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1216-1225

  • گفت بفشارم ورا اندر فشار ** تا شود زار و نزار از انتظار
  • He (the vizier) replied, “I will squeeze him in torment, that he may be made wretched and worn out by waiting;

  • آنگه ار خاکش دهم از راه من ** در رباید هم‌چو گلبرگ از چمن
  • Then, if I give him earth from the road, he will snatch it as (though it were) rose-leaves from the garden.

  • این به من بگذار که استادم درین ** گر تقاضاگر بود هر آتشین
  • Leave this to me, for I am expert in this, even if the claimant be fiery (hot and fierce).

  • از ثریا گر بپرد تا ثری ** نرم گردد چون ببیند او مرا
  • Though he (be able to) fly from the Pleiades to the earth, he will become meek when he sees me.”

  • گفت سلطانش برو فرمان تراست ** لیک شادش کن که نیکوگوی ماست 1220
  • The king said to him, “Go: ’tis for thee to command; but make him happy, for he is my eulogist.”

  • گفت او را و دو صد اومیدلیس ** تو به من بگذار این بر من نویس
  • He (the vizier) said, “Leave him and two hundred (other) lickers-up of hope to me, and write this (down) against me.”

  • پس فکندش صاحب اندر انتظار ** شد زمستان و دی و آمد بهار
  • Then the minister threw him into (the pains of) expectation: winter and December passed and spring came.

  • شاعر اندر انتظارش پیر شد ** پس زبون این غم و تدبیر شد
  • In expectation of it (the reward) the poet grew old; then he was crushed by this anxiety and making shift to provide (the means of livelihood),

  • گفت اگر زر نه که دشنامم دهی ** تا رهد جانم ترا باشم رهی
  • And said (to the vizier), “If there is no gold (for me), please give me abuse, so that my soul may be delivered (from expectation) (and that) I may be thy (devoted) slave.

  • انتظارم کشت باری گو برو ** تا رهد این جان مسکین از گرو 1225
  • Expectation has killed me: at least bid me go, that this wretched soul may be delivered from bondage.”