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گفت احمد را رضیعم معتمد ** پس بیاوردم که بسپارم به جد
- She replied, “I am Ahmad's (Mohammed's) trusted foster-mother, so I brought him (back) to hand him over to his grandsire.
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چون رسیدم در حطیم آوازها ** می‌رسید و می‌شنیدم از هوا
- When I arrived in the Hatím, voices were coming (down) and I was hearing (them) from the air.
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من چو آن الحان شنیدم از هوا ** طفل را بنهادم آنجا زان صدا 940
- When I heard from the air those melodious strains, because of that sound I laid down the infant there,
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تا ببینم این ندا آواز کیست ** که ندایی بس لطیف و بس شهیست
- To see whose voice is (the origin of) this cry, for it is a very beautiful cry and very delightful.
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نه از کسی دیدم بگرد خود نشان ** نه ندا می منقطع شد یک زمان
- I saw no sign of any one around me: the cry was not ceasing for one moment.
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چونک واگشتم ز حیرتهای دل ** طفل را آنجا ندیدم وای دل
- When I returned (to my senses) from the bewilderments of my heart, I did not see the child there (where I had left him): alas for my heart!”
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گفتش ای فرزند تو انده مدار ** که نمایم مر ترا یک شهریار
- He (the old man) said, “O daughter, do not grieve, for I will show unto thee a queen,
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که بگوید گر بخواهد حال طفل ** او بداند منزل و ترحال طفل 945
- Who, if she wish, will tell what has happened to the child: she knows the dwelling-place of the child and his setting-out (on the way).”
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پس حلیمه گفت ای جانم فدا ** مر ترا ای شیخ خوب خوش‌ندا
- Then Halíma said, “Oh, my soul be a ransom for thee, O goodly and fair-spoken Shaykh!
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هین مرا بنمای آن شاه نظر ** کش بود از حال طفل من خبر
- Come, show me that queen of clairvoyance who hath knowledge of what has happened to my child.”