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کی توان نوشید این می زیردست ** می یقین مر مرد را رسواگرست 1820
- How is it possible to quaff this wine underhand (in secret)? Certainly wine is the exposer of man.
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بوی را پوشیده و مکنون کند ** چشم مست خویشتن را چون کند
- He may disguise and conceal the scent, (but) how will he hide his intoxicated eye?
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خود نه آن بویست این که اندر جهان ** صد هزاران پرده‌اش دارد نهان
- In sooth this is not a scent that thousands of veils will keep hidden in the world.
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پر شد از تیزی او صحرا و دشت ** دشت چه کز نه فلک هم در گذشت
- The desert and plain are filled with its pungency. What (of the) plain? for it hath passed even beyond the nine spheres (of Heaven).
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این سر خم را به کهگل در مگیر ** کین برهنه نیست خود پوشش‌پذیر
- Do not daub the head of the jar with mortar, for indeed this naked one does not admit of covering.
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لطف کن ای رازدان رازگو ** آنچ بازت صید کردش بازگو 1825
- Show kindness: O thou who knowest and canst tell the mystery, declare that which thy falcon (thy spirit) has made its prey.”
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گفت بوی بوالعجب آمد به من ** هم‌چنانک مر نبی را از یمن
- He said, “A marvellous scent is come to me, even as (a scent came) for the Prophet's sake from Yemen;
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که محمد گفت بر دست صبا ** از یمن می‌آیدم بوی خدا
- For Mohammed said, ‘The scent of God is coming to me from Yemen, (wafted) on the hand of the zephyr.’”
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بوی رامین می‌رسد از جان ویس ** بوی یزدان می‌رسد هم از اویس
- The scent of Rámín is coming from the soul of Wís; the scent of God, too, is coming from Uways.
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از اویس و از قرن بوی عجب ** مر نبی را مست کرد و پر طرب
- From Uways and from Qaran a wondrous scent made the Prophet drunken and full of rapture.