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تو بمانی با فغان اندر لحد ** لا تذرنی فرد خواهان از احد
- You will be left in the tomb, lamenting and beseeching the One (God), (and crying), “Do not leave me (here) alone!
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ای جفاات به ز عهد وافیان ** هم ز داد تست شهد وافیان 1525
- O Thou whose harshness is better than the troth of the faithful, the honey (kindness) of the faithful is also from Thy bounty.”
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بشنو از عقل خود ای انباردار ** گندم خود را به ارض الله سپار
- Hearken to your own reason, O possessor of a granary, and commit your wheat to the earth of Allah,
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تا شود آمن ز دزد و از شپش ** دیو را با دیوچه زوتر بکش
- That it may be safe from thieves and weevils. Kill the Devil with the wood-fretter (of reason) as quickly as possible;
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کو همی ترساندت هم دم ز فقر ** هم‌چو کبکش صید کن ای نره صقر
- For he is always frightening you with (the threat of) poverty: make him your prey like a partridge, O valiant hawk.
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باز سلطان عزیزی کامیار ** ننگ باشد که کند کبکش شکار
- It would be a shame for the falcon of the mighty and fortunate Sultan to be made a prey by the partridge.
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بس وصیت کرد و تخم وعظ کاشت ** چون زمین‌شان شوره بد سودی نداشت 1530
- He (the father) gave many injunctions (to his sons) and sowed the seed of exhortation, (but) as their soil was nitrous (barren), ’twas of no avail.
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گرچه ناصح را بود صد داعیه ** پند را اذنی بباید واعیه
- Although the admonisher have a hundred appeals, counsel demands a retentive ear.
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تو به صد تلطیف پندش می‌دهی ** او ز پندت می‌کند پهلو تهی
- You counsel him (the heedless man) with a hundred courtesies, and he turns aside from your counsel.
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یک کس نامستمع ز استیز و رد ** صد کس گوینده را عاجز کند
- A single person who obstinately refuses to listen will baffle a hundred (eloquent) speakers.