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ای دریغا ره‌زنان بنشسته‌اند ** صد گره زیر زبانم بسته‌اند
- Oh, alas, the highwaymen are seated (and lying in wait for me): they have tied a hundred knots beneath my tongue.
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پای‌بسته چون رود خوش راهوار ** بس گران بندیست این معذور دار 340
- How should the smooth-paced horse move well, when his leg is tied? This is a very heavy chain: hold me excused!
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این سخن اشکسته می‌آید دلا ** کین سخن درست غیرت آسیا
- These words (of mine) are coming (forth) brokenly, O heart; for these words are pearls, and (the Divine) jealousy is the mill (which breaks them);
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در اگر چه خرد و اشکسته شود ** توتیای دیده‌ی خسته شود
- (But), though the pearls be broken into small fragments, they become tutty (collyrium) for the sore eye (of the spirit).
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ای در از اشکست خود بر سر مزن ** کز شکستن روشنی خواهی شدن
- O pearl, do not beat thy head (in grief) at thy being broken, for through being broken thou wilt become (radiant) light.
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همچنین اشکسته بسته گفتنیست ** حق کند آخر درستش کو غنیست
- It (the word) has to be uttered thus brokenly and in bandages: God, who is Self-sufficient, will make it whole at last.
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گندم ار بشکست و از هم در سکست ** بر دکان آمد که نک نان درست 345
- If wheat is broken and torn asunder (in the mill), it appears in the (baker’s) shop, saying, “Look! a perfect loaf!”
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تو هم ای عاشق چو جرمت گشت فاش ** آب و روغن ترک کن اشکسته باش
- “Thou too, O lover, since thy crime has become manifest, abandon water and oil (specious varnish) and be broken (contrite).
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آنک فرزندان خاص آدم‌اند ** نفحه‌ی انا ظلمنا می‌دمند
- Those who are the elect children of Adam sigh forth (the confession), ‘verily we have done wrong.’
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حاجت خود عرضه کن حجت مگو ** هم‌چو ابلیس لعین سخت‌رو
- Submit thy petition, do not argue like the accursed hard- faced (impudent) Iblis.