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می‌کند تکرار گفتن بی‌ملال ** کی ز اشارت بس کند حوت از زلال
- He (the lover) repeats his tale unweariedly: how should a fish be satisfied with (mere) indication (so as to refrain) from the limpid water?
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صد سخن می‌گفت زان درد کهن ** در شکایت که نگفتم یک سخن 1250
- He (the lover), from that ancient grief, was speaking a hundred words in complaint, saying, “I have not spoken a word.”
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آتشی بودش نمی‌دانست چیست ** لیک چون شمع از تف آن می‌گریست
- There was a fire in him: he did not know what it was, but on account of its heat he was weeping like a candle.
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گفت معشوق این همه کردی ولیک ** گوش بگشا پهن و اندر یاب نیک
- The beloved said, “Thou hast done all this, yet open thine ear wide and apprehend well;
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کانچ اصل اصل عشقست و ولاست ** آن نکردی اینچ کردی فرعهاست
- For thou hast not done what is the root of the root of love and fealty: this that thou hast done is (only) the branches.”
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گفتش آن عاشق بگو که آن اصل چیست ** گفت اصلش مردنست ونیستیست
- The lover said to her, “Tell me, what is that root?” She said, “The root thereof is to die and be naught.
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تو همه کردی نمردی زنده‌ای ** هین بمیر ار یار جان‌بازنده‌ای 1255
- Thou hast done all (else), (but) thou hast not died, thou art living. Hark, die, if thou art a self-sacrificing friend!”
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هم در آن دم شد دراز و جان بداد ** هم‌چو گل درباخت سر خندان و شاد
- Instantly he laid himself at full length (on the ground) and gave up the ghost: like the rose, he played away his head (life), laughing and rejoicing.
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ماند آن خنده برو وقف ابد ** هم‌چو جان و عقل عارف بی‌کبد
- That laughter remained with him as an endowment unto everlasting, like the untroubled spirit and reason of the gnostic.
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نور مه‌آلوده کی گردد ابد ** گر زند آن نور بر هر نیک و بد
- How should the light of the moon ever become defiled, though its light strike on everything good and evil?