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از سر امرودبن من هم‌چنان ** کژ همی دیدم که تو ای قلتبان
- From the top of the pear-tree I was seeing just as falsely as you, O cuckold.
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هین فرود آ تا ببینی هیچ نیست ** این همه تخییل از امروبنیست
- Hark, come down, that you may see there is nothing: all this illusion is caused by a pear-tree.”
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هزل تعلیمست آن را جد شنو ** تو مشو بر ظاهر هزلش گرو
- Jesting is teaching: listen to it in earnest, do not thou be in pawn to (taken up with) its appearance of jest.
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هر جدی هزلست پیش هازلان ** هزلها جدست پیش عاقلان
- To jesters every earnest matter is a jest; to the wise (all) jests are earnest.
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کاهلان امرودبن جویند لیک ** تا بدان امرودبن راهیست نیک 3560
- Lazy folk seek the pear-tree, but ’tis a good (long) way to that pear-tree.
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نقل کن ز امرودبن که اکنون برو ** گشته‌ای تو خیره‌چشم و خیره‌رو
- Descend from the pear-tree on which at present thou hast become giddy-eyed and giddy-faced.
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این منی و هستی اول بود ** که برو دیده کژ و احول بود
- This (pear-tree) is the primal egoism and self-existence wherein the eye is awry and squinting.
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چون فرود آیی ازین امرودبن ** کژ نماند فکرت و چشم و سخن
- When thou comest down from this pear-tree, thy thoughts and eyes and words will no more be awry.
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یک درخت بخت بینی گشته این ** شاخ او بر آسمان هفتمین
- Thou wilt see that this (pear-tree) has become a tree of fortune, its boughs (reaching) to the Seventh Heaven.
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چون فرود آیی ازو گردی جدا ** مبدلش گرداند از رحمت خدا 3565
- When thou comest down and partest from it, God in His mercy will cause it to be transformed.