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رفت شاعر پیش آن شاه و ببرد ** شعر اندر شکر احسان کان نمرد 1200
- The poet went to the king and brought a poem in thanks (and praise) for (his) beneficence, saying that it (beneficence) never died.
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محسنان مردند و احسانها بماند ** ای خنک آن را که این مرکب براند
- The beneficent died, and (their) acts of beneficence remained: oh, blest is he that rode this steed!
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ظالمان مردند و ماند آن ظلمها ** وای جانی کو کند مکر و دها
- The unjust died, and those acts of injustice remained: alas for the soul that practises deceit and fraud!
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گفت پیغامبر خنک آن را که او ** شد ز دنیا ماند ازو فعل نکو
- The Prophet said, “Blest is he who departed from this world and left good deeds behind him.”
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مرد محسن لیک احسانش نمرد ** نزد یزدان دین و احسان نیست خرد
- The beneficent man died, but his beneficence died not: with God, religion (piety) and beneficence are not of small account.
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وای آنکو مرد و عصیانش نمود ** تا نپنداری به مرگ او جان ببرد 1205
- Alas for him who died and whose disobedience (to God) died not: beware of thinking that by death he saved his soul (from punishment).
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این رها کن زانک شاعر بر گذر ** وام‌دارست و قوی محتاج زر
- Dismiss this (topic), for the poet is on the way—in debt and mightily in need of gold.
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برد شاعر شعر سوی شهریار ** بر امید بخشش و احسان پار
- The poet brought the poem to the king in hope of (receiving) last year's donation and benefit—
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نازنین شعری پر از در درست ** بر امید و بوی اکرام نخست
- A charming poem full of flawless pearls, in hope and expectation of the first (former) munificence.
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شاه هم بر خوی خود گفتش هزار ** چون چنین بد عادت آن شهریار
- The Sháh indeed, according to his habit, ordered a thousand (dinars to be paid) to him, since such was the custom of that monarch;