما را دیده‌ای
  • Saying, “You have seen the face of our friend, therefore to the (beloved) Soul you are (as) the soul, and to us (as) the eye.”
  • نواختن مجنون آن سگ را کی مقیم کوی لیلی بود
  • How Majnún petted the dog that lived in Layla's abode.
  • همچو مجنون کو سگی را می‌نواخت ** بوسه‌اش می‌داد و پیشش می‌گداخت
  • (They behaved) like Majnún, who was (seen) petting a dog and kissing it and melting (with fondness) before it:
  • گرد او می‌گشت خاضع در طواف ** هم جلاب شکرش می‌داد صاف
  • He was pacing round it, stooping humbly in circumambulation; he was also giving it pure sugar-julep (to drink).
  • بوالفضولی گفت ای مجنون خام ** این چه شیدست این که می‌آری مدام
  • An idle talker said, “O half-baked Majnún, what hypocrisy is this that thou art always displaying?